- Scott Geib, Ph.D. graduate student, to receive NRI Postdoctoral Fellowship!
- Randa Jabbour, Ph.D. graduate student, received the J. Brian Horton Memorial Award, recognizing outstanding achievement and service to the graduate community by a student in the Intercollege Graduate Degree Program in Ecology (4/15/2008)
- Katie Szulewski, M.S. graduate student, awarded Sigma Xi Grant-in-Aid of Research (4/16/2008)
- Alexis Barbarin, Ph.D. graduate student, receives College of Ag Sciences research award (4/2/2008)
- Penn State Entomology graduate students (Rob Anderson, Jim McNeil, Maya Nehme, Dan Schmehl) won first place honors at the Eastern Branch Linnean Games (3/12/2008)
- Neelandra Joshi, Ph.D. candidate, won PSU LaMarr Kopp graduate student award! (1/2008)
- Jennifer Dean, Ph.D. candidate, recipient of Alumni Association Dissertation Award (1/2008)
- Casey Delphia, Jennifer Dean, Scott Geib, and Jim McNeil - Entomological Society of America 1st Place winners in student paper competitions (12/21/2007)
- Kerry Mauck and Emily Kuhns - Entomological Society of America 2nd Place winners in poster competitions (12/21/2007)
- Dr. Consuelo De Moraes to receive PSU College of Ag Sciences 2007 Community of Teaching Excellence Award (10/1/2007)
- Wilma Aponte awarded ESA-EF Stan Beck Fellowship (9/20/2007)
- Jim McNeil, Ph.D. graduate student, received Graduate Student Award for Contributions in Outreach (6/2007)
- Ezra Schwartzberg, Ph.D. graduate student, received Michael E. Duke Memorial Scholarship (6/2007)
- Neelendra Joshi, Ph.D. graduate student, received Vartkes Miroyan Memorial Award (6/2007)
- Neelendra Joshi, Ph.D. graduate student, received Garretson Endowment Award (6/2007)
- Casey Delphia, Ph.D. graduate student, received the Ralph O. Mumma Graduate Award for 2007 (6/2007)
- Kerry Mauck receives Sigma Xi Grant in Aid for Research (4/2007)
- Jim McNeil to receive Society for Invertebrate Pathology 2007 Mauro E. Martignoni Student Award! (5/2007)
- Maya Nehme selected to receive Ardeth & Norman Frisbey International Student Award! (4/2007)
- Jennifer Dean to receive NSF Dissertation Improvement Grant; received 1st Place for ESA-EB Graduate Student Oral Presentation (3/2007)
- Graduate Student Linnean Games Team took 1st Place at the ESA EB Meetings - Jim McNeil, Ezra Schwartzberg, Amanda Bachmann, and Tim Leslie (3/2007)
- Wilma Aponte who received the 2007 ESA Asa Fitch Memorial Award (11/2006)
- Michael Williams awarded scholarship from The Foundation for the Preservation of Honey Bees, Inc.
- Casey Delphia & Justin Runyon receive NSF Dissertation Grant (3/2006)
- Jennifer Dean, Casey Delphia, and Jim McNeil received first runner-up in their respective sections during the student competition at the ESA national meetings in Ft. Lauderdale, FL (12/2005)
- David Bell, (Ph.D. 12/2005) has accepted a postion as assistant professor in the Department of Biology at St. Vincent's College (12/2005)
- Jim McNeil to receive the Entomological Society of Pennsylvania's Outstanding Student Award for 2005! (10/2005)
- Wilma Aponte named a Penn State Sloan Fellow (8/23/2005)Graduate Student Xinyi Li took 1st Place Poster Session 1 at the Penn State Environmental Chemistry Student Symposium (4/2005)
- Graduate Student Wilma Aponte Awarded PA Association of Graduate Schools Outstanding Graduate Student Award! (3/2005)
- Jim McNeil won first place in the student paper competition at Eastern Branch - Entomological Society of America Meeting (3/2005)
- Scott Geib won first place in the student poster competition at Eastern Branch - Entomological Society of America Meeting (3/2005)
- Randa Jabbour was recently awarded 2nd place in the Biological Sciences graduate student division in the College of Agricultural Sciences Research Expo. The title of her poster was "Persistence and Movement of a Beneficial Entomopathogenic Nematode in Maize". (3/2005)
- Jim McNeil & Casey Delphia who received Graduate Assistant Outstanding Teaching Awards!
- Carrie Schwarz awarded J. Brian Horton Memorial Award in Ecology
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- Jennifer Dean to participate in a PASI (Pan-American Advanced Studies Institute) 10-day workshop in May on tropical chemical biology in Tambopata National Preserve, Peru (2/2008)
- Neelandra Joshi was highlighted in a Penn State Live feature article " International Fellowships Training and Leadership Opportunities". He is one of four Ford Foundation International Fellows studying at Penn State. (12/2005)
- Penn State Ag Students Tour European Agriculture - (12/2005) (press release)
- Penn State at Forefront of Chemical Ecology -
After assembling a group of some of the world’s most renowned researchers, Penn State is now leading the nation in chemical ecology research with the establishment of a center of excellence and a newly renamed lab.(10/2005) (pdf file of press release)
- SUSPROT Program -
Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences is one of several partners in an international crop protection and student exchange program to promote scientific cooperation and collaborative education between academic and professional communities in the European Community and the United States. (pdf file of press release)
- Dietmar Schwarz (Ph.D. 12/04) - New Fly Species Formed Through Hybridization (pdf file of press release) (7/2005)
- A paper written by Xiaolong Yang (postdoctoral scholar and 2004 PSU Entomology graudate) and a professor in entomology at Penn State about their study on varroa mites suppressing the immune systems of honey bees was published in a prestigious scientific journal.(6/2005)
- Justin Runyon, a Ph.D. student in the Entomology Department, has discovered a new fly, Erebomyia exalloptera. An article titled "Fly's Clipped Wing Signals Power of Survival" appeared in 'Nature' which describes Justin's findings. - written by Betsy Mason.
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