Botstiber Foundation

Claudette McCarron

BIWFC: Webinar – Peri-urban Kangaroo Management using Fertility Control

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The Botstiber Institute for Wildlife Fertility Control (BIWFC) held a webinar entitled “Peri-urban Kangaroo Management using Fertility Control” on June 19, 2019. The webinar provides an overview of the management challenges posed by peri-urban kangaroo populations and reviews the current state of the field of fertility control as applied to free-living kangaroo populations in Australia. Highlights include key technical and policy challenges that limit the more widespread use of fertility control to manage suburban kangaroo populations, current research directions, and the way forward.

About Presenter: Catherine (Cathy) Herbert, Associate Professor in the School of Life and Environmental Sciences at the University of Sydney, Australia, has worked on the reproductive management of marsupials, including wallabies, koalas, bettongs, Tasmanian devils, and kangaroos, for the last 20 years.

To learn more, visit the BIWFC website.

BIAAS: Public Lecture with Dr. Anton Pelinka

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On May 9th, 2019 at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Dr. Anton Pelinka, professor of political science and nationalism studies, delivered a public lecture entitled “Good Uncle Sam, Bad Uncle Sam: The Perception of the United States in Post-Habsburg Austria.” The event was co-sponsored with the Foreign Policy Research Institute.

During a reception prior to the lecture, documents related to Austrian-American studies from the Historical Society of Pennsylvania’s collection were on display.

The lecture explored contested U.S. roles in Austria, alongside themes of U.S. isolationism, the politics of global responsibility, and models of integration. In the aftermath of the First World War, Europeans developed strong opinions about the growing role of the United States in European affairs, as both a model for good and a negative influence. U.S. policies pushed Austrian independence after 1918, which was largely undesired at the time, but then protected Austrian democracy to much more favorable effect after World War II into the Cold War.

To learn more, visit the BIAAS website.

BIWFC: Spring 2019 Newsletter

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The Botstiber Institute for Wildlife Fertility Control (BIWFC) held its first urban deer conflict management seminar in Harrisburg, PA on March 25, 2019. Laura Simon, an Urban Wildlife Consultant, and John Griffin, Senior Director of Urban Wildlife Programs at The Humane Society of the United States, presented on strategies to mitigate human-deer conflict and provided a framework to comprehensively address the problem. The seminar was featured on CBS 21.

To learn more, visit the BIWFC website or read the BIWFC Spring 2019 Newsletter.

Botstiber Scholars Program: Penn State Presidential Leadership Academy Selects Botstiber Scholars

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The Penn State Presidential Leadership Academy (PLA) is a prestigious and competitive program that offers curricular and extracurricular opportunities for high-achieving students. Freshmen are invited to apply through a rigorous application process, which includes having a 3.2 GPA and submitting two essays and two letters of recommendation. Only 30 students are accepted each year.

These students spend the next three years within the program developing their leadership skills and critical thinking. They have the opportunity to participate in special courses, trips and other programming that will develop their leadership skills throughout the rest of their time at Penn State.

This year, we are proud to announce that rising sophomore and Flavia Kung’u and Belinda Mativenga were accepted into the Presidential Leadership Academy as a part of their 2019 Class. They will join Botstiber Scholars, Faith Shipapa (PLA 2018 Class) and Emmy Muhoza and Caleb Musekiwa, who are in the PLA’s 2017 Class.