BUSY AS A BEE: INSECT RESEARCHER BRAD OHLINGER BECOMES NEW GRANTS SPECIALIST AT VETERINARY COLLEGE

BLACKSBURG, Va., May 19 -- Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University issued the following news release:

Brad Ohlinger's research has focused on how bees do a "waggle dance" to convey information to one another and why ants follow one behind the other.

Now, his role is to convey information for securing research funding and to get words, numbers, and people to line up for large sums of money to flow into Virginia Tech research.

Ohlinger Ph.D. '23 started in March as the grants specialist in the Office of Research and Graduate Studies at the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine.

Some might find this an unexpected detour for someone like Ohlinger who has already made his mark with 14 publications in entomology through...