ESA Annual Meetings Online Program

Employers Speak Out About Professional Opportunities in Entomology; Identifying and Clarifying Career Paths for Graduate Students

Wednesday, November 16, 2011: 8:00 AM-11:20 AM
Room A10, First Floor (Reno-Sparks Convention Center)
Organizers:
Deane Zahn
Alec Gerry
Kimberly Skyrm
8:00 AM
Welcoming Remarks
8:05 AM
Where do students end up and what do they want to do?
Deane K. Zahn, University of California, Riverside
8:35 AM
Working for industry as a field entomologist
Melissa Willrich Siebert, Dow AgroSciences
9:20 AM
Break
9:35 AM
Curating and managing national collections
Floyd W. Shockley, University of Georgia
9:50 AM
Somewhere over the rainbow: opportunities for careers at USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture
Mary Purcell-Miramontes, United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)
10:50 AM
Independent contract research laboratories - small fish in a big pond
William A. Donahue, Sierra Research Laboratories
11:05 AM
Public health and entomology: career opportunities
Vicki Kramer, California Department of Public Health
11:20 AM
Concluding Remarks
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