Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology December Newsletter Released
Don’t miss the December issue of the NCSU Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology program newsletter. In this Issue - Nature Research Center in Raleigh highlights FWCB research Wildlife surveys...
View ArticleCNR Honored for Outstanding Multicultural Freshman Success
The College of Natural Resources(CNR) at NC State University was honored recently with the 2013 Outstanding College Performance Award. Presented at the 18th Annual Freshman Honors Convocation...
View ArticleOutdoor Education Helps Minority Students Close Gap in Environmental Literacy
Environmental education programs that took middle school students outdoors to learn helped minority students close a gap in environmental literacy, according to research from North Carolina State...
View ArticleThree CNR Graduate Students Named 2013-14 Global Change Fellows
Steven Grodsky, Jennifer Niemuth and David Zietlow, graduate students from the Department of Forestry & Environmental Resources in the College of Natural Resources were among seven NC State...
View ArticlePowerful Animal Tracking System Helps Research Take Flight
Call it a bird’s eye view of migration. Scientists are taking a fresh look at animal movement with a big data approach that combines GPS tracking data with satellite weather and terrain information....
View ArticleFisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology – July Issue of Newsletter...
Don’t miss the July issue of the Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology Newsletter! Featured in this issue: 2013 Spring Graduates Student Abstract: Kimberly Porter Research Spotlight: Sarah...
View ArticleKays’ Bird Migration Research Featured on UntamedScience.com
Wildlife researcher, Roland Kays’ is part of a team of biologists featured recently in a video on UntamedScience.com. The video, shot at the Pine Island Sanctuary and Audubon Center in Corolla, NC,...
View ArticleCNR helps NCSU Break Fundraising Record
NC State University fundraising efforts hit record breaking levels for fiscal year 2012-2013 with gifts and pledges totalling $198.2 million – a 78% increase over the previous year. Cash in the door...
View ArticleNC State Scientist Among Team that Discovers New Species of Carnivore
Species is First Find of Its Kind in More Than Three Decades Observed in the wild, tucked away in museum collections, and even exhibited in zoos, there is one mysterious creature that has been a victim...
View ArticleAre we building our way to ruin?
Are we building our way to ruin? That’s the premise of a provocatively titled new book released this month: The Housing Bomb: Why Our Addiction to Houses Is Destroying the Environment and Threatening...
View ArticleJust ask the animals!
Using animal tracking data to better predict animals’ use of natural movement corridors through urban lansdcapes. A new study, published this week by Dr. Roland Kays, a professor in CNR and director of...
View ArticleRainforest Life: Food Versus Fear
For a rainforest animal like the agouti, life revolves around the tension between food and fear. While foraging for seeds from the black palm tree, the rabbit-sized rodent has to avoid hungry ocelots....
View ArticleIncrease in Human-Alligator Encounters Spurs Student Research
It’s becoming more and more common these days to run into an alligator, whether near your home, in the park, or somewhere else. Now wildlife researchers in Raleigh are interested in finding out why....
View ArticleWhy We Should be Worried About the Rapid Growth in Global Households
Demographers are not as worried today as they were several decades ago about the prospect of a “population bomb,” a scenario where so many people come to populate the planet that we exhaust its...
View ArticleCarnivore Mystery: Why Fishers Thrive in East, Not West
For weasel-like fishers it’s a good time to live in the East. The fierce little carnivores are reclaiming historic habitats, including the Bronx, New York. But it’s a different story for fishers in...
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