Category: News & Announcements (& uncategoried)

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.

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…