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A recap of the 2024 plant sciences graduate recruitment weekend from the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources.

WKAR reporter Sophia Saliby explores how MSU has memorialized the lives lost on February 13, 2023; including how the MSU Herbarium helped preserve tokens of great significance.

Federica Brandizzi discusses her lab's experiement sending seeds into space—and then bringing them back—with Nate Salazar of WLNS.

Michigan State University researchers have made a discovery that could help turn a natural kill switch in plant cells into a “life switch” that helps crops better survive the challenges presented by climate change.

As biodiversity loss wreaks havoc on grasslands worldwide, many have hoped that soil seed banks, or seeds stored in the soil waiting to sprout, would act as a biodiversity reservoir, preserving species that are disappearing aboveground.However, a recent study published in Nature Communications by W.K. Kellogg Biological Station plant biologist Lauren Sullivan and her team challenges that assumption.

Riley Pizza, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Plant Biology, is named Educator of the Month for June 2023 by The Graduate School.

Three new officers elected last year by the American Society of Naturalists—ASN—have begun their terms.Among them is Jeff Conner, professor in Michigan State University’s Department of Plant Biology and resident faculty at the W.K. Kellogg Biological Station. Conner was chosen to serve, beginning as president-elect, of the 140-year-old society for a five-year term that ends in 2027.Conner is joined by two fellow officers who also began new terms in January 2023.Lauren Buckley, professor of biology at the University of Washington.Vice president-elect, serving 2023-25Santiago Ramírez, associate professor of evolution and ecology at the University of California DavisTreasurer, serving 2023-25 Written by: KBS NewsClick here to read more of the article