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July 10, 2007 Hannah Burrack Accepts Faculty Position at North Carolina State University
DAVIS —Hannah Joy Burrack, who is completing her doctorate in entomology this summer at UC Davis, has accepted a position as assistant professor of entomology at North Carolina State University, Raleigh, effective Sept. 1. The position is 75 percent extension and 25 percent research. “I will be responsible for small fruit, specialty crops and tobacco pest management,” she said. With Burrack's appointment, that makes 56 UC Davis entomology graduates with college faculty appointments, said Walter Leal, professor and chair of the Department of Entomology. Her career goals? “I am most interested in problem-oriented research with grower interests in mind,” Burrack said. “I enjoy working directly with farmers and will continue to do this in my career.” Her research focus at UC Davis included the application of insect biology to integrated pest management, extension and outreach work, tephritid fly biology, monitoring and rearing; invasive species biology and study of new invaders; and insect-fungal interactions, including yeast detection, isolation and identification. Burrack completed her dissertation research on “The Seasonal Biology of the Olive Fruit Fly (Bactrocera oleae), an Invasive Pest in California.” Her research addressed the olive fruit fly phenology, reproductive biology, cultivar preference and adult fungal associations. Serving as her advisor and major professor was UC Davis entomologist and professor Frank Zalom, an integrated pest management specialist who researches tree crops, small fruits, vegetables and invasive species. Among her presentations this year: she addressed the Ninth Annual Exotic Fruit Fly Symposium, Fresno, on “The Olive Fruit Fly in California: Current Status and Reproductive Biology” and the Pacific Branch of the Entomological Society of America (ESA), Portland, Ore., on “Intraspecific Competition in the Olive Fruit Fly.” Burrack won first place in the recent Graduate Student Paper Competition, Pacific Branch of the ESA. Also this year, she received a scholarship at the 2007 California Farm Conference, Monterey, and a research fellowship award from Biological Invasions, the National Science Foundation’s Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (NSF-IGERT). Burrack received her master’s degree in entomology from UC Davis in 2006, and bachelor degrees in entomology and rural sociology from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in 2002. She was an international student at Thammasat University, Bangkok, in 2000.
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