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Biological Sciences Building home of architectural marvel

April 1, 2022April 1, 2022 Gail B KuhnleinEEBlog

by Emily Laub, University of Michigan Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Graduate Student The Biological Sciences Building is home to many fantastic exhibits of mammoth proportions, including a soaring Quetzalcoatlus and a 45 ft long Basilosaurus skeleton vaulted from the ceiling. […]

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News and notes from your librarian: the waiving edition

March 7, 2022March 7, 2022 Gail B KuhnleinEEBlog
Scott's new office with desk, shelf and miscellaneous art

by Scott Martin, Biological Sciences Librarian, University of Michigan Library Happy almost-spring! My childhood in Michigan notwithstanding, I’ve never been particularly good with winter, so I’m enjoying the turn of the temperatures towards above-freezing this week. One of my current […]

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News and notes from your librarian: the “news blast!” edition

January 13, 2022January 13, 2022 Gail B KuhnleinEEBlog

by Scott Martin, Biological Sciences Librarian, University of Michigan Library Happy New Year, everyone! I hope you all had the best possible holiday break, given the circumstances. I mainly spent mine listening to new music, catching up on guitar playing, […]

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Dressing right for the occasion: camouflage in spiders

December 16, 2021December 16, 2021 Gail B KuhnleinEEBlog
An orchid mantis (Hymenopus coronatus) sits beside an orchid flower. Image credit: Igor Siwanowicz

by Zulay Rodriguez, Frontiers Master’s Student, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (they/them/theirs) Most of us have likely experienced that honest mistake of dressing in a way that makes us feel out of place. Maybe you dressed too formal for a casual […]

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A seagrass field of dreams

December 2, 2021December 15, 2021 Gail B KuhnleinEEBlog
Reef built in June 2021 in Bahamas

by Katrina Munsterman, Ph.D. student in the Coastal Ecology and Conservation Lab in EEB If you build it, they will come. It all seems so simple. A few years ago, I gifted my dad a wooden bird house, a bag […]

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How museum collections can enhance public health

November 18, 2021November 18, 2021 Gail B KuhnleinEEBlog
Lexi Frank with drawers of desert cottontail (Sylvilagus audubonii) specimens from California.

by Lexi Frank, BS EEB, MPH Environmental Health Sciences In a new building on the south side of Ann Arbor, in a white-walled, high-ceilinged room, are hundreds of drawers filled with thousands of dead animals. Why? The Research Museums Center […]

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Ecology in a box

October 12, 2021October 12, 2021 Gail B KuhnleinEEBlog

by Lynn Carpenter, lecturer and advisor for the University of Michigan Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology As with most other faculty last year, I was completely at a loss of how to take my Ecology Lab normally “In-Person” class […]

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News and notes from your librarian: the “going back to campus, campus, campus…” edition

September 8, 2021September 10, 2021 Gail B KuhnleinEEBlog

by Scott Martin, Biological Sciences Librarian, University of Michigan Library Welcome back, everyone! And a special greeting to this year’s grad student cohort – I’m looking forward to working with you! For a general introduction to the library, my Canvas […]

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How to [barely] get started and keep up with a project during a pandemic

August 20, 2021August 20, 2021 Gail B KuhnleinEEBlog
Morning view of a little hotel we stayed near Boquete, Panamá

by Deise Goncalves, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Michigan, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology I graduated from The University of Texas at Austin Fall 2019 and moved to Ann Arbor in January 2020 to work as a postdoctoral researcher under […]

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One of these things is not like the other…

August 4, 2021August 4, 2021 Gail B KuhnleinEEBlog
A bee and bee mimic on a large round purple and white flower

From Bug News by Erika Tucker, former Assistant Research Scientist and Collection Manager of Insects, University of Michigan Museum of Zoology One of these things is not like the other … One of these things is just pretending … Can […]

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Vampire hoards

July 23, 2021July 23, 2021 Gail B KuhnleinEEBlog

From Bug News by Erika Tucker, Assistant Research Scientist and Collection Manager of Insects, University of Michigan Museum of Zoology Have you been inundated with hoards and hoards of flying, bloodsucking, tiny demons this summer? Yeah, me too 🙁 In […]

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Learning from history

July 14, 2021July 14, 2021 Gail B KuhnleinEEBlog

by Lynn Carpenter, lecturer and advisor for the University of Michigan Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology When I was young, my father was a history teacher. I will admit, I did NOT share his love of history back in […]

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The future is science communication

June 18, 2021June 18, 2021 Gail B KuhnleinEEBlog
Undersea scape from Katrina's stop motion film

by Katrina Munsterman, Ph.D. student in the Coastal Ecology and Conservation Lab in EEB I always wanted to be an actress, faking illness in dramatic attempts to trade the classroom decorated with construction paper flowers for a day spent counting […]

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News and notes from your librarian: conferencing edition

June 17, 2021June 17, 2021 Gail B KuhnleinEEBlog
Garden shed

by Scott Martin, Biological Sciences Librarian, University of Michigan Library Happy almost-solstice, everyone! Hopefully you’re enjoying the wonderfully unpredictable variability of temperature and humidity that summer in Michigan brings. I’ve been enjoying the posts from colleagues about the Brood X […]

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What we eat plays a huge role in climate change

May 28, 2021May 28, 2021 Gail B KuhnleinEEBlog

by Alexa White, U-M EEB graduate student Everyone knows that climate change is going to have major effects on the way we live our daily lives, but have you ever thought about if it will change how we eat? Agriculture […]

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