2020 Press Releases
2019 Press Releases
- 10/25: Bird bacteria is key to communication and mating
- 10/15: Richard Lenski receives prestigious interdisciplinary research, mentoring award
- 9/19: Evolution of learning is key to better artificial intelligence
- 6/27: Lyman Briggs professor named University Distinguished Professor
2019 Media Coverage
- 11/19: Discover Magazine: How a 30-year experiment has fundamentally changed our view of how evolution works
- 11/18: Great Lakes Echo: Study offers a bird’s eye view of a bird’s smell
- 11/11: Smithsonian Magazine: Birds sniff each other’s bacteria to help choose a mate
- 11/10: The New York Times: The bacterial surprise in this bird’s smell
- 10/14: Daily Texan: UT molecular evolution professor named 2019 American Physical Society Fellow
- 9/27: Futurity: The evolution of learning could boost AI
- 9/18: The American Naturalist: The evolutionary origin of associative learning
- 9/18: Infectious Diseases Hub: Identifying novel antifungal proteins from ‘killer yeasts’ – an interview with Paul Rowley
- 9/3: Resilient Us: Ep 14. Risto Miikkulainen: AI, Adversity, and A new Era of Work
- 8/29: Lansing City Pulse: Live, work, play at The Roost
- 8/12: Fox 47 News: New bat houses along Lansing River Trail
- 7/14: Impact 89 FM: The Sci-Files – Connie Rojas- Spotted Hyena Microbiomes
- 7/12: Impact 89 FM: The Sci-Files – Kyle Card and Jasper Gomez – Mentoring and Antibiotic Resistance
- 7/19: MSU Today: Nkrumah Grant: From GED to PhD
- 6/25: Microbiology Society: Could “killer yeasts” be the key to treating drug resistant Candida glabrata?
- 6/18: WKAR: MSU Scientist Excels While Dealing With Syndromes
- 6/17: WKAR: From GED to Ph.D., Science Turns MSU Student’s Life Around
- 5/20: Daily Beast: How A.I. Engineered the Most Delicious, Efficient Basil Ever
- 5/1: Audubon Magazine: Here’s why birds rub their beaks on stuff
- 4/2: Science Daily: The future of agriculture is computerized
- 3/11: PBS Nova: For Hyenas, Climbing the Social Ladder is Easier with Friends
- 3/6: Forbes: The Genetic History Of Brewer’s Yeast
- 2/28: ZDNet: IT leader Cognizant evolves AI beyond ‘hill climbing’
- 1/27: The Atlantic: The 500-year long science experiment
- 1/2: PBS: Decoding Watson
2018 Press Releases
- 11/19: MSU prof elected to the American Philosophical Society
- 11/13: Top alumni honored during Alumni Grand Awards Gala
- 11/8: Is it possible to replay the tape of life?
- 10/19: MSU pioneers new course: Digital introduction to biology, evolution
- 10/16: Evolution is at work in computers as well as in life sciences
- 8/29: Twelve MSU faculty members named to third cohort of STEM fellows
- 7/26: Kalyanmoy Deb earns prestigious evolutionary computation award
- 6/21: Fish’s use of electricity might shed light on human illnesses
- 3/21: “Hyena Scientist!” to feature MSU professor Kay Holekamp
- 2/21: The man who bottled evolution
2018 Media Coverage
- 12/5: The Conversation: We asked artificial intelligence to analyze a graphic novel — and found both limits and new insights
- 8/31: PC Magazine: Ready for an AI platform that can make decisions on its own?
- 8/21: Artificially Intelligent podcast: Episode 64: Evolutionary AI with Risto Miikkulainen
- 8/14: PR Newswire: Evolutionary Algorithms: The next big thing in machine learning?
- 8/10: FutureTech podcast: Risto Miikkulainen- Sentient- Discovering Novel Solutions Via Evolutionary Optimization
- 4/15: Gigabit Magazine: Developments within Neural Networks and Deep Learning Evolutions
- 3/26: Discover Magazine: Cradles of Innovation
- 3/8: Medium: Inside Dr. Richard Lenski’s ambitious, 30-year experiment
- 2/27: Communications of the ACM: Can neuroevolution change machine learning?
- 2/13: For the most complex technology problems, Stevens researcher turns to nature
- 2/6: DMNews: Inside the system: Humans in the AI loop
- 2/5: Science Daily: Online tool speeds up evolution education
- 1/17: New York Times: Google sells A.I. for building A.I. (novices welcome)
- 1/11: Science Magazine: Artificial intelligence can “evolve” to solve problems
- 2018: BBC Television: The first year of life (featuring Kay Holekamp)
2017 Press Releases
- 10/19: NSF awards $1.75 million for fungal-plant research at MSU
- 10/18: Death by a thousand cuts? Not for small populations
- 10/12: Futurity: Sticky feet evolved differently in geckos and anoles
- 10/12: An evolving sticky situation
- 6/8: MSU BEACON research fellow receives AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellowship
- 3/23: MSU lands NIH grant to study connection between fish genes and human medicine
- 2/13: MSU’s Rich Lenski wins 2017 Friend of Darwin award
- 1/23: 2017 William J. Beal Outstanding Faculty Awards
2017 Media Coverage
- 12/12: Quartz: Inside the world’s biggest and most important AI conference
- 11/5: Raconteur: AI promises a food revolution, from farm to supermarket
- 8/4: Tampa Bay Times: Ybor chickens are more than local color, they’re subjects of scientific research
- 6/7: MSU Faculty Voices: Richard Lenski: You gotta know when to hold ’em
- 6/2: MSU Integrative Biology: Frazer Meacham and Tom Getty tackle the big questions in life: Sexual selection & parental investment
- 5/10: The Conversation: Computers to humans: Shall we play a game?
