Assistant Professor of Biology Sebastian Velez, Ph.D., recently took a group of students in his Entomology class to visit Harvard University’s beetle collections at its Museum of Comparative Zoology.
The visit was part of WSU’s efforts to forge scientific collaborations with other Massachusetts institutions.
Students met with Phil Perkins, collections manager, and Rachel Hawkins, assistant collections manager. They were very impressed by many of the specimens Hawkins showed them, including examples of butterflies mimicking dead leaves.
“Natural history is very alive today,” Hawkins told the students. “We are making history every day. The pace of species descriptions has never been as accelerated as it is today.”
Submitted by Sebastian Velez
Next Story From Academic Innovation
TestMyBrain Makes Tests—and Research—a Little More Fun for All
As the old saying goes, “beauty is in the eye of the beholder.” But what causes the beholder to decide who is beautiful and who is not? Dr. Jeremy Wilmer has studied this topic with a little help from a few thousand strangers at his TestMyBrain website, which engages and collaborates with volunteer users by providing them with tools to help them learn about themselves. Dr. Wilmer, who is . . .