External Graduate Student Awards

Our graduate students have received honors from a variety of professional societies as well as from the College and the University.

2009

Amanda Matheny

• Norman F. Childers Award, First Place
  American Society for Horticultural Science Northeast Region, Annual Meeting
  "How do home gardeners´ preferences and perceptions affect their pest management decisions" 

2008

Lauren Culler

• President's Prize, Runner-up
  Entomological Society of America, Annual Meeting
  "The potential contribution of larval Agabus (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae) for mosquito suppression in constructed wetlands" 

Julie Byrd Hébert

• President's Prize, First Place
  Entomological Society of America, Annual Meeting
  "Genetic evidence for host race formation in the leafmining fly, Phytomyza glabricola (Diptera: Agromyzidae)" 

Akito Y. Kawahara

• ASA Fitch Memorial Award
  Entomological Society of America, Eastern Branch
• 1st Place Student Poster Competition
  Entomological Society of America, Eastern Branch

Miles Lepping

• President's Prize, First Place
  Entomological Society of America, Annual Meeting
  "Estimating carabid beetle population parameters in field corn to identify potential bioindicator species" 

Andrew Sensenig

• 2nd Place Oral Paper Competition
  Entomological Society of America, Eastern Branch

Adrianna Szczepaniec

• President's Prize, First Place
  Entomological Society of America, Annual Meeting
  "Expression of selected tomato genes involved in plant defense following application of a systemic insecticide imidacloprid"

Linnaean Games Team (Akito Kawahara, Julie Hébert, Gwen Shlichta, Bob Smith and alternate Lauren Culler)

• 2nd Place
  Entomological Society of America, Eastern Branch
  This qualified the team to compete as one of ten teams in the tournament finals at the National ESA meeting

2007

Akito Y. Kawahara

• Distinguished Teaching Assistant Award
  Center for Teaching Excellence
  University of Maryland

Adrianna Szczepaniec

• Bamford Fellowship Award
  College of Chemical and Life Sciences
  University of Maryland

2006

Bob Smith

• President's Award
  North American Benthological Society Endowment
• President's Prize (Oral Presentation), Runner-Up
  Entomological Society of America, Annual Meeting (Behavior and Ecology)

Adrianna Szczepaniec

• Student Competition for the President's Prize, First Place Winner
  Entomological Society of America, Annual Meeting
  

Ellery Vodraska

• Student Competition for the President's Prize, Third Place Winner
  Entomological Society of America, Eastern Branch meeting
  

2005

Steve Frank

• Scholarship to attend Biological Control Summer School
  International Organization for Biological Control, Quebec, Canada

Akito Y. Kawahara

• President's Prize, Session A1, First Place Winner
  Entomological Society of America

2004

Miles D. Lepping

• President's Prize, 10-minute paper, student competition
  Entomological Society of America, Annual Meeting