Andy Austin receives the ISH Service Award

Mike Schauff presents the service award to Andy Austin.

Andy Austin (belatedly) received the ISH service award at our business meeting at this year's International Congress of Entomology in Durban. Congratulations Andy! And thanks for all your hard work in making ISH run smoothly.

ISH symposium now posted

The ISH symposium at ESA has now been posted. We have some excellent talks that focus mostly on Aculeata. The details:

1:30 PM-5:30 PM on Sunday, November 16, 2008
Room E1, First Floor (Reno-Sparks Convention Center)

Alex Rasnitsyn awarded ISH Research Medal

Prof. Dr. Alexandr Pavlovich Rasnitsyn was awarded the International Society of Hymenopterists Distinguished Research Medal for his life-long (and very much active) research program on the evolution of Hymenoptera. Susanne Schulmeister assembled a nice tribute on the main ISH website. Congratulations Alex!