Adapting to Overcome: Strategies for Students Navigating a Diverse, Changing World On-Demand Presentations

Organizer(s)

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  Patricia Prade

  Budd Lake, New Jersey
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  Ramandeep Kaur Sandhi

  Postdoctoral Associate
  Department of Entomology
  Cornell University
  Geneva, New York
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  Shelby Kilpatrick

  Pennsylvania State University
  State College, Pennsylvania
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  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.

Attending the meeting in-person? Be sure to check out our live talks taking place Sunday, October 31 at 1:30 PM in Four Seasons Ballroom 2-3.

Presentations:

• On Demand

  Adapt or die! Learning how to steer into career curves
  

  Presenting Author: Derek A. Woller – USDA-APHIS
• On Demand

  PhD and parenting: My experiences starting a family during graduate school
  

  Presenting Author: Dara G. Stockton – USDA-ARS
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  Reckoning with a history of structural racism upheld by my research
  

  Presenting Author: Laura Joan Kraft – USDA-ARS
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  Salvage, preserve, improve in crisis as an entomologist
  

  Presenting Author: Anamika Sharma – Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University