Congratulations to Dr. Lambert Kanga and Dr. Moses Kairo for receiving $346, 249.00 from the Department of Homeland Security and $402, 378.00 from the USDA National Institute for Food & Agriculture to support research and teaching on invasive species and food safety. Dr. Kanga received special recognition from Senator Bill Nelson from Florida, USA. Dr. Kanga is the recipient of the 2011 Researcher of the Year Award at Florida A & M University, Tallahassee, Florida.
Congratulations to Dr. Oscar E. Liburd for his recent promotion to the rank of Full Professor of Entomology at the University of Florida in Gainesville.
Congratulations to Dr. George Mbata (Professor of Biology, Fort Valley State University, Georgia, USA) for receiving a prestigious Fulbright grant to participate in an entomology workshop at the Instituto Murciano de Investigacion y Desarrollo Agrario y Alimentario in Spain.
Congratulations to Saundra Wheeler (Florida A & M University) for winning second prize in the graduate poster presentation at the 16th Biennial Research Symposium of the Association of Research Directors in Atlanta, Georgia, in April 2011.
Congratulations to Eutychus Kariuki (Florida A & M University) for winning first prize in the graduate poster competition at the Southeastern Branch, Entomological Society of America meeting in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in March 2011.
Congratulations to Jatyah Sheed (Biology student, Fort Valley State University) for winning first prize in the Undergraduate Oral Presentation competion at the Southeastern Branch, Entomological Society of America meeting in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in March 2011.
Dr. Elzie McCord, Jr. was awarded $200,000 from the Environmental Protection Agency (US-EPA) to develop a toxicology program at the New College of Florida, in Sarasota, Florida, USA.
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