News and Media

Please take a look at the news stories that feature research in our lab.

News about biodiversity research!

Roberto Carrera-Martínez recently gave a rsearch talk to the Museum of Natural History of the Dominican Republic Check it out!

News about student mentoring and community outreach!

Sean Schoville received the 2025 Robert R. Spitzer Teaching Excellence Award, the
2024 Undergraduate Research Scholars Mentor award, and a 2023 Mentor Award in Research, Scholarly and Creative Activities.

Photo of members of the Molecular Ecology Lab
Sean Schoville, Entomology, Robert R. Spitzer Teaching Excellence Award, and lab members during the 2025 CALS Awards at UW–Madison’s Union South in Madison, Wis., Wednesday, May 7, 2025.

Photo by Michael P. King/UW–Madison CALS

News about research on rapid evolutionary change

  • Read the 2022 UW press release by Eric Hamilton on the evolution of insecticide resistance in the super-pest, Colorado potato beetle.
  • As well as the 2018 press releases on the Colorado potato beetle genome evolution, including The Crux highlight on this study by Ernie Mastroianni in Discover Magazine.

News about alpine insects and climate change