NC State University
Our Lab in the News
2013
Coby interviewed by Terry & Joe Graedon on NPR's the People's Pharmacy
Coby comments about insect personality in Pest Control Technology magazine
Ada Uzsák's poster wins at the 8th Annual NCSU Graduate Student Research Symposium
Insect antennal grooming paper in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences:
  NPR Science Friday Video Pick of the Week (Audio) (video)
  Discovery Channel: Why do animals groom?
   Science Magazine (PDF file)
  Today's Science (Science news for students) (PDF file)
Coby profiled in The Scientist Magazine
2012
Ann Carr's paper featured as the "Editor's Choice" in Medical and Veterinary Entomology
Coby Schal Distinguished Member, Sigma Xi 125th Anniversary Celebration
Coby comments on Alper Bozkurt's research with Hissing cockroaches
Abstract blog of the NC State Newsroom: Know Your Enemy: Cockroaches
More bed bug coverage: Population genetics
 Pest magazine All things bed bug - the Bed Bug Summit. PDF File
  POPSCI.com Using DNA to track the spread of bed bugs. PDF File
  Infectious Disease News. PDF File
2011
Parcoblatta pheromone paper in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences:
   Natural History
  
io9
  
NPR Science Friday (Spanish)
  
Earth Times
Coby Schal awarded Silverstein-Simeone Award, International Society for Chemical Ecology
Our paper in BMC Microbiology on antibiotic resistant microbes in cockroaches
   WebMD
   NPR Fresh Air (radio)
   Rob Dunn's guest blog on American Scientist
Us and our bed bugs in the news: Follow up to ASTMH presentation in Philadelphia (just a few of many)
  
NPR Science Friday and Blog
   New Scientist Health
   WebMD
   WRAL-TV Raleigh
2010
Rick Santangelo wins "Award for Excellence" from the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Rick Santangelo on WRAL-TV: Bed bugs cause havoc in Triangle: WRAL video
Us and our bed bugs in the news:
   TELEMUNDO (Alvaro Romero)
   PCT
Warren Booth's 2011 paper on parthenogenesis in Boa constrictors: Biology Letters
QTL for pheromone receptors in Heliothis: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2009
Godfrey Nalyanya's Forum Journal of Medical Entomology paper: IPM vs. Conventional Pest Control in NC Schools
2008
Logu Ponnusamy's Aedes Oviposition Stimulants: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Elsa Youngsteadt's Ant-Garden attractants: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
   AAAS ScienceNOW. PDF File
   BioScience. PDF File
   Spektrum Direkt (German). PDF File
Asian cockroach could aid Texas growers: Annals of the Entomological Society of America paper (PDF)
   USDA
News & Observer letter: Reward for guzzlers
2007
Coby Schal receives Research Friend of Extension Award, North Carolina State University
National Center for Healthy Housing: JACI paper -- Effectiveness of Commercial Pest Control
2006
Astrid Groot's Evolution of moth pheromone communication: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Coby Schal elected Fellow of the Entomological Society of America
Pest Control Technology (PCT): NCUE Recognizes Next Generation of Entomologists; Honors Coby Schal
2005
Toshi Nojima's paper in Science: German cockroach sex pheromone
   NCSU News Release
  
News&Observer: Irresistible cockroach discovery
  
MSNBC: Sexy 'perfume' lures cockroaches to their doom
  
BBC News: Sex hungry roaches lured to deat  
2004
Chad Gore awarded inaugural Bayer Young Scientist of the Year Award
   NCSU's Perspectives
Cockroach allergen mitigation in homes -- JACI paper with NIEHS
  
NCSU's Perspectives: Baits Alone Cause Surprising Reductions in Roach Allergens
  
NCSU News Release
Glenn Holbrook's paper on maternal care in cockroaches: 
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  
NCSU News Release
2000
Urban Entomology: NCSU's Perspectives
Aviary Roach Control in the NC Zoo: NCSU's Perspectives
1999
Simon Agwalory's Undergraduate Research: NCSU's Perspectives
W.M. Keck Program in Behavioral Biology: NCSU's Perspectives