Adapting to Overcome: Strategies for Students Navigating a Diverse, Changing World

Organizer(s)

• 

  Patricia Prade

  Budd Lake, New Jersey
• 

  Ramandeep Kaur Sandhi

  Postdoctoral Associate
  Department of Entomology
  Cornell University
  Geneva, New York
• SK

  Shelby Kilpatrick

  Pennsylvania State University
  State College, Pennsylvania
• SE

  Sarah Elzay

  Graduate Research Assistant
  Oklahoma State University
  Cleveland, Oklahoma

Entomology is a diverse and dynamic discipline! Students need to be prepared to understand and overcome challenges they will encounter during their studies and professional life. We will showcase students and professionals from different backgrounds and career paths and examples of how to adapt to and transform through various changes.

View our on-demand presentations, then join us in-person for live presentations and discussion.

Presentations:

• 1:30 PM – 1:40 PM MT

  Introductory remarks
• 1:40 PM – 2:00 PM MT

  Unexpected turns while navigating your career as an entomologist
  

  Presenting Author: Veronica Manrique – Southern University and A&M College
• 2:00 PM – 2:20 PM MT

  Ten things I wish I had known as a Phd student about becoming a professor
  

  Presenting Author: Elizabeth Kells Rowen – West Virginia University
• 2:20 PM – 2:40 PM MT

  Embracing interdisciplinary approach for transforming paths
  

  Presenting Author: Navneet Kaur – Oregon State University
• 2:40 PM – 3:00 PM MT

  Adapting to challenges and evolving as a graduate student during Covid-19
  

  Presenting Author: Kadie Elizabeth Britt – University of California

  Co-Author: Katlyn A. Catron – Washington State University
• 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM MT

  Panel discussion
• 4:00 PM – 4:05 PM MT

  Closing remarks