Rick Roush, PhD. - Science Advisory Board

Director of the UC system wide IPM (integrated pest management) program and acting Director of the Sustainable Ag Research and Education (SARE) Program for the UC system. Rick earned his Ph.D. in entomology from the University of California, Berkeley in 1979. Before joining the University of Adelaide in 1995, Roush was an associate professor at Mississippi State and Cornell Universities. After working the 8 years in Adelaide, including as Director of the Cooperative Research Centre for Weed Management (1998-2003), Rick returned to California in March 2003 to become Director of the University of California Statewide Integrated Pest Management (IPM) Program. As Director, Rick has responsibilities for guiding UC research and extension on a wide range of problems, such as reducing pesticide use, containment and management of newly introduced pests in natural ecosystems, and advice for urban gardeners. In 2004, Roush was also appointed acting Director of the UC SARE Program. Roush has held senior committee appointments in the US and Australia, including on a committee reviewing pesticide resistance for the US National Academy of Sciences and to the Australian government genetic engineering regulatory committees. Roush has been internationally recognized for his research on pest management since the 1980s, and has published widely on biological control, genetics, toxicology, resistance management, and the ecology of insects, mites and weeds.