ENTO '13
UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS, 4-6 SEPTEMBER 2013
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YOUNG DARWIN SCHOLARSHIP 2013
The Field Studies Council has opened applications for the Young Darwin Scholarship 2013 to encourage and support young people to explore, understand and be further inspired by the natural world - to develop the next generation of ‘Darwins’. More information at www.field-studies-council.org/yds and HERE
DR JAMES S. MILLER IS AWARDED THE THIRD J.O.WESTWOOD MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN INSECT TAXONOMY.
SEE AWARDS PAGE FOR DETAILS
WALLACE AWARD 2011/12 WINNER ANNOUNCED.
The winner is Dr Richard Merrill. See Awards page.
2012 STUDENT ESSAY AWARDS HAVE BEEN ANNOUNCED
Please visit the Awards page for details and links to articles
NEW HANDBOOK AVAILABLE NOW
TRUE WEEVILS PART 3 (COLEOPTERA: CURCULIONINAE, BARIDINAE, OROBITIDINAE) - M.G Morris
£25.00 PLUS P&P
PLEASE CONTACT SARAH PEACHEY TO ORDER sarah@royensoc.co.uk
MEETING PRESENTATIONS AVAILABLE ONLINE
Powerpoint presentations are now available from the joint RES/IEEM meeting of 10 October 2012, held in Kent.
2012 MARSH AWARD FOR INSECT CONSERVATION WINNER ANNOUNCED
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2012 MARSH AWARD FOR AN EARLY CAREER ENTOMOLOGIST WINNER ANNOUNCED
The first recipient of this award is Mrs Jenni Stockan, The James Hutton Institute.
2012 RES JOURNAL AWARD WINNERS ANNOUNCED
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WIGGLESWORTH AWARD - 2012
The recipient of the 2012 Wigglesworth Award and medal has been announced as Professor Stephen Simpson, University of Sydney. Professor Simpson will receive his award at the International Congress of Entomology, Daegu, South Korea in 2012.
Mini Biography
Steve Simpson was born and grew up in Australia. After completing his undergraduate degree at the University of Queensland, he travelled to London where he undertook his PhD on locust feeding physiology under the supervision of Reg Chapman and Liz Bernays. Steve then spent 22 years in Oxford, first in Experimental Psychology working on the neurobiology of feeding in monkeys, then in the Department of Zoology and the University Museum of Natural History, where he became Professor of the Hope Entomological Collections. Steve was enticed back to Australia in 2005, as an Australian Research Council Federation Fellow. He is currently an ARC Laureate Fellow in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Sydney. Together with colleague David Raubenheimer, Steve developed a framework for nutritional biology, which was devised and tested using insects but has been applied to a wide range of organisms, from slime moulds to humans, and problems spanning aquaculture and conservation biology to the dietary causes of human obesity. In the late 1980s a major plague of the desert locust in Africa provided the incentive to begin an investigation into the biology of locust swarming, which has led to an understanding of swarming that links chemical events in the brains of individual insects to collective movement and landscape-scale mass migration. Steve has been Visiting Professor at Oxford, a Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study (Wissenschaftskolleg) in Berlin, Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the University of Arizona, and Guest Professor at the University of Basel. In 2007 he was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, in 2008 he was awarded the Eureka Prize for Scientific Research, and in 2009 he was named NSW Scientist of the Year.
