Bio: Flashinski, Stan J. – Top Award for PHD Research (1974)

Transcriber: stan@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Flashinski, Lichtenstein

----Source: THORP COURIER (Thorp, Clark County, Wis.) 23 May 1974

Stan J. Flashinski, an entomology student at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, has won the top award for Ph. D. research from the North Central Branch of Entomological Society of America. The award was announced April 3, 1974 at the spring meeting of the Society.

The purpose of the annual contest is to stimulate interest in entomology and toxicology by recognizing graduate student achievements of Ph. D research and several other categories of study.

Flashinski, under UW Entomologist E. P. Lichtenstein, studied how various fungi degrad soil insecticides in non-toxic materials.

Some insecticides are persistent in the soil and some disappear rather quickly, the researchers explain. Dyfonate, commonly used by farmers, is a relatives non-persistent soil insecticide belonging to the organophosporour group. This group, to a large extent, replaced previously used more persistent insecticides such as DDT.

Two papers dealing with Flashinki’s research will be published in future issues of the Canadian Journal of Microbiology. A third paper has been submitted for publication.

 

 


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