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ESA Newsletter Information for the Members of the Entomological Society of America APRIL 2006 • VOLUME 29, NUMBER 4 Give Something Back! Honor a Colleague, Student, or Mentor Call for ESA and Entomological Foundation Professional and Student Awards Nominations In tune with this year’s Annual Meeting by Bayer CropScience. Nominees must be theme, Give Something Back: Time, Skills, current ESA members who have contributed Resources, we ask that you give something significantly to the advancement of entomo- back by nominating a colleague, student, or logical research in the broad areas of insect mentor for one of ESA’s or the Entomologi- physiology, biochemistry, and toxicology. cal Foundation’s awards. Prize: $1,500 and an inscribed plaque. ESA and the Entomological Foundation are currently accepting nominations and ESA Student Awards applications for their 2006 professional and Certification Student Award—Sponsored student awards and scholarships. These by Springer Pest Solutions. This award rec- awards will be presented during the ESA ognizes and encourages outstanding ento- Annual Meeting, December 10-13, 2006, in mology graduate students with interest in Indianapolis, Indiana. the mission of the ESA certification program, Special Notes: and promotes the understanding and impor- • The submission deadline for all awards is tance of the program. Prize: $500 and an July 1 unless otherwise stated. inscribed plaque. • Submissions for either organization’s Achievement Award in Horticultural Ento- Normand R. Dubois Memorial Scholar- awards may be made via the online submis- mology, and its scope will be broadened to ship—Due to loss of external sponsorship, sion systems housed on the ESA website, or include all types of achievements, including this award has been suspended. by e-mail. regulatory accomplishments, within hor- Cash Prize Increase! Student Activity • The information that follows is a brief ticultural entomology. Please see the ESA Award—Sponsored by Monsanto summary of each award; please refer to the website for details. Continued on page 3 ESA (http://www.entsoc.org) and/or Founda- Distinguished Achievement Award in tion (http://www.entfdn.org) websites for Teaching—The nominee must be an ESA complete details. member who has excelled in developing 2005 Society Annual Report new courses, educational programs, and Available Online ESA Professional Awards teaching methods. Prize: $500 and an in- Distinguished Achievement Award in scribed plaque. The 2005 ESA Annual Report to the Extension—The nominee must be a current Distinguished Service Award from the membership is now available online at ESA member who has demonstrated excel- Certification Program—Nominees must be http://www.entsoc.org/about_ESA/op- lence in creating and delivering extension current BCEs or ACEs with outstanding con- erations/report_2005.htm. programs. Prize: $500 and an inscribed tributions to the ESA certification program Check it out to review last year’s plaque and the professionalism of entomology. activities of the Society and to find out Distinguished Achievement Award in Prize: $500 and an inscribed plaque. how ESA is doing! Regulatory Entomology—Sponsored by the Recognition Award in Entomology— American Nursery and Landscape Associa- Sponsored by Syngenta Crop Protection. tion. The nominee must be a current ESA The nominee must be a current ESA member member who has contributed significantly who has contributed significantly to agri- In this issue.... in the field of regulatory entomology ben- cultural advancement through recent work 2006 Annual Meeting ....... 4 efiting the American horticulture industry. in the field of entomology. Prize: An all- Prize: $500 and an inscribed plaque. Please expenses-paid trip to European agricultural Sustaining Associates ........ 5 note: This is the last year this award will research facilities and inscribed plaque. Branch Award Winners .... 6 be offered. Starting with the 2007 awards Recognition Award in Insect Physiology, Job Opportunities ............. 7 program, it will renamed the Distinguished Biochemistry and Toxicology—Sponsored April 2006 ESA Newsletter 1 P RESIDENT ’ S C ORNER Frank E. Gilstrap, 2006 ESA President he Proposed New ESA—Your Gov- proposed, ESA would acteristics for implementing change. These erning Board Executive Committee facilitate networks by same members are looking for opportunity Trecently asked me to use this column encouraging them to to grow personally and professionally, and to share my understanding of the proposed affiliate with one or thus will need a Society that facilitates re- new ESA. As I organized my thoughts, I more Sections, and sponsiveness and flexibility. Also, some of realized that the proposal’s framework is to access and influ- these members are ESA’s future leaders and really quite simple, and that is what I focus ence governance and will need freedom to explore new ideas and on below. However, before sharing my operations