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Annaliese Bol ’26 (from left), Mia Crites ’26, Hailey Yoder ’26 and Professor of Biology Binney Girdler attend the Ecological Society of America Great Lakes Chapter Conference in Cleveland.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n
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Three students recently represented Kalamazoo College at the 2026 meeting of the Great Lakes Chapter of the Ecological Society of America<\/a> (ESA) in Cleveland, Ohio, where two of them swept the top undergraduate honors for their research presentations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Annaliese Bol \u201926 received the conference\u2019s award for Best Undergraduate Talk, while Mia Crites \u201926 earned Best Undergraduate Poster. Fellow student Hailey Yoder \u201926 also attended the conference alongside Professor of Biology<\/a> Binney Girdler to present Senior Integrated Project (SIP) research.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bol presented findings from research she conducted with Assistant Professor of Biology Clara Stuligross, examining how heat waves affect blue orchard bees, a native solitary bee species that plays an important role in agricultural pollination. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTwo hundred to 300 of these blue orchard bees can do the same work in an acre of almond trees as two hives of honeybees,\u201d Bol said. \u201cTwo hives is about 90,000 honeybees, so these bees are efficient pollinators.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her project explored whether heat stress during the bees\u2019 larval stage hurts their future ability to reproduce. Bol said her findings offered some encouraging news amid broader climate concerns. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe found some interesting evidence that the bees aren\u2019t being affected by heat waves in the way that we studied them,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s rare to find good news when you\u2019re working with climate-change science.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bol said the conference gave her valuable experience presenting research ahead of K\u2019s Diebold SIP Symposium for the Department of Biology, and she connected with ecologists from across the Great Lakes region, including participants from the United States and Canada. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt was just a super fun experience,\u201d Bol said. \u201cIf any students have the opportunity to go present their work, they should just do it.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

After graduating this spring, Bol plans to pursue a master\u2019s degree in animal behavior at Stockholm University in Stockholm, Sweden. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Crites presented research from her SIP completed in the lab of Associate Professor of Biology Santiago Salinas. Her project investigated whether adaptation to pollution affects the ability of Atlantic killifish populations to respond to thermal stress. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMy main goal with this SIP was just to gain some experience in the lab as an undergrad, specifically in designing and running an experiment, and then writing the paper afterward,\u201d Crites said. \u201cI accomplished most of my goals, got a taste of what research is really like, and feel more prepared leaving K to venture on in the scientific world.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The conference marked the first time Crites had attended and presented at a professional academic gathering. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTalking to other conference goers that share a similar love for biology helped me to solidify that this is something that I want to continue to be involved in and have a large passion for,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the conference banquet, Bol and Crites received award certificates, $150 prizes from the ESA and gift baskets that were presented by the Great Lakes Chapter\u2019s past chair, Andrea Corbett of Cleveland State University. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Crites said the experience reinforced her interest in pursuing ecology and evolutionary biology after graduation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAs of right now, I don\u2019t have any plans locked in for after graduation, but I\u2019d like to travel a bit, ideally find a seasonal job or two working in a biology lab, and then eventually go back to grad school to study ecology and evolutionary biology,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Also presenting at the Great Lakes ESA conference was Hailey Yoder \u201926, whose SIP has made waves of its own with her hands-on coral reef restoration work in the Gal\u00e1pagos Islands. Read more about her SIP<\/a>. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n

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Bol receives rewards from former ESA Great Lakes past-Chair Andrea Corbett for earning Best Undergraduate Talk honors at the ESA ecology conference.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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Crites receives rewards from former ESA Great Lakes past-Chair Andrea Corbett for earning Best Undergraduate Poster honors at the ESA ecology conference.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n
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