Pontasch--Kurt W. (Biology Faculty)

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# Title Date Summary
1 UNI announces outstanding graduate student awards
Public Relations News Release 2007:100, p.1
Graduate students received awards at the spring graduate faculty meeting.
2 Plenty of dead fish in the sea
Public Relations News Release 2001:266, p.1
Kurt Pontasch will talk about the recent chemical spills that killed thousands of fish in northwestern and central Iowa.
3 Your choices are unlimited with capstone
Northern Iowan 93:47, p.10
Although all students must take Environment Technology and Society course, each section is different.
4 IWRC
Campus News Network 6:13, p.2
Overview of Iowa Waste Reduction Center activities.
5 Regents approve faculty promotions, tenure
Campus News Network 4:17, p.1
Faculty members receiving promotions and tenure.
6 Carver grants: the germination of applied scientific research
Campus News Network 3:21, p.1
Seven faculty members have been conducting research under Carver grants.
7 The long-term impact.
Public Relations News Release 1992:276, p.1
Kurt Pontasch states the effects of the oil spill near the Shetland Islands could last for years to come.
8 Summer fellowships announced
Campus News Network 2:11, p.1
Roster of those who won awards and their topics of research.
9 Soviet environmental educators visit UNI
Campus News Network 2:1, p.2
Six visit with Professor McCalley; photo.
10 Soviet environmental educators visit Northern Iowa
Northern Iowa Today 19:2, p.6
Six visitors work on environmental education curriculum; photo.
11 $50,000 awarded for scientific research
Campus News Network 1:13, p.1
Five projects win awards from Carver Foundation.
12 Carver research grants awarded to five Northern Iowa faculty
Northern Iowa Today 19:1, p.7
Awards go to Professors Curtiss D. Hanson, Kurt Pontasch, Jingyu Lin, and Mohammed Jibaly
13 Carver scientific research initiative grants awarded to University of Northern Iowa Faculty
Public Relations News Release 1990:370, p.1
UNI faculty receive development grants.
14 Seventeen years of silence has now been broken- the cicada speaks!
Public Relations News Release 1989:652, p.1
Kurt Pontasch says while many people refer to them as locusts, that's not accurate. He says the noisy bugs are declining since they require tree sap over a long period of time.
15 Bugs who eat other bugs: replacement for chemical insecticides? University of Northern Iowa Professor studies predatory insects.
Public Relations News Release 1989:111, p.1
"The estimated benefits from biological control research in California alone was reported at $200 million in 1974," Kurt Pontasch says. "The savings resulted from both reduced pesticide application and reduced crop damage."
16 It's a bug eat bug world -- a smorgasbord in your own backyard.
Public Relations News Release 1989:91, p.1
Kurt Pontasch, says beneficial insects such as the preying mantis, ladybird beetle, and a number of wasps and parasitic insects are being studied to see how they might be used to control insects on a large scale.