Researchers from the University of Wisconsin–Madison combined experiments with mathematical modeling to learn that dispersal of organisms involved in parasitic relationships through space can play an important role in balancing the effects of both ecology …
Month: May 2024
Jacob Kraus spotlight
1. Explain your research so that your grandparent or a 5-year old would understand it? I am a primate behavioral ecologist by training, which means that I study how primates interact with their environments. I …
Special Biology Colloquium: Untangling the web of behaviors used in spider orb-weaving.
Thursday May 23, we will haveAndrew Gordus (assistant professor from JHU) speaking at Biology Colloquium. Please join us at 3:30pm in 168 Noland Hall.
Mentor award winners guide undergraduate learning
Alyse Maksimoski, Research Associate in Professor Lauren Riters lab, received a 2024 mentor award from UW-Madison.
Carl Shirley Receives the Goldwater Scholarship and the Premier Undergraduate Award
Carl Shirley is one of three notable UW Graduates who received Goldwater Scholarship, the premier undergraduate award in mathematics, the natural sciences and engineering in the United States. Shirley won the scholarship last year as a junior. Shirley, …
Katherine Charton Spotlight
1.Explain your research so that your grandparent or a 5-year old would understand it? Grasslands around the world are threatened because of the increasing presence of trees and shrubs in these grass- and forb-dominated ecosystems. …