America’s most common ticks and how to identify them

Stacker has compiled information and photos from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to help you identify the ten tick species which pose the greatest threats to Americans this summer.

Woodbridge Is Basically Outside

Betsy Ladyzhets’ towels have not been fully dry for several days.

Tips From A Veteran Writing Fellow

Betsy shares advice on writing and revising academic papers, gained from her three years as a Barnard Writing Fellow.

ArchaeoEcology: New interdisciplinary project shows how human communities shape biodiversity

The ArchaeoEcology Project, an interdisciplinary collaboration of archaeologists, geologists, ecologists, and cultural anthropologists, aims to increase understanding of humans’ place in ecosystems around the globe. Betsy reports from the project’s panels at the 2019 AAAS Annual Meeting.

Best and worst states for women’s health

To get a more complete picture of women’s health in every state, Stacker calculated an index using data from the Kaiser Family Foundation’s State Profiles for Women’s Health and CDC data.

The Forest in Fall: Tree Identification and Leaf Color

Betsy Ladyzhets, an undergraduate researcher at Black Rock Forest, walks through the basics of differentiating between common tree species in the forest. This article is adapted from a post on her research blog.

State of the U.S. economy during the year you were born

Stacker set out to trace the milestones, pitfalls and major events that define the economic legacy of the century, using data from the Federal Reserve, Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Census, and other sources.

Creating Space For Computer Science At Barnard

Starting in the next academic year, Barnard is going to have a computer science department. Betsy Ladyzhets talked to Barnard’s Provost, as well as a professor and student involved in CS, to find out more on the impetus for creating this department, the process so far, and what it might look like in the future.