Joe Louis (Ph.D.), University Park, Pa. :: received the 2011 International Congress on Insect Neurochemistry and Neurophysiology Student Recognition Award in Insect Physiology, Biochemistry, Toxicology and Molecular Biology from the Entomological Foundation. The award is based on his UNT doctoral research with Jyoti Shah, identifying plant genes and mechanisms involved in plant defense against the green peach aphid. Joe is a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Entomology at Penn State, where he continues his research on insect-plant interactions.