- 2/13: KTVB: UI students create “evolutionary” video game
- 1/22: Zygote Quarterly: Interview with Amir Gandomi
- 1/6: NPR Science Friday: Slow Science: A look at long-lived experiments
2016 Press Releases
- 12/12: MSU-led research receives $1.84 million NSF grant
- 12/8: Historic $12.7 million gift headed to MSU College of Engineering, BEACON
- 10/21: LBC and BEACON partner with the Concord Consortium to study K-12 evolution education
- 8/2: University of Texas: Bacteria show capacity for rapid, beneficial mutations
- 5/30: North Carolina A&T: University partners with BEACON Center for STE(A)M project
- 5/12: University of Idaho: Researchers examine evolution with National Science Foundation support
- 3/29: North Carolina A&T State University tests cybersecurity tool at North Carolina’s Innovation Center
- 2/14: What values are important to scientists?
- 1/27: New finding shows that males can drive creation of new species
- 1/25: Larger (Relative) Brains = Higher IQ
2016 Media Coverage
- 12/12: WKAR: $10m gift to MSU will fuel genetics effort
- 12/8: Lansing State Journal: U of M grad gives MSU $10.7 million
- 11/30: Science Daily: Biologists watch speciation in a laboratory flask
- 11/28: UW Today: Our closest worm kin regrow body parts, raising hopes of regeneration in humans
- 11/21: National Center for Science Education: On the road again with Darwin
- 11/15: UPI: As video shows, mob mentality a boon to hungry hyenas
- 11/3: Quanta Magazine: A conductor of evolution’s subtle symphony
- 10/25: WAMC Northeast Public Radio, The Academic Minute: Molly Cummings of the University of Texas, Austin describes how fish use polarized light to disappear from view in the open ocean
- 10/13: ScienceNews Network Radio: The Promise of Tomorrow: Evolution of Neural Networks
- 9/1: Intergalactic Medicine Show: Spelunking the Noosphere
- 8/8: Stanford Scope: Analysis of bacteria spanning 50,000 generations offers new insights on evolution
- 7/13: Anole Annals: MIH 2016: Genetic evidence of hybridization between the native green anole (Anolis carolinensis) and the invasive Cuban green anole (A. porcatus)
- 7/11: Anole Annals: JMIH 2016: Variation in limb length across lizard groups
- 6/29: Science Magazine: Bacteria give bird its sexy smells
- 6/15: MSU 360 Perspective: Travis Hagey: Measuring maximum animal performance
- 5/30: Evolution Institute: Evolutionary biology’s master craftsman: An interview with Richard Lenski
- 5/25: Anole Annals: Temporal variation in structural microhabitat use of Phelsuma geckos in Mauritius
- 4/27: Inside Higher Ed: Fighting cancer with nanomachines
- 4/16: Reddit Science AMA Series: I’m Travis Hagey, a Postdoctoral Fellow at Michigan State University studying the sticky toes of gecko lizards. Ask Me Anything!
- 4/6: MSU Today: Lazarius Miller: A mission to be myself
- 4/6: Nature Jobs: Character traits: Scientific Virtues
- 2/23: The Scientist: Similar Data, Different Conclusions
- 2/22: Chemical & Engineering News: Top scientists share values
- 2/19: Absolutely Maybe (PLoS Blogs): CRISPR, priority and credit: do we need to edit Science’s DNA?
- 2/16: ECN Magazine: What values are important to scientists?
- 2/16: The Hook: Artificial Evolution
- 2/15: Science Newsline: What values are important to scientists?
- 2/14: Phys.Org: What values are important to scientists?
- 2/14: Science 2.0: What makes a true scientist?
- 2/11: O’Reilly Radar Podcast: Risto Miikkulainen on evolutionary computation and making robots think for themselves
- 2/9: Faculty Voice: Robert Pennock: Defending scientific integrity
- 2/1: Chicken Planet (television documentary)
- 1/29: Tech Times: When it comes to intelligence, brain size matters
- 1/28: NSF Discovery: Do bigger brains make smarter carnivores?
- 1/25: New Scientist: Watch brainy zoo animals figure out a box puzzle to get at food
- 1/25: Scientific American: Animals with big brains are better at problem solving
- 1/25: New York Times: Some carnivores are better than others at unlocking dinner
- 1/22: Nature News and Views: When chickens go wild
- 1/21: Nature podcast: When chickens go wild
2015 Press Releases
- 10/21: Data Nuggets are golden: MSU awarded $1 million grant to study science education project
- 8/19: Forgotten sex signals
- 8/12: Computer scientists find mass extinctions can accelerate evolution
- 8/12: UI receives $22.5 Million to continue study of evolution in action
- 7/17: MSU’s BEACON Center nets $22.5M grant to continue evolution research
- 7/15: Undergraduate researchers present at annual symposium
- 6/8: MSU hires nation’s first endowed chair in genetic programming
- 5/11: Tortoise approach works best – even for evolution
- 3/12: Social status has impact on overall health of mammals
- 2/5: Settling for ‘Mr. or Ms. Right Now’ better than waiting for ‘Mr. or Ms. Right’
2015 Media Coverage
- 10/22: Fox 47 News: Data Nuggets are golden: MSU awarded $1 million grant to study science education project
- 8/20: Futurity: Can species survive if sex signals are lost?
