The Student Chapter of The Wildlife Society at Radford University

09/05/2025

Please join us Tuesday at our first meeting of the year!

09/01/2025

We are hosting a bioblitz in a couple weeks! Hope local folks can join us. Register here: https://forms.gle/UQ8q6RQ5wn1r97NR6

03/15/2025

Please join us for our next meeting on March 25 at 6PM. Dr. Kat Black from Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources is a district biologist, and will be sharing her experiences with our students

03/01/2025

A great day to visit Mill Mountain Zoo! This is our first chapter outing for the spring— great turnout and great educational experience!

02/07/2025

Please join us for our first meeting of the semester. We welcome Dr. Egan Green, of the Dept of Criminal Justice. He will be talking about wildlife crime. Although our meeting traditionally begin at 6, we are starting at 5:50PM to allow for Dr. Green to teach his class at 6:30.

We will also talk about the zoo trip on 2/22, join us!

10/06/2024

We are excited to welcome a former RUTWS president and RU-Biology alum, Heather Custer, to speak to our chapter. Please join us - Heather will provide students with great advice about undergraduate research and taking the next steps towards a successful wildlife career after graduation.

09/26/2024

More great photos of our students and members of the public at bioblitz

09/19/2024

Many officers and other Radford University students will be presenting at this meeting, which we are hosting at Radford University. Members of the public are welcome to join us and register for this conference on October 19.

Registration and submission of titles (for posters or presentations) for the 2024 General Meeting of the Virginia Natural History Society, to be held Saturday, 19 October 2024 at Radford University is open!

The deadline for submitting poster or presentation titles is 30 September.

Conference fees (student: $10; professional VNHS member: $15; non-member professional: $25) include a deli lunch buffet and 2 coffee breaks.

More details about the conference and a link to submit titles and register online are available at:
https://virginianaturalhistorysociety.com/vnhs-general-meeting-2024/

If you’d like to pay for registration with a check, please make it payable to “Virginia Natural History Society Conference Registration” and mail it to
Kal Ivanov, VMNH, 21 Starling Avenue, Martinsville, Virginia 24112.

If you must cancel after submitting payment, you will be refunded the full amount, minus a $5 administration fee, prior to October 14 at 17:00 EDT. We reserve the right to cancel the conference, if necessary, in which case you will be refunded the full amount.

09/15/2024

Another successful bioblitz at The Selu Conservancy at Radford University is in the books! Students and citizen scientists worked together to catch small mammals, turtles, count birds, plants, and insects. Our officers represented well, and the weather, thankfully, was excellent.