Nov. 7, 2007
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William C. Reeves
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DAVIS —Applications for the statewide William C. Reeves New Investigator Award, memoralizing William C. Reeves, a renowned University of California entomologist, are due Dec. 7.
The award, which includes $1,000 in cash and a plaque, is for the the best scientific paper submitted and presented at the Mosquito and Vector Control Association of California conference in Palm Springs, Jan. 13-16. The second-place winner will receive a $500 cash award, and the third-place winner, $250.
Applicants must be undergraduate or graduate students at a college or university in California, or post-graduate scientists who received their degree no more than three years before submission of the scientific paper. Post-graduate scientists must be employed in California and must be working within the general field of biology and control of vectors or vector-borne diseases.
In 2007, Carrie Nielsen, then a doctoral student of UC Davis research entomologist William Reisen (a graduate student advisor in the Department of Entomology) won the award. UC Davis entomology doctoral student Lisa Reimer, whose major professors are UC Davis entomologists Anthony Cornel and Gregory Lanzaro, received the award in 2006.
Medical entomologist William C. Reeves (1916-2004) of UC Berkeley, was a frequent visitor to the UC Davis campus and worked with a number of entomologists here, including Robert Washino, William Reisen, Bruce Eldridge and the late Richard Bohart (1913-2007).
For more information on applying for the award, see the UC Mosquito Research Program Web site.
UC Davis graduate student coordinator:
Carol Nickles, 396B Briggs, (530) 754-8638.
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--Kathy Keatley Garvey
Communications specialist
UC Davis Department of Entomology
(530) 754-6894
