Of the 14 awards, UC Riverside scored four; UC Davis, three; Washington State University, two; University of Arizona, two; Arizona State University, one; and USDA-ARS, two.
UC Davis-affiliated awards include two in the professional category, and one in the student category.
Honey bee geneticist Robert E. Page Jr. won the top award, the C. W. Woodworth Award. (See news story). He is the 12th UC Davis entomologist to win the award, first presented in 1969. Previous UC Davis recipients:
1978: William Harry Lange Jr. (1912-2004) 1981: Harry Laidlaw Jr. (1907-2003) 1987: Robert Washino 1991: Thomas Leigh (1923-1993) 1998: Harry Kaya 2009: Charles Summers (1941-2021) 2010: Walter Leal 2011: Frank Zalom 2014: James R. Carey 2015: Thomas Scott 2020: Lynn Kimsey
Louie Yang, Distinction in Student Mentoring Award
Community ecologist Louie Yang won the Distinction in Student Mentoring Award, an award first presented in 2012. (See news story) He is the third UC Davis faculty member to receive the award. Previous UC Davis recipients:
Gary Ge won the Dr. Stephen Garczynski Undergraduate Research Scholarship
The annual PBESA meeting is set April 2-5 in Seattle. PBESA encompasses 11 Western states, plus Canada and Mexico and U.S. territories:
In the United States: Alaska, Arizona, California, Hawai'i, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington, Wyoming
U.S. Territories: American Samoa, the Federated States of Micronesia, Guam, Johnston Atoll, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Midway Islands, Wake Island
In Canada: Alberta, British Columbia, Northwest Territories, Saskatchewan, Yukon
In Mexico: Baja California, Baja California Sur, Sinaloa, Sonora
