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Whitney R. Harris World Ecology Center at UMSL

Doctoral student Matt Austin tries to unlock mystery behind bumblebee populations

The third-year doctoral student in biology is trying to solve why some species are in increasing danger of dying off while others thrive....

Eye on UMSL: Difference makers

A concentration of nature’s biggest advocates forms as UMSL graduate students – all budding conservationists – gather around 2016 World Ecology Award recipient Sylvia Earle....

UMSL scholar examines evolution of learning

Aimee Dunlap, assistant professor of biology at UMSL, co-authored a study that was recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science....

UMSL scientists make surprising discovery about caterpillars, weevils

Robert Marquis, professor of biology, and Christina Baer, a doctoral student in biology, conducted a study that found leaf-tying caterpillars are inadvertently benefitting adult Asiatic oak weevils, an invasive species....

Harris Lecture to feature foremost expert on monarch butterflies

Many of the widely known facts about monarch butterflies that are presented in biology classes and nature documentaries, have come out of Lincoln Brower's research. ...