Monday, December 11, 2006: 1:30 PM-5:30 PM

Room 101 (Convention Center)

Program Symposium: Students Giving Back: Using Entomology to Benefit Society

Organizer(s): Marc Fisher, mafishe1@vt.edu
Wilma Aponte-Cordero, wva102@psu.edu
1:30 PM0016Contribution of Social Insect Studies to Science and Society  [ Recorded presentation ]
Tugrul Giray, tgiray2@yahoo.com, Zachary Y. Huang, bees@msu.edu
1:50 PM0017Outreach and Extension: Graduate Students Making the Right Choices  [ Recorded presentation ]
Wilma Aponte, wva102@psu.edu, Maya Nehme, men151@psu.edu, Katie Ellis, kag298@psu.edu
2:10 PM0018ESA Student Affairs Committee Student Debates - Should Students be Required to do Extension, Outreach, and Teaching?  [ Recorded presentation ]
Hannah J. Burrack, hjburrack@ucdavis.edu, Karla J. Medina-Ortega, medina-ortega.1@osu.edu, Claudia H. Kuniyoshi, kuniyoshi.1@osu.edu
2:30 PMIntroductory Remarks
2:35 PM0019Give back to ESA: It's a win-win situation
Thomas E. Eickhoff, teickhoff2@unl.edu
2:55 PM0020Of ants and elephants: Integrating entomology into an African safari  [ Recorded presentation ]
Jeffery Bradshaw, true.bug@gmail.com, Marlin Rice, merice@iastate.edu
3:15 PM0021When students are teachers: Entomology graduate students in the classroom  [ Recorded presentation ]
Jennifer Henke, jennifer.henke@email.ucr.edu
3:35 PMBreak
3:40 PM0022The arthropod zoo at Bug Bash: Student roles in public outreach  [ Recorded presentation ]
Nicholas P Aliano, naliano@unlserve.unl.edu, Alex P. Cunningham, apc@unlserve.unl.edu
4:00 PM0023Of fire ants, microorganisms and egg dispenser machinery: Sharing your entomological expertise through research  [ Recorded presentation ]
Sandra Woolfolk, sww3@entomology.msstate.edu
4:20 PM0024How far can I extend myself? Students and extension work  [ Recorded presentation ]
Marc Fisher, mafishe1@vt.edu
4:40 PMBreak
4:45 PMStudent debate: Should students be required to do outreach/extension activities?

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