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The original aim of the ASU Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDI) Biocollections Scholars Program was to foster human-nature connections and provide hands-on biocollections experience for undergraduates from groups historically excluded from STEM fields. By these measures, the first year of the program was an immense success.

The 2021 scholar cohort

Four students from across different majors and undergraduate career stages at ASU comprised our first cohort of JEDI Biocollections Scholars. While they all entered the program with a... Read More

A unique, funded, and hands-on opportunity for students underrepresented in biodiversity science to participate in natural history collections research

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Dear Research Community:

In August 2018, Arizona State University's (ASU) Biocollections and Biodiversity Knowledge Integration Center were selected by the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) leadership to be the NEON Biorepository, potentially for the full 30-year duration of the project as presently designed.

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This morning, I had a new paper published on the beautiful darkling beetles in the genus Eleodes Eschscholtz.  In it I described a new species I discovered from doing field work in Nevada during the summer of 2015.  When I tell them about my research, that I discover and describe new species of beetles, I am moreo ften than not greeted with surprise and the qustion "I thought we knew all the species on the planet, how do you find new ones?" This blog post is my attempt to explain the process by telling the story of Eleodes inornatus Johnston, 2016.

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