Sensilla - November 2026
| Event | Date |
|---|---|
| Daylight Saving Time Ends | November 1 |
| Ag Expo | November 2 - 4 |
| Defense Seminar - Nina Vazquez | November 5 |
| Fall General Faculty Meeting | November 5 |
| Entomological Aociety of America Annual Meeting | November 8 - 11 |
| Faculty Meeting | November 20 |
| Students' Fall Break | November 23 - 25 |
| Thanksgiving Holiday | November 26 - 27 |
| Pre-finals Week Begins | November 30 |
| Event | Date |
|---|---|
| Pre-finals Week Continues | December 1 -4 |
| Paper and Poster Submission Deadline for SWB-ESA | December 1 |
| Undergraduate Research Symposium | December 4 |
| Departmental Christmas Party | December 5 |
| Finals Week | December 7 - 11 |
| Graduation Celebration | December 11 |
| Graduate Commencement | December 11 |
| Undergraduate Commencement | December 12 |
| Faculty Meeting | December 18 |
| Christmas Holiday | December 24 - 31 |
Congratulations!
Anju Ara was selected for the 2026 Borlaug Global Rust Initiative - Global Wheat Health Alliance Seed Grant in Translational Wheat Health award for $10,000 for her Ph.D. projects.
Nimisha Maurya placed third in the 3MT Thesis Competition in the Ferguson College of Agriculture on October 8 and received the People’s Choice Award.
Jakob West and his wife Molly are the proud parents of a baby boy. Jesse Jethro West was born at 9:28 p.m. on October 12, weighed 7 pounds 12 ounces, and was 21 inches in length.
Departmental Seminars
Seminars will be held at 3:30 p.m. in Room 207 NRC.
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| November 6 | Dr. Cari Lewis |
Ecology to Criminology: Using Genomic Variation to Infer the Unknown |
| November 13 | Anju Ara | Introductory Seminar |
Alumna News
Dr. Philip Morton (B.S. 2004) received the Dental Alum of the Year Award from the OU College of Dentistry on October 16. Dr. Morton is in general practice at Custom Dental of Atoka – Dr. Matt Hookom in Atoka, Oklahoma. Philip received his B.S. degree in Entomology from OSU in May 2004 (he worked for Edmond Bonjour in the Stored Product Entomology Research Laboratory from the first day of his undergraduate program until the day he graduated from OSU), his Ph.D. in Entomology from Purdue University in August 2009, and his Doctor of Dental Surgery degree from the University of Oklahoma College of Dentistry in May 2023.
| Name | Date |
|---|---|
| Cherryl | November 1 |
| Li Ma | November 1 |
| Andrine Shufran | November 5 |
| Allison Hoback | November 6 |
| Anna Perry | November 12 |
| Jim Criswell | November 18 |
| Jing Zhang | November 18 |
| George Opit | November 20 |
| Keeta Snell | November 22 |
| Avery Pennington | November 24 |
| Wyatt Hoback | November 25 |
| Bruce Noden | November 25 |
| David Rosenberg | November 25 |
| Ivin Lam | November 26 |
| Phil Mulder | November 28 |
| Elliot Avery | November 30 |