2017 Awards Winners
Outstanding Ph.D. Student Award
Angela Sierras received this year's Outstanding Ph. D. Student Award. Angela's research focuses on evaluating different active ingredients for bed bug baiting systems. Her discoveries have the potential to lead to more effective and safer methods for controlling bed bugs. In addition to her research, she has helped to support upcoming young minority scientists through her involved as a student mentor. She has been commended by her major professor for her professionalism, work ethic, and leadership. |
Outstanding Educator Award
Philip Cox received the Outstanding Educator Award. Philip is a high school science teacher who uses insects to engage his students his Environmental Science classes. He has led his students in sampling wetlands and rivers for bioindicator macroinvertebrates and in sampling woodland leaf litter for soil-dwelling invertebrates. This year he has also included the insects of the goldenrods and milkweeds in his curriculum. He has created macroinvertebrate brochures and led student macroinvertebrate programs for the Rocky River Heritage Foundation (a local stream watch group). He also led a program for adults at the Rocky River to look for odonate adults and nymphs. |
Student Poster Competition Winners
1st Place: Robert Mitchell for his poster "Infrared Light Detection by the Haller’s Organ of American Dog Ticks"
2nd Place: Tyler Edwards for her poster "Combined dose of insect growth regulators on Reticulitermes flaviipes."
1st Place: Robert Mitchell for his poster "Infrared Light Detection by the Haller’s Organ of American Dog Ticks"
2nd Place: Tyler Edwards for her poster "Combined dose of insect growth regulators on Reticulitermes flaviipes."
Student Travel Award Winner
Our 2017 Student Travel Award Winner, Lewis Braswell, writes: I would like to thank the North Carolina Entomological Society for the travel award. I had a successful trip to Denver for the national ESA meeting. The meeting brought significant networking and education. I was fortunate to meet many people who I will be in contact with soon regarding employment opportunities. I also attended many talks both within my area of study, and outside, to broaden my entomology knowledge. The trip also included a side trip to a wildlife refuge near Denver, with lots of wildlife. Thanks again for selecting me for the award! |