College of Letters & Science
Nathan Kiel is a Doctoral candidate in iBio graduating May 2024. Before he transitions to the next phase in his career, we talked with him about his research and graduate student experience in iBio and UW–Madison. Nathan’s research focuses on understanding how forests are changing with a warming climate and widespread wildfire. He has done …
Garret Knowlton, M.S. student in iBio, received the Ecological Society of America’s Katherine S. McCarter Graduate Student Policy Award (GSPA). Students in the 2024 cohort are engaged in advocacy with an interest in science policy. Along with other awardees, Garrett will travel to Washington, D.C., for policy, communication and career training followed by meetings with …
Congratulations to Dr. Guilherme Gainett, former iBio graduate student, and Professor Prashant Sharma on their paper published last week in the Journal Current Biology. They report that a living species of daddy longlegs has two additional sets of underdeveloped eyes as embryos, implying that the species diversified earlier in the evolutionary tree than scientists believed. …
In August 2023, Maggie Langwig and Katie Klier, PhD students in the Freshwater and Marine Science program, had the opportunity of a lifetime: A research cruise exploring hydrothermal vents near the Galápagos Islands. Not only did they obtain some of the first microbiological samples from this vent system, but they were also a part of …
PhD candidate Nathan Kiel and Dr. Monica Turner explore what happens to Yellowstone’s understory plant communities when forests don’t come back after wildfire.
Congrats to Stephanie Mcfarlane a post doc in the Damschen lab who recieved an undergraduate mentoring award.
By: Ashley Cheung This past April, I was a panelist at the Wisconsin Energy Institute’s 2023 Climate Teach-In. Students, faculty and community members joined at Memorial Union to learn from each other about climate solutions. We taught each other about everything from campus food recovery efforts to global temperature monitoring programs. I contributed what I …
For faculty and graduate students in the Department of Integrative Biology who are studying how the brain works, zebrafish make ideal research subjects. These slim fish are almost perfectly transparent, making it easy to observe their brain activity. L&S undergraduate student, Ella Ruder, gets the scoop in a video interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1s9Yjk9kyUM.