Honorary Curators Franklin Ayala (Iquitos, Peru), Chen Jia-rui (Beijing, China), Mireya Correa (Panama City, Panama), Jorge V. Crisci (La Plata, Argentina), Luis Diego Gómez (San Vito, Costa Rica), Enrique Rentería (Medellín, Colombia), Mario Sousa (Mexico City, Mexico), Armen Takhtajan (St. Petersburg, Russia) and Wu Pan-cheng (Beijing, China) have been appointed Honorary Curators at MO in recognition of their longstanding cooperation with us. News from MO 2001 was created by Kathy Hurlbert, Leslie Miller, Eloise Cannady and Mary Merello (October 2001) and placed on the MOBOT webserver 1/22/02.