The department of entomology celebrated its centennial in 1997 and continues to thrive in the midst of change. Our department’s ability to remain vital is intimately connected to our ability to expand the boundaries of our discipline as we meet the challenges of the future. While maintaining active programs in traditional areas of entomology after our transfer from the College of Agriculture to the College of Biological Sciences in 1968, the department has cultivated an number of unique contributions. For instance, entomologists have headed the Ohio Biological Survey from its founding in 1912 to the present time. Entomologists have played a pivotal role in teaching and research done on OSU’s research island in Lake Erie, Frantz Theodore Stone Laboratory. Columbus is the site of the Rothenbuhler Bee Lab, a state-of-the-art honeybee genetics lab that does cutting-edge bee research and has recently ventured into neurobiology of behavior and learning. OSU continues to offer the summer program and the internationally acclaimed Acarology Laboratory. The Borror Laboratory of Bioaccoustics supports the second largest colletion of animal sounds in the world and the Museum of Biological Diversity houses the one of the finest university collections in the world, including the Charles A. Triplehorn Insect Collection. As the world goes molecular, OSU’s Department of Entomology has led the way with active researchers in molecular genetics, informatics, genomics, host plant-insect interactions and the molecular basis for insecticide resistance. We continue to make the case the insects are excellent experimental models for modern science.