New Seed Grant Program Tackles Societal Challenges With Broad-Based Research Teams
The new Knowledge and Innovation Program (KIP) of the Rensselaer Office of Research has awarded four grants to spur multidisciplinary research.
Researchers Find That Frogs Can Quickly Increase Their Tolerance to Pesticides
Although there is a large body of research on pests evolving tolerances for the pesticides meant to destroy them, there have been considerably fewer studies on how non-target animals in these ecosystems may do the same.
The Wildlife Society
Frogs Adapt to Salty Conditions From De-Icing
THE EAGLE: A Times Union Podcast
Evolving Frogs
Rensselaer Researcher Finds that Frog Species Evolved Rapidly in Response To Road Salts
When we think of evolution, we think of a process that happens over hundreds or thousands of years. In research recently published, a team led by Rick Relyea, Ph.D., professor of biological sciences and David M. Darrin ’40 Senior Endowed Chair at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, found a species of frog that has evolved over the course of merely 25 years. The adaptation was spurred on by something many assume is innocuous: salt.
Popular Mechanics
Wood Frogs Are Evolving and Getting Weirdly Stronger
Popular Science
These frogs may be evolving because of road salt
AAAS Honors Researchers Georges Belfort, Nikhil Koratkar, and Rick Relyea
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society, has elected Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute researchers Georges Belfort, Nikhil Koratkar, and Rick Relyea to the newest class of AAAS fellows, among the most distinct honors within the scientific community.