As Editor-in-Chief of Insects, I am pleased to announce the two awardees of the Insects 2017 graduate student/postdoctoral associate travel awards. Dr. Carl Nick Keizer is a postdoctoral fellow at Rice University who will be attending the 2017 Animal Behavior Society Annual meeting in Toronto, Canada and Dr. Charlene Jamison-Scheepers, a postdoctoral fellow at Monash University will be attending the 2017 Ecological Society of America Annual meeting in Portland, USA. We had over 30 very impressive applications and we congratulate our recipients. More information on their programs and the award can be found at the following websites:
http://cnkeiser.wixsite.com/stegodyphus
http://chownlab.com/dr-charlene-janion-scheepers/

The competition for the 2018 Insects Graduate Student/Post-Doc Travel Award will be opened in early September 2017. Please check www.mdpi.com/journal/insects and follow us @Insects_MDPI for more information closer to this date.