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Tom Phillips is a professor of entomology at Okla. State University in Stillwater, Ok. Phillips received his B.S. in biology from Juniata College in Pennsylvania, and both his M.S. and Ph.D. in entomology from the State University of New York at Syracuse where he specialized in forest entomology and chemical ecology. Phillips previously worked with the USDA Agricultural Research Service in Madison, Wis. He worked on biology and control of storage pests. Phillips also worked for the USDA ARA laboratory in Hilo, Hawaii, researching quarantine treatments to disinfest fresh fruits of fruit flies and new attractants for the Medfly. Phillips joined OSU in 1996,and there he directs a diverse research program on post harvest insects that involves students postdoctoral scientists, technicians and visiting scholars. Phillips lives with his wife Glenda, a musician and a teacher of general music, piano and voice, and his two teenage children, Sarah and Daniel.
While completing her B.S. in biology at Georgetown University, Dr. Ellen Thoms worked in the Insect Zoo and the Entomology Collection at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C. In 1979, she began studying cotton insect pest control at the University of Arizona, in Tucson. After completing her M.S. in entomology in 1982, Thoms worked as an entomologist in Insect World at the Cincinnati Zoo in Ohio. Thoms then went to Va., Polytechnic Institute & State University in Blacksburg to study cockroach biology and control, completing her Ph.D. in 1986. Since then, she has worked for Dow Chemical and now Dow AgroSciences as a research biologist in Florida. Thoms was a founder of the Broward Community College School of Structural Fumigation in 1988. She is a former president of the Florida Entomological Society. Thomas is married to Dr. Bradley Stith, a conservation biologist who specializes in population modeling of endangered species.
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