Entomology

SIB Undergraduate Wins 2021 Beckman Institute Research Image Contest

2021-05-28

Research images from a recent contest are the latest to be framed and displayed in the Beckman Institute Director’s conference room. The images showcase the range of research conducted at the institute. Among the winners -- undergraduate student Shreyas Rajagopalan, a member of the...

Field Borders Provide Winter Refuge for Beneficial Predators and Parasitoids

2021-06-02

Scott Clem, Ph.D., recently completed his doctoral degree at the University of Illinois. Part of his research focused on evaluating the value of semi-natural field borders as winter refuge for beneficial arthropods that like to eat or parasitize crop pests.

Cicadas Are Waking Up In Eastern Illinois But Many More Arrive In 2024

2021-05-27

After lying dormant for 17 years, billions of Cicadas – big insects with big wings are awakening in far eastern Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and other states. Illinois Newsroom’s Reginald Hardwick talked with Katie Dana (Entomology graduate student), the scientific specialist in entomology at the...

Graduate Student Elizabeth Bello Awarded 2021 Beckman Institute Graduate Fellowship

2021-04-28

The program offers University of Illinois graduate students at the M.A., M.S., or Ph.D. level the opportunity to pursue interdisciplinary research at the institute. Elizabeth (Department of Entomology) is pursuing an M.S. in entomology and will work with Marianne Alleyne of entomology and Charles...

Building a Strong Community: A Key Step in Entomology Student Life

2021-04-27

Written by Elizabeth Bello, Department of Entomology graduate student With many of us feeling the negative impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and self-isolation, some more than others, one thing is for certain: We all previously underestimated the importance of our social circles. Something...

Interview with Cariad Williams, paleontology PhD student

2021-04-20

Cariad Williams joined the Prairie Research Institute Center for Paleontology as a graduate student in August 2019. She's pursuing a PhD in the entomology at the University...

The People’s Scientist: Dr. Esther Ngumbi Makes Science Accessible

2021-04-09

Dr. Esther Ngumbi began her life’s work as a child alongside a river in rural Kenya. At just seven years old, Ngumbi wanted a hand at farming, so her parents gave her a small strip of land near the river that she could plant cabbage on. Though her parents were both...

Illinois is ‘kind of the place to be with periodical cicadas,’ researchers say as 17-year brood’s coming out party expected in one corner of the state

2021-04-10

It’s not a nightmare. It’s a summer preview for a sliver of eastern Illinois and swaths of Indiana. And you can think of it as a warmup for what’s coming to Chicago in 2024. Sometime in May, maybe after a light rain around Memorial Day, one of the largest groups of periodical cicadas will head...

Congratulations, Kim Leigh Recipient of the 2021 Excellence Award for Graduate Contacts

2021-03-09

The Graduate College is proud to announce that Kim Leigh (Department of Entomology) is the winner of the 2021 Graduate College Excellence Award for Graduate Contacts. The award is given...

College of LAS announces teaching award winners