It's time! We are now accepting applications for our 13th class of Hubbard Fellows. Please forward this to anyone you know who might be interested. I supervise our fellows each year, and can't wait to meet the next two. The Hubbard Fellowship was built to help people bridge the gap between what you learn in college and the skills and proficiency needed to start a career.

We seek a creative, collaborative, and visionary plant biologist to establish an internationally recognized research program at the forefront of plant-microbe interactions aimed at understanding how t...

WNIJ's Jess Savage sat down with environmental educator Kevin Wiener to find out why he left a career in pest management to advocate for bugs.

At the Nachusa Grasslands, there are more than 4,000 acres of restored tallgrass prairie — and one herd of bison.

Abstract Submissions NOW OPEN The Program Committee is proud to announce that the submission of abstracts for the 4th Global Soil Biodiversity Conference (GSB2026) is now open!. Submission deadline is...

Fieldwork-based research and education in ecology are under multiple threats and are progressively declining. We call for greater attention to this ongoing loss of direct field experience within the e...

Spring is on its way, but some northern Illinois artists have frozen the essence of winter for an upcoming art auction. WNIJ’s Yvonne Boose and Jess Savage took a trip to Volo Bog to capture the exper...