{"id":9,"date":"2015-10-05T06:52:55","date_gmt":"2015-10-05T06:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bsmrau.edu.bd\/aer\/?page_id=8"},"modified":"2023-08-10T05:52:31","modified_gmt":"2023-08-10T05:52:31","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/gau.edu.bd\/ent\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Welcome to the Department of Entomology<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>[rev_slider ent01]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><em><span style=\"color: #003300;\">Message from the Head<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">The Department of Entomology, one of the leading departments under the faculty of Agriculture started to offer MS (in Entomology) degree from 1991 and introduced PhD program in 1995. Currently, the department is offering courses at BS, MS and PhD levels with recent and advanced courses by its dedicated expert faculty members. The department has a 3 ha of experimental field and well-designed laboratories with advanced equipment facilitating world-class applied and basic research funded by different government and international organizations. A total of 213 MS and 35 PhD degree has been awarded from the department and the alumni are working in different organizations for managing insect pests for human welfare and ensuring food security of the country.\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/h5>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><b>The Department of Entomology has a major research thrust on <\/b><\/span><\/h4>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"color: #003300;\">Biological and ecological studies of arthropod pests;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #003300;\">Studies on biocontrol agents, pollinators and their utilization in crop production;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #003300;\">Collection, identification and preservation of insect pests and their natural enemies;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #003300;\">Industrial insects and their commercialization;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #003300;\">Integrated pest management (IPM) emphasizing the environmental toxicology of pesticides<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #003300;\">Molecular and phylogenetic study of social insects<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the Department of Entomology [rev_slider ent01] &nbsp; Message from the Head The Department of Entomology, one of the leading departments under the faculty of Agriculture started to offer MS (in Entomology) degree from 1991 and introduced PhD program in 1995. Currently, the department is offering courses at BS, MS and PhD levels with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":786074,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gau.edu.bd\/ent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gau.edu.bd\/ent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gau.edu.bd\/ent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gau.edu.bd\/ent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/786074"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gau.edu.bd\/ent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/gau.edu.bd\/ent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":510,"href":"https:\/\/gau.edu.bd\/ent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9\/revisions\/510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gau.edu.bd\/ent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}