- 8/19: Science World Report: Sex signals of animals not always passed on from generation to generation
- 8/19: ScienceDaily: Forgotten sex signals
- 8/15: International Business Times: Simulated mass extinctions speed up robotic evolution in a new experiment
- 8/14: io9: Robot simulations show mass extinctions may accelerate evolution
- 8/13: Futurity: Mass extinction kicks off robot evolution
- 8/12: (e) Science News: Computer scientists find mass extinctions can accelerate evolution
- 8/12: ScienceDaily: Computer scientists find mass extinctions can accelerate evolution
- 8/12: Phys.Org: Computer scientists find mass extinctions can accelerate evolution
- 7/30: BBC Earth: How do we know that evolution is really happening?
- 7/30: UT professor puts computer game research in context of “Pixels”
- 7/23: 538.com: Stop trying to be creative
- 7/22: Lansing State Journal: MSU gets $22.5M to continue evolution research, education
- 7/22: CBS Detroit: MSU gets $22.5M to continue evolution research, education
- 7/22: WDET: Michigan State University is receiving $22.5M to study evolution [AUDIO]
- 7/22: The Detroit News: MSU gets $22.5M to continue evolution research
- 7/13: Austin American Statesman: Ask any robot: Future of humans and AI will be complicated
- 7/10: WKAR: MSU Pres on tuition hike, new discrimination office, future challenges
- 6/19: New Scientist: Cradle of creation: Evolution shapes up new ecosystem in the lab
- 6/4: NSF Science 360 Radio: Explorers of the brain
- 5/27: Science Channel’s Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman: Are Aliens Inside Us?
- 5/15: Science Channel’s Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman: Evolution is Like Poker
- 5/13: Futurity: Evolving E. coli follow ‘tortoise-hare’ pattern
- 5/10: The Telegraph: 6000-citation feat by 4 Indian researchers
- 5/10: Current Science: Indian paper crosses 5000+ citations mark [PDF]
- 5/3: Business Insider on MSN.com: Here’s how humans are going to find alien life
- 4/6: New York Times: In Hawaii, Chickens Gone Wild
- 3/14: MSU researcher using Darwinian principles to create human-like robots
- 3/14: The Charlotte Observer: …Social status affects wild animals’ health
- 3/13: The Daily Mail: Social status boosts health and fertility – even in HYENAS: Privileged females in a clan live longer and have more pups
- 3/13: Futurity: Hyenas at top of social ladder live longer
- 3/12: Counsel & Heal: Longevity predicted by social status in mammals
- 3/12: Science World Report: Overall health of mammals impacted by social status, study says
- 3/12: Phys Org: Social status has impact on overall health of mammals
- 3/12: Nature World News: Higher social status means healthier lives… for wild animals
- 3/11: New Scientist: Chance: The importance of randomness in evolution
- 3/6: Dick Jones Communications: Is ‘Chappie’ our future?
- 3/3: Engineering & Technology Magazine: Darwinian evolution to help develop human-like brains
- 3/3: Before It’s News: Scientists continue path of Darwinian evolution for robots
- 3/2: Phys.Org: Evolving Robot Brains
- 2/12: Fox News: Waiting for Mr. Right may be an evolutionary wrong
- 2/12: The Onion: Study: Settling for adequate partner better than waiting for soulmate [Satire]
- 2/11: NPR: Mr. Right vs. Mr. Right Now [AUDIO]
- 2/9: Kansas City Star: Hey valentine: Maybe you should settle for Mr. or Miss Right Now
- 2/2: Kurzweil: Accelerating Intelligence: How complex environments push brain evolution
2014 Press Releases
- 12/16: Stay complex, my friends
- 10/30: Teaching evolution in action
- 10/27: MSU to help students learn genomics and evolution
- 9/24: Robofish gets a new mission: finding Nemo
- 8/27: Facts and values: What’s it take to be an effective scientist? [PDF]
- 8/12: Addressing the effect of agriculture on global health [PDF]
- 7/28: Evolutionary compromises drive diversity [VIDEO] [PDF]
- 7/15: Undergraduates present at summer research symposium [PDF]
- 6/26: Sequencing electric eel genome unlocks shocking secrets [PDF]
- 5/29: $1.5 million award bolsters MSU commitment to math and sciences
- 5/22: Delegating the dirty work is a key to evolution [PDF]
- 3/10: Impersonating poisonous prey [PDF]
2014 Media Coverage
- 12/26: Futurity: Computer programs ‘mutate’ to outlast viruses
- 11/5: MSU Grad Factor: Alita Burmeister, Going Viral [VIDEO]
- 10/27: mLive: Flint school district students, community to get lessons in genetics following $1.2 million grant
- 10/1: FishSens Magazine: Robofish research vehicle to help track living fish and their habitats
