May 5, 2022 | News
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...
Dec 7, 2021 | News
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...
Dec 7, 2021 | News
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...
Dec 7, 2021 | News
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...
Dec 4, 2019 | News
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...
Dec 4, 2019 | News
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...
