Category: News & Announcements (& uncategoried)

School of Science, Monash University Malaysia applications for a 3.5-year PhD position in evolutionary ecology. The PhD project will be conducted under the supervision of Zoe Sze Huei Yek (Monash University Malaysia) and Philipp Engel (University of Lausanne, Switzerland). Applications must be submitted before the 31st of July 2020. The PhD will begin January 2021.…

The first announcement is for term position with full benefits for up to 4 years to work with Dr. Mike Simone-Finstrom as part of two extramurally funded cooperative projects with the University of Minnesota and the University of Missouri. It’s exciting work that has lots of potential for independent exploration as well. Check it out…

We are currently taking pre-orders of the upcoming release of Encyclopedia of Social Insects. IUSSI members can pre-order a copy for $150 per copy (plus applicable tax). This is a project of the International Union for the Study of Social Insects (IUSSI), the worldwide organizing body for the scientific study of social insects.     https://link.springer.com/referencework/10.1007/978-3-319-90306-4  …

The Status of Pollinators in North America report released by the National Research Council in 2007 sounded the alarm—the populations of pollinators upon which we depend on for ecological stability and agricultural productivity might be at risk. Events since then have proven the report to be all too prescient, with alarmingly losses and extinctions especially for…

Dear Fellow IUSSI-NAS members, First, we would like to sincerely offer our well wishes and hope you and your family are safe in this uncertain time. Given the increasing magnitude of the coronavirus outbreak, we have decided to postpone the IUSSI-NAS breakout meeting scheduled for October 17-18th, 2020 at the Southwestern Research Station in Portal,…

Call for student research grant nominations The deadline for applications for the student research grants has been extended to April 8, 2020! The awards committee has announced the call for nominations for the Jeanne 2020, Michener 2020, Nutting 2020, and Tschinkel 2020 Student and/or Postgraduate Research Grants. See attached flyers and awards and grants page…

President-elect: Karen Kapheim Secretary: Sarah Lawson Treasurer: Chris Smith Awards Committee: Rachelle Adams Floria Uy Nominations committee: Chelsea Cook

Please see attached for the IUSSI-NAS 2019 Newsletter.

Congratulations to our 2019 Award recipients of the George C. Eickwort Student Research Award and Jeffrey P. La Fage Student Award for Applied Research on Social Insect Pests. George C. Eickwort Student Research Award: Beryl Jones Jeffrey P. La Fage Student Award for Applied Research on Social Insect Pests: Pierre Lau A big THANK YOU to…

Madeleine Beekman, Secretary-General of IUSSI,  has published a 2019 society newsletter.