- 9/29: Africa Geographic: Hyenas: Bucking the trends and wearing bling
- 9/28: The Associated Press: US aids Michigan State to build better robofish
- 9/24: WILX News 10: MSU’s robofish is getting an upgrade
- 9/24: Michigan Radio: Move over, Robocop. Robotic fish is here
- 9/1: Virology (cover of September issue): Three-dimensional reconstructions of the bacteriophage CUS-3 virion reveal a conserved coat protein I-domain but a distinct tailspike receptor-binding domain
- 8/25: Bioscience: For Microbes, Devolution Is Evolution
- 8/2: Coeur d’Alene Press: Building better ‘bots
- 8/1: SIGEVOlution newsletter: BEACON Center Teams Biologists with Computer Scientists and Engineers to Study Evolutionary Processes and Solve Problems
- 7/29: io9: A winged cat helps explain the principle of evolutionary trade-offs [PDF]
- 7/29: Futurity: Compromise is key to evolving new creatures
- 6/26: NPR: A shocking fish tale surprises evolutionary biologists [AUDIO]
- 6/26: Wired: How evolution gave some fish their electric powers
- 5/21: UW: Marine apprenticeships give UW undergrads role in animal-ancestor breakthrough [PDF]
- 3/12: Futurity: Why some critters give up camo to look toxic [PDF]
- 3/11: International Science Times: Animals ‘impersonate’ poisonous prey to survive [PDF]
- 3/10: ScienceDaily: Impersonating poisonous prey: Evolution of interspecific communication [PDF]
- 2/22: The Economist: Spot the difference – Hyenas talk to each other, as it were, through their backsides [PDF]
- 2/11: Proceedings of the National Academy of Science: Microbes take charge [PDF]
- 1/16: WKAR: MSU scientist considers perils of a post-antibiotic world [AUDIO]
- 1/7: Audubon Magazine: Birds can smell, and one scientist is leading the charge to prove it [PDF]
- 1/6: National Geographic Phenomena – The Loom: Evolution hidden in plain sight [PDF]
- 1/4: Detroit Free Press: Pick your spots: Chance encounter leads MSU professor to career studying hyenas [PDF]
2013 Press Releases
- 12/20: Computing a football season [PDF]
- 11/14: No peak in sight for evolving bacteria [VIDEO] [PDF]
- 11/11: Bacteria may allow animals to send quick, voluminous messages [PDF]
- 9/4: Kalyanmoy Deb named Koenig Endowed Chair [PDF]
- 9/3: Birds choose sweet-smelling mates [PDF]
- 8/1: Evolution will punish you if you’re selfish and mean [PDF]
- 6/5: Swarming offers clues on how intelligence evolved [PDF]
- 3/25: UT: Decoding the Longhorn genome [VIDEO] [PDF]
- 3/21: Robotics-themed program takes aim at science teaching [PDF]
- 3/20: Carnivores, livestock, people share same space in relative peace [PDF]
- 2/24: Ancient lamprey DNA decoded [PDF]
- 2/19: UW: Mutant champions save imperiled species from almost-certain extinction [PDF]
- 1/14: Robofish Grace glides with the greatest of ease [PDF]
- 1/14: New Evolution in Action gallery opens at MSU museum [PDF]
- 1/7: Captive hyenas outfox wild relatives [PDF]
2013 Media Coverage
- 12/23: NSF Research Highlight: Tropical phytoplankton feel the heat [PDF]
- 12/11: MSU AgBioResearch: BEACON: Guiding a new era of revolutionary research [PDF]
- 12/5: NOVA – The Secret Life of Scientists and Engineers: Danielle Whittaker, Evolutionary Biologist [VIDEOS]
- 12/3: NOVA – The Secret Life of Scientists and Engineers: 30 Second Science with Danielle Whittaker [VIDEO]
- 11/21: Astrobiology Magazine: No peak in sight for evolution [PDF]
- 11/20: Lansing State Journal: Bioengineering building at MSU, renovation of science building at LCC signs of progress [PDF]
- 11/17: Ars Technica: After 50,000 generations, bacteria are still evolving greater fitness [PDF]
- 11/15: National Geographic Phenomena – The Loom: A long way left up Darwin’s mountain [PDF]
- 11/15: New Scientist: Perfection is a myth, show 50,000 bacterial generations [PDF]
- 11/15: Futurity: No ‘fitness peak’ in sight for evolving bacteria [PDF]
- 11/15: Spectroscopy now: Social scent networking: Hyena analytics [PDF]
- 11/15: French Tribune: Experiment shows evolution never stops [PDF]
- 11/14: NSF News from the Field: No peak in sight for evolving bacteria [PDF]
- 11/14: NPR: Bacterial competition in lab shows evolution never stops [AUDIO] [PDF]
- 11/14: Science: Podcast interview with Rich Lenksi [AUDIO]
- 11/14: Science: The man who bottled evolution [PDF]
- 11/14: ScienceDaily: No peak in sight for evolving bacteria [PDF]
- 11/14: Wild Mammal Blog: Hyena scent posts use symbiotic microbe messengers [PDF]
- 11/13: io9: Hyenas may be using bacteria to communicate [PDF]
- 11/12: Scientific American: Smelly microbes help hyenas to communicate [PDF]
