Recipients have been selected for travel grants to attend the 61st Annual Meeting of the Entomological Society of America in Austin Texas. The following student members will each receive US$500 to offset meeting costs. Congratulations to each of them. Elizabeth Cash … Continue reading
A 10 day course is being taught July 17-26 in Portal Arizona that will focus on the behavior, diversity and ecology of ants in the American Southwest. If you are going to take just one ant course this year, this would … Continue reading
Erin Cole has been selected as the 2013 recipient of the William L. and Ruth D. Nutting Research Grant for basic termite biology. Erin is a Ph.D. candidate at Northeastern University, where she is working under the guidance of Rebeca … Continue reading
The NAS/IUSSI is making US$500 available to each of 10 dues-paying student members so that they can attend the 2013 meeting of the Entomological Society of America. This meeting will be held in Austin, Texas USA, during November 10-13. Students … Continue reading
The Journal of Bioeconomics actively solicits papers for a Special Issue on “Social Biomimicry – Potential and Limitations for Study of Human Organizational Design”. Guest editor: Jennifer Fewell, School of Life Sciences and Center for Social Dynamics and Complexity, Arizona … Continue reading
The North American Section of the International Union for the Study of Social Insects is proud to announce that Adrian Smith (Arizona State University Ph.D. 2011) was selected as the recipient of the 2012 Eickwort Student Award. Adrian was a … Continue reading
A working group for the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent) is attempting to compile a qualitative database of social traits for all social species worldwide. They would appreciate your taking 10-15 minutes to fill out the attached questionnaire. The answers will be … Continue reading
Insectes Sociaux, the journal of the International Union for the Study of Social Insects (IUSSI), is looking for authors who can definitely commit themselves to writing a high-quality review article. We are also interested in review articles by graduate students, … Continue reading
Sanford Porter and Dan Wojcik have recently uploaded an updated version of FORMIS, a composite of several ant literature databases. It now has about 54,000 records about the world’s ant literature. The database is designed to allow convenient searches of … Continue reading