Undergraduate Student Honors and Awards
CFAES Distinguished Senior Award - Camden Dezse, Advisor: Sarah Short
CFAES Research Poster Competition - Undergraduate Entomology Students
2nd Place: Isabel Nazarian, Advisor: Reed Johnson
3rd Place: Nicole Sammons, Advisor: Reed Johnson
Denman Undergraduate Research Forum, Animal and Insect Science Category
Camden Dezse, Advisor: Sarah Short, Honorable Mention, $200: “Larval habitat microbiota influences male Aedes aegypti life history traits”
Undergraduate Research Apprenticeship Award - Sydney Robare, Advisor: Megan Meuti, Ohio State Office of Undergraduate Research and Creative Inquiry, $5,928. “Uncovering the relationship between sociological factors, mosquito abundance and West Nile virus risk in Franklin County, Ohio.”
Entomology Scholarship Awards
Loren F. Steiner Entomology Memorial Fund: Miabella Centuori, Abbie Korn, Anne Gill
Harry S. Mesloh Scholarship: Michaela Liptak
Graduate Student Honors and Awards
Honors
Ohio State Entomology Department Graduate Student Awards
Ana Trabanino, Advisor: Andy Michel, Susan W. Fisher Teaching Award, $250
Sarah Scott, Advisor: Mary Gardiner, Lowell R. (“Skip”) Nault Research Award, $250
Dylan Ricke, Advisor: Reed Johnson, David J. Horn Service Award, $250
Grace Sward, Advisor: Luis Canas, James E. Tew Extension Award, $250
Graduate Associate Leadership Award, $1000
Adrian Pekarcik, Advisor: Kelley Tilmon
CFAES Research Poster Competition
Master’s Students
1st Place: Yuan Li, Advisor: Pete Piermarini
3rd Place: Brandon Shannon, ESGP Advisor: Reed Johnson
PhD Students
1st Place: Michelle Pham, ESGP Advisor: Mary Gardiner
2nd Place: Caralee Shepard, Advisor: Mary Gardiner
DeLong Award for Best Overall Student Presentation, established in 1985 in honor of Dwight DeLong, professor emeritus.
Brandon Shannon, ESGP Advisor: Reed Johnson
Root Award for Excellence in Agricultural and Urban Entomology, established in 2003 by Jack and Helen Root.
Agricultural Research: Jonathan Lee, Advisor: Luis Canas
Urban Research: James Radl, Advisor: Sarah Short
Hayes Research Forum, Food, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences Category
2nd Place Oral Presentation, $400: Sarah Scott, Advisor: Mary Gardiner
North Central Branch, Entomological Society of America Annual Research Competition
2nd Place, Graduate 10-Minute Papers: James Radl, Advisor: Sarah Short
Grant Awards
Michelle Pham, Advisor: Mary Gardiner, National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, $138,000, “Municipal investment in urban greening to support healthy bee communities”
Yuan Li, Advisor: Pete Piermarini, Sigma Xi Grant in Aid of Research, $335
Yuan Li, Advisor: Pete Piermarini, Ohio Mosquito and Vector Control Association Grant in Aid of Research, $997
Yuan Li, Advisor: Pete Piermarini, CFAES Research and Graduate Education Internal Grant Program (IGP), $5,000
Iliana Moore, Advisor: Jamie Strange, CFAES Research and Graduate Education IGP, $4,992
Michelle Pham, Advisor: Mary Gardiner, CFAES Research and Graduate Education IGP, $5,000
Lucy Guarnieri, Advisor: Mary Gardiner, CFAES Research and Graduate Education IGP
Ellen Danford, Advisor: Mary Gardiner, CFAES Research and Graduate Education IGP
Staff and Visiting Scholar Honors and Awards
Ohio State Years of Service - 5 Years: Jason Owens, Amy Raudenbush
CFAES Research Poster Competition
Research Staff - 2nd Place: Nuris Acosta, Luis Canas, Andy Michel Labs
Postdoctoral Scholars - 2nd Place: Luis Martinez Villegas, Sarah Short Lab
Lohitha Gujjari, PhD, Visiting Scholar, Piermarini Lab, Ohio State Infectious Diseases Institute Trainee Transformative Research Grant, $2,000
Faculty Honors and Awards
Honors
Ohio State Years of Service
35 Years: Larry Phelan
30 Years: Joe Boggs
10 Years: Reed Johnson, Pete Piermarini
5 Years: Megan Meuti, Kelley Tilmon
Grant Awards
Sarah Short, Ohio State President’s Research Excellence Accelerator Award, $50,000, April 1, 2022–April 30, 2023. “What lies beneath: Using microsporidian parasites to control mosquito breeding in stormwater catch basins”
Peter Piermarini, Ohio State President’s Research Excellence Accelerator Award, $50,000, July 1, 2022–June 30, 2023. “Artificial intelligence‐driven development of novel chemical tools for controlling mosquito disease vectors”
Peter Piermarini, Ohio State Infectious Diseases Institute Interdisciplinary Research Seed Grant, $25,000
Triplehorn Collection, National Science Foundation, $500,000, for significant upgrades.
Our Ohio State Entomology awardees were celebrated at the 2021 - 2022 CFAES Awards Ceremony.
Our department's award winners were announced in the autumn 2021 issue of Stridulations.
