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- Entomologist recognized for award-winning article
MISSISSIPPI STATE -- Mississippi State University entomologist Richard Brown and two co-authors will be given the Editor's Choice Award for writing one of the best entomological articles of 2008.
Brown and his colleagues will receive the award in December from the Entomological Society of America. The article, "Tracing an Invasion: Phylogeography of Cactoblastis cactorum in the United States Based on Mitochondrial DNA," was published in the Annals of the Entomological Society of America.
"Among papers published in Annals during 2008 'this paper had the best combination of sound science, breadth of interest and good writing,' said Larry E. Hurd, the journal's editor-in-chief." The study was a nice combination of experimentation and molecular genetics brought to bear on a question of both theoretical and applied interest: How did an economically important, exotic insect get established in the United States?
"This paper stands as a fine example of the synthetic, integrative approach to science we like to publish in Annals," Hurd said. Brown's research on the cactus moth was supported by a grant to the MSU Geosystems Research Institute from the U.S. Geological Survey. Brown cooperated on the article with Thomas J. Simonsen and Felix A. H. Sperling of the University of Alberta.
The Entomological Society of America is giving an award to the best paper in each of its four journals and the American Entomologist. The editors of the publications choose the winners, and winning articles receive a prize of $1,000.
Writer: Bonnie Coblentz
http://msucares.com/news/releases/09/091008.html
Released: Oct. 8, 2009
Contact: Dr. Richard Brown, (662) 325-2086
- Winners Honored in Graduate Student Competition at the 2009 Cotton Insect and Control
Research Conference
MEMPHIS (Special) - Students at four universities captured honors in the oral presentation competition of the 2009 Beltwide Cotton Insect Research and Control Conference. Dow AgroSciences sponsored this 9th year of competition, which took place in one of the 11 cotton technical conferences that convened at the recent 2009 Beltwide Cotton Conferences in San Antonio.
In the Gary Herzog Memorial Ph.D. competition, Bradley W. Hopkins of Texas A&M University won first place and $500 for "Resistance to Pyrethroid Insecticides in Helicoverpa zea (Boddie) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae)." John Frederick Smith of Mississippi State University was awarded $250 and honorable mention for "Cotton Yield Loss from Mid-to-Late Season Twospotted Spider Mite Damage."
In the Stacy Hall Memorial Masters competition, Richard Reeves of Clemson University received $400 for his first place presentation, "Spatial-Temporal Analysis of Stink Bug Populations in Cotton." Kyle A. Fontenot of Louisiana State University received honorable mention and $200 for his presentation, "Evaluating Tarnished Plant Bug Distribution within Cotton Plants Post-Insecticide Application."
The winners' professors are: Roger Leonard, LSU; Jeremy Greene, Clemson; Patricia Pietrantonio, Texas A&M; and Angus Catchot and Fred Musser, Mississippi State.
The Ph.D. competition was renamed in 2002 in honor of the late Dr. Gary Herzog, a University of Georgia professor and researcher. The Masters competition was renamed in 2001 in honor of the late LSU student Stacy Hall.
The Insect Research and Control Conference competition is designed to encourage outstanding graduate work in cotton entomology and promote graduate student attendance at the National Cotton Council-coordinated annual Beltwide Cotton Conferences. Greene, associate professor at Clemson University, chaired the Student Awards Committee while Gus Lorenz, University of Arkansas, and John Adamczyk, USDA-ARS, were co-chairpersons for the Insect Research and Control Conference.
Photo caption: Student winners in the 2009 Cotton Insect Research and Control Conference oral presentation competition were from left: Richard Reeves, Kyle Fontenot, Bradley Hopkins and John Smith.