The Penn State Entomology Graduate Student Association (EGSA) serves to foster a dynamic and rewarding graduate student tenure.
We seek to facilitate the social and professional bond between students, maintain communication and collaboration with the faculty to enhance the student experience, and develop innovative opportunities for professional development, public outreach, and teaching.
02/20/2016
Professional development students are writing about each other's research. 1st article of the year is in, enjoy!
Student Research Spotlight - Erin Treanore (Department of Entomology) This is the 1st of thirteen short news articles written by students, during the professional development class, about each other's research.
Hey entoids,
We are meeting to help one of our own, Karly Regan, to improve a manuscript for publication.
We will be meeting tomorrow morning at 10:30 am in ASI 505. Please bring ideas for restructuring and making it more exciting (wording issues probably won't be as helpful at this stage).
We are not sharing Karly's manuscript here since it is unpublished work. Please feel free to PM your e-mail address if you'd like to see the manuscript and give mindful feedback to Karly.
See you tomorrow!
Mali
08/21/2015
Honey bees are officially rockstars! http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/what-is-killing-americas-bees-and-what-does-it-mean-for-us-20150818?page=6
What Is Killing America's Bees and What Does It Mean for Us? Pollinators are vanishing, and a silent spring could become a horrifying reality. So why won't the EPA do more?
07/01/2015
Look who's become famous for their excellent outreach event.
http://www.centredaily.com/2015/06/30/4816954_discovery-space-camp-shows-girls.html?rh=1
Discovery Space camp shows girls ins, outs of science It would have been easy — maybe too easy — to assume that the group of young ladies meandering through the mulch in the small park outside of Memorial Field on Tuesday were admiring the bed of pretty pink flowers.
04/08/2015
Hey Entoids, fill out my google form regarding how you've benefited from federal funding!
Federal Funding and Students I'm trying to capture how federal funding has influenced your work, please be as detailed or as brief as you would like!
03/25/2015
After the Exploration-U event last night... You can see some familiar faces, and a familiar arm :)
http://www.wearecentralpa.com/story/d/story/keeping-kids-connected-to-science/21023/TuwL-0TcfEiZOVqu43Yabg
Keeping Kids Connected to Science Students are getting a first hand look at how science can be used and applied in the real world.
12/12/2014
This could be a fun way to help with IDs in a class like ENTO 313!
"The bug-investigation" - Locust, grasshopper, cricket or katydid? Hello everyone! For this post, I will call the F.B.I "Florian bug investigation" to solve a case! The scene crime : A crop has been eaten by an unidentified specie and I need the help of the bug-in...
Well, it is interesting from research perspective. But, also somewhat worrisome from public health perspective.
http://entomologytoday.org/2014/11/18/bed-bugs-can-transmit-parasite-that-causes-chagas-disease/
Interesting... Any thoughts from our very own "mosquito people"?
http://entomologytoday.org/2014/11/13/researchers-find-gene-that-makes-mosquitoes-prefer-humans-over-animals/
09/11/2014
A short, informative video on arthropod litter sifting by some of our grads, with a fun twist!
Litter Arthropod Collection Short Final A video tutorial on the use of Photoeclectors, Winkler Bags, and Litter Sifters. Shot for ENT432 course at PSU.
06/17/2014
Goodbye National Zoo Invertebrates Exhibit I read today that the National Zoo in Washington DC is closing its Invertebrates Exhibit, and the resulting roller coaster of emotions hit all the major themes: sadness, relief, frustration, sympat...
06/05/2014
Has anyone seen such gynandromorphs? If you have them or seen them, share some pictures with the less fortunate :)
These butterflies are bilateral gynandromorphs - they're literally half male and half female.
More info: http://bit.ly/Ht5Hl6