Science fiction to science fact

Graduate student and recent NASA FINESST grant recipient Peter Winslow explores the possibility of extraterrestrial life.

Won't you be my neighbor?

Graduate student Maria Park balances life as a scientist and artist at Cedar Creek Ecosystem Science Reserve.

Setting graduate students up for success

Biology Teaching and Learning researchers receive nearly $1M to study the ways how graduate program structures impact student success.

Burnt out

Chris Wojan explores the potential of prescribed fires to reduce the spread of tick-borne disease.

An ecological underdog

Mariana Cardenas conducts research on lichens, mosses and cyanobacteria in Cedar Creek’s long-term experiments.

Cutting through scientific red herrings

Graduate student Siddhant Pusdekar will hone his science communication skills this summer with the support of a AAAS science journalism fellowship.

A tipping point

The future of above-ground carbon hangs in the balance between two types of wood-rotting fungi.

The technicolor world of life after glaciers

Mariana Cardenas investigates the lichens adapting to South America’s mountain summits.

Looking to the future

The investigation of a protein linked to a worse cancer prognosis could pave a way forward for improved cancer treatments.

A new evolutionary frontier

Maria Kalambokidis takes on the daunting task of re-framing the study of the origins of life.