Several of our graduate students took top honors at the 2012 ESA meeting:
Alejandro Del Pozo: Larry Larson Graduate Student Award for Leadership in Applied Entomology. (Sponsored by Dow AgroSciences. )
Kevin Langdon: 1st Place Poster Display PIE2. Relative susceptibility of selected potato cultivars to two wireworm species.
Rachel Suits: 2nd Place Poster Display PIE 5. To eat or not to eat: Preference and performance of corn earworm on soybean tissues.
Aaron Fox: 1st Place YouTube Video. Aaron is in Crop Science. David Orr and Steve Frank were on his committee. #4: A New Weed Seed Predator? http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD55E8DADE6F6062D
Angela Bucci: MUVE Travel Award
The ESA meeting this year had a record number of student presentations. There were 469 oral presentations and 188 posters for a total of 657 student presentations.
Congratulations to all the award winners.