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About Myself
I am a native of Oklahoma, a Cherokee Indian Nation citizen, & married to Rita Reid Smith, a Registered Pharmacist. Our daughters are Dr. Segen Smith Chase (B. A., K-State, 2000), an internal medicine physician in Manhattan; & Sonder Smith Crane (B. A., K-State, 2004), a third year medical student at the KU School of Medicine. They were both concertmasters of the KState Symphony, & our family enjoys listening to & performing vocal & instrumental music. We are active in the First United Methodist Church & support the Manhattan Arts Center. As a family we have traveled to the Czech Republic, France, Great Britain & Italy, but we most enjoy our annual island family vacation in the Gulf of Mexico. My hobbies include gardening, hunting & nature photography. In 2002, I was named a Fulbright Scholar in the Czech Republic and in 2003 a Dissertation Examiner at The Royal Veterinary & Agricultural University in Copenhagen. In 2004 I received the K-State Walter E. Morrison Award & in 2006 I was fortunate to be named a Fellow of the Entomological Society of America. I am a member of AAAS, the Entomological Society of America, Gamma Sigma Delta, the Kansas Entomological Society & Sigma Xi. I serve as an editor for the Journal of Economic Entomology, Arthropod Plant Interactions & Biopesticides International.
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B.S. Biology, Southwestern Oklahoma State University, 1971
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M.S. Entomology, Mississippi State University, 1973
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Ph.D. Entomology, Mississippi State University, 1976
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Post Doctoral Associate , North Carolina State University, 1976 - 1978
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