Exophthalmus vitticollis. Species recognized by MA Alonso-Zarazaga & CHC Lyal (authors), M Sánchez-Ruiz (technical editor), Electronic Catalogue of Weevil names (Curculionoidea)

The Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) is now accepting applications for its 2011 Rubenstein Fellows competition.

This international program seeks to support and extend the impact of original biodiversity research by postgraduates, graduate students, and other early career scientists. Rubenstein Fellows funds provide partial support for up to one year so that biodiversity research, databases, and media can be effectively translated into rich, online resources available through the Encyclopedia of Life. Fellows must work in collaboration with a research mentor and may encourage collaborative and synthetic work with a community of colleagues.

The Encyclopedia of Life is an unprecedented global partnership between the scientific community and the general public. Its goal is to make freely available to anyone knowledge about all the world’s organisms. Anybody can register as an EOL member and add text, images, videos, comments or tags to EOL pages. Expert curators ensure quality of the core collection by authenticating materials submitted by diverse projects and individual contributors. Together we can make EOL the best, most comprehensive source for biodiversity information.

For more information on the program and to download the application package, please visit http://www.eol.org/content/page/fellows.

Applications must be submitted via email to fell...@eol.org no later than 15 September 2010.

Questions regarding the EOL Fellows competition should be directed to the EOL Fellows Coordinator at fell...@eol.org.