C. W. Woodworth Award - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

The C. W. Woodworth Award is an annual award presented by the Pacific Branch of the Entomological Society of America

Entomological Society of America

The Entomological Society of America was founded in 1889 and today has more than 6,000 members, including educators, extension personnel, consultants, students, researchers, and scientists from agricultural departments, health agencies, private industries, colleges and universities, and state and...

. This award, the PBESA's largest, is for achievement in Entomology

Entomology

Entomology is the scientific study of insects, a branch of arthropodology...

in the Pacific region of the United States over the previous ten years. The award is named in honor of Charles W. Woodworth

Charles W. Woodworth

Charles W. Woodworth was an American entomologist. He founded the Entomology Department at the University of California, Berkeley, and made many valuable contributions to entomology during his career....

. This award is principally sponsored by Woodworth's great-grandson, Brian Holden, and his wife, Joann Wilfert, with additional support by Dr. Craig W. and Kathryn Holden, and Dr. Jim and Betty Woodworth.

Award recipients

**Partial List of C. W. Woodworth Award Recipients**
Year	Winner	Affiliation	#
2010	Dr. Walter S. Leal	University of California, Davis	42nd
2009	Dr. Charles G. Summers	University of California, Kearney Research and Extension Center Kearney Research and Extension Center The University of California's Kearney Research and Extension Center, the largest field station in the UC system, is an active extension facility dedicated to agricultural research...	41st
2008	Dr. Brian Federici	University of California, Riverside	40th
2007	Dr. Nick Toscano	University of California, Riverside	39th
2006	Dr. Jocelyn Millar	University of California, Riverside	38th
2005	Dr. John D. Stark	Washington State University	37th
2004	Dr. Victoria Y. Yokoyama	USDA Agricultural Research Service, Parlier Agricultural Research Service The Agricultural Research Service is the principal in-house research agency of the United States Department of Agriculture . ARS is one of four agencies in USDA's Research, Education and Economics mission area...	36th
2003	Dr. Keith S. Pike	Washington State University	35th
2002	Dr. James Hagler	USDA Western Cotton Research Laboratory Agricultural Research Service The Agricultural Research Service is the principal in-house research agency of the United States Department of Agriculture . ARS is one of four agencies in USDA's Research, Education and Economics mission area...	34th
2001	Dr. Robert S. Lane	University of California, Berkeley	33rd
2000	Dr. Jay F. Brunner	Washington State University	32nd
1999	Dr. Wyatt W. Cone	Washington State University	31st
1998	Dr. Harry Kaya	University of California, Davis	30th
1997	Dr. Jacqueline L. Robertson	USDA Pacific Southwest Research Station Agricultural Research Service The Agricultural Research Service is the principal in-house research agency of the United States Department of Agriculture . ARS is one of four agencies in USDA's Research, Education and Economics mission area...	29th
1996	Dr. Marshall W. Johnson	University of California, Riverside	28th
1995	Dr. Nabil N. Youssef	Utah State University	27th
1994	Dr. Michael K. Rust	University of California, Riverside	26th
1993	Dr. Brian Croft	Oregon State University	25th
1992	Dr. Wallace C. Mitchell	University of Hawaii, Manoa	24th
1991	Dr. Thomas F. Leigh	University of California, Davis	23rd
1990	Dr. Philip F. Torchio	Utah State University Utah State University Utah State University is a public university located in Logan, Utah. It is a land-grant and space-grant institution and is accredited by the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities....	22nd
1989	Dr. Stanley C. Hoyt	Washington State University	21st
1988	Dr. John R. Anderson	North Carolina State University North Carolina State University North Carolina State University at Raleigh is a public, coeducational, extensive research university located in Raleigh, North Carolina, United States. Commonly known as NC State, the university is part of the University of North Carolina system and is a land, sea, and space grant institution...	20th
1987	Dr. Robert Washino	University of California, Davis	19th
1986	Dr. Roy Fukuto	University of California, Riverside	18th
1985	Dr. Carl A. Johansen	Washington State University Washington State University Washington State University is a public research university based in Pullman, Washington, in the Palouse region of the Pacific Northwest. Founded in 1890, WSU is the state's original and largest land-grant university...	17th
1983	Dr. George Tamaki	USDA ARS, Yakima Agricultural Research Service The Agricultural Research Service is the principal in-house research agency of the United States Department of Agriculture . ARS is one of four agencies in USDA's Research, Education and Economics mission area...	15th
1982	Dr. Paul Oman	Oregon State University	14th
1981	Dr. Harry Laidlaw	University of California, Davis	13th
1980	Dr. George P. Georghiou	University of California, Riverside	12th
1979	Dr. William G. Wellington	University of British Columbia University of British Columbia The University of British Columbia is a public research university. UBC’s two main campuses are situated in Vancouver and in Kelowna in the Okanagan Valley...	11th
1978	Dr. William Harry Lange Jr.	University of California, Davis University of California, Davis The University of California, Davis is a public teaching and research university established in 1905 and located in Davis, California, USA. Spanning over , the campus is the largest within the University of California system and third largest by enrollment...	10th
1977	Dr. Paul DeBach	University of California, Riverside University of California, Riverside The University of California, Riverside, commonly known as UCR or UC Riverside, is a public research university and one of the ten general campuses of the University of California system. UCR is consistently ranked as one of the most ethnically and economically diverse universities in the United...	9th
1976	Dr. D. Elmo Hardy	University of California, Berkeley	8th
1975	Dr. Melville H. Hatch	University of Washington University of Washington University of Washington is a public research university, founded in 1861 in Seattle, Washington, United States. The UW is the largest university in the Northwest and the oldest public university on the West Coast. The university has three campuses, with its largest campus in the University...	7th
1974	Dr. Walter Ebeling	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles The University of California, Los Angeles is a public research university located in the Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, USA. It was founded in 1919 as the "Southern Branch" of the University of California and is the second oldest of the ten campuses...	6th
1973	Dr. Carl Barton Huffaker	University of California, Berkeley	5th
1972	Dr. Hartford Keifer	Department of Food and Agriculture, CA	4th
1971	Dr. Ray F. Smith	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley , is a teaching and research university established in 1868 and located in Berkeley, California, USA...	3rd
1970	Dr. Walter Carter	Pineapple Research Institute	2nd
1969	Dr. M. T. James	Washington State University Washington State University Washington State University is a public research university based in Pullman, Washington, in the Palouse region of the Pacific Northwest. Founded in 1890, WSU is the state's original and largest land-grant university...	1st

A box containing the older records of the PBESA and which likely contains the names of the first few recipients of the award is located in the special collections section of the library at U.C. Davis.

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