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Brad Hopkins Awarded
Departmental Award for
Outstanding Grad Student
A little hard work really does pay off. Just ask Entomology grad student Brad Hopkins.
Hopkins recently received the Department's Outstanding Graduate Student award during the Graduate Student Recognition and Award Seminar.
The award and a series of graduate student presentations were part of several events during the department's Graduate Student Recruiting week this past week.
Hopkins is a student in Dr. Patricia Pietrantonio's lab, where his current research focuses on pyrethroid resistance management in the cotton bollworm (Helicoverpa zea). From a research standpoint, he has had an opportunity to test new technologies and assess how they perform in the field. The testing of these new technologies will allow Hopkins to teach producers how they work and which ones will work best in increasing their profits. In 2006, Hopkins received the C. Everett Salyer Fellowship in Cotton Research, which supports these studies.
During his academic career as a bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral student in the Department of Entomology at Texas A&M University, Hopkins has received an number of other prestigious awards that include the Texas A&M and College of Agriculture and Life Sciences' Regents Fellowship, and the Texas A&M College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Senior Merit Award. Hopkins also received the Department's Oustanding Undergraduate Award and the Gamma Sigma Delta Outstanding Graduating Senior Award.
Established in 1995, the Department of Entomology Outstanding Graduate Student Award annually recognizes the accomplishments of two individuals within the Department. One award is given to a student seeking a master's degree while the other is given to a Ph. D. - seeking student. Recipients receive a framed certificate and a $200 check.