1A Letter from the Department Head Greetings! I invite you to see where we have been by reading the interesting and diverse articles found in this issue of the Newsletter. For my part, I would like to give you a sense of where we are going in the next year. We are currently in the midst of a search for an assistant professor in Commodity and Structural Pest Management. The closing date for the position has passed and interviews will begin in late September. We hope to have someone on-board by the end of 1999. Last year, during long-range planning sessions, we decided that our next position priority would be for a Mosquito Biologist. We are hopeful that the College will agree with us on the important role mosquitoes play in the quality of life in Minnesota and worldwide. The need for an Insect Behaviorist has also been part of our long-range discussions. While we have not formulated a position request or position description, it is receiving serious consideration by our Long-Range Planning Committee. Curriculum is an important topic that will be ad- dressed over the next year. After many years on the quarter system, the entire University is moving to a semester system beginning fall 1999. As you might imagine, faculty have been devoting a great deal of time to the conversion process. Part of the switch involves creation of a modular approach to our “service” courses. Since students in service courses often have limited exposure to entomology, instructors found it necessary to spend several weeks going over basic insect morphology, physiology, taxonomy, and population dynamics. The faculty decided to tackle this inefficiency by creating a standardized module on basic entomology that would be taught on a rotational basis. All students wishing to enroll in any of our service courses must take this front Entomology Newsletter Fall 1999 end 1 credit module. Once successfully completed, students would move into a course of their choosing for the rest of the semester. In addition, any student who completed the front end module would be permitted to take another service course in the future without repeating the basic entomology module. This new approach will begin in fall 1999. Semester conversion is also providing the motivation to consider long-term curriculum revision. What courses should we offer, what constitutes the entomology core curriculum, how do we fund and allocate teaching assistant- ships, and what should our role be in distance delivery are only some of the questions that must be addressed. The review will begin with a brainstorming session in mid-May. Increased cooperation with the other Departments of Entomology in the region is another goal. We currently have a working relationship between the Department of Entomology at North Dakota State University that revolves around pest management in sugar beets and small grains. We also provide a module in livestock entomology for students at the University of Wisconsin. I am hopeful that we will further develop these relationships in the coming year. The second Graduate Student Recognition Day and Hodson Graduate Alumni Award ceremony was a success. Dr. Morris Rockstein, 1948 alumnus of the Department was this years Hodson Alumni Award winner. Dr. Rockstein presented a seminar on Metamorphosis of an Insect Physiologist on 4 June 1999. We’ve included pictures of the day in the newsletter (Page 7) and we plan to post pictures of the day on our web site, so be sure to check them out. We are now soliciting nominations for the 2000 Award. Please refer to the flyer included in the newsletter as you nominate one of our many outstanding alumni. The 1999 meeting of the Entomological Society of America will be held in Atlanta, 12-16 December. The Department of Entomology will host our annual mixer for alumni and friends on Tuesday, December 14 from 5:00 – 7:00 p.m. in the Fairlie Room. You can check out photos from the Las Vegas Alumni mixer on our web site. Come and join us in Atlanta. We welcome your input and any other comments you wish to make. Consider this as your opportunity to commu- nicate with other alumni and friends of the department. We’d love to print your comments in the next issue. Best wishes for a great Fall 1999! Mark Ascerno Editors: Ann Fallon and Bill Hutchison 2Forest entomology has a long and rich tradition here at the University of Minnesota. It started before 1920 with perhaps the most influential forest insect ecologist in the Lake States region and one of the most important in North America, Samuel Graham. Graham is often referred to as one of the founding fathers of forest entomology in the United States. He became associated with the University around 1918, teaching forest entomology at Itasca Park. During this time he was also doing extensive research on the white pine weevil for his thesis and working extensively for the Canadian Forest Service and the USDA on various forest insect projects. He received his Ph.D. in St. Paul in 1921, one of the first two doctorate degrees in entomology awarded at the University. Graham remained on the faculty at Minnesota till 1927 when he became an associate professor of forest entomology at the University of Michigan. He stayed at Michigan until his retirement in 1961. During his career he had a tremendous influence on the developing field of forest entomology. In 1929, he authored a book titled Principles of Forest Entomology, that was revised four times during his lifetime. It became one of the principal textbooks used in forest entomology undergraduate courses in North America. In 1953, he was honored by being awarded the University of Minnesota’s Outstanding Achievement Award during the 50th anniversary of the University’s School of Forestry. Graham’s research covered many important forest insects. His white pine weevil work is still widely cited today and the management recommendations he developed have been altered only slightly since his initial papers were published between 1916 and 1926. Leslie Orr followed Sam Graham as the forest entomologist at the University. Orr left the University in 1935 to start a long career as a US Forest Service entomologist. In 1930, Alec Hodson was hired as an instructor in zoology at the University. Dr. Hodson began teaching field zoology to forestry students at Itasca in 1936. He soon began a research program directed mainly at forest tent caterpillar. Though he had graduate students in a number of diverse fields, many concentrated on forest insects. His list of graduate students includes many prominent forest entomologists. Several went on to develop forest entomology programs at large universities, including Daniel Benjamin (Ph.D. 1950) at the University of Wisconsin, Roger Anderson (Ph.D. 1945) at Duke, and Herbert Kulman (Ph.D. 1960) who eventually took over the program at Minnesota. Benjamin taught at Madison for over 30 years, producing numerous graduate students of his own, and became well known for his research programs, especially his work on conifer sawflies. At Duke, Roger Anderson was associated with one of the more influential forestry programs in the U.S. In 1960, he authored what became a widely used textbook titled Forest and shade tree entomology. Anderson is also given credit for being the first forest entomologist to hypothesize the role of pheromones in bark beetle communication. Several of Hodson’s students moved on to prominent nonacademic