Announcing the 2025 Grass Fellows

For those traveling to the 2025 Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting in San Diego, California, you can catch up with Grass Fellows and their recent work. Below is a working list of sessions featuring Grass Fellows and activities supported by The Grass Foundation. To request an addition to this list please email info@grassfoundation.org.  Additionally, The [...]

The Grass Foundation is now accepting applications for the 2026 Grass Fellowship at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. For this application year, the Foundation is piloting a new application process with a priority deadline and a final deadline. Applicants who apply by the priority deadline of October 15, 2025, have the opportunity […]

Birds and humans share an ability that’s not too common among our tetrapod vertebrate cousins–walking on two feet. While some animals can manage on their hindlimbs for a limited time (think prairie dogs, gorillas, and running frilled lizards), true bipedalism is only found among humans, birds, and a few other animals like kangaroos. It’s a […]

With its suction-cup-like mouth, rings of sharp teeth, and toothed tongue, lampreys attach themselves to fish and feast on their blood and other bodily fluids, sometimes killing them in the process. It’s a strategy that has served them well, as they have remained relatively unchanged for over 300 million years. Described as one of the […]