Student Highlights

See what students in Entomology are doing.

From Smartphone to Plow: Using AI to Improve Crop Production

This is the eigth short news article written by students, during the professional development class of Spring 2023, about each other's research.
NO3- Time to Die

This is the seventh short news article written by students, during the professional development class of Spring 2023, about each other's research.
Love on The Golf Course

This is the sixth short news article written by students, during the professional development class of Spring 2023, about each other's research.
Harnessing the hunger of predatory organisms in a reduced tillage system

This is the fifth short news article written by students, during the professional development class of Spring 2023, about each other's research.
Bringing Sight to the World

This is the fourth short news article written by students, during the professional development class of Spring 2023, about each other's research.
Buzzing with Concern: Uncovering the Secret Stressor of Bumble Bees

This is the third short news article written by students, during the professional development class of Spring 2023, about each other's research.
Tomato Drought will Impact Insect Communities Without a Doubt

This is the second short news article written by students, during the professional development class of Spring 2023, about each other's research.
How does the Fall Armyworm disarm plant defenses?

This is the first short news article written by students, during the professional development class of Spring 2023, about each other's research.
New Buzz on Epidemics: Landscapes Affect the Way Bumble Bee Diseases Beehave

This is the tenth short news article written by students, during the professional development class of Fall 2022, about each other's research.
Pest from the West – An Outlaw in the Potato Fields

This is the ninth of ten short news articles written by students, during the professional development class of Fall 2022, about each other's research.
How I met your mother – A bumble bee perspective

This is the eighth of ten short news articles written by students, during the professional development class of Fall 2022, about each other's research.
Beyond “if you see it, squash it”

This is the seventh of ten short news articles written by students, during the professional development class of Fall 2022, about each other's research.
Horror in the Tomato Field

This is the sixth of ten short news articles written by students, during the professional development class of Fall 2022, about each other's research.
Picky Pollinators

This is the fifth of ten short news articles written by students, during the professional development class of Fall 2022, about each other's research.
Death by a Thousand Guts

This is the fourth of ten short news articles written by students, during the professional development class of Fall 2022, about each other's research.
Lyme disease: Combating tick-borne disease with controlled fire

This is the third of ten short news articles written by students, during the professional development class of Fall 2022, about each other's research.
A Spiderman in Pennsylvania

This is the second of ten short news articles written by students, during the professional development class of Fall 2022, about each other's research.
Penn State’s very own “Charles de gall”

This is the first of ten short news articles written by students, during the professional development class of Fall 2022, about each other's research.
Mangy madness: Sarcoptic mange in Pennsylvania

Hannah Greenberg, an Entomology PhD student and Penn State’s resident black bear wrangler.

Turning Up the Heat on Mosquitoes

Nina Dennington, Ph.D. candidate in Entomology with Dr. Matt Thomas’s ecological entomology lab
Beyond toxicity: the effect of pesticides on pathogen transmission

Ginamaría Román Echevarría, M.S. candidate in Entomology
The War on (Bed) Bugs

Jonathan Hernandez, M.S. candidate in Entomology
The Race to Save the Bees

Makaylee Crone, a PhD student in the Grozinger and Biddinger labs

Plants that can smell?

Julie Golinski, M.S. candidate in Entomology with John Tooker’s lab
Excuse me, have you seen this Monarch?

Staci Cibotti, Ph.D. candidate in Entomology
Chemical Words

Nathan Derstine, Ph.D. candidate in Entomology with Etya Amsalem’s Lab
Cherry they going? The decline in black cherry trees and the search for their pollinators

Rachel McLaughlin, Ph.D. candidate in Entomology
Biocontrol for Poultry House Pests: The Fungi Within

Alex Pagac, a member of Erika Machtinger’s veterinary entomology lab