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 Outreach
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Kampmeier
on Becoming an Entomologist
Gail
Kampmeier presented the talk: "Becoming an Entomologist: The
long way, the short way, many ways to become involved in the sciences"
at Peggy Notebaert
Nature Museum on April 15th, for a teens program sponsored by
the Chicago Academy of Sciences.
She travelled there with Michael Vodkin, also a scientist in the
Illinois Natural History Survey's
Center for Economic Entomology, who spoke to the teens about careers
in molecular biology.
Kristin
Algmin Teaches Boy Scouts About Entomology
Boy
Scouts in New Lenox learned about the diversity and importance of
insects with Kristin Algmin in June 2003. With the help of visual
aids such as personal and borrowed insect collections, educational
posters from the Illinois Natural
History Survey, and leftover praying mantis nymphs from the
Entomology
Department at the University of Illinois, the session proved
to be fascinating and fun for everyone involved (including parents!).
Paxton
Class Introduced to Insect Soup
On
3 May 2000, the therevid PEET group (Martin Hauser, Kevin Holston,
Gail Kampmeier, Mark Metz, Jill Mullett, and Mike Irwin) hosted
Paula Williamson's 6th grade class from Paxton.
The class took a tour of the lab, including scientific illustration,
drawers of cools insects, and looking through the microscope. They
got to think about careers in entomology or the sciences in a presentation
by Gail Kampmeier. But the highlight that delighted them most was
to go through insect "soup" as Mark
Metz took them through the basics of keying some of their findings.
Therevid
Websites Featured on ACS Gallery of NSF Projects
In
honor of the National Science Foundation's 50th anniversary, the
Association of Systematics Collections has sponsored a virtual gallery
of NSF funded projects. Four
of the featured projects are from the Illinois Natural History Survey
including our Therevid
PEET project. The projects have one page summaries and then
links to websites for the projects. Ours includes the main
home page [updated 9/03], links to participants
[updated 9/03] in the research, and to Mandala,
our database for cataloging specimens, nomenclature, and literature.
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