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Curator Kelly Matsunaga receives NSF Career Award
Assistant curator of paleobotany at the Biodiversity Institute and Thomas N. Taylor assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, Kelly Matsunaga, has been awarded a CAREER grant from the National Science Foundation. The CAREER is a 5-year grant. Total award amount is $946,323. The project will investigate how the widespread and ancient group of plants known as conifers (examples: pines, junipers, redwoods) evolved over the last 300 million years in response to a changing planet. "We will integrate information from living species and the extensive fossil record of the group to…
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University Distinguished Professor Andrew Townsend Peterson earns three new awards
Two of the grants are sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and one by the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks.
KU EEB doctoral student Camila Meneses earns Best Poster Award at SAGE 2022
The poster is entitled “A New Species of Fringed Forest Gecko, Genus Luperosaurus (Squamata: Gekkonidae), from Sibuyan Island, Central Philippines”.
In an interview, Meneses shares about her work on the amphibians and reptiles that earned her the Best Poster Award at SAGE 2022, describing a new…
Book launch Oct. 4, 2022, at the Lawrence Public Library
A new book about the fungi of Kansas includes two co-authors from the University of Kansas.
Benjamin Sikes, associate professor with the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and associate scientist with Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research, along with Caleb Morse…
STUDY WILL PREDICT FATE OF WESTERN ATLANTIC MOLLUSKS BY SCOURING ANCIENT FOSSIL RECORD
To better understand the future of these vital organisms, Bruce Lieberman, professor of ecology & evolutionary biology and senior curator at the Biodiversity Institute, will lead a new $2.4 million project supported by the National Science Foundation’s Biodiversity on a Changing Planet program…
BRUCE LIEBERMAN NAMED DIRECTOR OF KU PALEONTOLOGICAL INSTITUTE
Bruce Lieberman, professor in the University of Kansas Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology and senior curator in the Division of Invertebrate Paleontology at the Biodiversity Institute & Natural History Museum, has been named director of the KU Paleontological Institute. He…
NEW EFFORT WILL CLARIFY AGING DIFFERENCES IN MALES AND FEMALES OF MANY SPECIES
Researchers from the University of Kansas will join a multi-institution effort to better grasp mechanisms and evolutionary history of sex differences in aging across an array of animal species.
The research project, organized as the IISAGE Biology Integration Institute, is funded by a five-year, $…
Journal of Science highlights Rivers’ Research
Dr. Trevor Rivers, assistant teaching professor in KU Biology, has spent valuable time carrying out research on bioluminescent ostracods.
Ostracods have been referred to by many names but are actually tiny crustaceans that light up the dark with their mating displays.
Check out the article for more…
#KUFieldWorks: Predicting future algae blooms to preserve safe drinking water
Ted Harris, an assistant research professor with the Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research, and a team of faculty, student and staff are examining long-term water quality changes in large Kansas lakes, especially changes related to blue-green algae, which can cause harmful…
Walters receives NSF grant to support research into the mechanisms and evolution of aging differences between males and females
Associate Professor James Walters, co-PI on the collaborative grant awarded by the National Science Foundation, will help discover how multiple biological processes contribute to differences in aging between females and males and uncover their evolutionary history.
In many animals, either females…
NEW PRINCIPLES FOR BIOLOGICAL FIELDWORK WILL BUILD EQUITY FOR RESEARCHERS AND LOCAL COMMUNITIES
A new paper appearing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences lays out a set of principles for biological fieldwork designed to lessen inequities between researchers and local populations, as well as internally among research teams themselves. Many “best practices” in the paper are…