Nabokov’s butterflies in the CUIC

Each summer while Vladimir Nabokov was a faculty member at Cornell he and his wife would drive across the country to collect butterflies.  Nabokov, who didn't drive, would use the long stints between stops to collect butterflies to work on his novels and poems.  In...

CUIC Student Spotlight – Meet Megan Barkdull

CUIC Student Spotlight – Meet Megan Barkdull   1. What is your name? Answer: Megan Barkdull 2. Where did you grow up? Answer: I grew up in Orlando, FL. 3. Previous education/schools/institutions? Answer: Prior to starting my PhD at Cornell, I received my B.A. in...

New exhibit – From Nabokov’s Net

We are thrilled to partner with Cornell's Mann Library to share specimens from the Cornell University Insect Collection collected by Vladimir Nabokov! The exhibit will open on Thursday, March 14th and will be open through July.  Learn more about the exhibit here and...

Galls, dragonflies, and damselflies… oh my!

Although the most obvious benefit of our recent National Science Foundation grant is the installation of compactors to the North Collection room this grant also came with support to help curate some groups in serious need.  For the NSF grant we are focusing on our...

Major CUIC infrastructure improvement

We are thrilled to share that thanks to a successful grant application to the National Science Foundation we have been able to install compactors in the North Collection room.  Now all of our collection rooms are compactorized allowing us to maximumly use our space to...

CUIC Student Spotlight – Meet Anna Labiner

1. What is your name? Answer: Anna Labiner 2. Where did you grow up? Answer: Sarasota, FL 3. Previous education/schools/institutions? Answer: I went to high school at Pine View School. 4. What got you interested in entomology? Answer: Like many entomologists, I have...

Six-Legged Science museum exhibit open NOW

We are so excited to share that we have partnered with the Museum of the Earth right here in Ithaca, New York to open a public museum exhibit!  Come see over a 1000 Cornell University Insect Collection specimens on loan to the exhibit. We even moved an actual CUIC...

Meet the Insect Diagnostic Team

While many people think of museum collections only informing fundamental or basic research our collection is also an invaluable resource for applied research.  In fact embedded within the Cornell University Insect Collection is the Insect Diagnostic Lab (IDL), which...

CUIC Student Spotlight – Meet Kyla O’Hearn

What is your name? Kyla O’Hearn Where did you grow up? Louisville, Kentucky Previous education/schools/institutions? University of Kentucky What got you interested in entomology? I started off as an animal sciences major. I ended up taking an entomology class and...

What is new and exciting in the CUIC?

A lot has happened since our first newsletter!  The global COVID-19 pandemic certainly had an impact on our work.  In the early months of the pandemic we had to shut down the Cornell University Insect Collection (CUIC) as did much of Cornell and almost everywhere else...

Welcome from the new Director of CUIC

Welcome to the first newsletter from the Cornell University Insect Collection! I am writing as the new Director and Curator of CUIC. I joined CUIC this year and I am thrilled to be here. As you will see in this first communication, and in future newsletters, there is...

CUIC Student Spotlight – Meet Kyhl Austin

1. What is your name? Answer: Kyhl Austin 2. Where did you grow up? Answer: Chattanooga, TN 3. Previous education/schools/institutions? Answer: Davidson College (Davidson, NC) 4. What got you interested in entomology? Answer: I’d always been interested in natural...

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