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
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
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
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
Major professor:
Year graduated: 1992
Current Job and Location:
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Name: STUART WOOLEY
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
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.