- 11/12: ABC News: Hyena identity linked to odor molecules made by bacteria [PDF]
- 11/12: French Tribune: Scientist says animal scents can manipulate animal behavior [PDF]
- 11/12: The Register: Hyenas can Facebook with their arses: true fact [PDF]
- 11/12: Futurity: Microbe-rich pastes key to hyenas’ smelly signals [PDF]
- 11/12: Nature World News: Mr. Stinky – Bacteria in scent gland help hyenas communicate [PDF]
- 11/11: ScienceDaily: Bacteria may allow animals to send quick, voluminous messages [PDF]
- 11/11: The Scientist: Microbial mediators [PDF]
- 11/11: Los Angeles Times: Hyenas send smelly signals on sex and species with microbes’ help [PDF]
- 11/11: International Business Times: A hyena’s smelly social network is reinforced by bacteria: Study [PDF]
- 11/11: LiveScience: Bacteria control hyena communication [PDF]
- 11/11: National Geographic: Bacteria power social lives of hyenas [PDF]
- 11/11: Nature: Smelly microbes help hyenas to communicate [PDF]
- 10/10: Al Jazeera: Scientists threatened by demands to share data [PDF]
- 9/24: Nature: Mozilla plan seeks to debug scientific code [PDF]
- 9/18: Nature: Fertility smells like preen spirit [PDF]
- 9/11: Nature: Next-generation sequencing: the genome jigsaw [PDF]
- 9/6: Discover magazine blogs: Birds can whiff a winner of a mate [PDF]
- 9/6: Into the Air (birding blog): Birds that smell better produce more offspring [PDF]
- 9/4: Audubonmagazine.org: Better-smelling birds produce more offspring [PDF]
- 9/4: Michigan Sun: Birds find sweet-smelling mates attractive [PDF]
- 9/4: Grist: Birds like their boyfriends to smell good [PDF]
- 9/4: CBS News: For birds, looks just ain’t enough [PDF]
- 9/4: Science360: Breaking story: Birds choose sweet-smelling mates [PDF]
- 9/4: Futurity: Smell can sweeten birds’ chances of mating [PDF]
- 9/4: Wild Birds Unlimited: Michigan State University reveals birds communicate via scent [PDF]
- 9/4: RedOrbit: Birds communicate through scents [PDF]
- 9/3: NSF News from the Field: Birds choose sweet-smelling mates [PDF]
- 9/3: Fox47 News: MSU research finds birds choose sweet-smelling mates [PDF]
- 9/3: PhysOrg: Birds choose sweet-smelling mates [PDF]
- 9/3: ScienceDaily: Birds choose sweet-smelling mates [PDF]
- 9/2: Mlive: For KAMSC students, a summer of learning — and, literally, climbing to new heights [PDF]
- 8/27: MSU Undergraduate Research: Lazarius Miller ’17 [PDF]
- 8/16: Science: ScienceShot – Forget plumage, birds sniff out good mates [PDF]
- 8/13: Hometownlife.com: Heil’s trail project earns Eagle Scout status [PDF]
- 8/5: You.beauty: Mean girls are headed for extinction
- 8/5: Bionity.com: Nice organisms finish first: Why cooperators always win in the long run
- 8/5: The Scientist: A twist in evolutionary game theory
- 8/4: Guardian Express: New study shows that selfish traits are not favored by evolution
- 8/3: Why Evolution is True: To all chowderheads, including Andrew Brown: the selfish gene is just a metaphor!
- 8/2: Daily Kos: Science finally proves Republicans doomed to extinction
- 8/2: Arkansas News: A littel evolution from my friends
- 8/2: NTD Television: Selfishness may not be evolutionarily viable
- 8/2: Psychology Today: Evolution does not reward selfish and mean people
- 8/2: Futurity: Evolution will punish selfish meanies
- 8/2: Wired.co.uk: Study: queen-less honeybees remain altruistic to the bitter end
- 8/2: Digital Journal: Evolution favors cooperation
- 8/2: The Independent: Be nice. Evolution will punish you if you’re selfish and mean, says study
- 8/2: Los Angeles Times: Selfishness doomed while cooperation evolves, study says
- 8/2: MLive: Michigan State study: ‘Evolution will punish you if you’re selfish and mean’
- 8/2: MSN Now: Nice guys might not finish last after all, according to study
- 8/2: BBC News: Selfish traits not favoured by evolution, study shows
- 8/2: National Geographic: Meet the Animats
- 8/1: Ethiopian Review: Tribalists will be extinct, says study.
- 8/1: CBC: Don’t be that guy: “Evolution will punish you if you’re selfish and mean”
- 8/1: Medical Daily: Evolution punishes the selfish: how the mean and self-centered could one day become extinct
- 8/1: The State News: MSU researchers debunk game theory
- 8/1: Nature World News: Selfishness is unsustainable and may eventually disappear as an evolutionary trait
- 8/1: Daily Mail: Why you SHOULD give away your last chocolate: Selfish people ‘will eventually die out’ because evolution favours cooperation
- 8/1: Popular Science: Evolution punishes selfish people, game theory study says
- 8/1: Discovery: Does evolution punish or favor the selfish?