careers. Louis Wilson (Ph.D. 1962) worked for 33 years with the U.S. Forest Service, mostly in East Lansing, Michigan, where he was an active adjunct faculty member at Michigan State University. Many of his graduate students are currently working as forest entomologists with various state and federal agencies in the Lake States. Lou authored or coauthored over 200 Farewell! Dr. Bhadirarju Subramanyam (Subi) has accepted a position as Associate Professor in the Department of Grain Science and Industry at Kansas State University. This position is an opportunity for Subi to further his expertise and continue to explore his many interests. Subi began his career at the University as a graduate student in 1981 and then became coordinator of the National Agricultural Pesticide Impact Assessment Program (NAPIAP). His last day at the University was May 11, 1999. His office telephone number at Kansas State Univer- sity is 785-532-4092, his e-mail address is bhs@wheat.ksu.edu Mary Ann Palmer, Department of Entomology, accepted a position as Principal Assistant to Ramsey County Commissioner Jan Weissner. She left the department last December, after many years of service and friendship. Welcome! We would like to welcome Jenni Snyder to the department as our new accountant. Jenni was a Principal Accounts Specialist in COAFES before accepting her position here. She will be working with the Horticulture Department accountants, Ed Salter and Chris Dillon to keep track off personnel and grants. She is a welcome addition to our Department. Forest Entomology – A Long and Rich Tradition By Tom Skalbeck Departmental Changes New web site address! The university is upgrading their networking soft- ware which requires us to change the URL of our web site (www.ent.agri.umn.edu), since the new software cannot handle five part names. Our new web address is http://www.entomology.umn.edu/ We will have a redirect page in place at the old URL to let people know our new address. 3publications, including material on the biology, behavior, dynamics and management of over 70 different species of forest insects. Harold Batzer (Ph.D. 1965), became a research entomologist with the Forest Service’s North Central Forest Experiment Station. Harold worked for many years as a member of a Forest Service research work unit located in St. Paul that included the Departments’s very own Bill Miller, along with Bill Mattson (Ph.D. 1972 with Herb Kulman). For many years Harold was also an adjunct faculty member in the entomology department. The University forest entomology program under Dr. Hodson also had a strong influence on Canadian forestry. Leslie Lyons (Ph.D. 1960), William Turnock (Ph.D. 1959) and Roy Shepherd (Ph.D. 1960), all eventually held prominent positions in the Canadian forestry/entomology community. Les Lyons worked for many years with the Canadian Forest Service in Sault Ste. Marie and authored many journal articles on Neodiprion sawflies. In 1966, Herb Kulman was hired as a forest entomology faculty member, replacing Dr. Hodson who had been serving as the Department head since 1960. Herb specialized in forest defoliators and eventually authored or coauthored over 80 journal articles including a 1971 article in the Annual Review of Entomology titled “Effects of insect defoliation on growth and mortality of trees”. Under Dr. Kulman, the forest entomology program remained very active. In the late 1960’s and 1970’s active research programs were being conducted on numerous forest insects including jack pine budworm, forest tent caterpillar, larch sawfly and yellow-headed spruce sawfly. At the time of his retirement in 1991, Herb had trained 30 graduate students, including 13 Ph.D.’s. Several of his students at Minnesota became faculty members themselves including John Witter (Ph.D. 1971) at the University of Michigan, Mark Houseweart (Ph.D. 1976) at the University of Maine, Lynn Thompson (Ph.D. 1973) at the University of Arkansas- Monticello, and Deb McCullough (Ph.D. 1990) at Michigan State University. In 1984, John Witter coauthored the textbook, Forest entomology ecology and management, which is widely used today as a text for forest entomology courses. Many other students of Dr. Kulman remain active in the forest entomology community, several holding entomology positions with the Forest Service (Mike Connor MS 1978, Steve Katovich Ph.D. 1988, Bill Schaupp PostDoc 1990, and Steve Munson MS 1993). During much of this time, an insect research unit within the U.S. Forest Service was located on campus. This provided several adjunct faculty members, including Harold Batzer and Bill Miller, and provided cooperative opportunities for several students. Bill Mattson (Ph.D. 1972) was one student who received his degree while serving as a Forest Service entomologist. Bill has gone on to become a prominent forest insect ecologist, authoring several papers that are among the most widely cited today in forest insect literature. Herb Kulman retired in 1992 and the Department did not fill the position with another forest entomologist till 1998 when the position was filled by Dr. Steven Seybold, continuing the tradition begun roughly 80 years ago by Samuel Graham. There are many reasons for the past successes in forest entomology at the University including the overall importance of the forest resource in the state. Approximately one-third of the state is forested and the Minnesota forest products industry is today valued at over 7 billion dollars. In addition, having a large and productive forestry program within the College of Forest Resources and a U.S. Forest Service research station as next door neighbors has provided a very conducive climate for graduate students and faculty members. These resources along with many others still exist as does the wonderful tradition of the past 80 years. The academic year of 1998-1999 brought with it a few changes for some members of Frenatae. Karen Shih and Vida Gavino both obtained their master’s degrees, and we are happy to see them around the department. Several students survived the tortures of oral exams, several new members have joined, and a few members have become (or will very soon become) parents. It has been quite an eventful year. In October, Frenatae hosted a seminar speaker, Dr. Joseph McHugh, from the University of Georgia, Athens. He told us of his research program in the phylogenetics of fungus beetles, and gave us advice on obtaining a job in academia. Thanks to Dr. Dave Andow for hosting a reception for Dr. McHugh at his home. For the fourth year, Frenatae members participated in the Jason Project Science Fest at the Bell Museum. The entomology table is always popular with the kids who enjoyed holding the hissing cockroaches and the giant millipede. Grad students also helped with the Insect Museum’s display table at the State Fair. The annual Frenatae honey sale was again very successful. As always, many thanks to Marla Spivak and the bee lab for providing the honey, and to Gary Reuter for his homemade beeswax candles. We also appreciate the support and assistance from the rest of the Entomology Department. In May, a Frenatae tradition lived on as we enjoyed a relaxing weekend at the YMCA chalet in Monticello. The retreat was a great way to take a break from our studies while getting to know our fellow students a little better. Although the weather wasn’t great, we were still able to enjoy a