New Cranberry Entomology Website

The new Cranberry Entomology website (http://labs.russell.wisc.edu/steffan/) has just gone live.  On the website you can read about research activities in Wisconsin’s cranberry marshes (here, we don’t call them bogs).  Please take a moment to visit the forum/blog page, where you can post questions and get them answered by the “cran crü.”

Bug Trading Night

On Tuesday, December 13th from 6 to 10 pm come to room 147 and join students in entomology 302 and 331 for the last bug trading night of the semester.  Students will trade insects and share knowledge to complete their insect collections.  All interested parties are invited.  Bring some snacks to share for an enjoyable evening of insect taxonomy! 

Fall 2011 EGSA Kinney Merit Award - Ken Frost

Congratulations to Ken Frost from the Groves lab!  Ken is the recipient of the Fall 2011 Kinney Merit Award.  The award will support Ken for part of the costs of publishing in the Journal of Economic Entomology.

Taking a classroom to the coast

The instructors for Problems in Oceanography, including Professor Claudio Gratton from Entomology, are on Sapelo Island off the coast of Georgia.  The remote island gives students an opportunity to conduct self-selected research projects at the University of Georgia Marine Institute from Oct. 21 to Oct. 29.

For more information on this course, plese check out their news article on the L&S News and Notes website.

Sustainable by Design

Entomology Professor Claudio Gratton and scientist Tim Meehan where two of the many CALS faculty highlighted in a recent CALS GROW article on sustainable biofuels.

Sustainable by Design