Save the Honeybees

Almost half of America’s bees have disappeared in just a decade, and the root of the problem is still uncertain. Assistant Professor of Biology Hartmut Doebel led a team of undergraduate research assistants on the case. The team zeroed in on one suspect: a class of pesticides called neonicotinoids. Ricky Zhu, a biology major and lead research assistant in Doebel’s lab, said that he and his fellow student researchers felt proud ownership over the work. “We nurture it. It’s our baby.”