Center for Medical, Agricultural and Veterinary Entomology : Awards

CMAVE lauded for energy conservation
On October 15, the ARS Center for Medical, Agricultural, and Veterinary Entomology, Gainesville, FL, was one of seven area organizations commended by the GRU Business Journal for making a commitment to reduce its energy consumption by 10 percent. The journal is the regional utilities newsletter for the Gainesville area.
Arthur S. Flemming Award
Peter E. A. Teal has been named the winner of the Arthur S. Flemming Award (June 2003) from George Washington University in conjunction with the Arthur S. Flemming Awards Commission. Dr. Teal is acting director of the Center for Medical, Agricultural, and Veterinary Entomology in Gainesville, FL. Dr. Teal's research seeks new pest control approaches through studies that include identifying insect brain chemicals, sex pheromones, and chemical volatiles released by crop plants in response to being infected by microbes such as bacteria. The latter approach raises the possibility of using such volatile emitting plants as sentinels that warn of impending crop disease outbreaks.
Technology Transfer Award
The Southeast Region of the Federal Laboratory Consortium awarded Dr. David F. Williams and Dr. Sanford D. Porter the Excellence in Technology Transfer Award (2003) for the project Fire Ant Decapitating Flies: Transfer of Rearing and Release Technology. Read about the biology phorid flies at the IFAHI web site and phorid fly field trials at the Areawide web site.
CMAVE Designated as a "Center of Genius"
An article in the November, 1999 issue of Esquire Magazine designated the USDA-ARS Center for Medical, Agricultural and Veterinary Entomology (CMAVE) as a "Center of Genius". CMAVE was included in a select list of 26 institutions in the United States that were noted for their innovation. The list included California Institute of Technology, Xerox, IBM, Washington University/Monsanto, DARPA (DoD) and Carnegie Mellon, among others. The article stated that "This USDA lab will lead the bio-war against bugs and manage the ecological tensions between insect friendlies and insect foes." It went on to state that the places chosen for the list "aren't only about ideas; they're about the reality that applying and spreading innovations is as important as the innovations themselves." CMAVE was the only agricultural research laboratory (government or university) to make the list.