Department of Entomology @ Purdue University

Jason Meyer receives Honorable Mention in ASTMH Young Investigator Competition
Body: View Full Size Dr. Catherine Hill's lab recently returned from the 2009 American Society for Tropical Medicine and Hygiene Annual Meeting (ASTMH) in Washington, DC. The conference a...ttracted in excess of 4,000 multi-disciplinary scientists and was well-represented by researchers with NI...

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Bugs take center stage in Purdue vaudeville production
Body: WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Entomology and theater usually aren't subjects that go together, but in an upcoming vaudeville at Purdue University, the two will combine in an effort to integrate the disciplines o...f theater and science. Students in academic disciplines across the university...

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Dr. Jerry Milton Macklin (MS '56, PhD '61) Passes Away
Body: Dr. Jerry Milton Macklin, 80, of Rocky Ford, Colo., a former area resident, died Saturday, Oct. 31, 2009, at his residence. Born June 28, 1929, in Bryant, he was the son of the late Paul R. and Juanita... Whiteman Macklin. He received his bachelor's degree in agriculture and biolog...

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John Osmun Recognized with Pinnacle Award at PestWorld
Body: One of the highlights of the second day of NPMA PestWorld was the presentation of the NPMA Pinnacle Award to Dr. John Osmun. The annual award celebrates an individual’s lifetime of dedication and commitme...nt to the pest management industry. This year’s award went to a true indus...

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Rick Foster and others remain committed to Afghanistan universities
Body: View Full Size Expanding agriculture education is the start to rebuilding Afghanistan and securing the world, says Purdue University graduate student Wali Salari. "If we had a good e...conomy we would not have this problem -- like al-Qaida and the Taliban," Salari said...

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Lifetime Achievement Award for Vicki Cassens
Body: View Full Size "As I step down from serving 6 years as the Chairman of the NPIRS Advisory Council, it gives me great pleasure, as my final official act, to bestow this award on Vicki. When Vicki took over the... NPIRS project we were in a deep financial hole. Through her le...

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Thriving despite challenges, lightning bugs are helping to fight cancer
Body: Tiny yellow lights hover in the backyard. Kids squeal and clasp their hands around winking insects, hoping to capture their glow in a glass jar. Central Indiana is blinking to life from li...ghtning bug season -- a time when porch dwellers and third-graders share a common wonder for a bug...

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Entomology professor reveals so-called gnats to be migrating soybean aphids
Body: The latest buzz around campus has nothing to do with gossip, but instead with winged pests migrating through the area. According to Steve Yaninek, head of the department of ento...mology, the gnats that have been swarming around campus the last few days are soybean aphids migrating...

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Jesse Hoteling (MS '06) New Woodrow Wilson Indiana Teaching Fellow
Body: The inaugural cohort of Woodrow WIlson Indiana Teaching Fellows at Purdue started this summer. The teaching fellows is a pioneering program to staff rural secondary schools with highly qual...ified science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) teachers. Applications are now being a...

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Purdue Entomology Welcomes Dr. Ian Kaplan
Body: Dr. Ian Kaplan, Assistant Professor, comes to Purdue from Cornell University, where he was a postdoctoral associate. He received his bachelor’s degree in biology from Davidson College, his master’s in entomology fr...om Auburn University, and the Ph.D in entomology from the Univer...

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