 Check out our Fall 2017 Entomology Department newsletter to see what we've been up to!
Is there something you'd like to see in the Spring 2018 edition? Let us know by sending an e-mail to umdentomolog@umd.edu. Enjoy!  Congratulations to Dr. Leo Shapiro, who will join the UMD Teaching & Learning Transformation Center's 2018 Elevate Fellows cohort!
Over the next year, Dr. Shapiro will work to implement innovative, research-based, student-centered teaching and learning strategies in Principles of Ecology & Evolution (BSCI160), a high-enrollment undergraduate course in the introductory biology series offered at UMD. The Elevate Fellowship includes $8,000 in funding and the opportunity to work with TLTC to re-imagine and re-design content delivery and test the effectiveness of the new approach at the end of the year. Learn more about TLTC's Elevate Fellows Program here.  The Ruth Patrick Award is given to scientists who have made outstanding contributions towards solving environmental problems. The Association for the Sciences of Limnology & Oceanography (ASLO) has awarded Dr. Margaret Palmer of the University of Maryland, College Park this distinguished honor in recognition for being a champion of solution-driven science for the protection of freshwaters. The award will be presented at the ASLO Summer Meeting in Victoria, British Columbia in June 2018.
Congratulations Dr. Palmer! Read the full press release here.  The lifecycle of gall wasps, beginning with an asexual female (top center), that lays eggs into the dormant buds (top right) forming bud galls (bottom right). Those galls then give rise to the sexual generation (center bottom), which lay eggs in twigs (bottom left). This forms a woody twig gall, which harbors the asexual female. The gall wasp tree of life is overdue for a major overhaul. With the help of new genetic technologies and the hard work of Crystal Cooke (Dept. Entomology, University of Maryland), we have a better understanding of the relationships between gall wasp species and clades.
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