nice weekend. A good time was had by all! Although not an official Frenatae event, Pig’s-Eye still takes place on Friday afternoons at the picnic tables or in the refuge. It’s a good time to catch up with department gossip while relaxing with a cold beverage. Pig’s-Eye is not just a Frenatae event; everybody is welcome; so stop by and say “Hello”! Frenatae News By Sarah Kuha 4Holzenthal Lab Fellowship. This highly competitive, 3-year, $82,000 fellowship will support David’s dissertation research on the biodiversity of the caddisflies of Minnesota and the region. David Houghton and Ralph Holzenthal also received a $20,000 grant from the non-game wildlife program of the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources to do fieldwork and establish a database and web site on the biodiversity of Minnesota caddisflies. David Houghton also received a $900 grant from the Theodore Roosevelt Fund of the American Museum of Natural History in New York to support his study on the caddisfly fauna of Arizona. Fernando Muñoz was awarded a 1999-2000 Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship from the Graduate School and won the 1999 Marion Brooks-Wallace Outstanding Achievement Award for Ph.D. Students in the Department of Entomol- ogy. Aysha Prather, Fernando Muñoz, and David Houghton won grants from the Dayton-Wilke Fund for Natural History of the Bell Museum. Aysha will use her funds to support her morphological research on calamoceratid caddisflies, Fernando will use the money to travel to Ecuador to collect material for his dissertation research, and David will use the funds to support travel in Minnesota to collect caddisfly for his biodiversity study. Alumni Dr. Roger Blahnik and Dr. Atilano Contreras- Ramos had their doctoral dissertation monographs recently published: Contreras-Ramos, A. 1998. Systematics of the Dobson- fly Genus Corydalus (Megaloptera: Corydalidae). Thomas Say Publications in Entomology: Monographs. Entomological Society of America, Lanham, MD. 360 pp. Blahnik, R.J. 1998. A Revision of the Neotropical Species of the Genus Chimarra, Subgenus Chimarra (Trichoptera: Philopotamidae). Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute, 59: vi + 318 pp. Ralph Holzenthal and Roger Blahnik were awarded a 3-year, $345,123 grant from the National Science Founda- tion to survey the caddisfly fauna of the southeastern states of Brazil. The project will involve field collecting, estab- lishment of museum reference collections in Brazil and Minnesota, training of students in systematic entomology, and establishment of an internet accessible database and WWW site. Henrique Paprocki from Brazil will join the project as a new Ph.D. student in the Department beginning Fall Semester. Ralph Holzenthal received a $27,408 Grant-in-Aid of Research from the Graduate School to study the molecular phylogeny of the caddisfly family Leptoceridae. Aysha Prather is a co-investigator on the project. Aysha Prather received a $9,617 National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant. The grant will support her research on the taxonomy and phylogeny of the caddisfly genera Phylloicus and Banyallarga, family Calamoceratidae. Aysha will use the funds to travel to Europe to visit museums and examine type specimens. Aysha also was awarded a Doctoral Dissertation Special Grant of $5000 from the Graduate School to support her dissertation research. She will use this money to hire an artist to provide detailed color illustrations of the caddisfly species she is studying. Ralph Holzenthal, Aysha Prather, David Houghton, and Fernando Muñoz all attended and presented papers at the annual meeting of the North American Benthological Society this past May in Duluth. Three alumni, Roger Blahnik, Karl Kjer, and Atilano Contreras-Ramos, also attended the meeting and visited the department afterwards. Several foreign visitors also spent time in the museum before and after the meeting including Trond Anderson from Norway, Adriano Sanches Melo from Brazil, and Claudia Cressa from Venezuela. David Houghton was awarded a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency “STARS” [Science To Achieve Results] Forest Entomology Lab The forest entomology lab (Rm 511/513D) has been nearly entirely completed and Steve Seybold, Lana Barkawi, Emily Gartrell, and Andy Graves have been working on studies of bark beetle pheromones this summer. After getting much of the equipment together for the lab, Lana flew to Reno, Nevada in mid-June for three weeks of research on the Jeffrey pine beetle, Dendroctonus jeffreyi. She will continue her NSF-funded work on Dendroctonus here in St. Paul with the mountain pine beetle, Dendroctonus ponderosae, imported from beautiful Salida, Colorado (Steve gets to collect these!). Emily Gartrell (Life Sciences Undergraduate Research Program summer student) is doing research on pheromone production by the pine engraver, Ips pini from Colfax, Wisconsin in red pine, Pinus resinosa. She will be doing analytical chemistry on our new Shimadzu gas chromatograph for most of the summer, but with the guidance of Tim Kurtti’s lab, she will also use PCR to study bark beetle microbes (that may or may not be related to pheromone production). Andy Graves, an undergraduate student from the Department of Forest Resources, is providing technical support and learning about the wild world of forest insects (maintaining bark beetle colonies and curating insects from the rearings). The oak wilt/nitidulid project, largely housed at the USDA Forest Service lab next door, is also beginning to take off with some seed funding from the USDA Forest Service and from Regional Research. Throughout May and June, Tom Skalbeck has been sampling various species of nitidulids from oak wilt mats to establish population densities of adults. After an informational trip to Peoria to learn some of the techniques, Val Cervenka has been rearing larvae that Tom has collected from the mats. With a new infusion of funds from the LCMR Program (July 1999), the project is likely to grow this summer, perhaps with the addition of John Kyhl. If the Departments of Natural Resources in Wisconsin or Minnesota do not hire him as a forest entomologist in the near future, John will begin a M.S. project on the life histories of nitidulids associated Lab Programs 5with oak wilt. John has also been a big help in getting the forest entomology teaching and research collections in order and has been a welcome addition to the forest entomology On April 15, 1998, the University of Minnesota Yard and Garden Line opened for business. The Yard and Garden Line is comprised of many different programs that are now all accessible through one number. You can receive information on many topics including insects, gardening/landscaping, plant diseases, soil testing, water quality and animals. Most of the services offered are free and all are available statewide. Call the number anywhere in the state to: *listen to INFO U tapes on a wide variety of lawn and garden topics *leave a call back message for one of your local Master Gardeners *talk with the experts at the Yard and Garden Clinic (formerly Dial U) *pose a question to the Bell Museum’s wildlife help line *get help with septic systems, water testing, water resources and surface water issues from the Water Line *order a soil test form from the U’s soil testing lab *request INFO U’s faxback publications *get the Extension Service’s web address to access on- line publications *order extension publications *learn how and where to submit plants for identification or problem diagnosis *learn how and where to submit insects for identification Hutchison Lab Dr. Robert Venette recently joined USDA-APHIS- PPQ to bolster efforts directed toward commodity-based risk assessments. Dr. Venette is an Ecologist within the Center for Plant Health Science and Technology (Raleigh, NC) but will be housed in the Department of Entomology at the University of Minnesota (Twin Cities). At the University, Venette will develop and teach a course entitled “Ecological Risk Assessment.” The class will be offered for the first time in spring semester, 2000. As part of the course, students will assist with the preparation of priority risk assessments, as identified by the APHIS. Both faculty and students have expressed interest in the opportunity to use real world problems for educational purposes. In addition to teaching, Dr. Venette has been asked to collaborate with APHIS risk assessors to address notable problem areas in the risk assessment process. The ultimate goal of these efforts is to improve the rigor and efficiency with which assessments are completed and to better the communication of findings to stakeholders and the scientific community. He welcomes comments and insights from anyone participating in the assessment process. Dr. Venette received his Ph.D. in Ecology from the University of California, Davis in 1997. For his dissertation, he developed new tools to measure the potential for exotic species to become established. For the past two years, he has been employed as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Minnesota. He has worked with Dr. Hutchison to assess the risk of pink bollworm (Pectinophora gossypiella) becoming established in southeastern US cotton. Computer simulation (using the climatological software, Climex) and geographic information systems were used in the risk analysis. Results were recently published in Environmental Entomology (June 1999, 445-455). APHIS-PPQ funded components of the research. Drs. Bob Staten and Michelle Walters (APHIS-PPQ, Phoenix, AZ) provided administrative and scientific support. Dr. Venette is enthusiastic about working with faculty and students on ecological risk assessments. He has already given a number of seminars and guest lectures on the topic of exotic species. He is an active member of the University’s Midwest Ecological Risk Assessment Center (MERAC) and was recently nominated for the position of adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department. Dr. Venette and faculty at the University of Minnesota believe this unique relationship with APHIS will prove to be mutually beneficial. Yard and Garden Line crew. He and Steve are working on a survey paper of wood-destroying Coleoptera in Minnesota. All of this is free except for talking to the specialists at the Yard and Garden Clinic or submitting soil, insect or plant samples. (Clinic consultations, plant or insect evalua- tions cost $5 each. Basic home lawn or garden soil tests cost $7). You can also visit their web site to get monthly tips: http://www.extension.umn.edu/Documents/B/L/Ygl.html . 6Born in Toronto, Ontario, Dr. Morris (Rocky) Rockstein completed his high school education in Brooklyn, New York and completed an A.B in mathematics and biology at Brooklyn College (Magna cum Laude). He went on to complete a M.A. in Physiology at Columbia University before moving to the U of M in 1941 to undertake PhD research with A.G. Richards. The title of his thesis was “The relation of cholinesterase to change in cell number with age in the brain of adult worker honey bee,” which was published in the Journal of Cellular and Comparative Physiology. Dr. Rockstein progressed from Assistant to Associate Professor of Physiology at Washington State University before joining the New York University School of Medicine as an Associate Professor of Physiology. During his time in New York, he served as instructor in Marine Invertebrate Zoology at the well-known Marine Biology Laboratory at Woods Hole, MA. In 1961, Rocky moved to the University of Miami School of Medicine, where he was a Professor of Physiology with a joint appointment in the Department of Radiology. He chaired the Department of Physiology from 1967 to 1971. Throughout his career, Dr. Rockstein maintained his research interests in insect aging – well before aging became a fashionable topic. As a pioneer in this area, he served as a Consultant to the Aging Program of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, and his expertise in insect physiology was the basis for his service on the Tropical Medicine and Parasitology Study section, also at the NIH. Over the course of his career, Dr. Rockstein has received numerous honors and awards, including Fellow of the American Association for Advancement of Science, Fellow of the Entomological Society of America, Trustee of the Marine Biological Laboratory Corporation, Board of Directors of the American Association for the Advancement of Aging Research, and Vice-president of the International Association for the Prolongation of Human Life Span. He received the U. of M. Outstanding Alumnus Award in 1977. Dr. Rockstein has served as visiting professor and lecturer at several Universities both in the US and abroad, and he has published more than 80 refereed papers and book chapters. To insect physiologists around the globe, Rocky is probably best remembered for his “Physiology of Insecta,” which includes 9 volumes published from 1964-1974, and for his “Biochemistry of Insects,” which in 1978 was the first new text on this topic to appear in more than 15 years. Jason Harmon — President’s Prize Section Cd, Second Place for his talk, “Increased aggregation and predation by Coleomegilla maculata in alfalfa intermixed with dandelions”; 1999 Minnesota Center for Community Genetics Research Grant. Jennifer Hinton — ESA Presidents Prize in Section Ca for her student talk, “Conservation of house fly predators in high-rise egg-layer facilities”; Co-winner of the 1999 Granovsky Pest Management Scholarship; 1999-00 winner of the Allan Peterson Achievement Award for excellence at the M.S. level. David Houghton — Award from the Theodore Roosevelt Fund of the American Museum of Natural History in New York; Dayton-Wilke Natural History Grant from the Bell Museum of Natural History; 1999 “STAR” Fellowship, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Aziz Lagnaoui — An award certificate for the best paper published in The American Journal of Potato Research in 1998, entitled “Potato fungicides interfere with entomopathogenic fungi impacting population dynamics of green peach aphid.” Fernando Munoz — Dayton-Wilke Natural History Fund Grant from the Bell Museum of Natural History; Graduate School Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship; 1999-00 winner of the Marion Brooks-Wallace Academic Achievement Award for academic excellence at the Ph.D level. Aysha Prather — Dayton-Wilke Natural History Fund Grant from the Bell Museum of Natural History; Graduate School Doctoral Dissertation Special Grant; National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant. Jorge Ruano-Rossil — First place award for poster titled “Interference of potato late blight fungicides with fungal entomopathogens of green