91传媒 graduate students, Catchot honored at national cotton conference
Contact: Trey Barrett
STARKVILLE, Miss.鈥擲ix Mississippi State students and a faculty member are recent award winners at the 2023 Beltwide Cotton Conference, known as the world鈥檚 largest cotton technology transfer conference.
Coordinated by the National Cotton Council, the event includes 12 technical conferences, including the Beltwide Cotton Insect Research and Control Conference, where 91传媒 demonstrated a strong showing.
Whitney Crow, assistant professor of entomology, serves as advisor to many of the students, who all are from the entomology program in the university鈥檚 Department of聽 Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Entomology and Plant Pathology in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.
鈥淲e are proud to have six students place out of the eight categories we participated in,鈥 Crow said. 鈥淭hese students have all taken the time to practice and ask for assistance in improving their public speaking and scientific communication skills to prepare a high quality presentation.鈥
In the three oral master鈥檚 sections, 91传媒 student winners include:
鈥擬ichael Huoni, of Leland, first place, section one;
鈥擩udge Fortenberry of Calhoun, Louisiana, first place, section two;
鈥擳homas G. Paul of Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, first place, section three;
鈥擶alker 鈥淏rett鈥 Farmer of Greenwood, second place, section one; and
鈥擲awyer Clayton Hopkins of Selma, Alabama, second place, section three.
In one of two Ph.D. divisions, doctoral student Mary Jane Lytle of Pine Bluff, Arkansas, also placed first.
Angus Catchot, associate director of 91传媒鈥檚 Mississippi Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station and interim head of the Central Mississippi Research and Extension Center, was honored with the Excellence in Integrated Pest Management Award recognizing individuals who have made substantial contributions in this field.
鈥淚 am proud of the students who represented Mississippi State so well and their faculty mentors,鈥 said Jeff Gore, professor and head at 91传媒鈥檚 Delta Research and Extension Center. 鈥淚t was particularly rewarding to see Dr. Angus Catchot recognized.鈥
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