Training

Division of Effort

Administration: 80%

Extension: 10%

Research: 10%

Program Overview And Objectives For Next 5 Years

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Professional Experience

• 1995-2004 Chair, Department of Entomology, Cornell University
• 1995-present Professor, Department of Entomology, Cornell University
• 1987-present Director, Pesticide Management Education Program, Cornell University.
• 1987-1995 Associate Professor, Department of Entomology, Cornell University.
• 1982-1987 Department Extension Leader, Department of Entomology, Cornell University.
• 1981-1987 Assistant Professor, Department of Entomology, Cornell University.
• 1979-1981 Extension Entomologist, Department of Entomology, North Carolina State University.
• 1979-1981 Statewide Coordinator of the North Carolina Livestock and Poultry IPM Program
• 1976-1979 Research Associate, Department of Entomology, North Carolina State University.
• 1973-1976 Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Entomology, North Carolina State University.
• 1971-1973 Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Entomology, Pennsylvania State University.

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Professional Activities(1990 to present)

A. Professional Societies

• Entomological Society of America
• American Mosquito Control Association
• American Association for the Advancement of Science
• International Organization for Biological Control
• Sigma Xi
• Gamma Sigma Delta

B. Professional Assignments, Honors, Awards

• Manuscript Referee, Journal of Economic Entomology, Journal of Medical Entomology, Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association, Environmental Entomology, Journal of Agricultural Entomology, 1981-present.
• Co-Chairman, ESA Livestock Insects Biological Control Coordinating Committee, 1982-1990.
• Co-Chairman (with C. Geden), National Livestock Insects Workers' Conference, Ithaca, New York, 1990.
• Chairman, Coopers Achievement Award in Livestock Entomology, National Livestock Insect Workers' Conference, Jackson Hole, Wyoming, 1991.
• Organizer, Northeast Pesticide Coordinators Meeting. Buffalo, New York, 1993.
• Chairman, Dairy Cattle Commodity for the National Livestock Arthropod Pest Management Workshop. Lincoln, Nebraska. 1994.
• Organizer/Moderator, Livestock IPM. Second National IPM Symposium/Workshop. Las Vegas, Nevada. 1994.
• CSRS Representative, Livestock Insect Workers' Conference. 1995-97.

Symposia Invitations:

• The Role of Cooperative Extension in Biological Control: Information and Program Delivery, National Meeting of the Entomological Society of America, Reno, Nevada, 1991.
• Biocontrol of Arthropods of Livestock and Poultry: Recent Research Accomplishments, National Meeting of the Entomological Society of America, Baltimore, MD, 1992.
• Mass-Reared Natural Enemies: Applications and Regulations. National Meeting of the Entomological Society of America, Indianapolis, Indiana. 1993.
• Integrated Pest Management of Arthropod Pests of Livestock and Poultry. National Meeting of the Entomological Society of America, Dallas, Texas. 1994.

Invited Lectures/Seminars:

• Pesticide Issues in the 90's, Food Science Department Seminar, Ithaca, NY, 1990.
• Poultry Pest Management Recommendations. New England-New York Poultry Pest Management Workshop. Andover, MA. 1994.
• Update on Fly Control: Resistance to Fly Control Methods, New England-New York Poultry Pest Management Workshop, Andover, MA. 1994.

C. Federal And State Committees

• Pesticide Association of New York State, Advisor, 1987-1992.
• National Agricultural Pesticide Impact Assessment Program, State Liaison Representative, 1987-present.
• Interregional Research Project No. 4 (IR-4) State Liaison Representative, 1987-present.
• New York State Pesticide Management Advisory Council, 1989-present.
• New York State Ad hoc Committee on Pesticide Notification, 1990-91.
• Technical Committee to the Ad Hoc Task Force on Agriculture and the New York City Water Supply, 1991-1995.
• New York State Agribusiness Association, Advisor, 1992-1995.
• New York State Groundwater Management Plan Advisory Committee, 1992-present.
• Nominations Committee for the National Pesticide Educators Association, 1992-93.
• New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Pesticide Strategy Working Group, 1994.

D. University And College Committees

• Interscience Unit, Animal Welfare Committee, 1982-1991.
• Dairy/Field Crops IPM Commodity Committee, Chairman, l984-1990, Member, 1984-present.
• Dairy Cattle IPM Committee, 1984-present.
• Cornell IPM Operating Committee, l984-present.
• Executive Planning Committee for Pest Management Conference, 1989-1992.
• Water Resources Institute Program Committee, 1989-present.
• Water Resources Institute Statewide Extension Program Committee, 1989-present.
• Cornell Food Safety Committee, 1990-present.
• Pesticide Applicator Training Advisory Committee, 1991-present.
• Ad Hoc CALS Promotion Committee, 1992.
• CALS Agriculture Task Force, 1992-1993
• Ad Hoc College of Veterinary Medicine, Promotion Committee, 1993.
• Program Leader for Agricultural Competitiveness and Profitability in Extension Administration Search Committee, Ad Hoc member, 1993.
• Ad Hoc Committee on Insect Biology/Science/Entomology, 1994.
• Cornell Working Group on Sustainable Food and Agricultural Systems, 1994-present.
• CALS Agriculture Council 1995-present.
• CALS Life Sciences Council 1995-present.
• Ad hoc Group on Breast Cancer and Environmental Risk Factors, 1995-present.

E. Departmental Committees

• Executive Committee, 1987, 1993-1994.
• Insect Pathologist Search Committee, Chairman, 1994.

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Publications

• Lazarus, W. F., D. A. Rutz, R. W. Miller & D. A. Brown. 1989. Costs of existing and recommended manure management practices for house fly and stable fly (Diptera: Muscidae) control on dairy farms. J. Econ. Entomol. 82: 1145-1151.
• Geden, C. J., D. A. Rutz, R. W. Miller & D. C. Steinkraus. 1992. Suppression of house flies (Diptera: Muscidae) on New York and Maryland dairies using release of Muscidifurax raptor (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae) in an integrated management program. Environ. Entomol. 21: 1419-1426.
• Zchori-Fein, E., C. J. Geden & D. A. Rutz. 1992. Microsporidioses of Muscidifurax raptor (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae) and other pteromalid parasitoids of muscoid flies. J. Invert. Pathol. 60: 292-298.
• Seyler, L. A., J. W. Allan, D. A. Rutz & M. A. Kamrin. 1994. EXTOXNET - Extension Toxicology Network, Pesticide Information Notebook. 816 pp.
• Geden, C. J., D. A. Rutz, & D. C. Steinkraus. 1995. Virulence of different isolates and formulations of Beauveria bassiana for house flies and the parasitoid Muscidifurax raptor. Biological Control 5: 615-621.

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