ESA HERITAGE SYMPOSIUM

CONNECTING WITH OUR HERITAGE: A BRIEF LOOK AT THE FASCINATING HISTORY OF ENTOMOLOGY IN THE NORTH CENTRAL REGION

1999 NCB-ESA Annual Meeting, Des Moines, IA

Organizer

Rick Weinzierl, Department of Crop Sciences - Entomology, University of Illinois, Urbana IL

Moderator

Tom Turpin, Department of Entomology, Purdue University, W. Lafayette, IN

Introduction: Tom Turpin/Rick Weinzierl

Insects, Entomologists, and the Advance of the Biological Sciences. Carol Sheppard, Chair, ESA Committee on Heritage, Washington State University

Politically Incorrect: the spirited debate over the armyworm, its life cycle, and science in the 1860s. Rick Weinzierl, University of Illinois

Those magnificent men and their spraying machines Ð early insecticides and application equipment. Frank Hall, OARDC, Ohio State University

The makers of tomorrow's heritage: short stories about a few of those who made big impacts at the close of the 20th century.. K.L. Steffey, Dept. of Crop Sciences, University of Illinois, Urbana IL 61801; D.B. Hogg, Dept. of Entomology, University of Wisconsin, Madison WI 53706; R.A. Higgins, Dept. of Entomology, Kansas State University, Manhattan KS 66506; and G. Hein, Panhandle Research and Experiment Center, University of Nebraska, Scotts Bluff, NE 69361.

Discussion: Tom Turpin, Rick Weinzierl

For more information, contact: Rick Weinzierl ph: 217-244-2126; weinzier@staff.uiuc.edu