- Author: Dong-Hwan Choe
32nd Annual UCR Urban Pest Management Conference (UCR UPMC) was held at UCR Campus (HUB Conference Rooms) on March 28, 2023. Over 120 attendees (including 114 registered conference attendees and sponsors from urban pest management industry) and several students (graduates and undergraduates) from UCR Entomology urban entomology program enjoyed this one day (8AM - 4:30PM) educational event, which was filled with many useful and interesting talks. Dr. Vernard Lewis from UC Berkeley (emeritus) has provided our annual Ebeling Memorial Lecture, going over the rich and diverse tradition of urban entomology work in the western US, including California, and University of California system.
Here are some photos from the event.
- Author: Dong-Hwan Choe
The 31st Annual UCR Urban Pest Management Conference was held at UCR HUB (Highlander Union Building) Conference rooms on March 22, 2022. We had over 120 participants from urban pest management industry, state agencies, chemical manufacture, and other educational / research institutes.
For more about UCR Urban Pest Management Conference, visit ---> here
We had a great turn out. It was also great to be able to hold our conference in person again!
Here are some photos from the UCR UPMC 2022.
More photos can be found at the conference Facebook page
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- Author: Dong-Hwan Choe
30th Annual UCR Urban Pest Management Conference was held online between March 22 - 24, 2021. The event had more than 110 attendees from many different areas of California and other parts of the US. Also, this year we had several participants from oversees!
You can find this year's conference program by following the link: HERE
UCR Urban Pest Management Conference (UPMC) has been UCR urban entomology program's one of the most important outreach events for professionals in the pest control management industry and the public interested in these questions.
Here are some screenshots from the conference this year.
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- Author: Dong-Hwan Choe
UCR Urban Pest Management Conference was held in an online format in 2020. The conference was originally schedule in March 2020, but the conference organizing committee had to cancel and reschedule it in an online format with new May 2020 dates (May 18-20, 2020). Most of our conference speakers graciously adjusted their schedule to participate for the online conference.
For this 3-day events, we had over 110 participants from pest management industry and other institutes, including 12 sponsoring companies and 12 speakers. Here are some photos from 2020 UCR UPMC Online.
To find out more about the speakers and their presentations, visit the conference resource page here.
- Author: Dong-Hwan Choe
Here are some pictures from 28th Annual UCR Urban Pest Management Conference (March 20, 2019), which was held at UCR Extension Center. We had 14 speakers from university, research lab, government agencies, etc. to provide the most up-to-date information for the conference attendees (mostly pest management professionals). We had a great turnout.