He assumed the position September 1999. Gullan specializes in the systematics of scale insects. Bruce D. Hammock of UC-Davis was elected into the National Academy of Sciences in April 1999. He was selected to present the Sterling B. Hendricks Memorial Lecture in August 1999. Robert E. Page, Jr. has been selected to serve as the Chair of the Department of Entomology at UC-Davis, effective October 1, 1999.
Page works with behavioral genetics and neurobiology of honey bees.
Michael P. Parrella , who served as the Chair of the UC-Davis Department of Entomology for eight years, accepted the position of Associate Dean of the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Division of Agricultural Sciences. He assumed this position in October 1999. Marlin Rice and Julie Todd of Iowa State University have received a gold award from Agricultural Communicators in Education for the readability and design of the newsletter Integrated Crop Management. Rice is the coordinator, and Todd is the editor. The newsletter is produced weekly during the growing season in Iowa, and provides research-based information on production and protection of field and forage crops.