Alumni Happenings

Name: L. HANNAH GOULD

Major professor: Dr. Bill Walton

Year graduated: 2000

Current Job and Location: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Epidemic Intelligence Service; National Center for Zoonotic, Vector-Borne, and Enteric Diseases; Fort Collins, Colorado

What you did between your UCR graduation and your current job: Unavailable

Email address: Unavailable


Name: ERIC PORTER

Major professor: Dr. Richard A. Redak

Year graduated: 1995

Current Job and Location: US Fish and Wildlife Service Biologist, Carlsbad, CA

What you did between your UCR graduation and your current job: I received a PhD in Ecology and Evolutionary biology from UC Irvine in 2001. I worked with Bradford Hawkins on questions related to the maintenance of parasitoid diversity on single host species. We also examined global patterns of biological diversity for a variety of taxa and their relationships to several potential explanatory variables. I then did postdoctoral work with Robert Blair at the University of Miami in Oxford, Ohio. For my postdoctoral work, I studied the impact of various levels of urban development on butterfly and bird communities.

Email address: Eric Porter


Name: MARIANO BERDEGUE

Berdegue

Major professor: Dr. John Trumble

Year graduated: 1996, IPM

Current Job and Location: St Louis MO, US Marketing and Strategy Lead, Monsanto

What you did between your UCR graduation and your current job: : Monsanto in Mexico and Latin America North

Email address: Mariano Berdegue


Name: HYUN-WOO PARK

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Major professor: Dr. Brian A. Federici

Year graduated: 1999, Insect Pathology

Current Job and Location: Assistant Professor of Entomology, Public Health Entomology Research & Education Center, Florida A & M University (2005 - present)

What you did between your UCR graduation and your current job: : I worked as a post-doctoral fellow (2000 - 2001) and an assistant researcher (2001 - 2005) in Professor Federici's laboratory

Email address: Hyun-Woo Park


Name: MIRIAM COOPERBAND

Major professor: Dr. Ring Cardé

Year graduated: 2005

Current Job and Location: Research Entomologist @ USDA-ARS


Name: MARK BREIDENBAUGH

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Major professor: Dr. Bradley Mullens

Year graduated: MS 1997

Current Job and Location: Youngstown, Ohio; Research Entomologist for the U.S. Air Force - Primary responsibility: to oversee vector control for the DoD using aerial spray techniques. I am a PhD candidate at Kent State University, grad date Dec 2007

What you did between your UCR graduation and your current job: : I initially worked for Dr. Mulla as an SRA and then went to work at the West Los Angeles Mosquito Control District as their Vector Ecologist.

Email address: Mark Breidenbaugh


Name: WATA DHERANETRA

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Major professor:

Year graduated: 1992

Current Job and Location:

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Name: STUART WOOLEY

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Major professor: Dr. Timothy Paine

Year graduated: 2003 (Plant-herbivore interactions)

Current Job and Location: I am currently a post-doc at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, studying how plant genetics influences population, community and ecosystem processes.

What you did between your UCR graduation and your current job: : I will be moving to CalState Stanislaus in Turlock, CA in July 2007 to start an asst. professor position in the Biology Dept. I will be teaching Plant Physiology, and other Botany courses.

Web Site: Department of Biological Sciences California State University, Stanislaus


Name: GEORGE PECK

Peck

Major professor: Bill Walton

Year graduated: 2004

Current Job and Location: Research Entomologist at the Irrigated Agriculture Research and Extension Center, Washington State University, Prosser, Washington

What you did between your UCR graduation and your current job: I did a 9 month post-doc with Williiam Reisen at the Arbovirus Field Station in Bakersfield, CA. I left the post-doc for a high school science teaching position at Huntington Park HS for 18 months.  While teaching is rewarding, I wanted a chance to do research again.  My next job was at Northwest Mosquito and Vector Control District in Corona, CA.  Because Vector Control Districts do not have research as their primary mission, I began a job search that lead me to my present position in Washington.    


We are soliciting information from our former graduate students. Please send information and pictures, along with the year you graduated, to cherie.skinner@ucr.edu.