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This September Champaign-Urbana hosted the first annual Central Illinois Bat Festival! Over 800 bat enthusiasts and bat-curious members of the community gathered at Anita Purves Nature Center and Crystal Lake Park to celebrate and learn about our furry skyward neighbors. The festival featured a little bit of something for everyone. […]

Getting a Little Batty in Central Illinois

22 October 2024 in Blog Posts / Outreach / People tagged outreach by Jordyn Chace

Congratulations to Illinois Bat Conservation Program graduate student (at Eastern Illinois University), Ashleigh Cable, who has won the Plummer/HWC Research Award, which will help pay for materials needed for her thesis research. The award was established by the family of Norm and Maria Plummer, founders of HWC Laboratories, to provide […]

Ashleigh receives Plummer/HWC Research Award

22 March 2017 in Blog Posts / People by steve

We are so proud of Tara, who, late in 2016 deposited her thesis and completed her MS degree through Eastern Illinois University, advised by Jill Deppe. Tara continues as our Bat Survey & Monitoring Coordinator through the Illinois Natural History Survey at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and is […]

Tara completes graduate thesis on bat biology

16 February 2017 in People by steve