Ornithologists announce discovery of new bird species

Zoology Professor Pam Rasmussen is part of a team which has discovered a new species of bird from the Togian Islands of Indonesia – Zosterops somadikartai, or Togian white-eye. Read about the discovery…

MSU Hosts Climate Change Conference

The Environmental Science and Policy program will host a free 2-day conference “Climate Change in the Great Lakes Region” on April 9-10, 2008 - Read more or register today. 

CNS Zoology Student Receives Churchill Scholarship

Katherine Leitch, a Zoology senior from Rockford, is one of only 13 students nationwide to a prestigious Churchill Scholarship. She will use the scholarship to study the biology of early pregnancy at the University of Cambridge. Read more…

Holekamp Featured in N.Y. Times

Zoology professor Kay Holekamp and her research on the lives of spotted hyenas was the focus of an article titled “Sociable, and Smart” in the Science section of the March 4, 2008 New York Times.