After decades of regulatory change and cleanup efforts, mayflies returned to the lake. Measuring their resilience to the climate crisis presents new challenges.
Looking Back to Look Forward: A Q&A with Aaron Scott
The host of the award-winning 2020 podcast series, “Timber Wars,” Scott draws on environmental history as a powerful tool for generating empathy and awe.
For many, the coyote is a symbol of America’s wide-open spaces. So why is it appearing in our cities, our parks, our back yards? An essay about coyotes, change, and becoming unrooted.
Gina Schlesselman-Tarango spent two weeks at Harvard University archives studying how the conversation around fertility and miscarriage has evolved in influential texts written by and for women.
In the first in a series of stories about Mentored Advanced Projects from summer 2023, follow Katie Shermak as she models human visual imagination in order to build better artificial intelligence.
"You just can’t have results be the daily thing that’s keeping you going," Adriane Thompson learned during summer research with Ben DeRidder, professor of biology
Another story in the Summer MAP Series. Gracie Song jumped headfirst into laboratory research, using a tricky technique to study the structure of a mutated protein.
A summer research project brought Ioanna Giannakou into close contact with rats, studying the effects of early-life stress on their anxiety and depression levels.
During her research sabbatical, Charvann Bailey joined forces with Doug Spitz ’78 at the University of Iowa. Together, the two biologists are uncovering a molecule to treat aggressive lung cancer.
Mathematics Saves Course Registration: A Pandemic Story
In a paper published in Mathematics Magazine, mathematics faculty Marc Chamberland and Jeff Blanchard tell a uniquely Grinnell story of resilience and of intellectual curiosity applied for the greater good.