- 7/31: GenomeWeb Feature: Many Options, Formal and Informal, for Those Seeking Bioinformatics Education [PDF]
- 7/11: Fox 47 News: MSU undergraduates present summer research [PDF]
- 6/5: RedOrbit: Discovering why and how swarming evolved [PDF]
- 6/5: ScienceDaily: Discovering one reason why swarming evolved offers tantalizing clues on how intelligence developed [PDF]
- 6/5: PhysOrg: Discovering one reason why swarming evolved offers tantalizing clues on how intelligence developed [VIDEO] [PDF]
- 4/6: Decaffeinating waste: Brewing a solution [PDF]
- 3/25: ScienceNews: Longhorn cattle ancestors came from Pakistan [PDF]
- 3/25: LiveScience: Longhorn Legacy: Surprising origins of Columbus’ cattle found [PDF]
- 3/14: RedOrbit: Study finds people, livestock and carnivores share same space [PDF]
- 2/19: Science Daily: Mutant champions save imperiled species from almost-certain extinction [PDF]
- 1/16: NBC News: Robo fish can glide (almost) forever [PDF]
- 1/8: RedOrbit: Captive animals may be better problem solvers than their wild counterparts [PDF]
- 1/8: PopSci: Captive hyena figures out a meat puzzle faster than its wild cousin [PDF]
- 1/8: Futurity: Captive hyenas think ‘outside the box’ [PDF]
2012 Press Releases
- 10/25: NSF Press Release: Small marine organisms’ big changes could affect world climate [PDF]
- 10/25: Small organisms could dramatically impact world’s climate [PDF]
- 9/26: UT Press Release: Artificially intelligent game bots pass the Turing test on Turing’s centenary [PDF]
- 9/19: NSF Press Release: Bacteria’s key innovation helps understand evolution [VIDEO] [PDF]
- 9/19: Evolution is as complicated as 1-2-3 [PDF]
- 8/29: Computer viruses could take a lesson from showy peacocks [PDF]
- 8/10: Why do organisms build tissues they seemingly never use? [PDF]
- 8/8: Hyenas that think outside the box solve problems faster [PDF]
- 8/7: Division of labor offers insight into the evolution of multicellular life [PDF]
- 7/26: Big horns trump smooth pickup lines every time [PDF]
- 7/5: Nobel Laureate to speak at Artificial Life 13 conference [PDF]
- 4/26: BEACON Center to present at national science and engineering festival [PDF]
- 4/4: Two sophomores named 2012-13 Goldwater Scholars [PDF]
- 3/27: American Society for Microbiology press release: The Black Queen Hypothesis: A New Evolutionary Theory [PDF]
- 2/6: MSU Nominees for 2012 Goldwater Scholarship announced [PDF]
- 1/26: MSU researchers show how new viruses evolve, and in some cases, become deadly [PDF]
- 1/26: NSF Press release: Researchers show how new viruses evolve, and in some cases, become deadly [PDF]
2012 Media Coverage
- 12/29: Science News Top 25 Stories of 2012: Stores worth losing sleep over [23. Evolving E. coli: 25-year experiment sees real-time selection]
- 11/29: NSF Discoveries: Studying evolution in action [PDF]
- 11/23: NPR: Experiments that keep going and going and going [PDF] [AUDIO]
- 11/22: Lansing State Journal: MSU experts study mystery of ornamental animals [PDF]
- 10/31: Digital Nibbles (Radio interview with Risto Miikkulainen about BotPrize, starting at 13:42)
- 10/26: Futurity: In warm oceans, phytoplankton may thrive near poles [PDF]
- 10/26: RedOrbit: Warming oceans will play major role in less phytoplankton diversity [PDF]
- 10/26: Climate Central: Rising ocean temps threaten the ocean food chain [ClimateCentral102612_WarmingOceans]
- 10/25: Science NOW: Oceans getting too hot to handle? [PDF]
- 10/25: New Scientist: Tropical plankton exodus by 2100 [PDF]
- 10/14: AIGameDev: Making AI that plays like humans (Winning the BotPrize) (VIDEO, Subscription only)
- 10/5: Utica Community Schools Newsletter: Hands on Science: Two UCS students take part in prestigious summer study program [PDF]
- 10/1: Futurity: Virtual gamer bot beats Turing’s ‘human’ test [PDF]
- 9/30: Newsy: Video game bots act like real humans (VIDEO)
- 9/28: New Scientist: Mimicry beats consciousness in gaming’s Turing test [PDF]
- 9/27: BBC News: A new computer game ‘bot’ acts just like a real person [PDF]
- 9/26: The 2K BotPrize [PDF]
- 9/26: ABC News: Evolution: Scientists grow 56,000 generations in lab to watch [PDF]
- 9/20: Salon: In experiment scientists watched evolution happen [PDF]
- 9/20: RedOrbit: Evolution of Escherichia coli helps researchers understand how organisms evolve new functions [PDF]
- 9/19: Nature News & Views: Evolution: How the unicorn got its horn
- 9/19: Ars Technica: Researchers track evolution through snapshots of 40,000 generations [PDF]
