On World Health Day (7 April 2025), the Institute for Health in the Human Ecosystem hosted its annual research symposium. Yared Desta, Sydney Pruett and Constanze Paoli won best poster presentations for the postdoctoral, graduate student, and undergraduate student categories, respectively.
On 27 March 2025, Shirley Luckhart was named a 2024 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Nora Céspedes, Yared Desta, Kevin Ochwedo, Ronald Bentil and Megan Dobson presented talks on their research at the 2024 Entomological Society of America meeting in Phoenix, AZ. Megan was awarded 2nd place for her presentation in the Student Competition at the meeting.
Constanze Paoli awarded an undergraduate research scholarship from the Department of Biological Sciences to complete an independent project in our lab for fall 2024.
Kevin Ochwedo awarded scholarship from the UI Institute for Health in the Human Ecosystem to attend the 2024 Biology of Vector-borne Diseases course.
Megan Dobson awarded scholarship from the National Science Foundation Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases program to attend the 2024 Biology of Vector-borne Diseases course.
Symposium on “One Health Training for Plant, Animal and Human Vector-borne Diseases to Improve Practice and Policy” for the 2023 annual meeting of the Entomological Society of America.