peach aphid,” graduate student competition in Section Cd. Entomological Society of America, Las Vegas, NV. November 1998. Rebecca Simmons — Dayton-Wilke Natural History Grant; 1999-00 Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship. Jason Simser — First place President’s Prize award for best Ph.D. research poster, “Isolation of Rickettsia peacockii in a Dermacentor andersoni embryonic cell line: molecular characterization,” Section D, Medical and Veterinary Entomology. Robert Suranyi — Co-winner of the 1999 Granovsky Pest Management Scholarship; First place at NCB-ESA Ph.D. Oral Presentation, “Seasonal abundance of aphid vectors of potato viruses in the Red River Valley. Susan Wold — First place award for best undergraduate research poster, “Impact of transgenic sweet corn on beneficial insects,” at NCB-ESA, 1999. Honors and Awards Hodson Graduate Alumni Award Recipient Dr. Morris Rockstein 7Graduate Student Award Day Pictures Fernando Muñoz-Quesada, Marion Brooks-Wallace Award Winner. Ann Fallon introduces Morris Rockstein, the Hodson Alumni Award Lecturer. A reception followed the lecture. Mark Ascerno presents the Hodson Alumni Award to Morris Rockstein. Jennifer Hinton, Allan Peterson Award Winner Mark Ascerno congratulates the award winners. 8Distinguished McKnight University Professor Ann Fallon Professor Ann Fallon was honored by being named one of five 1999 Distinguished McKnight University Professors. The purpose of the Distinguished McKnight Professorship Program is to honor and reward the University’s most distinguished and highest-achieving mid- career faculty who have attained full professor status – especially those who have made significant advances in their careers at the University, whose work and reputation are identified with the University of Minnesota, and whose work has brought great renown and prestige to Minnesota. The winners were chosen on the merit of their scholarly achievements and the potential for greater attainment in the field; the extent to which their achievements have brought distinction to the University of Minnesota; the quality of their teaching and advising; and their contributions to the wider community. Recipients are honored with the title Distinguished McKnight University Professor, which they will hold for as long as they remain at the University of Minnesota. The grant associated with the professorship consists of $100,000 to be used over five years. Ann Fallon was chosen because she is one of the leading figures internationally in the field of insect molecular biology. She has been a pioneer among entomologists for her in-depth study of disease transmission by mosquitoes. Surprisingly, the mosquito remains the most important insect vector of human disease worldwide, despite global efforts to control mosquito-borne diseases such as malaria. Her conceptual contributions to understanding the genetics and physiology of insects have spawned much research on the hormonal control of reproductive physiology in insects. She has numerous important publications and is on the editorial boards of the preeminent journals in the field, such as Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. The other recipients were: Hung-wen (Ben) Liu, Chemistry, best known for his work in three areas of fundamental importance to human health: the development of new antibiotics through the use of molecular biological techniques (“engineered biosynthesis”), the mechanism by which bacteria protect themselves from the toxic antibiotics they produce (“antibiotic self-resistance”), and the mechanism-based design of inhibitors of therapeutically-important biochemical reactions (“mechanism-based inhibitors”). His seminal contributions in all three areas have set the standards in the fields of bioorganic chemistry and mechanistic enzymology and, very importantly, they also represent the forefront of research to develop novel therapeutic agents. David Pui, Mechanical Engineering, is one of the world’s leading researchers in aerosol science. He has made important contributions to understanding the behavior, generation, and measurement of nanoparticles. His work, which is widely quoted and used, has significant potential for scientific breakthroughs and technological innovations. His gene gun for transferring genes into human and animal cells has great potential in biological applications. While director of the University’s China Center he initiated important interuniversity programs and exchanges, fostered international relations and provided many opportunities for both faculty and students. He is vice president-elect of the American Association for Aerosol Research and will become president in two years. Anne Pusey, Ecology, Behavior, & Evolution, has established an international reputation in chimpanzee field studies. She is director of the University’s recently- created Center for Primate Studies, a resource accessible to researchers worldwide that houses all the data from research conducted in Gombe by Jane Goodall, her former teacher. She has begun the enormous task of archiving, computerizing, and analyzing the data; the questions she has begun investigating are exemplified by a recent cover article in Science. Professor Pusey has won numerous awards, including appointment as a Guggenheim Fellow, and she has an open fellowship invitation from the Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford. Michael Ward, Chemical Engineering & Materials Science, is internationally recognized in crystal engineering, a discipline of substantial intellectual interest that involves the design and controlled construction of molecular solid state materials. He has also made landmark discoveries in several other broad areas of chemistry, physics, and chemical engineering. His publications, all of which appear in high-impact high-quality journals, are among the most widely quoted and cited in the materials chemistry literature today. He co-directs the University’s Materials Research Science and Engineering Center supported by the National Science Foundation. He also has been elected to chair the Solid State Chemistry division of the American Chemical Society and is an associate editor of the journal Chemistry of Materials. 9Bartels, D.W., W.D. Hutchison, D. Bach & T. Rabaey. 1999. Comparison of commercial pheromone lures for Z- strain European corn borer (Lepidoptera: Crambidae). J. Agric. and Urban Entomol. 16: 85-94. Elzen, P. J., Baxter, J.R., Spivak, M., Wilson, W.T. 1999. Amitraz resistance in Varroa: new discovery in North America. Am. Bee J. 139(5); 362. Hahn, J. and P. Pellitteri. 1999 (Rev.). What to do about household ants. North Central Regional Extension. Publication 531 6pp. Hahn, J. D. and G. Wyatt. 1999 (New). Cockroaches - Your safe home (Laotian/English). Univ. of Minn. Ext. Serv., Univ. of Minn. Folder FO-7315 4pp. Hahn, J. D. and G. Wyatt. 1999 (New). Cockroaches - Your safe home (Cambodian/English). Univ. of Minn. Ext. Serv., Univ. of Minn. Folder FO-7316 4pp. Hahn, J. D. and G. Wyatt. 1999 (New). Cockroaches - Your safe home (Somali/English). Univ. of Minn. Ext. Serv., Univ. of Minn. Folder FO-7258 4pp. Hahn, J. D. and M. E. Ascerno. 1999 (Rev.). Birch leafminers. Univ. of Minn. Ext. Serv., Univ. of Minn. Fact Sheet FS-6134 2pp. Hahn, J. D., C. Behrendt, D. Bedford. 1999 (Rev.). Home fruit spray guide. Univ. of Minn. Ext. Serv., Univ. of Minn. Folder FO-0675 4pp. Holloway, A., G.E. Heimpel, M.S. Strand & M.F. Antolin. 