Four graduate students at the University of California, Riverside, are among 20 University of California graduate students who will be supported by funding from the UC Natural Reserve System’s 2018-19 Mildred E. Mathias Graduate Student Research Grant Program. They are: Ryan Conway, Kaleigh Fisher, Tesa Madsen-McQueen, and Erica Sarro. “Mildred Mathias was one of the...
Bacteria and fungi might conjure up images of diseases and spoiled food, but they also do a lot of good. The billions of microbes in a handful of dead leaves, for example, act as nature’s recyclers and regenerate nutrients needed for the next generation of plants to grow. “If it wasn’t for bacteria and fungi...
