SysEB Student Research Endowment Donors

The Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiveristy (SysEB) Section leaders would like to thank the following donors for their generous contributions to the SysEB Student Research Endowment. This permanent endowment helps provide research enhancement awards for graduate and undergraduate students who are active members of ESA and SysEB Section. 

SysEB Snodgrass Memorial Research Award

This award recognizes outstanding research by individuals who have recently completed a doctoral dissertation in arthropod morphology, systematics, taxonomy, or evolution.

Donate to the SysEB Student Research Endowment

The SysEB Student Research Endowment supports unique research opportunities for students – opportunities that can transform their research, their perspectives, and their lives. By contributing, you are helping our community build a permanent source of funding to support student research.

As a non-profit organization, contributions to the ESA are generally tax deductible. Please click the DONATE tab below to continue:

Past SysEB Section Officers

2019 Officers

President: Dr. Floyd Shockley
Vice President: Dr. Jennifer Zaspel
Vice President-Elect: Dr. Rebecca Simmons
Past President: Dr. Andrew Short
Treasurer: Dr. Aaron Smith
Governing Board Representative: Dr. Jessica Ware

2018 Officers

President: Dr. Andrew Short
Vice President: Dr. Floyd Shockley
Vice President-Elect: Dr. Jennifer Zaspel
Past President: Dr. Christopher D. Beatty
Treasurer: Dr. Aaron Smith
Governing Board Representative: Dr. Jessica Ware

SysEB Student Research Endowment FAQs

The SysEB Student Research Endowment is a permanent ESA endowment that provides research-enhancement awards for graduate and undergraduate students who are members in good standing of the Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity (SysEB) Section of the Entomological Society of America (ESA).

SysEB Student Research Travel Award

Travel awards provide funding for student fieldwork, research travel to other institutions to enhance research projects, and/or travel to the upcoming ESA Annual Meeting. Successful proposals from graduate students will be funded through support from the SysEB Section.

SysEB Thomas Say Award

This award acknowledges significant and outstanding work in the fields of insect systematics, morphology, or evolution. "Insect" is defined here to include insect allies.