A new Spring, a new sound

Special editorial from the outgoing and incoming Editor in Chief

Final Thoughts as Editor-in-Chief

Greetings GPNSS members! I write this editorial during a time of reflection as Editor-in-Chief of The Prairie Naturalist (TPN), and during unprecedented times as the global COVID-19 pandemic continues. In full disclosure, I do not have a particular topic for this editorial, other than to offer a few final thoughts as my time serving the Great Plains Natural Science Society and TPN

The 50th Anniversary of the Catholic University Law Review

This is an essay, not a history, on the first fifty years of the Catholic University Law Review. When an enterprise survives that long, it is cause for acknowledgment and celebration. This seems especially appropriate for the Law Review when we consider that it is managed by amateurs, relies on volunteer labor, and changes leadership every year; yet, it has grown and matured into a respectable scholarly journal. There is reason to wonder from where the Law Review has come, what it has accomplished, and how and where it is going. There is reason, too, to reminisce over half a century about the people and events along the way

Editorial

In a globally changing climate and with the alarming loss of biodiversity Comparative Endocrinology becomes ever more relevant as a scientific discipline. The comparative endocrinologist continues to be at the frontline of scientific endeavour trying to understand the myriad complexities of life forms on earth by looking at the regulatory factors that underpin key events in an organisms’ life and ensure maintenance of homeostasis and species survival