Bat Conservation International’s Student Research Scholarship program is now accepting applications for 2010 awards. Since 1990, BCI Scholarships have been helping top students at universities around the world conduct research that contributes the new knowledge needed to conserve bats and their habitats worldwide. Scholarships of up to $5,000 each for the 2010-11 academic year will support well-planned research projects that are...more

The rare Bourret’s horseshoe bat of Southeast Asia has a huge nose for a bat of its genus and region, and scientists have been trying for decades to figure out why it got so large. Now we know, reports the Virginia Tech News Service: That big nose is the near-perfect length for focusing sonar beams for echolocation. The research by Engineer Rolf Mueller, director of Virginia Tech’s Bio-inspired Technology Laboratory, and colleagues at...more

Efforts to reduce the alarming number of bats that are being killed at wind-energy facilities took a big step forward when scientists demonstrated that bat-mortality falls sharply when wind turbines are temporarily stopped during low-wind conditions during the night. The research was conducted by the BCI-led Bats & Wind Energy Cooperative at partner Iberdrola Renewable’s Casselman...more