Category: News & Announcements (& uncategoried)

It is with great pleasure that we announce the IUSSI-NAS Spring Student Awards! There are four awards to support graduate student research on social insects, one for each of the four major social insect groups (see Awards page and announcements here: Nutting, Michener, Tschinkel, and Jeanne awards).  We are also pleased to announce the Mary Jane West-Eberhard…

Call for Symposia at the International Congress of Entomology, Kyoto 2024. Deadline for symposium proposals is June 16 and there is a Social Insects section!

Due to the lingering challenges, the awards committee has decided to extend the deadline for the following student awards by one whole month:  1) The William L. and Ruth D. Nutting Termite Research Grant 2) The Tschinkel Ant Natural History Research Grant 3) The Charles Michener Bee Research Grant 4) The Robert L. and Louise B. Jeanne Social…

It is with great pleasure that we  announce Kyle Gray as the winner of the 2023 Mary Jane West-Eberhard Best Paper Award with the article “Global biogeography of ant social parasites: Exploring patterns and mechanisms of an inverse latitudinal diversity gradient” (https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14528). Ben Pyenson (“Worker-like behavioral and physiological phenotype in queens with removed wings in a…

Due to some (more!) technical difficulties, membership payment is not currently possible. This issue will be resolved in late spring. Thank you for your patience.

Nominations are now open for the West-Eberhard award for the best first author peer-reviewed research article published by a student (undergraduate or graduate level) in the areas of social behavior and/or evolution in social arthropods at any time in 2022. Nominations are due by 31 January 2023. Details are in this flyer.

**********CORRECTED DEADLINE************** The calls for nominees for the Jeffery P. La Fage Student Award for Applied Research on Social Insects and the George C. Eickwort Student Research Award are now open! Nominations are due to the awards committee by October 28, 2022. Please see the linked materials for the full announcements. We hope to see lots…

Dear IUSSI-Members, During the Congress this July, the North American Section will hold a special business meeting (12:15 – 1:15, July 4th, room TBD). The purpose of the meeting is to vote on a proposed amendment to our constitution, discuss two new NAS student awards that are being drafted for November, and to recognize the…

2022 Michener Award flyer. 2022 Nutting Award flyer. 2022 Tschinkel Award flyer. 2022 Jeanne Award flyer. For additional information, please contact Dr. Floria Mora-Kepfer Uy (floria.uy@rochester.edu) or Dr. Rachelle Adams (adams.1970@osu.edu), Co-chairs of the IUSSI-NAS Awards Committee.

Purpose: The Tschinkel Fund was set up by Walter and Victoria Tschinkel to encourage graduate student research into basic natural history and biology of ants (in the broad sense), areas that have often been neglected. The thinking behind this grant program can be found in two essays: Tschinkel WR and Wilson EO (2014) Scientific natural…