1999. Survival of diploid males in Bracon nr. hebetor. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 92: 110- 116 Kattari, D, G.E. Heimpel, P.J. Ode & J.A. Rosenheim. 1999. Hyperparasitism by Ablerus clisiocampae (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 101: 640-644. Luhman, J.C., R.W. Holzenthal, and J.K. Kjaerandsen. 1999. New Host Record of a Ceraphronid (Hym.) in Trichoptera Pupae. J. Hym. Res. 81(1), p.126. McDonough, Michael J., Daniel Gerace, and Mark E. Ascerno. In Press. Whiteflies in Commercial Green- house Poinsettia Production. Univ Minn. Ext. Svc. 11pp. McDonough, Michael J., Daniel Gerace, and Mark E. Ascerno. In Press. Western Flower Thrips in Commer- cial Greenhouses. Univ Minn. Ext. Svc. 11pp. Tittiger, C., Blomquist, G.J., Ivarsson, P., Borgeson, C.E., and Seybold, S.J. 1999. Juvenile hormone regulation of HMG-R gene expression in the bark beetle, Ips paraconfusus Lanier (Coleoptera:Scolytidae): Implica- tions for male aggregation pheromone biosynthesis. Cell. Molec. Life Sci. 55:121-127. Wang, Z. H. and Fallon, A. M. Early-replicating DNA from mosquito cells is associated with a distinct EcoRI fragment. Insect Biochem. Molec. Biol., 29, 53-61, 1999. New Publications Recent Publications Andow, D.A. and D.N. Alstad. 1998. The F2 screen for rare resistance alleles. Journal of Economic Entomology 91: 572-578. Andow, D.A. and K. Hidaka. 1998. Yield loss in conven- tional and natural rice farming systems. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 70: 151-158. Andow, D.A. and W.D. Hutchison. 1998. Bt-corn resis- tance management. In: M. Mellon and J. Rissler (eds.), Now or Never: Serious New Plans to Save a Natural Pest Control. Union of Concerned Scientists: Cambridge, MA, pp.19-66. Andow, D.A., D.N. Alstad, Y.-H. Pang, P.A. Bolin and W.D. Hutchison. 1998. Using an F2 screen to search for resistance alleles to Bacillus thuringiensis toxin in European corn borer (Lepidoptera: Crambidae). Journal of Economic Entomology 91: 579-584. Bartels, D.W. & W.D. Hutchison. 1998. Influence of pheromone trap design for monitoring Z-strain European corn borer (Lepidoptera: Crambidae). J. Econ. Entomol. 91: 1349-1354. Blomquist, G.J., Tillman, J.A., Mpuru, S., and Seybold, S.J. 1998. The cuticle and cuticular hydrocarbons of insects: Structure, function, and biochemistry, pp. 34-54, in Vander Meer, R.K., Breed, M., Winston, M. and Espelie, C. eds., “Pheromone Communication in Social Insects,” Westview Press, Boulder, Colorado. Bolin, P.C., W.D. Hutchison, D.A. Andow & K.R. Ostlie. 1998. Monitoring for European corn borer (Lepidoptera: Crambidae) resistance to Bacillus thuringiensis: logistical considerations when sampling larvae. J. Agric. Entomol. 15: 231-238. Burkness, E.C. & W.D. Hutchison. 1998. Action thresh- olds for striped cucumber beetle (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) on ‘Carolina’ cucumber. Crop Protec- tion. 17: 331-336. Burkness, E.C. & W.D. Hutchison. 1998. Development and validation of a fixed-precision level sequential sampling plan for striped cucumber beetle (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) in Minnesota cucurbits. Environ. Entomol. 27: 178-183. 10 Gould, F., B. Tabashnik, W. Hutchison, D. Ferro, D. Andow and M. Whalon. 1998. Recommendations for developing and implementing resistance management plans for Bt- toxin-producing crops. In: M. Mellon and J. Rissler (eds.), Now or Never: Serious New Plans to Save a Natural Pest Control. Union of Concerned Scientists: Cambridge, MA, pp.13-18. Hahn, J. D. and G. Wyatt. 1998 (New). Cockroaches - Your safe home (Spanish/English). Univ. of Minn. Ext. Serv., Univ. of Minn. Folder FO-7108 4pp. Hahn, J. D. and M. E. Ascerno. 1998 ( Rev.). Apple maggot management in home gardens. Minn. Ext. Serv., Univ. of Minn. Fact Sheet FS-1007 2pp. Hahn, J. D. and M. E. Ascerno. 1998 (Rev.). Boxelder bugs. Univ. of Minn. Ext. Serv., Univ. of Minn. Fact Sheet FS-0998 2pp. Hahn, Jeffrey and Mark Ascerno. 1998. Boxelder Bugs. Univ. Minn. Ext. Svc. FS-0998-A (Revised). 2pp. Heimpel, G.E. & J.A. Rosenheim. 1998. Egg limitation in insect parasitoids: a review of the evidence and a case study. Biological Control 11: 160-168. Heimpel, G.E., M. Mangel & J.A. Rosenheim. 1998. Effects of egg and time limitation on lifetime reproductive success of a parasitoid in the field. American Naturalist 152: 273-289. Hinton, J. L., J. Hahn and R. D. Moon. 1998. Identification and life history of pest flies in egg layer facilities. Pp. 41- 46, in: 14th Annual Poultry Service Workshop, Bloomington, MN. Minnesota Extension Service, St. Paul. 26 September, 1998. Ivarsson, P., Tittiger, C., Blomquist, C., Borgeson, C.E., Seybold, S.J., Blomquist, G.J., and Högberg, H.-E. 1998. Pheromone precursor synthesis is localized in the met- athorax of Ips paraconfusus Lanier (Coleoptera:Scolytidae). Naturwissenschaften 85:507- 511. James, P. J., and R. D. Moon. 1998. Pruritis and dermal response to insect antigens in sheep infested withBovicola ovis. Int. J. Parasitol 28: 419-427. James, P. J., R. D. Moon and D. D. Ragsdale. 1998. Serum and skin surface antibodies and their associations with sheep biting lice, Bovicola ovis on experimentally infested sheep. Med. Vet. Entomol. 12:276-283. James, P. J., R. D. Moon and D. R. Brown. 1998. Seasonal dynamics and variation among sheep in densities of the sheep biting louse, Bovicola ovis. Int. J. Parasitol 28: 283- 292. Liu, J. and Fallon, A. M. Effect of nutrient deprivation on ribosomal RNA and ribosomal protein mRNA content in cultured mosquito cells. Archs. Insect Biochem. Physiol., 37, 239-247, 1998. Longtine, C. A., D. W. Ragsdale, and E. B. Radcliffe. 1998. Control of Colorado potato beetle, 1997A. Arthropod Pest Management 23: 127. Longtine, C. A., E. B. Radcliffe and D. W. Ragsdale. 1998. Control of Colorado potato beetle, 1997B. Arthropod Pest Management 23: 128. Longtine, C. A., E. B. Radcliffe and D. W. Ragsdale. 1998. Laboratory tests for Colorado potato beetle control, 1997. Arthropod Pest Management 23: 371. Longtine, C. A., R. A. Suranyi, T. Connors, D. W. Ragsdale, E. B. Radcliffe. 1998. Control of green peach aphid on potato, 1997. Arthropod Man. Tests. Arthropod Pest Management 23: 127. Loos, A. and D. W. Ragsdale. 1998. Biocontrol of Purple Loosestrife: A Guide for rearing leaf-feeding beetles. University of Minnesota Extension Service. FO-7080-D. Loos, A. and D. W. Ragsdale. 1998. CUES for Biological Control of Purple Loosestrife, slide set and narrative. University of Minnesota Extension Service. SS-7081-GO Mangel, M. & G.E. Heimpel. 1998. Reproductive senes- cence and dynamic oviposition behavior in insects. Evolutionary Ecology 12: 871-879. Masterman, R M; Mesce, K A; Smith, B H; Spivak, M 1998. Odor discrimination by hygienic honey bees using proboscis-extension conditoning. Proc. Am. Bee Res. Conf., Am. Bee J. 138: 297-298. Moon, R. D., P. J. James and D. R. Brown. 1998. Location and spread of sheep biting lice (Bovicola ovis) on ewes and their lambs. Pp. 32-38, in: 1998 Minnesota Sheep Research Report. Dept. of Anim. Sci., Minn. Ext. Serv., Agric. Expt. Stn., Univ. of Minnesota. NC-205. 1998. Supplement to NCR-602, Bt corn and European corn borer. http://ent.agri.umn.edu/ecb/ nc205doc.htm Olson, D.M. and D.A. Andow. 