Category: News & Announcements (& uncategoried)

Madeleine Beekman, Secretary-General of IUSSI,  has published a 2019 society 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 our IUSSI-NAS Awards…

Congratulations to our 2019 IUSSI-NAS research award recipients 2019 Robert L. and Louise B. Jeanne Social Wasp Research Grant: Andrew Legan 2019 Charles Michener Bee Research Grant: Margaret Shanahan 2019 William L. and Ruth D. Nutting Termite Research Grant: Austin Merchant 2019 Tschinkel Ant Natural History Research Grant: Kip Lacy A big THANK YOU to…

Dear Colleagues, Friends, and Family, I am excited to let you know that we have completed our fund drive for the Michener Award, a graduate student scholarship that will recognize excellence in research on bees. This award is named after Charles Michener (1918-2015), a member of the IUSSI-NAS who was admired as a teacher, mentor,…

IUSSI-North American Section has created a Facebook Group, where we will share new and photos about IUSSI-NAS. We hope you will find it fun and informative. Please join!

Please see attached for the no. 15 of Tacayá, the occasional newsletter of the Andean-Caribbean Section of the IUSSI.

If you have created something social insect themed to help benefit those that have been affected by natural disasters throughout North America, and would like to advertise it on the IUSSI-NAS website, please email the relevant information to Jenny Jandt. 2017 Hurricane Maria Carribbean Pollinator Rescue Our colleagues in Puerto Rico, along with the Pollinator Partnership,…

Congratulations to Andrew Hoadley! IUSSI-NAS members voted his design to represent our society (shown in the header of the website). You can contact or follow Andrew, as well as the other artists that submitted an image. You will find their contact information listed below their submitted image. We thank all of our artists and all…