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STARKVILLE, Miss.--A longtime adjunct faculty member and a graduate student in Mississippi State's department of entomology and plant pathology are recent selections for special recognition by a national professional organization.
Frank Davis, an adjunct university professor who also was a federal agricultural scientist for four decades, is among nine new Fellows of the Entomological Society of America. Since retiring from the U.S. Department of Agriculture several years ago, he has served as vice mayor and alderman for the City of Starkville.
The entomological society has recognized only 191 people as fellows--its most prestigious award--since initiating the honor 71 years ago. Davis and MSU doctoral student Sandra Woolfolk were honored during the organization's annual meeting in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.
Woolfolk, who earlier received a master's degree in entomology from the MSU department, was recognized as a runner-up for the ESA President's Prize for Display Presentation in the Biological Control category.
Woolfolk's entry was entitled "Multiple Orifice Distribution System: A newly improved technique to distribute green lacewing eggs into verticel rearing units." She co-authored the display with MSU agricultural and biological engineering professor David B. Smith and several other contributors.
Before retiring in 1999, Davis served for 42 years with the USDA's Agricultural Research Service, including 34 years in the Corn Host-Plant Resistance Research Unit located at Mississippi State. An adjunct professor since the late 1960s, he earned bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees in entomology from the university in 1961, 1963 and 1965, respectively.
NEWS EDITORS/DIRECTORS: For more information, contact department head Clarence Collison at (662) 325-2085 or ccollison@entomology.msstate.edu.