<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi all,</div><div><br></div><div>Please join me in congratulating our graduate students who recently received awards from ESA (MUVE and Alate) and a very belated congrats on some additional Pac Branch awards:</div><div><ul><li>Tzu-Chia (Joanne) Chen: 2026 MUVE Shripat Kamble Urban Entomology Graduate Student Award for Innovative Research and 2026 Alate Award</li><li>Ashley Bui: 2026 Alate Award</li><li><div>Mel Thayer: <span class="gmail-il" style="background-color:transparent"><span class="gmail-il"><span class="gmail-il">Student</span></span></span><span style="background-color:transparent"> 10-minute Paper Competition - 1st Place Entomological Society of America - Pacific Branch - Annual Meeting (Apr. 2025) and </span><span class="gmail-il" style="background-color:transparent"><span class="gmail-il"><span class="gmail-il">Student</span></span></span><span style="background-color:transparent"> Poster Competition - 1st Place Entomological Society of America - Annual Meeting (Nov. 2025)</span></div><div><span style="background-color:transparent">Joshua Reger: </span><span style="background-color:transparent">Jan. 2025 - Golden Apple </span><span class="gmail-il" style="background-color:transparent"><span class="gmail-il"><span class="gmail-il">Award</span></span></span><span style="background-color:transparent"> @ Orchard Pest and Disease Management Conference (Portland, OR) and </span><span style="background-color:transparent">Apr. 2025 - 2nd Place </span><span class="gmail-il" style="background-color:transparent"><span class="gmail-il"><span class="gmail-il">Student</span></span></span><span style="background-color:transparent"> Competition @ Pac Branch </span><span class="gmail-il" style="background-color:transparent"><span class="gmail-il"><span class="gmail-il">ESA</span></span></span><span style="background-color:transparent"> (Salt Lake City, UT)</span></div></li></ul></div><div>Way to go!!</div><div><span style="background-color:transparent">--</span></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><a name="SignatureSanitizer_SafeHtmlFilter_UNIQUE_ID_SafeHtmlFilter_UNIQUE_ID_SafeHtmlFilter_UNIQUE_ID_SafeHtmlFilter__MailAutoSig" style="font-size:12.8px"><font color="#000000" size="1"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">C</font><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">hristiane Weirauch</font></font></a><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:x-small">Professor & Chair</span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:x-small">Department of Entomology</span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:x-small">University of California, Riverside</span><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:x-small">Ph: 951-827-5707 (Office)</span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:x-small">Email: </span><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="1"><a href="mailto:christiane.weirauch@ucr.edu" target="_blank">christiane.weirauch@ucr.edu</a></font><div><a href="https://profiles.ucr.edu/christiane.weirauch" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:x-small" target="_blank">https://profiles.ucr.edu/christiane.weirauch</a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:x-small"> </span><a href="mailto:christiane.weirauch@ucr.edu" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:x-small" target="_blank"><font color="#000000"></font></a></div><div><img width="200" height="114" src="https://ci3.googleusercontent.com/mail-sig/AIorK4yIeioneAD4T4U_Zv_J-v2Woeju0URhh-zCvW94xYbiIYuABeG-yg7KkzMVbXHEgmvUZLTjb5T4MEJ5"><br></div></div></div></div></div>