1998. Larval crowding and adult nutrition effects on longevity and fecundity of female Trichogramma nubilale Ertle and Davis (Hym.: Trichogrammatidae). Environmental Entomology 27: 508-514. P.K. O’Rourke, E.C. Burkness, & W.D. Hutchison. 1998. Development and validation of a fixed-precision sequen- tial sampling plan for aster leafhopper (Homoptera: Cicadellidae) in carrot. Environ. Entomol. 27: 1463- 1468. Radcliffe, E. B. and D. W. Ragsdale. 1998. Initiative to address viruses in seed potatoes. Valley Potato Grower 63(113): 20-21. Ragsdale, D. W. 1998. Classical Biological Control of Purple Loosestrife in the Upper Midwest. Feature Article, Midwest Biological Control Newsletter 5(1): 1-3. Ragsdale, D. W. and E. B. Radcliffe. 1998. Aphids cause big problems for industry. Valley Potato Grower 63(110): 4, 6, 31. Reuter, G. S., Spivak, M. 1998. The hygienic queen. Bee Cult. 126(5): 23-25 Shih, K. M., Gerenday, A. and Fallon, A. M. Culture of mosquito cells in Eagle’s medium. In Vitro Cell. De- velop. Biol. 34, 629-630, 1998. 11 Spivak, M., Downey, D. 1998. Field assays for hygienic behavior in honey bees (Apidae: Hymenoptera). J. Econ. Entomol. 91(1): 64-70. Spivak, M., Gilliam, M. 1998. Hygienic behaviour of honey bees and its application for control of brood diseases and varroa mites. Part I: Hygienic behaviour and resistance to American foulbrood. Bee World 79:124-134. Spivak, M., Gilliam, M. 1998. Hygienic behaviour of honey bees and its application for control of brood diseases and varroa mites. Part II: Studies on hygienic behaviour since the Rothenbuhler era. Bee World 79: 165-182. Spivak, M., Reuter, G. S. 1998. Honey bee hygienic behavior. Am. Bee J. 138(4): 283-286. Spivak, M., Reuter, G.S. 1998. Performance of hygienic honey bee colonies in a commercial apiary. Apidologie. 29: 285-296. Spivak, M; Reuter, G.S. 1998. Hygienic honey bees and resistance to varroa and brood diseases. American Bee Journal 138: 299. Sun, D., Eccleston, E. D., and Fallon, A. M. Peptide sequence of an antibiotic cecropin from the vector mosquito, Aedes albopictus. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 249, 410-415, 1998. Tillman, J.A., Holbrook, G.L., Dallara, P.L., Schal, C., Wood, D.L., Blomquist, G.J., and Seybold, S.J. 1998. Endocrine regulation of de novo aggregation pheromone biosynthesis in the pine engraver, Ips pini (Say)(Coleoptera: Scolytidae). Insect Biochem. Molec. Biol. 28:705-715. Wang, Z. H. and Fallon, A. M. Similarities to a LINE element shared by Anopheline and Culicine mosquitoes map to the distal end of dihydrofolate reductase amplicons in Aedes albopictus mosquito cells. Insect Biochem. Molec. Biol. 28, 612-623, 1998. Wang, Z. H. and Fallon, A. M. The mosquito dihydrofolate reductase amplicon contains a truncated synaptic vesicle protein gene. Insect Molec. Biol. 7, 317-325, 1998. Wawrzynski R.W. and M.E. Ascerno. 1998. Mass trapping for Japanese beetle (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) suppres- sion in isolated areas. J. Arbor. 24(6): 303-307. Wu, C. C. N. and Fallon, A. M. Structural and functional analysis of a ribosomal DNA intergenic spacer region from the yellow fever mosquito, Aedes aegypti. Insect Molec. Biol., 7, 19-29, 1998. David A. Andow: Ph.D., Cornell U, Insect Ecology, Biological Control, Evolutionary Genetics, Insect Conservation Mark E. Ascerno: Ph.D., Pennsylvania State U, Integrated Pest Management, Floriculture, Greenhouse Biological Control Ann M. Fallon: Ph.D., Queens University, Ontario, Molecular Biology, Mosquito Cell Culture, Mosquito Reproduction Jeffrey Hahn: M.S. University of Idaho, Extension Educator, Urban Insects George E. Heimpel: Ph.D., U of California-Davis, Biologi- cal Control, Natural Enemy Ecology Ralph W. Holzenthal: Ph.D., Clemson U, Systematics, Cladistics, Trichoptera William D. Hutchison: Ph.D., U of Wisconsin-Madison, Integrated Pest Management, Vegetable Crops, Resis- tance Management Steven A. Katovich: Ph.D., U of Minnesota, Adjunct, USDA-Forest Service, Forest Entomology Vera A. Krischik: Ph.D., U of Maryland, Integrated Pest Management, Ornamentals, Plant Resistance, Biological Control Timothy J. Kurtti: Ph.D., U of Minnesota, Insect Microbi- ology, Medical Entomology, Insect Pathology John C. Luhman: Ph.D., U of California-Riverside, Adjunct, Minnesota Department of Agriculture, Biologi- cal Control Ian V. MacRae: Ph.D., Oregon State U, Integrated Pest Management, Small Grains. Biological Control, GIS Karen A. Mesce: Ph.D., U of Oregon, Neurobiology, Behavior, Neurohormones William E. Miller: Ph.D., Ohio State U, Adjunct, Systemat- ics, Ecology, Lepidoptera Roger D. Moon: Ph.D., U of California-Davis Livestock Entomology, Population Ecology and Management Kenneth R. Ostlie: Ph.D., Iowa State U, Integrated Pest Management, Corn and Soybeans, Transgenic Plants Susan M. Palchick: Ph.D., U of California-Davis, Adjunct, Hennepin County Community Health Department Edward B. Radcliffe: Ph.D., U of Wisconsin-Madison Integrated Pest Management, Potato and Alfalfa David W. Ragsdale: Ph.D., Louisiana State U. Integrated Pest Management, Insect Vectors of Plant Pathogens, Biological Control Dharma D. Sreenivasam: Ph.D., U of Wisconsin-Madison, Adjunct, Minnesota Department of Agriculture, Biologi- cal Control Steven J. Seybold: Ph.D., U of California-Berkeley, Forest Entomology, Chemical Ecology, Insect-Plant Interac- tions, Pheromone Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Marla S. Spivak: Ph.D., U of Kansas, Apiculture, Social Insects, Evolution of Social Behavior David D. Walgenbach: Ph.D., U of Wisconsin-Madison, Integrated Pest Management, Rangelands Susan J. Weller: Ph.D., U of Texas-Austin, Systematics, Cladistics, Lepidoptera Our Faculty 12 Morphin’ An Exhibit at the Bell Museum of Natural History Discover the secrets of evolutionary change through the lives of moths and butterflies at MORPHIN! The Science of Biological Change, a new exhibit for children opened Tuesday, Nov. 24, 1998 at the University of Minnesota's Bell Museum of Natural History in Minneapolis, Minn. Based on moth research conducted by University of Minnesota entomology professor Susan Weller, MORPHIN! explores how common physical traits-like the ability to roll your tongue, wiggle your ears and write with your left hand-are all controlled by genes. The exhibit features live caterpillars, a replica of Weller's Itasca State Park collecting campsite, real butterflies and moths and hundreds of paper butterflies created by Minnesota children who visited MORPHIN! at the University of Minnesota's Education Booth at last year's Minnesota State Fair. The exhibit also looks at the careers of a variety of university scientists and demonstrates how scientific research can be simple and fun. MORPHIN! will be on display through November 2000. The museum is open to the public Tuesday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. ; Saturday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Sunday noon to 5 p.m. For more information, call (612) 624-7083. MORPHIN! is made possible through a grant from the National Science Foundation. 