Student News and Events

Undergraduate Oral and Poster Competitions
This year the P-IE Task Force “Exciting Undergraduates for Careers in Entomology” has been busy planning activities to encourage undergraduate students to become involved in entomology. New this year for the ESA President’s Prize at the Annual Meeting is a special category for undergraduate students to present their research in oral or poster competitions. The submission site will be available between May 24 and July 2 for everyone, including students, to register presentations. Please encourage the undergraduate students you know to participate.

Student Debate at the 2010 ESA Annual Meeting
Teams are invited to participate in the Student Debates at the 58th Annual Meeting of ESA scheduled to be held December 12-15, 2010 in San Diego, CA. Under a broad theme, there will be three specific debatable statements. In total, we need nine (9) student teams. The teams will be selected on a first-come-first-serve basis. Each team will be randomly assigned to one of the three specific topics, and will be asked to defend either the PRO or the CON position of the statement, or present an unbiased introduction of the topic. If you are interested in participating please contact Ashfaq Sial at ashfaqsial@yahoo.com as soon as possible. In order to reserve a slot for your team, send him a list of 4-6 team members including a designated team leader (or spokesperson) and a faculty advisor (names and email addresses). All communications between debate organizers and the teams will go through the designated team leaders.

UIUC Wins the 2009 Linnaean Games
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's Linnaean Games team beat the University of California, Riverside in the Finals at the 2009 ESA Annual Meeting. Click here for videos of the Games and for interviews with some of the participants.

Student Competition Winners from the 2009 Annual Meeting
The 2009 Student Competition for the President's Prize took place at the ESA Annual Meeting in Indianapolis, Indiana, December 13-16. Each winner will receive a certificate, and each first place winner will also receive one year of free membership in ESA and a check for $70. Click here to see the winners and runners-up.

Awards and Scholarships
The deadline for most ESA and Entomological Foundation awards and scholarships is July 1. For more information on each one, go to the Student Awards Page.