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.
Aug 13, 2024
Launched in 2009, the Tyson Environmental Research Apprenticeship (TERA) program has provided about 200 mentored field research opportunities to high school students from across the St. Louis region. TERA aims to treat high schoolers like undergraduate students, giving them more responsibility than they’ve likely had before and holding them to high expectations.
Jul 24, 2024
Kathleen Berger, HEC executive producer for science and technology, covered our favorite wildlife monitoring project in Caught on camera! The St. Louis Wildlife Project captures animal diversity and interactions.
Aug 13, 2024
Launched in 2009, the Tyson Environmental Research Apprenticeship (TERA) program has provided about 200 mentored field research opportunities to high school students from across the St. Louis region. TERA aims to treat high schoolers like undergraduate students, giving them more responsibility than they’ve likely had before and holding them to high expectations.
Jul 24, 2024
Kathleen Berger, HEC executive producer for science and technology, covered our favorite wildlife monitoring project in Caught on camera! The St. Louis Wildlife Project captures animal diversity and interactions.
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.
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.
Sep 5, 2023
Leaders of the St. Louis Wildlife Project, along with colleagues across the Urban Wildlife Information Network, recently published research in Nature Ecology & Evolution showing the effects of climate, urbanization, and species traits on wildlife in cities.
Mar 16, 2023
Tyson researchers Rachel Penczykowski, Kasey Fowler-Finn, and Kim Medley have been awarded seed grants from Taylor Geospatial Institute to conduct research using geospatial technology.
Mar 16, 2023
Jonathan Myers has been awarded a three year grant from the National Science Foundation with Brian Sedio and Annette Ostling at UT Austin.