Department of Applied Ecology
![CMAST researcher holds a big, pretty fish.](https://cals.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/CMAST-Fish-Researcher.jpg)
Campus At The Coast
![CALS researchers have found that the North African outdoors are most similar to U.S. indoors. Here, a giraffe eats a tree outdoors.](https://cals.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/mkjusthomeclimate1500-950x535.jpg)
U.S. Indoor Climate Most Similar to Northeast African Outdoors
![Belltower with circles of light](https://cals.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/belltower.jpg)
CALS New Year’s Resolutions
![CALS PhD Applied Ecology Emily Reed](https://cals.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Emily-Reed.jpg)
Reimagining Women in STEM: Ph.D. Student Emily Reed
![Photo of ants climbing on a yellow flower.](https://cals.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/ant-in-flower.jpg)
Ants for Antibiotics?: Omar Halawani Is on the Hunt
![Adriana Hernandez-Aguilar swabbing leaf in nest for microbes.](https://cals.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Thoemmes.jpg)
Think Chimpanzee Beds Are Dirtier Than Human Ones? Think Again
![Spotted seatrout (Cynoscion nebulosus), caught off the coast of North Carolina. Photo courtesy of Tim Ellis.](https://cals.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/seatrout.jpg)
How Winter Temps Can Affect Your Spring Fishing
![Giant panda eating bamboo](https://cals.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/giant-panda.jpg)
Separated Since the Dinosaurs, Bamboo-Eating Lemurs, Pandas Share Common Gut Microbes
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The Dean’s Round Table: Facing The Future
![Indian Jumping Ant workers](https://cals.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Indian-Jumping-Ant-workers.jpg)