Feb 27, 2025

WashU researchers recently identified the first longhorned tick found in suburban St. Louis County. In concert with Tick Watch STL, the researchers will conduct additional tick investigations in the region.

Nov 15, 2024

When the Meramec River flooded, students in the "Geospatial Field Methods" course in Arts & Sciences had an opportunity to study a significant regional event in real time.

Aug 27, 2024

KMOV reporter Nathan Vickers talks to Heather Navarro, director of the Midwest Climate Collaborative, and Kim Medley, director of Tyson Research Center, about the impacts of urban heat islands.

May 3, 2024

Tyson community members Sophia Hatzikos (master’s degree in visual art from the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts) and Carol (Yunfeng) Ge (bachelor’s degree in biology from Arts & Sciences) are celebrated as graduates of the WashU Class of 2024.

Apr 23, 2024

Tyson researchers report on how gentrification impacts urban wildlife populations in a new publication in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. This work also shows how gentrification further limits marginalized communities’ opportunity to connect with nature.

Apr 11, 2024

Learn about the Center for the Humanities’ Redefining Doctoral Education in the Humanities initiative to support innovative, interdisciplinary graduate work and to encourage the next generation of humanities scholars and practitioners.

Mar 19, 2024

Learn about Erin O’Connell and Doug Ladd’s lofty new endeavor: to document and preserve a physical representative of every plant species growing across Tyson Research Center’s 2,000 acres.

Jan 8, 2024

Certain populations of mosquitoes are more heat tolerant and better equipped to survive heat waves than others, according to new research from Tyson’s Team Skeet. Former undergraduate fellow Ben Orlinick is the study’s first author.

Oct 30, 2023

In recent years, WashU researchers working with the St. Louis Wildlife Project have started using acoustic recorders at their wildlife monitoring stations to detect bats for the first time.

Oct 26, 2023

With a record number of researchers for summer 2023, Tyson staff needed to reimagine the possibilities of the educational programming and make changes to a longstanding structure.

Sep 28, 2023

Amateur astronomers and professionals alike are discovering that it is increasingly difficult to find night sky viewing areas. The Tyson observatory offers local users a one-of-a-kind stargazing experience.

Apr 21, 2023

Richard W. (Dick) Coles, who served as the inaugural director of Tyson and also as an adjunct professor of biology for more than 25 years, died Dec. 10, 2022, in Longmont, Colo. He was 83. A celebration of life is planned for 1 p.m. April 29 at Tyson.