Barnette’s Brilliance

February Technology

The genus will contain three species: one that was previously described and two new species discovered by Disla and Proud. “Cielo is working on redescribing the known species as Borikenia luquillense, and she is describing the two new species,” says Proud.

One of the new species will be named Borikenia yuizana in honor of the indigenous peoples of the islands. Yuiza was a female leader of the Taino, the native people of the Caribbean. The other species has yet to be named.

Disla presented this work at the International Congress of Arachnology in Uruguay in March 2023 and at the annual meeting of the American Arachnology Society hosted at Cornell University in June 2023.

Curtis “Hank” Barnette, a long-time member of the Moravian University Board of Trustees, has received the Robert P. Casey Medal for Distinguished Achievement. This award from the Association of Independent Colleges & Universities is presented to an individual who has shown extraordinary commitment to the value of independent higher education. One example of Barnette’s commitment is his endowment of the Barnette Internship at the National Museum of Industrial History in Bethlehem. The internship is open to college students with interests in history, museums, and related fields, and this year it has been awarded to Brendon Ward ’24, who will help catalog the hundreds of thousands of documents, photographs, films, and other historical records in the museum’s archive.

MORAVIAN

In the February 8 edition of The Comenian, the Moravian College Choir announces the release of its recently completed recording of Haydn’s Heiligmesse (Mass in B Flat Major). The vinyl album sells for $3.95 plus $.50 postage.