Exciting News in Invertebrate Paleontology and Paleobotany Cheilosia miocenicus (UCM 4444) Mary Ellen Benson has received funding for her work on diatoms from Florissant, Colorado, from the Walker Van Riper Fund, the Evolving Earth Foundation, the Paleontological Society's Stephen J. Gould Grant and the Colorado Scientific Society. Mary Ellen has also received the Sam L. Van Landingham Fellowship in Diatom Research to conduct research in the collections at the California Academy of Sciences. Kathy Hollis has received funding for her internship at the California Academy of Sciences from the Walker Van Riper Fund. She was also accepted to the Paleobiology Database Intensive Summer Course in Analytical Paleobiology. Erin Leckey received support for her work on plant-insect interactions in Miocene through the Recent from the Walker Van Riper Fund and the Paleontological Society's Ellis Yochelson Grant. Karen Sears and Jonathan Marcot are heading to the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Karen and Jon begin faculty positions in the Department of Animal Biology this fall. The Geological Society of America Special Volume Paleontology of the Late Eocene Florissant Formation, edited by Herb Meyer and Dena Smith has officially been accepted. This volume should be available at the end of 2007, or early in 2008.