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Kendrick Nakamura has 43 pets. Two are rabbits, one is a cat, and all the others are freshly caught queen ants he hopes will start their own colonies. In a matter of months, he’ll likely have hundreds more ants to take care of, and he can’t wait.
“They’re like a miniature society,” Nakamura says. “You can see them talking to each other by feeling out with their antennae. In the nest you can watch messages like there s food! or here, have some of this sugar water’ as they share with each other. It s fascinating.”
Right now Nakamura’s queen ants are living inside small glass test-tubes in a large plastic crate on his bedroom dresser. Though he’s had hundreds of ant colonies over the past four years, it’s an economical hobby; Nakamura usually spends no more than $10 a month for the ants’ lodging (various containers) and dining (mostly cockroaches).
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Corrie Moreau, the Martha N. & John C. Moser Professor of Arthropod Biosystematics and Biodiversity in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, along with graduate students Drea Darby and Amelia-Juliette Demery, seized the momentum from racial injustice demonstrations to design a new course on diversity, equity and inclusion in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics. New course empowers students to address diversity in STEM
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