Press Releases
Published: 10-08-2014
Dorsal views of the three new species. F. dietrichi on right
Entomology Today featured a piece on the discovery of three new leafhoppers (Futasujinus) from China. The new species were identified when researchers examined museum collection specimens from China, the UK, and the US.
One of the new species, Futasujinus dietrichi, was named for Dr. Chris Dietrich, a University of...
Published: 10-08-2014
“Newberry College is honored to participate in a project that will make botanical research more accessible to the global scientific community” -Newberry College president, Dr. Maurice Scherrens.
Newberry College News issued a press release October 7, 2014, about one of their faculty members being part of one of the National Science Foundation’s (NSF)...
Published: 10-07-2014
Dr. Travis D. Marsico, by Andrew Ferguson/A-State Marketing and Communications.
Arkansas State University News recently highlighted Dr. Travis D. Marsico an Arkansas State University associate professor, curator for the Arkansas State University Herbarium (STAR), and collaborator in one of the most recently NSF funded Thematic Collections Networks (TCNs). Dr. Marsico is the Education...
Published: 10-03-2014
NSF’s Directorate for Biological Sciences’ (BIO) Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Biology (PRFB) Solicitation was recently published for 2015. The fellowships will be awarded to 40 recent recipients of their doctoral degree for research and training in three selected areas.
The three selected areas for fiscal year 2015 are:
Broadening Participation of Groups Under-...
Published: 09-29-2014
“A deeper understanding of life on Earth in the past can help us predict and possibly mitigate the worst impacts of climate change in the future.”- Barbara M. Theirs
The Huffington Post recently featured an article by Barbara M. Thiers, Director of the William and Lynda Steere Herbarium at The New York Botanical Gardens. The article highlights the importance of...
Published: 09-19-2014
Two of the six NSF grants recently awarded through the Advancing Digitization of Biodiversity Collections Program involve collaborators from the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Michigan.
Rich Rabeler, an associate research scientist with the U-M Herbarium, and Thomas Duda, an associate professor with the Museum of Zoology, are part of the TCN: “...
Published: 09-16-2014
Kenneth Cameron, director of the Wisconsin State Herbarium
Photo: David Tenenbaum/University of Wisconsin-Madison
University of Wisconsin - Madison News reports on the digitization efforts of the Wisconsin State Herbarium housed at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. Kenneth Cameron, the Wisconsin State Herbarium Director, is the leading principal investigator of an NSF funded...
Published: 09-15-2014
"By not paying attention to this whole kingdom of life, we lose something really important -
I work every day to combat it," Christopher Martine
Dr. Lena Struwe working with graduate student Lauren Frazee (front), and undergraduate Alisha Sharma. (Rutgers University)
Many botanists are battling plant blindness, or the inability to see or notice the plants in one...
Published: 08-28-2014
Delawareonline.com (The News Journal) recently published an article focusing on a NSF funded collaboration among six U.S. institutions including the Delaware Museum of Natural History. The project, “InvertEBase: Reaching Back to See the Future: Species-rich Invertebrate Faunas Document Causes and Consequences of Biodiversity Shifts”, will digitize approximately 2 million...
Published: 08-28-2014
Zack E. Murrell, a professor at Appalachian State University, was given recognition in an article released by Appalachian State University, University News for receiving an NSF grant for $2.5 million dollars to digitize and create a database for more than 3 million plant specimens across the Southeast.
The project, “Collaborative Research: The Key to the Cabinets: Building and Sustaining...