Category: News & Announcements (& uncategoried)

Congratulations to our 2020 IUSSI-NAS research award recipients 2020 The Jeffery P. La Fage Student Award for Applied Research on Social Insects: Ashley St. Clair 2020 The George C. Eickwort Student Research Award: Arjuna (Juni) Rajakumar A big THANK YOU to our IUSSI-NAS Awards Committee: Christina Kwapich and Juergen Liebig (Co-Chairs) Rachelle Adams, Kaitlin Baudier,…

Our annual business meeting will be held Thursday, Nov. 12 at 4pm EST in conjunction with the Entomological Society of America. Please check your email for the Zoom room link. Please contact IUSSI-NAS secretary Sarah Lawson (iussi.nas@gmail.com)

The Goodisman Lab at the School of Biological Sciences at Georgia Tech seeks PhD students interested in studying questions at the intersection of social behavior, evolution, epigenetics, and living-systems physics.  The students would study the causes and consequences of the built environment on social behavior.  The built environment, constructed by collectives of individuals, has been…

A permanent lecturer position in ecology and evolution will be available starting September 1st 2021 at Sorbonne Université in Paris. The applicant will carry out research in evolutionary ecology, functional ecology or community ecology, using theoretical and/or experimental approaches. He/she will teach ecology, evolution, GIS and statistics to undergraduates and postgraduates, mostly in French. The…

The Vargo lab in the Department of Entomology at Texas A&M University has two openings for PhD positions to study molecular ecology and phylogenomics of social insects and possibly other urban arthropod pests. The Vargo lab (http://urbanentomology.tamu.edu/) is a dynamic research group housed in the Rollins Urban and Structural Facility, a state of the art…

We are seeking nominations for President-elect, 2 seats on the Awards Committee and 1 seat on the Elections committee. Please nominate yourself or other members who you feel would be well qualified for the job (self-nominations are very much encouraged). Please email your nominations to Michael Simone-Finstrom (Michael.SimoneFinstrom@usda.gov) by October 30th. Details for each of these…

The awards committee has announced the call for nominations for the Eickwort 2020 and La Fage 2020 Student Research Grants. Please see attached flyers and awards and grants page for purpose, nature, eligibility and application details. The deadline for applications is Oct. 22, 2020.

The Imported Fire Ant and Household Insects Research Unit, within the Center for Medical, Agricultural and Veterinary Entomology (CMAVE) in Gainesville, FL has a Research Entomologist/Molecular Biologist position open now.  This announcement will close on September 23, 2020. You can see position details and a link to on-line application materials in the attachment. Please contact Dr.…

The Rehan Lab (www.rehanlab.com) is hiring a postdoc to study landscape genomics and microbial ecology of wild bees. The candidates will join a collaborative group of researchers, staff, and students focusing on bee health, behaviour, and conservation. We are located at York University in Toronto, Canada. This position will examine metagenomics of wild bees to…

A scholarship award of $20,000 will be provided to one master’s student doing research aligned with Project Apis’s mission, who can also demonstrate their embodiment of Christi’s spirit of curiosity, collaboration, and fearlessness.  Please see the full announcement here.