ESA Awards 2004

Honors and professional awards were presented on Sunday, November 14 at the Annual ESA Meeting held in Salt Lake City, Utah.

The Southwestern Branch is proud to announce this year's member honorees:

Distinguished Achievement Award in Extension ¹

Presented annually, this award recognizes outstanding contributions in extension entomology. This year’s winner, Dr. Phillip G. Mulder, Jr., is an extension entomologist and entomology professor with the Oklahoma State University, Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology. His extension duties involve pecan, fruit trees, alfalfa, peanuts, grapes, and soybeans, as well as 4-H and honey bees. He also is the department’s extension coordinator. Mulder has mentored six graduate students, serves on numerous student committees, and teaches Horticultural Insects. He has made more than 2,000 extension, media outreach, and research presentations, and has authored or co-authored more than 150 refereed publications, invited book chapters, proceedings, and extension publications, including the first e-Learning short-course on pecans. Mulder, who maintains a busy research and demonstration program, has been recognized nationally for his work on the pecan weevil Circle trap and the development of the screen trap for plum curculio in fruit trees.

John Henry Comstock Graduate Student Awards ¹

Currently a Ph.D. candidate at Oklahoma State University (OSU), Douglas B. Jones earned his B.S. from Henderson State University (1983). After graduating, he operated a nursery business, until 1992 when he accepted a position at the University of Arkansas to conduct research on imported fire ants. Returning to school in 1998, he studied small grain aphids and their natural enemies, earning his M.S. in entomology (2001) from OSU. Jones received a Sitlington Ph.D. fellowship and a graduate student SARE grant that helped fund his dissertation research examining the winter ecology of Lysiphlebus testaceipes. He has been active in ESA competing in the Linnaean games, presenting and publishing original research, serving twice as chair of the Southwestern Branch Student Affairs Committee, and currently serving on the ESA Committee on Student Affairs. In his spare time, Jones coaches football and restores muscle cars.

Presidents Prize for Posters

Matthew Rawlings, Oklahoma State University

¹ Source:
ESA to Celebrate 2004 Awardees and Honorees at Its Annual Meeting. ESA Online Newsletter, November 2004, Volume 27, Number 108. [Online] Available at http://www.entsoc.org/newsletter/2004/oct/awards.htm