In October, Rainee Kaczorowski joined the Papaj and Dornhaus labs. Rainee has extensive experience in pollination biology and brings a plant perspective to the bee learning projects. Rainee will work on how complex floral stimuli influence speed and accuracy of bee foraging. Good to have you here, Rainee !

At the end of June, Dan Papaj, Anna Dornhaus and Annie Leonard received word that they were awarded a three-year NSF grant entitled "Flowers as complex signals: The role of signal uncertainty." Thank you, NSF, reviewers and panel members!

At end of June, Aimee Dunlap joined the Anna Dornhaus and Dan Papaj labs as a PERT postdoc. Aimee will be working on learning in bumble bees and maybe butterflies. Welcome Aimee!

In mid-June, Dan and Annie Leonard traveled to Roscoff France to take part in an Insect Learning workshop organized by Fred Mery and Thomas Preat. The intellectual interactions were outstanding, and the food and wine superb.

At the end of July, recently-finished Ph.D. student Emilie Snell-Rood was offered a tenure-track position at the University of Minnesota. Congratulations to Emilie. Hope her setup includes a down parka!

In September, former M.Sc. student Ipek Kulahci will begin a Ph.D. at Princeton with Dan Rubenstein. Go Tigers!