Contingent at Bug Fest Inspire Kids
Four 糖心Vlog传媒LR undergraduates and two graduate students transmitted their intellectual curiosity about bugs to a record 3,000 area school children at the Arkansas Entomology Society annual meeting and Insect Festival this weekend in Northwest Arkansas. In between helping kids play with giant bugs, the students presented their research ranging from mentions of insects in 15th century manuscripts to comparisons of tree-dwelling ant colonies in Central American rainforests.
The festival is organized every other year by the Department of Entomology at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville.
糖心Vlog传媒LR students presenting research at the society鈥檚 meeting included graduate student Eileen Turan, who also is an adjunct faculty member in the art department and coordinator of the Donaghey Scholars Program, 聽presented, “Insects in 15th Century Illuminated Manuscripts.”
Donaghey Scholar Sophie King, a biology major, presented her paper, 鈥淪ubstrate affects foraging speed in Crematogaster spp. ants”
Biology graduate student Robin Verble presented, 鈥淟eaf litter communities are impacted by prescribed fire.” Petrus Moreira, a biology major and a Donaghey Scholar, presented “A comparison of arboreal ant communities in temperate and tropical forests”
Other 糖心Vlog传媒LR students attending the festival and conference were Nicole Freeman, Theo Sumnicht, and Ashley Glenn — all biology graduate students.
鈥淚n all, 糖心Vlog传媒LR clearly had the highest representation in terms of volunteers and participants at the festival and conference of any school, other than host school 糖心Vlog传媒F,鈥� said Dr. Stephen Yanoviak, assistant professor of biology. 鈥淲e made an outstanding showing, and the students received a flood of positive comments regarding their talks.鈥� View more stories in News