THE DAILY COLLEGIAN Scientists receive SI.4M to research pollinators By Micah Wintner COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER Penn State scientists have received a $1.4 million research grant from various organizations to conduct research in finding alternative pollinators to the rap idly declining honeybee popula tion. David Biddinger, project co director, said the cost of renting honeybee colonies has increased from $35 in 2005 to more than $lOO now This increased cost is adding financial pressure to farmers, he American Indians' education discussed By Mike Hricik COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER Arizona State University Professor Rebecca Tsosie galva nized audience members to reex amine American Indian educa tion law Wednesday afternoon. Tsosic delivered her lecture entitled - Tribal self-determina tion and the future of the Indian education . to a crowd of around 41) people in the Greg Sutliff Auditorium of the Lewis Katz Law She said the education of Native Americans is in a state of tumult due to the reauthorization 01 the No Child Left Behind Act of 210.1 and the United States's resistance to support the United Nations Declaration on the I;.ights of Indigenous Peoples. cr. - thing you learned about American Indian limo in the past is just that. - Tsosie said. The American Indian Leadership Program hosted the event to celebrate the program's 40th anniversary. Co-Director and Assistant Professor of Education Susan Faircloth said. Part of the Penn State College at Education, the program oper ates as the oldest leadership pro p:ram for American Indians and Alaskan Natives. It has gradual- said. Part of the gram will fund researching possible alternative nator for the state of pollinators to honeybees. Penns . ‘ivania, said much of the Biddinger said. Ynnlry relies almost exclusively "We got some historical n 1 ,tit honeybees for pollination. pies of growers that have not usea The native bee population honeybees for over ten ears. - ; cttlis to be utilized more now that Biddinger said. I ,tnt ybees are suffering from sev- These growers have been , .ii eases, he said. native bees instead of hone:, ice, of the grant will be used to "These are the guys that ar,, tt,o! , : into alternatives to pesticides doing the pollination In , 01;11 . 01 invasive species to polli cases where we don I Huch as mites. bees, - Biddinger said, 1 - natives include biological Ed Rajotte. another (!) . i techniques and cultural of the project and intent 't Rajotte said. Biological Professor Rebecca future of Ird ed er 220 , -: , u(1( Inception In P)m She Arizona State I:, • of I,,t\A Indian 'l' She co-cloth, reo h , book "Ament Native '2•;altoo.- ,n," Aliwricwi Thu i N up in prcs2:l provide indi2,enou Ift the or so\ ercigilt, , . .z•"il? !ti't! mtericrencc Sh'i said \i posses: , ,~ _:~,. ~1,-. Planagement (IPM) coordi- i-determination and the Katz Law Building. • • lb) \% them to secede 1 . ,,( , d States. Jtc Dickinson School of iv Paul Jorgensen said i‘!',1111, as a law talking that among groups. Native the lowest ducation and the enees of health 511,1,1 P •C'A,,t),F3p 142\ ant a:, evel interested in the (graduate- io more powerful people than their ie said. mjnsso7@psu.edu control techniques are - fighting organisms with organisms," he said. It is possible to attack mites and other species harmful to polli nators with other living organ isms. "If we make our orchards com patible with those predators. they will come in and solve the mite problem without the use of any pesticides," he said. Rajotte said IPM is an impor tant aspect of the research grant. "By having IPM, you allow a more favorable environment for the native wild bees to come in CATA bus manager wins national award By Nathan Pipenberg COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER The man in charge of keeping the CATA buses running smoothly does his job better than anyone else in the coun try At least that's what the American Public Transportation Association said when it awarded the Centre Area Transit Author ity's Hugh Mose its Outstanding Public Transportation Manager Award. The award has only been given to the manager of a small transit system like State College three times past winners usually were responsible for directing larger, metropolitan areas. "To get this kind of recognition , is the high point of my careen said Mose. CATAs general manag er. Mose has worked with public transportation for his entire career, and said he was initially motivated by his fascination with the way the industry worked. Over time, though, he realized that what has kept him engaged for so long is that he gets to inter act with people every day. "It's all about maintaining rela tionships with people," he said. Under Mose's 15-year tenure. the CATA transit system has undergone radical changes. He said his greatest achieve- THURSDAY, OCT. 14, 2010 15 and pollinate your crops, - he said. The decline in the honeybee population is reason for worry, Biddinger said. But, he added, it's not reason for a panic. "There are basically 35 to 40 thousand types of [bee] species in the world. Honeybees are just one of them," Biddinger said. "We're just trying to figure out how to make better use of the non-honeybees that are already here." To e-mail reporter: maws43B@psu.edu ment was overseeing the adoption of natural gas for the fuel used by the entire bus fleet a feat he sometimes had doubts would be successful. Mose also headed CATA through negotiation with Penn State that led to free bus transit on campus which students now recognize as the Loop and Link buses. Though Mose is now a fixture at CATA, he wasn't always so sure how long he would be sticking around State College. But he soon decided that Happy Valley was a place to settle down. "I thought something better would come along, - he said. "But it's hard to find a nicer community than here." Jacqueline Sheader. CATA's marketing manager, said the whole staff was glad to see Mose receive the award. "It's the highest honor a transit administrator can get in North America," she said. Mose said he's also had the sup port of the staff throughout his work at CATA. have a fantastic staff and board of directors," he said. "I guess I keep everyone pulling it the same direction." Mose's tenure at CATA has seen plenty of other projects like grossly discounted bus passes for full-time Penn State employees and an iPhone application that tracks bus locations through Google Maps. io e-mail reporter: ndpso4s@psu.edu
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