Dr. Stephanie Richards receives funding amounting to $45,000 from Bayer Crop Science to conduct two research studies. The studies will examine the effectiveness of barrier sprays in controlling mosquito populations in a suburban environment,…
Undergraduate and graduate Environmental Health (EH) students are assisting this summer in performing CDC bottle bioassays for a mosquito laboratory research project led by Dr. Stephanie Richards as the principal investigator. During the latter…
MS Environmental Health student counting field-collected mosquitoes and identifying them to species, May 17, 2016
Undergraduate and graduate Environmental Health (EH) students are assisting this summer in conducting a mosquito field research project led by Dr. Stephanie Richards as the principal investigator. On May 16, 2016, the research team…
A news story on Zika features the vector control efforts by Brunswick County, one of the North Carolina (NC) counties involved in the current statewide mosquito surveillance study funded by NC Department of Health…
VanDusen AE*, Richards SL and Balanay JG (2016). Evaluation of bifenthrin barrier spray on foliage in a suburban eastern North Carolina neighborhood. Pest Management Science 72(5): 1004-1012. Abstract Background Mosquitoes can transmit pathogens…
BSEH graduates with Drs. Humphrey and Balanay after the graduation ceremony at Minges Coliseum, May 7, 2016
Balanay JG, Kearney GD and Mannarino AJ* (2016). Noise Exposure Assessment among Groundskeepers in a University Setting: A Pilot Study. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene 13(3): 193-202. Abstract Approximately 870,000 U.S. workers are…
MS Environmental Health student, Joshua Volkan was awarded the AEHAP Student Research Competition Award for his work on evaluation of barrier sprays for mosquito control in Eastern North Carolina. Coauthors were Drs. Stephanie Richards…