- 9/19: Washington Post: Evolutionary innovation caught in the act [PDF]
- 9/19: The Loom: The birth of the new, the rewiring of the old [PDF]
- 9/19: Science Daily: How organisms evolve new functions: Evolution is as complicated as 1-2-3 [PDF]
- 9/9: Telegraph: Hyenas are as bright as primates, research shows [PDF]
- 9/4: PBS: Faced with a steel box, hyenas try to think outside it
- 9/1: Museum magazine, Sept-Oct issue (American Alliance of Museums): Work in Progress: Exhibiting Present-Day Evolution [PDF]
- 8/30: RedOrbit: What would happen if computer viruses were like digital peacocks? [PDF]
- 8/29: NSF News from the Field: Computer viruses could take a lesson from showy peacocks [PDF]
- 8/29: Science Daily: Computer viruses could take a lesson from showy peacocks [PDF]
- 8/23: Nature News: Physicists suggest selfishness can pay [PDF]
- 8/15: Nature Research Highlights: Curious hyenas crack puzzles [PDF]
- 8/10: Futurity: ‘Unnecessary’ steps help smooth evolution [PDF]
- 8/10: ScienceDaily: Why do organisms build tissues they seemingly never use? [PDF]
- 8/9: Astrobiology Magazine: Division of labor and multicellular life [PDF]
- 8/9: RedOrbit: Hyenas solve problems faster when they think outside the box [PDF]
- 8/9: Sigma Xi SmartBrief: Hyenas can solve problems, study says
- 8/9: Futurity: Innovation gives some hyenas an edge [PDF]
- 8/8: ScienceDaily: Hyenas that think outside the box solve problems faster [PDF]
- 8/8: LiveScience: Creative hyenas make better problem solvers [PDF]
- 8/7: Ecology Global Network: Division of labor offers insight into the evolution of multicellular life [PDF]
- 8/7: ScienceDaily: Division of labor offers insight into the evolution of multicellular life [PDF]
- 8/2: New York Times: Olympic athletes and their parents: Your competitive drive vs. your child’s (column by Judi Brown Clarke) [PDF]
- 7/27: Futurity: Studmuffin beetles boast bigger horns [PDF]
- 7/27: International Business Times: Beetle horns get size enhancement from insulin: study [PDF]
- 7/26: USA Today: Antlers make the beetle [PDF]
- 7/26: Discover Magazine Blogs – Not Exactly Rocket Science: How the rhino beetle got its horn (and why it cannot lie) [PDF]
- 7/26: ScienceDaily: Big horns trump smooth pickup lines every time [PDF]
- 7/23: The State News: Nobel winner speaks at Wharton [PDF]
- 6/20: LiveScience: Robotic fish patrol waters for pollutants [PDF]
- 6/18: The State News: Conference exposes young women to STEM fields [PDF]
- 6/4: Bloomberg TV: Robotic Fish Search Water for Pollutants (VIDEO)
- 6/1: Microbe Magazine: Card trick: the Black Queen from Hearts helps explain reductive evolution in life [PDF]
- 5/29: Great Lakes Echo: Water-monitoring robofish almost ready to patrol Great Lakes [PDF]
- 5/14: LiveScience: Microbes use “Hearts” card game trick to freeload [PDF]
- 5/11: RedOrbit: Queen of spades key to new evolutionary hypothesis [PDF]
- 5/10: NSF Discoveries: Queen of spades key to new evolutionary hypothesis [PDF]
- 5/2: Huffington Post: A black queen in a blue ocean: How microbes evolve to depend on each other [PDF]
- 4/27: RedOrbit: Robots That Swim, Drive And Play Soccer; Virtual Humans And Real Storm Chasers Are Part Of The Action At Science And Engineering Festival [PDF]
- 4/3: Environmental Monitor: Back to school: Robotic fish make a splash [PDF]
- 4/2: Science 2.0: Evolved Dependency: The Black Queen Hypothesis in Evolution [PDF]
- 3/28: io9: Researchers describe a new evolutionary theory: The Black Queen Hypothesis [PDF]
- 3/27: New Scientist: Black Queen tells microbes to be lazy [PDF]
- 3/22: Research.gov: Robotic fish could monitor water quality [PDF]
- 1/30: Futurity: After four mutations, new virus attacks [PDF]
- 1/27: RedOrbit: MSU researchers show how viruses evolve, and in some cases, become deadly [PDF]
- 1/27: ScienceDaily: How viruses evolve, and in some cases, become deadly [PDF]
- 1/27: Carl Zimmer, New York Times: In real time, a virus learns a new way to infect [PDF]
- 1/26: The Scientist: The making of a trait [PDF]
- 1/26: Science Podcast: an interview with Justin Meyer about the experimental coevolution of a virus and its host
- 1/26: LiveScience: Viral attacks on bacteria reveal a secret to evolution [PDF] (reposted on MSNBC, among others)
- 1/26: LiveScience VIDEO: Virus rapidly evolves to fight bacteria
2011 Press Releases
- 11/21: Research sheds new light on body parts’ sensitivity to environmental changes [PDF]
- 9/9: Evolution keeps sex determination flexible [PDF]
