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Team finds regional, age-related trends in exposure to drug-resistant pathogen

2025-03-20

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Campylobacter infections are the most common foodborne illnesses in the U.S., sickening an estimated 1.5 million people each year. A new study examined records of ...

Ecological Society of America (ESA) recognizes Jeannette Cullum with a Graduate Student Policy Award (GSPA)

2024-04-28

12 ESA awardees: 2024 Katherine S. McCarter Graduate Student Policy Award

The Ecological Society of America is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2024 Katherine S. McCarter Graduate Student Policy Award (GSPA). Students in the 2024 cohort are engaged in advocacy with an interest in science policy. Awardees will travel to Washington, D.C., for policy, communication...

Congratulations to Sarah Winnicki, honored by the American Ornithological Society with a Student Presentation Award

2023-12-18

Birds as Bridges: 2023 Ornithological Conference

Congratulations to Sarah Winnicki, who received the A. Brazier Howell Award from the American Ornithological Society for their presentation on how egg-laying order impacts the growth of American Robin nestlings. Sarah presented work following up on their previous findings...

Do artificial roosts help bats? Illinois experts say more research needed

2023-08-31

Joy O'Keefe (left) and Reed Crawford (right) with bat boxes installed for a previous study.

URBANA, Ill. — Artificial roosts for bats come in many forms — bat boxes, condos, bark mimics, clay roosts, and cinder block structures, to name a few — but a new conservation practice and policy article from researchers at the ...

Following in the footsteps of early 20th century naturalist Elizabeth Kerr

2023-06-06

Juliana Soto, with a sooty ant tanager, Habia gutturalis

I am walking in a forest and listening to a concert of birdsong at dawn. I pick one song out of the chorus – a fast chatter full of melodious whistles – the sound of the sooty ant tanager.“Today, we will probably get to know this bird up close,” I think. My colleagues and I set up and...

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