Congrats to Gavyn who received a 2026 CeZAP ID-IGEP Graduate Student Mini-Grant to support his research this Summer! Well done, Gavyn!

As a part of the Katherine S. McCarter Graduate Student Policy Award from the Ecological Society of America, James travelled to Washington, D.C. to speak with lawmakers about the importance of funding science in this country. Together with other graduate students, he urged them to fully fund the National Science Foundation in the upcoming 2027 FY budget. As a part of the award, James participated in an intensive science policy workshop led by researchers from the AAAS, Congre

We are excited to share our newest work on mosquito sugar feeding now published in the Journal of Medical Entomology . This paper entitled " Effect of landscape heterogeneity on mosquito abundance and sugar feeding behavior" was led by MS student Morgen VanderGiessen, MS then PhD student Forde Upshur, MS student Mariana Castadena-Guzman, collaborators Luis Escobar and Clément Vinauger. Abstract: Mosquito-borne diseases pose a dire threat to humanity, claiming over 700,000 l

Congratulations to Shanni who have both received a Global Change Center Undergraduate Research grant to support her work on kissing bugs this year! Well done Shanni!

We are excited to announce that the lab has rece ived a 2025 Interdisciplinary Team-Building Pilot Grant from CeZAP to work on invasive Aedes mosquitoes with Dr. Michael Robert from the Department of Mathematics at Virginia Tech. We are grateful to CeZAP for supporting this project entitled: Impact of Temperature on Aedes albopictus Distribution and Pathogen Transmission Dynamics: A Modeling and Experimental Approach !

We had a good time hiking to the beautiful Cascades in Pembroke with the Vinauger lab today! Thanks all! Missing several undergrads who...

We are excited to welcome Iris Schmeder (University of Texas) and Ray Kennedy (LeHigh University) to our NSF REU program at Mountain Lake...