Graduate Student Awards
A listing of recent awards won by our students.
- Alexis Barbarin, Ph.D. candidate, names to 2009 Worth Watching List in Pest Management Professional's June Issue (6/2009)
- Daniel Schmehl,
Ph.D. candidate, to receive a grant from the North American Pollinator
Protection Campaign to investigate the effects of pesticides on honey
bee development and learning (5/20/2009)
- Tom Bentley, Ph.D. candidate, awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (5/2009)
- Hannah Stout, Ph.D. candidate, awarded North American Benthological Society (NABS) Graduate Student Conservation Research Award (4/2009)
- Jason Smith and Tom Bentley, Ph.D. candidates, awarded Sigma Xi Grants in Aid for Research (4/2009)
- Beth Irwin, Ph.D. candidate, awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (4/2009)
- Neelendra Joshi, Ph.D. graduate student, recipient of 2009 Ardeth and Frisbey International Student Award (4/2009)
- Christy Harris, Ph.D. graduate student, received first place in student oral presentations symposium at the recent Eastern Branch ESA meetings
- Dr. Jon Lelito, recent graduate, awarded the Penn State Alumni Association Dissertation Award (1/2009)
- The Comstock Award presented to Dr. Scott Geib, one of the department's recent Ph.D. graduates
- Randa Jabbour awarded the President's Prize for Poster Presentation in the Biological Control Section
- Alexis Barbarin, Ph.D. graduate student, received NPMA MIPM Scholarship
- Lori Shapiro received National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program Award
- Ezra Schwartzberg, Ph.D. graduate student, received IOBC/NRS Ph.D. Student Award for 2008 (9/3/2008)
- Scott Geib, Ph.D. graduate student, received NRI Postdoctoral Fellowship
- Randa Jabbour, Ph.D. graduate student, received the J. Brian Horton Memorial Award, recognizing outstanding achievement and service to the graduate community by a student in the Intercollege Graduate Degree Program in Ecology (4/15/2008)
- Katie Szulewski, M.S. graduate student, awarded Sigma Xi Grant-in-Aid of Research (4/16/2008)
- Alexis Barbarin, Ph.D. graduate student, received College of Ag Sciences research award (4/2/2008)
- Penn State Entomology graduate students (Rob Anderson, Jim McNeil, Maya Nehme, Dan Schmehl) won first place honors at the Eastern Branch Linnean Games (3/12/2008)
- Neelandra Joshi , Ph.D. candidate, won PSU LaMarr Kopp graduate student award (1/2008)
- Jennifer Dean, Ph.D. candidate, recipient of Alumni Association Dissertation Award (1/2008)

