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Our lab takes part in various outreach and community activities both on and off campus. Here are some of our recent activities.

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Insect festival, Fall 2022

U. Arkansas Entomology and Plant Pathology

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Monarch Festival @ Quinta Mazatlan, April 1, 2022

 

 

 

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HESTEC STEM activity day: March 4, 2020

 

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P-16 Outreach college readiness program for high school students

Fall 2019

 

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Vaquero Round up- for incoming freshmen in Biology

August 23, 2019

 

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Plant Bloome Teacher workshop for PSJA school district

 

We led a week-long teacher training workshop with funding from the American Society for Plant Biologists during the week of August 4-9, 2019.

 

 

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Pictures: Sukhman Singh and Mandeep Tayal, Kariyat lab

 

 

 

Party for the Planet event at Gladys Porter Zoo, April 6, 2019

 

We were invited to host a booth and educate public on local insects at the  Party for the Planet event at http://gpz.org/. Here is our booth with students from the lab

 

 

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Monarch Fest 2019: Quinta Mazatlan March 16, 2019

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We were invited to host a booth and give talks on "Meet an Entomologist" as a part of the annual monarch fest at Quinta Mazatlan (http://www.quintamazatlan.com/events/details/2018-03-17/monarch_festival.aspx). Here are some pictures from the event.

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Pictures: Mandeep Tayal, Kariyat lab

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Hestec 2018: October

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For Hispanic Engineering Science and Technology Week celebration, we set up an insect booth with live and curated insect specimens, their hosts and details of their life cycles. The booth was visited by more than 1000 people. We used Manduca sexta caterpillars for hands on activities for kids. Here are some of the pictures from the event (October 2018)

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Pictures: Leo Vasquez, COS UTRGV

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Vaqueros Roundup2018: August

We had set up an exhibition of live insects on 'Undergraduate Orientation 2018' where young minds were enlightened about various prospects of Entomology and informed about the science we are doing. Here are some pictures captured during the orientation.

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