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In the last six months Dr. Giovanna Massei attended conferences in Colorado Springs (USA), Edinburgh (UK), and Arusha (Tanzania), and presented or co-authored eight talks on fertility control for non-native grey squirrels in the UK, for feral cattle in Hong Kong, for baboons in South Africa, and for wild boar in Spain. The topics ranged […]
The 9th International Conference on Wildlife Fertility Control (ICWFC), hosted by the BIWFC, drew more than 120 people to the Cheyenne Mountain Resort in Colorado Springs, CO from May 23 – 25, including professionals from North America (U.S. – 24 states, Washington, D.C. and the Navajo Nation, Canada, and the Caribbean – St. Kitts), Europe […]
During the 9th International Conference on Wildlife Fertility Control, BIWFC Advisory Board and Conference Committee member Cheryl Asa was presented with the 2022 Trailblazer Award. This award recognizes and honors an individual who has had a profound impact on our field, one who has an exemplary reputation, and one who serves as a model, especially for emerging practitioners and researchers. The […]
Wildlife Research plans to publish a special issue on Wildlife Fertility Control in 2023. We invite you to submit your best paper and publish alongside your colleagues in the field. See details here. We are interested in receiving papers that engage with the following topics: Human dimensions Recent research in contraceptive development Advancement in practical applications Modelling […]
The Recharging Austro-American Relations Conference asks scholars, together with commercial, cultural, and political leaders to open a discussion whose subject is the profound long-term relationship between Austria and the United States. Organized around four panels and two round tables, with topics ranging from restitution, economic history, culture, and high technology to Habsburg historiography and an assessment of […]
The Botstiber Scholars Program at Penn State University is proud to announce the graduation of three of our scholars: Flavia Kung’u, Belinda Mativenga, and Joseph Tumwebaze. All three students frequently received term honors and made Dean’s List. Congratulations to our graduating scholars on all their hard work and accomplishments. The Bostiber Foundation looks forward to […]
An international team led by Edward Amoah, a Botstiber Scholar and graduate student in Penn State’s intercollegiate ecology program PlantVillage, was selected as one of 23 teams to receive a $100,000 XPRIZE Carbon Removal Student Award. PlantVillage has also most recently been awarded an additional $1m XPRIZE for carbon capture work in Africa. The prize, funded by […]
Congratulations to James Lee of Cumberland County, New Jersey, winner of the 2022 Botstiber Foundation Award at Delaware Valley Science Fairs! James’ project, entitled “How Does the Wheel Orientation of a Holonomic Drive Affect a Robot’s Speed”, has potential applications in many areas including aviation and aeronautics. The Botstiber Foundation annually awards a student with […]
The Botstiber Institute for Austrian-American Studies is delighted to support the forthcoming April 20, 2022, virtual conference of the UC Berkeley Austrian Studies Program, “Far-Right Politics in Austria, Europe, and the United States: Recent Trends and Transatlantic Connections.” Our co-sponsor is the Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation. The conference is free and open to anyone interested […]
The 9th International Conference on Wildlife Fertility Control hosted by the Botstiber Institute for Wildlife Fertility Control (BIWFC) will take place from from May 23 – 25, 2022 at the Cheyenne Mountain Resort in Colorado Springs, Colorado. To learn more, visit the BIWFC website.