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Nick Barts receives GAANN Fellowship

Nick Barts has been selected to receive a GAANN (Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need) Fellowship. Nick’s projects primarily focuses on understanding biochemical and physiological mechanisms of adaptation to extreme envrionments. The fellowship will provide Nick with a stipend…

Science on Tap MHK is rebooting

With the help of an Engagement Incentive Grants from the K-State Center for Engagement and Community Development and support from Sunset Zoo, we are able to continue Science on Tap in Manhattan, KS. Held in a relaxed setting on the third Wednesday...

Swimming in polluted waters

Andrew Whitehead’s lab at UC Davis recently published an excellent paper about the genomic basis of adaptation to polluted waters in Atlantic killifish (Fundulus heteroclitus). We were abole to provide a perspectives piece in Science and comment on the paper’s findings...