- 8/22: Hyenas’ ability to count helps them decide to fight or flee [PDF]
- 7/19: Avian ‘Axe effect’ attracts attention of females and males [PDF]
- 6/30: Mutations help organisms become kings of the mountain [PDF]
- 4/14: MSU Museum explores evolution in action [PDF]
- 3/24: Allen Foundation awards grant to KGI professor to study brain complexity [PDF]
- 3/23: Miller-Urey experiment recreated in art-science exhibit [PDF]
- 3/23: Larger female hyenas produce more offspring [PDF]
- 3/22: In the race of life, better an adaptable tortoise than a fit hare [PDF]
2011 Media Coverage
- 12/02: SunLive (NZ): Possibilities of Land Use Analysis [PDF]
- 11/30: New York Times: DNA Sequencing Caught in Deluge of Data [PDF]
- 11/25: LiveScience Behind the Scenes: Worms can evolve to survive intersex populations [PDF]
- 11/22: ScienceDaily: New research on body parts’ sensitivity to environmental changes [PDF]
- 10/4: TED.com: “Christoph Adami: Finding life we can’t imagine” (Video)
- 9/23: State News: New robotic fish detect harmful pollutants [PDF]
- 9/19: Geek.com: Robotic schools of fish made from 3D printers will patrol for water pollution [PDF]
- 9/19: Scientific American blogs: Synchronized swimming; patrolling for pollution with robotic fish [PDF]
- 9/12: RedOrbit: Evolution keeps sex determination flexible [PDF]
- 9/12: ScienceDaily: Evolution keeps sex determination flexible [PDF]
- 8/22: ScienceDaily: Hyenas’ ability to count helps them decide to fight or flee [PDF]
- 8/17: Nature News: Hyenas can count like monkeys [PDF]
- 7/22: Futurity.org: Songbird ‘cologne’ drives females wild [PDF]
- 7/20: RedOrbit: Avian “Axe effect” attracts attention of females and males [PDF]
- 7/19: ScienceDaily: Avian ‘Axe effect’ attracts attention of females and males [PDF]
- 7/8: NPR’s Science Friday: The Story of Texas Longhorns, as Told by Their DNA [PDF]
- 6/20-7/11: New York Times Scientist At Work blog posts by Kay Holekamp
- 6/1: Ars Technica: Evolving bacteria through a game of rock-paper-scissors [PDF]
- 4/15: RedOrbit: Understand the brain as a computational network [PDF]
- 4/8: LiveScience Behind the Scenes: Understanding the brain as a computational network [PDF]
- 3/24: RedOrbit: Larger hyenas produce more offspring [PDF]
- 3/24: artdaily.org: Classic experiment from 1952 on the origin of life recreated in art-science exhibit [PDF]
- 3/24: ScienceDaily: Larger female hyenas produce more offspring [PDF]
- 3/23: ScienceDaily: In the race of life, better an adaptable tortoise than a fit hare [PDF]
- 3/22: NSF press release: Some outcomes of the evolutionary race buck conventional wisdom [PDF]
- 3/21: Carl Zimmer, New York Times: Tortoise and Hare, in a Laboratory Flask [PDF]
- 3/18: Science Podcast: Interview with Jeff Barrick and Rich Lenski
- 3/18: Cosmic Log: In evolution, slow and steady wins [PDF]
- 3/17: ScienceNews: In evolution, last really can be first [PDF]
- 3/17: NatureNews: Slow evolvers win in the end [PDF]
- 3/15: LiveScience: Large lady hyenas throw their weight into cub-making [PDF]
- 1/21: New Scientist: Telltale chemistry could betray ET [PDF]
2010 Press Releases
- 9/21: New MSU Research Sheds Light on How We Become Altruistic [PDF]
- 2/17: MSU awarded $25 million for NSF center to study evolution in action [PDF]
2010 Media Coverage
- 12/1: Microbe Magazine: Predicting plasmid promiscuity could help fight resistance [PDF]
- 11/17: RedOrbit: Digital organisms shed light on mystery of altruism [PDF]
- 11/9: RedOrbit: KGI researchers publish key paper on evolution of cooperation [PDF]
- 10/29: LiveScience Behind the Scenes: Digital Organisms Shed Light on Mystery of Altruism [PDF]
- 10/18: Lansing State Journal: Researchers at MSU Study Altruism [PDF]
- 10/6: Meet the Scientist: Carl Zimmer interviews Charles Ofria
- 9/28: [MSU] State News: BEACON Center Publishes 1st Report [PDF]
- 9/23: US News & World Report: New MSU Research Sheds Light on How We Become Altruistic [PDF]
- 9/22: Science Daily: Research Sheds Light on Altruism [PDF]
- 9/21: RedOrbit: New MSU research sheds light on how we become altruistic [PDF]
- 8/4: New Scientist: Artificial life forms evolve basic intelligence [PDF]
- 2/17: WKAR Radio (East Lansing NPR Station): Michigan State Wins NSF ‘Beacon’ Grant [PDF]
- 2/17: Michigan Radio (Ann Arbor NPR Station): Evolutionary Research At Michigan State University [PDF]
- 2/17: [MSU] State News: MSU awarded $25M grant to establish new science center [PDF]
- 2/17: Spartan Podcast: BEACON on Spartan Podcast [PDF]
