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Alumni & Friends of PSIS, welcome! Check the Alumni & Friends page to see what's new with us, and please register online to tell us how you've been.

Travel online to Bangladesh with the words and beautiful pictures of our PSIS Fulbright Scholars, Prasanta Bhowmik and Robert Wick. Click HERE to enter their online journals.

monarchTeachers and Children's Group Leaders: Looking for fun, educational opportunities that involve insects and plants? Check us out!
ESA ConnectionsUMass Amherst Entomologists made connections with Alumni & Friends at the annual ESA meeting in Dec. 2007. Click HERE to find out more. Burand GrantDr. John Burand has been awarded a 3-year USDA grant for research on improving bee health in the Northeast. Read more about it HERE. The Department sadly marks the passing of Professor Thomas Henry Boyle III on December 19, 2006
UMass Amherst Turf Club students competed in 2 national Turf Bowl contests. Club members raised enough money to send 13 students to the competitions. Read about it HERE. UMass Amherst PSIS Entomology Alum named as State Minister of Agriculture in Rwanda. Read all about Dr. Agnes Abera Kalibata HERE.

Dr. Om Parkash's research on plants that resist uptake of arsenic could help ease the global rice shortage. Read about Dr. Parkash's research and listen to his podcast.

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