of the better ways of conducting Society business. I ideas, I want to emphasize that: (1) ESA is Section(s) and ESA Central. believe the proposed new ESA facilitates all not broken, and (2) a new ESA is at present A second gain is an improved capacity of these. only a proposal. A new ESA will not occur to address new issues, again by encourag- I go back to my earlier question: Why until you approve it in a ballot vote. As a ing and facilitating networks that focus on change what isn’t broken? Perhaps a more first step, you will be asked this summer in these issues. New issues constantly arise in appropriate question is: What is possible if a referendum or straw vote to express your science, and some attract a strong entomo- we are unafraid to change, if we are willing views on the proposed new ESA, and a final logical following. Some become integral to explore the unknown? Entomologists have vote could occur as early as 2007. and continuing parts of entomology (e.g., always been visionaries, and our discipline If nothing is broken, then why change? managing insects in genetically modified has always been populated with leaders and Our membership is growing, annual meet- crops, IPM, stem-cell research in entomol- agents of change. A new ESA may test our ings and publications are healthy, and ESA ogy). Others are transient, important only resolve today, but I believe it is key to enor- seems to have a bright future. However, for a short time (e.g., regulations on moving mous Society benefits tomorrow. is ESA properly positioned for the future? insects across borders or funding for the I will share more in May about a new According to member geography, we are a National Science Foundation or National ESA, including the fiscal aspects, volunteers, global organization and our international Research Initiative). As networks elect to leadership, and the next key steps. In the status could affect the Society’s sustainability affiliate with one or more Sections, they also interim, check the following URL for more in a rapidly shrinking world. Can (or should) would strengthen ESA’s focus, communica- information on the proposal (http://www. ESA be the entomological society, serving tions, and responsiveness. entsoc.org/about_esa/governance/other/ and aggressively pursuing members from A third gain is that ESA’s focus on a_new_esa.htm), and please visit with col- all parts of the world? Can ESA of today networks would grow its membership. leagues about this concept. Give the pro- respond quickly enough to new issues or Networks have historically varied widely posed new ESA some serious thought. changes in science and government policy? regarding interest in and need for ESA —Frank I say, “Not easily as currently structured.” governance, membership influence, and The proposed new ESA essentially enables finances. The new ESA would encourage and empowers Sections to function more and welcome members of long-standing, like Branches, each developing and manag- well-organized groups or members of short- ing its own operational rules, committees, term groups of 6-12 months with little or The ESA Newsletter (US ISSN 0273-7353) is priorities, and Section financing (more on no formal organization. Regardless of the published monthly by the Entomological Society of America (ESA), 10001 Derekwood Lane, Suite the fiscal aspects in May). Meeting functions kinds of networks, growth in the numbers of 100, Lanham, MD 20706-4876; ph. 301-731- would not likely change for either Branches ESA members would be an important fringe 4535; fax 301-731-4538; lspurlock@entsoc. or Sections. Branches would continue do- benefit of facilitating networks. org; http://www.entsoc.org. The deadline for all ing their own meetings, and Sections would So why might some want to keep ESA submissions is the first of the month, one month continue doing annual meetings at the Soci- just as it is? Though I support moving ahead prior to publication. POSTMASTER: Subscription rate for members ety-level, such as Indianapolis in December with a new ESA, I know some of my con- is $10, which is included in the dues. The rate for 2006. temporaries (i.e., gray heads) will prefer ESA nonmembers is $28; institutions, $43. Periodicals The numbers of Sections and their cur- remain essentially unchanged. We helped postage paid at Lanham-Seabrook, MD, and other rently proposed names are not critical to the build and sustain it, and so of course we mailing offices.© 2006 ESA. proposal. However, for the moment, we pro- take pride in it as it is today. Second, some Job Opportunity rates are $25/line for regular and postdoctoral positions, and $10/line for pose four Sections replacing the current six. of us will prefer predictability, and that is graduate assistantships. Advertisers may choose Thus ESA would consist of five or six geo- more easily assured with centralized con- to run the ad on the ESA web site for an addition- graphic units (a corresponding Branch might trol (i.e., the ESA Governing Board today).