BS and MS Environmental Health students presented their research studies during the ECU Research and Creative Achievement Week (RCAW) on March 26 and 28, 2018 at the ECU Mendenhall Student Center. The following students (underlined names) gave their research presentations:
- Alexis Parale, Avian White and Stephanie Richards – “Impacts of exposure to Talstar insecticide on measures of Aedes albopictus (Diptera: Culicidae) vector competence for Zika virus” (undergraduate poster presentation)
- Kellyn Reese, Jo Anne Balanay and Ogaga Tebehaevu – “Volatile organic compound (VOC) emission in a university printing press facility in eastern North Carolina” (undergraduate oral presentation)
- Avian White, Stephanie Richards and Rachel Roper – “Could viral co-infection of mosquitoes impact vector control? A new development for biological vector control” (graduate poster presentation)
- Danielle Carter, Jo Anne Balanay and Stephanie Richards – “Risk assessment and recommendations for forester exposure to Hymenoptera” (graduate poster presentation)
- Megan Rhyne and Stephanie Richards – “Impact of the insect growth regulator pyriproxyfen on life table characteristics of Aedes albopictus” (graduate poster presentation)
- Heidi Knecht, Stephanie Richards, Jo Anne Balanay and Avian White – “Potential for sublethal insecticide exposure to impact vector competence of Aedes albopictus for Zika virus” (graduate)
