* With all of our postdocs moving on, we are delighted to report that two new PERT postdocs are scheduled to join the Papaj Lab this year: Carla Essenberg (UC-Riverside) will work on bumblebees and resource patch structure; Chandreyee Mitra (UNL) will work on puddling behavior and mate choice in butterflies. We're looking forward to their arrival!

* Aimee Dunlap, with whom I collaborate, has been offered a faculty position at the University of Missouri, St. Louis. Congratulations Aimee!!

* Rainee Kaczorowski is gone! She is moving to Haifa Israel for a postdoc on sunbird pollination.

* Annie Leonard is gone! She is partway through a Darwin Fellowship at University of Massachusetts Amherst, and will begin a faculty position at the University of Nevada Reno this year. (see Annie Goodbye Brunch photos in the gallery section).

* Annie Leonard and I have a new paper out in Functional Ecology. Check it out! A video posted on the lab home page describes this work.

* Aimee Dunlap and Annie Leonard each won Center for Insect Science seed grants in the last funding round. Congratulations to both!

* Summer 2011 meant ABS meetings for me, Annie, Aimee, Beryl, and Lisa, Evolution meetings for Matt, and a Gordon Conference on Neuroethology, Behavior and Evolution for Annie and myself.

* Beryl Jones has graduated amidst a flurry of awards and is interviewing this spring for graduate schools. Stay tuned for news as to where she ends up. To mention just a few awards, Beryl won the EEB Undergraduate Poster Symposium "Best Poster" award for the second year in a row. Beryl also won the Oustanding Senior and Excellence in Research awards in EEB. She went to the ABS meeting in Bloomington where she won Honorable Mention for her poster. Beryl is currently working at the USDA Honey Bee Laboratory in Tucson.