Ruth Dahlquist, biology faculty, and Steve Pauls, chemistry and physics faculty, participated in a forum of Hispanic-serving Institutions (HS) regarding a proposed National Science Foundation HSI-Science, Technology, Engineering and mathematics initiative. The forum took place September 25-26, 2009, in Albuquerque. The 75 institutions represented were accredited four-year and two-year public and private colleges and universities where Hispanics are at least 25 percent of the full-time undergraduate enrollment.

Ruth Dahlquist, Ph.D., biology professor, presented "An evaluation of pheromone trapping for banana weevil (Cosmopolites sordidus) management in Costa Rican smallholder plantain farms" at the 2008 annual meeting of the Entomological Society of America, November 16-19, 2008, in Reno.