College of Biological Sciences

Professor Jennifer Powers reflects on her decades-long connection to Costa Rica, where she runs a field station within the Area de Conservación Guanacaste.

Long before becoming an ecologist, Maowei Liang recalls being deeply impacted by the tangible ways his village in Inner Mongolia experienced global change.

Despite being buried under a mile or more of ice, microbes eke out an existence at the boundary where the Greenland ice sheet grinds away at the ground.

Snapshot Safari, created by University of Minnesota Lion Center researcher Sarah Huebner, is helping with large-scale monitoring of African mammals.

When Ariadna Mondragón Botero arrived in southern Madagascar to work with lemurs, she immediately became fascinated by the unique nature of the dry forest in the area.

Zeel Patel spent the fall 2021 semester on the Learning Abroad Center’s Psychology and Research in Madrid program. She interned at the Cajal Institute, a research center in neurobiology named for the father of modern neuroscience.

Allison Shaw, a professor of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, is building collaborations with researchers at l’Université de Montréal under a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award.

In Papua New Guinea, a sizable gap in indigenous language fluency and traditional practices has opened up between teenage students and their parents, collaborative research finds, likely driven by globalization.

In this webinar, University of Minnesota faculty, staff, and student leaders discussed the cutting-edge of classroom efforts to prepare students to tackle the global challenges that lie ahead.

At 140 sites in 26 countries across the globe, researchers are working to understand how human activities are changing grassland ecosystems.