13 The Publicity Committee has a long-term goal of improving communication among alumni and friends of the department. Beginning with the Spring ‘97 Newsletter, the department renewed its commitment to provide a more consistent forum for keeping you posted with departmental news, with fellow alumni and friends. For those with access to the WWW, we are planning an expanded new series of Alumni & Friends pages which we hope many of you can use to obtain more frequent updates. The newsletter, the WWW page, and the Annual Mixer at the National ESA meeting are three primary ways we hope to improve and maintain communication. We Want to Hear From You! Depending on when you graduated, or last walked the byways of Hodson Hall, you may have a very clear or somewhat fuzzy recollection of our department. You may also have some unique stories and memories of the department that we would enjoy hearing. Regardless of when you last visited, we and our alumni would appreciate any updates you would like to provide, including your current position, address, favorite aspects of your position, travel opportunities, etc. Finally, any suggestions you might have for our department or the newsletter would be appreciated as well. If you have not already done so, please check the list of alumni for whom we do not have current addresses. If you know where some of our alumni are located, please let us know. You may use the self-addressed form for other alumni as well as any updates or change of address that you have had. Alumni & Friends What We Hope to Accomplish: • Renew commitment to alumni and friends of the University of Minnesota, by providing timely news of departmental and alumni activity. • Facilitate connections between alumni and friends, and alumni and faculty, by providing updated addresses (including e-mail), and more alumni and friends information in the Newsletter. • Provide a forum for acknowledging alumni and current graduate student accomplishments. • Encourage support for program needs within Entomology, with a primary emphasis on Excellence in Graduate Education. 1999 ESA Alumni Social The 1999 ESA Alumni Social will be held on Tuesday, December 14, 1999 from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. in the Fairlie room of the Atlanta Hyatt Regency. Please plan on joining us Alumni & Friends News Alumni and Friends of the Department: If you have not recently sent us an update regarding your varied activities, please do so before the next newsletter! You may send your updates, direct to Lee Fields, secretary, by e-mail to: field007@tc.umn.edu, OR feel free to use the form in the back of this newsletter Alumni Updates: Many thanks to those alumni who contacted us with their updates! Allan Peterson, Ph.D. ‘49: Allan wrote us with an update on life at the lake. He’s enjoying it immensely. Dean Hansen Ph.D. ‘73: Dean Hansen had a rare visitor at his home in Stillwater this summer. A Marine Blue (aka Striped Blue) butterfly, Leptotes marina, paid him a visit. A native of the far southwestern United States, the Marine Blue has only been taken once before in Minne- sota. Dean is donating the butterfly to our insect collec- tion. Thanks Dean! Christina Wu, Ph.D. ‘97: Christina wrote us and let us know that she’s now married. Congratulations to the bride and groom! 14 Considering Giving? ...Consider a Gift to Entomology... Your gifts will go to targeted needs in the Department with a focus on: Excellence in Graduate Education. If you are interested in the tax-savings advantages of contributing a gift other than cash (real estate, stock, insurance), or estate planning and deferred gift opportunities, please specify U of M Entomology, and contact: Sue Shepard with the University of Minnesota Foundation, College of Agriculture Food & Environmental Sciences, (612) 624-3625. The following graduate and alumni awards are in place and modestly funded. We hope to endow these awards for long-term growth. Your tax deductible gift can begin to make this happen. Targeted Areas of Support for the Department of Entomology, University of Minnesota: • Hodson Alumni Memorial Award • Marion Brooks-Wallace Ph.D. Scholarship • Allan Peterson M.S. Scholarship • Granovsky Urban IPM Scholarship • Chiang Travel Scholarship • Departmental Seminar Series • Where Needed Most, or ................... Checks should be made payable to the University of Minnesota Foundation; specify specific initiative(s) (above) and mail to: Attn: Lee Fields Alumni & Friends Department of Entomology 1980 Folwell Ave. University of Minnesota St. Paul, MN 55108 Note: many employers will match gifts; please check with your employer and return your company’s gift- matching card with your gift. The current members of our Department greatly appreciate the support and encouragement of our alumni and friends. Your efforts to establish new awards and an endowment will also help to ensure a quality program into the next century. Our department has a rich tradition of excellence. As we pledge to pursue excellence in teaching, research and extension, we welcome your suggestions and assistance. Any specific suggestions or questions can be directed to Bill Hutchison (612-624-1767) or Mark Ascerno (612- 624-3278). We can also be reached through our department’s www page: http://www.entomology.umn.edu/ Missing Alumni - 1999 If you have an address or any information for any of the following individuals, please contact Lee Fields, Dept. of Entomology, University of Minnesota, 1980 Folwell Ave., St. Paul, MN. 55108-6125. A Abdel-Rahman, Hashim A., Ph.D. ‘63 Agraual, Naryan S. Ph.D. ‘57 Al-Rawy, Mohammed, M.S. ‘56 B Belur, Narayan V., M.S. ‘61 Bernardin, Paul Arthur, M.S. ‘66 Brown, Clifford E., M.S. ‘54 Buysse, Donald Joseph, M.S. ‘63 C Cancelado, Rafael Eliecer, Ph.D. ‘79 Carlson, Robert Evans, M.S. ‘68 Carney, Gordon, C., Ph.D. ‘64 Chu, Young (Chul), M.S. ‘70 Chadda, Sanjeev, M.S. ‘91 Corpuz-Raros Leonila A., Ph.D. ‘70 D Daniels, Leslie Bernard, Ph.D. ‘55 Do, Fong-Ming, M.S. ‘69 E Edgerton, Jennifer Ruth, M.S. ‘85 G Garcia, Mamerto Lanting, M.S. ‘67 Griffiths, Donald M.S. ‘58 H Hall, Ronald James, Ph.D. ‘75 Hedling, Lawrence, M.S. ‘65 L Loan, Charles Conrad, Ph.D. ‘60 Loan, Louise Agnes Smith, M.S. ‘62 Lyons, Leslie Allan, Ph.D. ‘60 M McConnell, Elliot, Ph.D. ‘57 McGuffin, W.C., Ph.D. ‘54 Misra, Chandra, Ph.D. ‘60 Mushi, Adalbert Mose, M.S. ‘73 N Ndikum, Vicki, M.S. ‘81 Nelson, Richard Clay, Ph.D. ‘85 P Parks, James, J., Ph.D. 58 Pomary, Emmanuel, Ph.D. ‘86 S Schiefelbein, J. Wn, M.S. ‘66 Schienfelder, Tim, M.S. ‘75 Shepherd, Roy, Ph.D. ‘60 Smith, Dean Seyward, Ph.D. ‘58 T Thorsen, Barbara, M.S. V Van Wyk, Jesse H., Ph.D. ‘58 W Wetzel, Barbara, M.S. ‘71 15 HELP US KEEP OUR ALUMNI DATABASE CURRENT! You do not need to complete this if you recently supplied this information for us. 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Department of Entomology University of Minnesota 219 Hodson Hall 1980 Folwell Avenue St. Paul, MN 55108 Phone: (612) 624-3636 Fax: (612) 625-5299 E-mail: entodept@tc.umn.edu Web page: http://www.entomology.umn.edu/ Acknowledgments The editors and Public Relations Committee thank all the staff, students, faculty and alumni who helped contribute to this newsletter. We particularly express our appreciation to Janet Moe for newsletter production and to Lee Fields for Alumni & friends mailing list maintenance. Co-Editors: - Bill Hutchison - Ann Fallon Production Editor: - Janet L. Moe Public Relations Committee - 1999-2000 - Vera Krischik, Bill Hutchison,Dharma Sreenivasam, Bruce Potter, Phil Price and Lee Fields. Alumni & Friends Assistant: - Lee Fields Circulation: - Lee Fields - Janet Moe Home Page (www): - http://www.entomology.umn.edu ENTOMOLOGY NEWSLETTER Fall 1999 Produced for Alumni & Friends of the Department of Entomology, University of Minnesota.