Welcome to the University of Arizona, the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, and most especially the Department of Entomology.  My name is Patricia Baldewicz and I am an administrative assistant in a position called Graduate Coordinator.  Our Department offers MS and PhD degrees, thus all of our students are graduate students.  The majority of my work is concerned with the graduate students, from sending out application packets to prospects to tracking the post-graduates as they move on in their careers.  I was a language major in my trek through college about 40 years ago, and worked in private industry most of my life, so it has been very different and exciting working on the main campus of a major University, especially in the “bug” department.  I have learned to tolerate and even LIKE most (but not all!) of our six- and eight-legged creatures.  And my greatest joy comes from assisting the graduate students in whatever capacity is needed.  Even though this is supposedly the electronic age and there is so much talk about “going paperless,” the administrative aspects of my job still require a HUGE amount of paper-shuffling.  Browse through the rest of our site, e-mail me if you would like to go to school here, or dial 520 621-5925 to request a tour of our collection (“bug museum,” as the non-scientists of us call it).

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