OUR VISITORS (FALL 2014):
Donald R. Davis received his B.A. degree in Entomology at the University of Kansas in 1956. In 1962 he earned his Ph.D. at Cornell University under John G. Franclemont, formerly a USDA research entomologist at the NMNH, whom Don had first met during the National Science Fair in 1952.
Welcome to public lectures by Professor Jonas R. Stonis. Lectures will be held in English, Russian and Lithuanian (see video advert).
The Conference brought together international academics from the Baltic countries and Poland (speakers from other countries were also welcomed), including professors and graduate, master or postgraduate (doctoral/PhD) students, who presented methodological novelties and faunistic research in their respective fields.
Our former doctoral students Asta Navickaitė and Agnė Rocienė received their PhD‘s in Biology: Entomology and Plant Parasitology. The defences of the dissertations were held on September 26, 2014 at a public meeting of the Biology/Entomology and Plant Parasitology Council: Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences; Vilnius University; the Nature Research Centre, Vilnius; Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, Lithuania; Cambridge University, Cambridge, U.K.; the Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., USA.