Written Reporting
Study on wolf reintroduction shows large human influence on other Isle Royale carnivores
In a rare opportunity to study carnivores before and after wolves were reintroduced to their ranges, researchers from the UW–Madison found that the effects of wolves on Isle Royale have been only temporary. And even in the least-visited national park, humans had a significant impact on carnivores’ lives.
Photo by Maruiel Rodriguez Curras
The eyes are a gateway to evolution…for daddy long legs
Some people may first associate daddy longlegs with, well, their long legs, but UW–Madison researchers found two extra sets of underdeveloped eyes on a living species of daddy longlegs embryos, implying that they diversified earlier in the evolutionary tree than believed.
Photo by Guilherme Gainett
Sifting Through Schoolyard Memories
This summer, UNC-Chapel Hill PhD student Colleen Betti and 80 volunteers rushed to uncover a historic schoolyard that was about to be paved over and transformed into a parking lot. Their mission: to illuminate the overlooked, everyday lives of African American school children from the 19th century.
A Respectable Use of Time
How do official records of the American past differ from those documented by the everyday women who lived through it? Danielle Burke, a master’s student in the UNC-Chapel Hill Department of American Studies, is combining studio art with archival and ethnographic research to explore class, gender, and identity through an overlooked sector of craftspeople: handweavers and lacemakers.
Setting A Field Alight
With support from UNC student researchers, Benjamin Mason Meier has finalized a first-of-its-kind textbook integrating human rights policy into public health education — a guiding light to aid the next generation of researchers.
Photo by: Megan May, UNC Research