Previous Awards & Award Recipients

Award Recipients

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Year	Recipient(s)
2024	Anthony Nearman, USDA Beltsville (Postdoc) Ian Collins, University of Georgia (Student)
2023	Alex McMenamin, USDA-ARS Baton Rouge (Postdoc) Ed Hsieh, University of Illinois (Student)
2022	Not Awarded
2021	Selina Bruckner, Auburn University
2020	Not Awarded
2019	Scott O’Neal, University of Nebraska at Lincoln (Postdoc)
2018	Inaugural award: Kaira Wagoner, University of North Carolina at Greensboro (Postdoc)

Previously referred to as the AAPA Student Research Scholarship.

Year	Recipient(s)
2024	Dan Aurell, Auburn University (PhD) Janae Becher, Augustana University (Undergraduate)
2023	Emily Carlson, Oregon State University
2022	Brooke Lawrence (Masters), Pennsylvania State University
2022	Garett Slater (PhD), Purdue University
2019	Alison McAfee, University of British Columbia
2018	Elizabeth Walsh, Texas A&M University
2017	Mehmet Ali Doke, Pennsylvania State University
2016	Patricia Bohls, University of California, Davis
2015	Cameron Jack, Oregon State University
2014	Adrian Fisher, Texas A&M
2013	Lizette Dahlgren, University of Nebraska
2012	Judy Wu, University of Minnesota
2011	Brandon Hopkins, Washington State University
2010	Geoff Williams, Acadia University, Nova Scotia
2009	Holly Wantuch, North Carolina State University
2008	Michael Simone, University of Minnesota
2007	Kathleen Lee, University of Minnesota
2006	No award given
2005	Andrew Ammons
2004	Katie Bohrer, University of Maryland
2003	Heather Mattila, University of Guelph
2002	Selim Dedej, University of Georgia
2001	Miguel Arechavaleta-Velasco, Purdue University
1997	Hannah Fraser, University of Guelph

Year	Recipient(s)
2024	Robyn Underwood, Pennsylvania State University
2023	Ana Heck, Michigan State University
2022	Peter Fowler & Meghan Milbrath, Michigan State University
2021	Jennifer Tsuruda, University of Tennessee
2020	Not Awarded
2019	Kurt Jones, Colorado State University
2018	Inaugural Award: Rachael Bonoan, Tufts University

Carolin Rein, University of Hohenheim (PhD student) – “Control of Varroa destructor with lithium chloride: efficacy and side effects.” Oral Presentation.
Dylan Ryals, Purdue University (PhD student) – “Why diversity matters: fitness benefits of genetic variation at individual and social scales.” Oral Presentation.
Rogan Tokach, Auburn University (PhD student) – “Tropilaelaps mercedesae management: Combining cultural and chemical control methods.” Oral Presentation.
Benedict DeMoras, Cornell University (MS student) – “The path to organic beekeeping in the US: factors affecting pesticide loads in colonies on organic farms.” Poster Presentation.

Leah Swanson (undergraduate student) – “The causes of variability in honey bee residual toxicity”
Hannah McKenzie (MS student) – “Developing a methodology to detect honey bee foraging using bioacoustics analysis”
Alexandria Payne (Ph.D. student) – “Improving honey bee tolerance to pathogen infection by optimizing macronutrients within artificial diets”
Morgan Roth (Ph.D. student) – “DO NOT ENTER: Keeping small hive beetles at bay through olfactory cues”
Dan Aurell (Ph.D. student) – “Aluen CAP™: A promising supplemental treatment against Varroa destructor”
Brandley Ohlinger (Ph.D. student) – “A mixed-use landscape in Virginia provides sustained foraging resources for honey bees”
Maggie Shanahan (Ph.D. student) – “Thinking inside the box: building beehives that stimulate propolis collection and support honey bee health”
Mireille Levesque: “Impacts of Indoor Mass Storage of two densities of Honey Bee Queens during Winter on queen survival, reproductive quality and colony performance”
Krisztina Christmon: “The remarkable size variability in U.S. Varroa destructor population”

Morgan Carr-Markell, University of Minnesota. “Do honey bees recruit to native flowers in restored prairies?”
Joseph Milone, North Carolina State University. “The impacts of developmental multi-pesticide pollen and wax exposure on queen honey bee (Apis mellifera) health, mating, and colony development”
Taylor Reams, University of North Carolina at Greensboro. “Examining the factors influencing Varroa destructor host selection of Apis mellifera larvae”

Courtney MacInnis, University of Alberta. “Nosema ceranae: Investigating the viability and infectivity of spores”
Alexandra Payne, Texas A&M. “Effects of honey bee queen insemination volume on colony growth”
Samuel Ramsey, University of Maryland. “Varroa destructor feed primarily on honey bee fat body not hemolymph”

Year	Recipient
2016	Laura Brutscher, Montana State University
2014	Daren Eiri, University of Texas
2013	Kaira Wagoner, University of North Carolina, at Greensboro
2012	Michael Goblirsch, University of Minnesota
2011	Michael B. Wilson, University of Minnesota
2010	Judy Wu, Washington State University
2009	Michael Wilson, University of Tennessee
2008	Elina Niño, North Carolina State University
2007	Nick Aliano
2006	Nick Aliano
2005	Ramesh Sagili
2004	Nick Aliano, University of Nebraska. “Strategies for using powdered sugar to remove varroa mites from adult honey bees”
2003	Janisse Bailey, University of Guelph. “Impacts from sweet corn pest control agents on foraging honey bees”
2002	Selim Dedej, University of Georgia. “Interactions and pollinating efficacies of honey bees and nectar-thieving carpenter bees”
2001	Miguel Arechavaleta-Velasco, Purdue University. “Genetic analysis of hygienic behavior in backcrossed honey bees”
2000	Paula Macedo, University of Nebraska
1998	Jamie Fisher, Pennsylvania State University. “Effects of tracheal mites and Nosema on commercial U.S. queens”
1997	Timothy Harman. “Honey bees as indicators of radionuclide contamination”

AAPA no longer confers the following awards, but we have published their descriptions and recipients here for archival purposes.

Only awarded from 1997-2000 based on records.
Aimed to highlight an AAPA member’s contributions to the field of apiculture, particularly in the following areas: Apicultural research, extension activities, regulatory activities or teaching.
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