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Special Projects Grant Recipients for 2025

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ESBC is happy to announce the 2025 recipients of our special project grants.

Quinlan Wu – Quinlan is an undergraduate student at UBC. Quinlan will use grant funds to collect and catalogue the larvae of Dytiscus diving beetles within Metro Vancouver, and to produce a larval key.

Karen Ashby – Karen runs The Paper Nest, a pesticide-free pest removal company. She will be using grant funds to create online and physical outreach materials relating to beneficial aspects of wasps, and to encourage peaceful coexistence with wasps whenever possible.

Native Bee Society of BC – The Native Bee Society will use grant funds to create educational materials relating to native pollinators, to be distributed at outreach events throughout the province.

ESC Seeking Award Nominations

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The Entomological Society of Canada (ESC) is soliciting nominations for it’s Gold Medal and the C. Gordan Hewitt awards that they give out to entomologists for outstanding contributions to entomology.  In addition, they are also seeking nominations for Society Fellows and Honorary Members.

Information about the awards and the criteria for each of them is on the ESC website https://esc-sec.ca/awards/.

New ESBC Award for entomologists

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Header image with 4 sub-images featuring a cicada, blue butterfly, caterpillar, and beetle.

ESBC Legacy Award

The Entomological Society of British Columbia has initiated a new award, the Entomological Society of British Columbia Legacy Award, to recognize B.C. entomologists that have made outstanding contributions to their discipline of entomology throughout their career. This award will be awarded to an individual in recognition of their significant contributions in research, mentoring, teaching, extension, innovation, pest management and active volunteer involvement in the ESBC and other societies/organizations in B.C. and beyond.

For full details visit entsocbc.ca/awards-scholarships/esbc-legacy-award/

Image of an ad for the ESBC EDI award. The image contains a butterfly with wing colours representing the rainbow and trans pride flags, a multi-coloured group of aphids and a dragonfly with two wings missing. Text: The Entomological Society of British Columbia annually awards a scholarship of $1000 to support the participation of one graduate student from a group currently underrepresented within the ESBC. Funds may be used at the student’s discretion. Applications should be submitted to the ESBC Secretary at secretary@entsocbc.ca by September 21st, 2022. Competition results will be announced at the AGM!

New Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Award

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At the ESBC we believe that all should be welcome and included in the entomological community. Sadly, in entomology, and STEM in general, this is not the case. As one step we are taking forward, the ESBC is pleased to announce our new Equity Diversity and Inclusion Award. We hope this award will help reduce some of the barriers faced by those historically excluded from entomology. Please apply!

Visit: http://entsocbc.ca/scholarships-awards/ for more info!