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Scientific Animations Without Borders launches a Feed the Future-supported global education program addressing COVID-19 secondary impacts
Published on May 28, 2020
$1.6 million awarded to three MSU researchers to develop USAID COVID-19 global education and outreach materials. -
What’s all the excitement about cicadas?
Published on May 28, 2020
After spending many years underground, these insects have a coordinated emergence and a loud song that can’t be ignored. -
Entomology’s Bugged on remote working and flourishing
Published on May 22, 2020
Constraints for containing the novel coronavirus are keeping most of us off campus, but work, challenges and success continue as you’ll see in this issue of Bugged. -
MSU announces new Center for PFAS Research
Published on May 20, 2020
The Center for PFAS Research brings together faculty from across Michigan State University to study the health and environmental issues around PFAS chemicals. -
Regrow milkweed for monarchs: A citizen science study
Published on May 15, 2020
If you have a patch of milkweed and some time, you can help study how to best conserve monarch butterflies. -
Entomology graduate student award results in more butterfly and moth data for global scientists
Published on May 8, 2020
Supported with a Scriber Scholar Award, Erica Fischer has significantly expanded the butterfly and moth database available at MSU for international use. -
New podcast on forest invaders and the researchers who aim to stop them
Published on April 15, 2020
Produced by the USDA and supported by MSU Entomology, the first season of Forestcast features scientists and their work with the most damaging forest insects in the Northeast and Midwest. -
Allison Zahorec awarded prestigious pre-doctoral fellowship by the National Science Foundation
Published on April 13, 2020
Zahorec will research soil microarthropods in bioenergy cropland and their contributions to soil’s ability to store carbon and lessen climate warming. -
MSU Entomology releases new Bug Talk podcast
Published on March 18, 2020
Bug Talk is a place for seminar speakers and department members to share their lives, passions and hobbies with a goal of creating a community around science communication. -
Entomology professor emeritus receives CANR Distinguished Faculty Award
Published on February 25, 2020
George Bird to receive 2020 CANR Distinguished Faculty Award at ANR Week. -
MSU event will celebrate training program for Latino farmers in Michigan
Published on February 24, 2020
MSU will host an upcoming celebration to honor a training program for first- and next-generation Latino farmers in Michigan called La Cosecha (a Spanish word for harvest). -
Entomology graduate student is devoted to learning more about insect biology and adaptations
Published on February 14, 2020
Zinan Wang is dedicated to better understand the genetic and molecular mechanisms of an insect and their ability to adapt to diverse and extreme environments. -
MSU Entomology alumna’s studies led to a career with an international conservation society
Published on February 14, 2020
Motivated by a love of pollinators, alumna Emily May suggests those interested in graduate studies find work that motivates them and builds community. -
Researcher Q&A: Passion for nature leads to career in biological control
Published on February 7, 2020
MSU Entomology assistant professor Marianna Szucs works on biologically restoring balance when a foreign species invades. -
SAWBO celebrates viewer milestone of 38 million in West Africa with broadcast partner
Published on February 5, 2020
Scientific Animations Without Borders, co-led by MSU faculty members Julia Bello-Bravo and Barry Pittendrigh, is a research and outreach program connecting global experts for on-the-ground local impact.