Colorado Sun: Some birds are getting a new name
February 19, 2024
UC biologist Lucinda Lawson talks to the Colorado Sun about a proposal to rename birds named for people.
February 19, 2024
UC biologist Lucinda Lawson talks to the Colorado Sun about a proposal to rename birds named for people.
December 14, 2023
UC College of Arts and Sciences botanist Denis Conover talks to Cincinnati Edition about his new study examining ways that public gardens and arboretums are contributing to the spread of nonnative, invasive species.
December 21, 2023
Scientific American turned to a University of Cincinnati biologist to explain new research examining how eyeless spiders living deep within caves are still sensitive to light.
February 1, 2024
UC biologist Elizabeth Hobson talks to Pushkin Industries podcast the Last Archive about how monk parakeets came to live in the United States and foiled efforts to eradicate them.
March 8, 2024
UC biologist Bruce Jayne says sandworms featured in the science fiction books of the Dune universe move more like legless lizards than worms.
March 6, 2024
UC Professor Joshue Benoit talks to WVXU's Cincinnati Edition about the creepy arthropods that sometimes share our homes.
April 12, 2024
Local 12 and other news media highlighted a long-term study by the University of Cincinnati examining the recovery of a forest damaged by a deadly tornado 25 years ago. The study found that the storm provided an opportunity for some nonnative, invasive species.
March 20, 2024
UC biologist Theresa Culley tells WLWT that Callery pear trees began growing in the wild after horticulturists created hybrid versions. Today, they are found in lots of forests and highway edges.
May 1, 2024
International media highlights UC's discovery of plants imbued with ritualistic significance beneath a ballcourt in the ruins of Yaxnohcah in Mexico.
May 14, 2024
UC biologist Joshua Benoit tells Smithsonian that it's not just cows and other mammals that make milk for their newborns. Even some insects like beetle-mimic cockroaches and tsetse flies produce a protein rich "milk" for their babies.