



- Focus Areas
- Agricultural Pest Management
- Ecology/Biological Control
- Evolutionary Biology
- Freshwater and Estuarine Entomology
- Insect Pathology
- Molecular Biology, Physiology, Toxicology, and Molecular Genetics
- Pesticide Technology, Assessment, and Policy
- Systematics/Morphology
- Urban, Structural, and Green Industries Pest Management
- Facilities
- Collaborators
- Research Opportunities
- Focus Areas



Research Opportunities
Faculty listed are currently recruiting students.
Please note that faculty advise graduate students in Entomology and in other graduate programs, including:
- BEES: Behavior, Ecology Evolution, Systematics
- CBMG: Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics
- ENTM: Entomology
- MEES: Marine-Estuarine-Environmental Sciences
- MIEH: Maryland Institute of Applied Environmental Health/li>
- MOCB: Molecular and Cell Biology Program
| Currently Recruiting | |||
| Faculty member | Research Interests | Undergrad | Grad |
| Armstrong, Earlene | Insect Pathology, Parasitology, Medical Entomology. | yes | |
| Barbosa, Pedro | Host Plant Interactions, Ecology and Behavior of Parasitic Insects, Forest and Shade Tree Insects. | yes | |
| Brown, Amy E. | Pesticide Effects on Human
Health, Pesticide Policy. |
yes --- ENTM MIEH MEES |
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| Gruner, Dan | Terrestrial Community and Ecosystems Ecology, Biological Diversity. | yes | yes --- ENTM BEES |
| Hawthorne, David | Insect Population Genetics and Evolution. | yes | yes --- ENTM BEES |
| Hooks, Cerruti | Ecological pest management, Sustainable agriculture, and Biological control. | yes --- ENTM |
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| Lamp,William O. | Forage Crop IPM, Plant Response to Vascular Feeding, Aquatic and Terrestrial Insect Community Ecology. | yes | yes --- ENTM |
| Mitter, Charles | Systematics, Evolutionary Biology, Evolution of Insect-Host Plant Associations. | maybe --- ENTM |
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| Neel, Maile | Biodiversity, Conservation Biology. | yes --- ENTM BEES NRS |
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| Nelson, Judd | Insecticide Toxicology, Physiology, Environmental Toxicology. | yes | yes --- ENTM |
| Pick, Leslie | Developmental Biology. | yes | yes --- ENTM BEES CBMG MOCB |
| Raupp, Michael | Herbivore-Host Plant Interaction. | yes | yes --- ENTM |
| St. Leger, Raymond | Insect Pathogens, Molecular Biology of Fungal Insect interactions, Molecular Systematics, Insect Immunity. | yes | yes --- ENTM |
| Shrewsbury, Paula | Ecology and IPM, Insect Pests of Ornamental Plants and Turf Grass. | yes | yes --- ENTM |
| Shultz, Jeffrey | Functional and Evolutionary Morphology of Arthropods, Arachnology, Molecular Systematics. | yes --- ENTM BEES |
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| Thorne, Barbara | Termite Biology and Systematics, Urban Entomology, Evolutionary Ecology. | yes --- ENTM |
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| Via, Sara | Insect-Plant and Insect Parasitoid Interactions | maybe | |
| Wang, Jian | Insect Molecular Biology. | yes | yes --- ENTM |






