- November: Congratulations to Chloe Hawkings on receiving second place for her talk at the Entomological Society of America meeting in Denver this month! The title of her talk was “The influence of brood on the transcriptional profiles in the brain of the worker red imported fire ants (Solenopsis invicta)”
- August: Congratulations to Chloe Hawkings on receiving second place at the Department of Entomology’s annual Graduate Student Forum!!! Her talk was titled “Expression analysis of vitellogenin in the worker caste of the red imported ant, Solenopsis invicta”
- August: Congratulations to Freddy Ibanez!! He graduated with his Ph.D. during August graduation!!!
- August: Chloe Hawkings was involved in a community outreach program with several other graduate students presenting entomology to kids at the North Bryan Community Center on July 24!! What an awesome job they did!!
- May: Ordom Huot received his Ph.D.
- May: Chloe Hawkings won the department of entomology TA of the year award
- April: Chloe Hawkings was invited to present her research at the Texas A&M institute of Neuroscience annual symposium.
- March: Chloe Hawkings won 3rd place for her presentation at the ESA – Southwestern Branch meeting’s student presentation competition in Austin, TX
- February: Ordom Huot presented his PhD dissertation defense on February 21st
- Freddy Ibanez and Chloe Hawkings presented in ICE
- Xiaotian Tang joined the lab as a PhD student
- Congratulations Devin Beach on successfully completing her Master’s Thesis Defense on March 8!!
- The Graduate Linnaean Team, which includes lab member and Ph.D. student Freddy Ibanez, won first place at the 2016 Southwestern Branch Linnaean Games!! Congratulations Freddy!!
- Devin Beach recently received the Outstanding Masters Student Award during the February 18 Departmental Seminar/Awards Presentation
- Dr. Tamborindeguy was invited to present her research at the XVII Congreso Internacional and XLII Congreso Nacional de la Sociedad Mexicana de Fitopatología (SMF); American Phytopathology Society-Caribbean Division (APS-CD); Asociación Latinoamericana de Fitopatología (ALF)
- Dr. Tamborindeguy was also invited to present her research in the International Symposium Universidade Estadual de Maringa, Brazil
- Freddy Ibanez won 1st place, ESA President’s prize poster competition, 2014 ESA Portland, OR
- Freddy Ibanez was awarded a NIFA-AFRI travel grant to present his work in 2014 ESA Portland, OR