Contact This Program

  • Department of Entomology
    367 Briggs Hall
    One Shields Avenue
    Davis, CA 95616

    Tel: (530) 752-0475
    Fax: (530) 752-1537

    Web site

Contact Graduate Studies

  • 250 Mrak Hall
    One Shields Avenue
    Davis, CA 95616

    Phone: (530) 752-0650
    Fax: (530) 752-6222
Entomology

Application Deadline

  • ADMISSION
  • Priority: Dec. 15
  • Final: Jan. 15

  • FELLOWSHIP
  • Prospective Student Fellowship: Dec. 15
  • Continuing Student Fellowship: Jan. 15

Degrees Offered

  • M.S. Plan I
  • M.S. Plan II
  • Ph.D. Plan B

Designated Emphases

Requirements

  • Three letters of recommendation
  • GRE general and subject test

The program emphasizes the integration of basic and applied aspects of entomology in solving problems in biology, agriculture, and the environment. Students can specialize in a diversity of areas such as agricultural entomology, apiculture and bee biology, behavior, biological control, environmental toxicology, insect physiology and biochemistry, host-plant resistance, parasitology, medical entomology, molecular biology, sociobiology, systematics, and others.

This is a Departmentally-based Graduate Program.

For more information, visit the Entomology Web site.

Contacts

Program Chair
Michael Parrella Entomology (530) 752-5373
Academic Advisers
Peter S Cranston Entomology (530) 754-5803
Richard Karban Entomology (530) 752-2800
Harry Kaya Entomology 530-752-0998
Jay A Rosenheim Entomology (530) 752-4395
Graduate Program Staff Coordinator
Carol Nickles Entomology (530) 754-8638
Student Affairs Officer (SAO) in the Office of Graduate Studies
Angela Sharma Office of Graduate Studies (530) 752-2772