Graduation 2015 prize-giving: British Crop Production Council Award

Posted 1 October 2015

Aidan Thomas, 22, from Newbury Berkshire, won the British Crop Production Council Award for his outstanding work on the MSc in Integrated Pest Management course at Harper Adams University. Aidan graduated from the Masters course at the end of September and is continuing at Harper Adams as a research student. Professor of Entomology, Simon Leather, said: “Aidan was an excellent student through the year, consistently scoring distinction level marks during the taught part of the course. His research project was on the biological control of the vine weevil using a predatory beetle and an entompathogenic fungus and was awarded the highest mark of all the Integrated Pest management projects.  He was awarded the MSC with Distinction.”