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Research Experience for Undergraduates in Microbiomes
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Preflight Grantsmanship Certification Training Series (Free)
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Spotlight on Students
Student videos
Meet MAPS student researchers and learn why they decided to go into science.
Theo Michaels, a doctoral student in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at KU
Laura Podzikowski, a doctoral student in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at KU
MAPS students in the News
March 2021
Wichita State University MAPS student, Abigail Urban, studies the restoration of legumes
across a precipitation gradient in Kansas
February 2021
January 2021
KU MAPS Ph.D. candidate, Ligia Faria Tavares de Souza, investigates below ground fingerprints of the Anthropocene
November 2020
K-state MAPS master’s student, Irosha Wanthunga, studies land use effect on methane oxidation
KU MAPS Ph.D. student, Jacob Hopkins, studies soil microbes interaction with plant communities
October 2020
HERS mentor, Kate Ingenloff, studies Distributional Ecology
September 2020
2019 Summer REU student, Andriana Caldwell, studies prairie plant restoration
August 2020
HERS student, Amanda Rouillard, studies the Santee Sioux Nation’s polluted drinking water sources
HERS student, Kaleb Proctor, studies impact of highway construction on wetlands
June 2020
MAPS collaborative biology class publishes a conceptual framework of microbiome interconnections
May 2020
April 2020
HERS mentor, James Fischer, studies the impacts of rising CO2 on small structures of plants
March 2020
FHSU student, Jorja Elliot, studies impacts of commercial soil microbial additives
HERS student, Summer Powell, studies uranium mining regulations impacting the Navajo Nation