The prestigious honors go to Bruce Hammock and Thomas Scott of UC Davis, and Thomas Miller of UC Riverside.

Each year the ESA Governing Board selects up to 10 Fellows from the 6,000-member society for the honor, which acknowledges outstanding contributions in one or more of the following: research, teaching, extension, or administration. They will be inducted as Fellows at the ESA's annual meeting, to be held Dec. 12-15 in San Diego.

Bruce Hammock

Hammock, a distinguished professor of entomology and a member of the National Academy of Sciences, joined the UC Davis Department of Entomology faculty in 1980 and holds a joint appointment with the UC Davis Cancer Research Center. He received his bachelor of science degree from Louisiana State University and his doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley, in entomology. He worked from 1978-80 at the UC Riverside Department of Entomology before accepting a position at UC Davis.

As an insect developmental biologist, Hammock is known for his work on the juvenile hormone. His laboratory pioneered the use of transition state theory to inhibit enzymes with small molecules and recombinant viruses as green pesticides. In environmental chemistry, he pioneered the use of immunochemistry for pesticide analysis. His laboratory is exploiting inhibitors of epoxide hydrolases as drugs to treat diabetes, inflammation, ischemia, and cardiovascular disease. Compounds from the UC Davis laboratory are in human trials.

Hammock received the UC Davis Faculty Research Lecture Award in 2001 and the Distinguished Teaching Award for Graduate and Professional Teaching in 2008. Hammock directs the UC Davis Superfund Research Program, which earlier this year received a $13.2 million, five-year competitive renewal grant from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS). He also directs the National Institutes of Health Biotechnology Training Program and the NIEHS Combined Analytical Laboratory.

Hammock's peer-reviewed publications total 763.

Thomas Scott

Scott joined the UC Davis Department of Entomology Department in 1996 and is the director of the UC Davis Mosquito Research Laboratory. He earned his doctorate in ecology from Pennsylvania State University and was a postdoctoral fellow in epidemiology at the Yale School of Medicine. He held his first faculty position in the Department of Entomology, University of Maryland. He co-founded the Center for Vector-Borne Research and served as director of the Davis Arbovirus Research Unit and as vice chair of the UC Davis Department of Entomology.

A member of ESA since 1983, he is a former chair of Section D. He has published more than 175 research articles, reviews, and book chapters. A fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Scott was a National Research Council Associate and past president of the Society for Vector Ecology. He chairs the Mosquito Modeling Group in the program on Research and Policy in Infectious Disease Dynamics, and is a subject editor for the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.

Scott's research focuses on mosquito ecology, evolution of mosquito-virus interactions, epidemiology of mosquito-borne disease, and evaluation of novel products and strategies for mosquito control and disease prevention.

He aims to generate the detailed, difficult-to-obtain data necessary for assessing current recommendations for disease prevention, rigorously testing fundamental assumptions in public health policy, and developing innovative, cost- and operationally-effective strategic concepts for prevention of some of the most important infectious diseases of humans.

Thomas Miller

Miller received his doctorate in entomology from UC Riverside in 1967. He worked as a research associate at the University of Illinois and as a NATO Postdoctoral Fellow at Glasgow University. He then returned to UC Riverside in 1969, where he has taught ever since. His research has included structure and function of the insect circulatory system; mode of action of insecticides; insect neuromuscular physiology; physiology, toxicology and behavior of pink bollworm in cotton fields; transgenic insects; and applied symbiosis for crop protection and biopesticides for crop protection. His university teaching includes insect physiology, insect toxicology and first year biology.

Current projects include control of bush cricket pests of oil palm trees in Papua New Guinea, oversight of field trials of transgenic grapevines with resistance to Pierce's disease, biotechnology for control of desert locust, and regulatory control of insect transgenic technologies. In 2003 he was awarded the Gregor J. Mendel Medal for Research in Biological Sciences by the Czech Academy of Science; in 2005 he was invited to give the Verrall Lecture at the Royal Entomological Society; and in the summer of 2010 he is taking a one-year appointment as Jefferson Science Fellow at the U.S. State Department.

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