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Q: My husband was excited when he witnessed a robin building a nest by recycling a shed skin from a snake that lives at the foundation of our house in

Could the snake skins serve as a deterrent to would-be egg predators? And why do some birds incorporate bits of litter into their nests?

Travis Marsico has been selected as interim vice provost for Research and Technology Transfer and executive director of the Arkansas Biosciences Institute at Arkansas State University, Interim Provost Len Frey has announced.

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The funds will be used to train an interdisciplinary teams of scientists working to better understand disease ecology and invasive species biology.

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One of the nice things about living in a small state such as Arkansas is that you deal with a lot of the same people through the years. I met Jeff Hankins more than four decades ago when I was sports editor of the Daily Siftings Herald at Arkadelphia. Jeff was a high school student in Pine Bluff and worked part-time in the sports department at the Pine Bluff Commercial.

One of the nice things about living in a small state such as Arkansas is that you deal with a lot of the same people through the years. I met Jeff Hankins more than four decades ago when I was sports editor of the Daily Siftings Herald at Arkadelphia. Jeff was a high school student in Pine Bluff and worked part-time in the sports department at the Pine Bluff Commercial.

The project would not only help preserve and grow the population of the endangered species, it would be a tourism draw for the area.