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New Curriculum Kits
Virginia Tech Insect Collection Curriculum Kit Last Saturday at Hokie Bugfest, we launched our Curriculum Kits (above). These kits contain material for incorporating insect biodiversity into your K-12 science curriculum. The contents include insect specimens (butterfly, beetle, fly, wasp, and … Continue reading
New home
Seitz Hall, the new home of Virginia Tech’s Insect Collection This winter, the Virginia Tech Insect Collection is moving back to campus. After 20 years of temporary storage at Price’s Fork Research Facility (7 km east of campus), the 125-year-old … Continue reading
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Support from the National Science Foundation
I am pleased to announce that our proposal for a Collections in Support of Biological Research (CSBR) grant that we submitted for the Virginia Tech Insect Collection has been funded by the National Science Foundation! This award from the Division … Continue reading
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