UNL Recognizes Dr. Shripat Kamble at Recent Conference

Kamble ran the highly regarded Nebraska Urban Pest Management Conference for more than 20 years.


LINCOLN, Neb. —  At this week’s Nebraska Urban Pest Management Conference, organizers took time to recognize Dr. Shripat Kamble, longtime professor at the University of Nebraska Lincoln.

Kamble, who recently ended his 38 years of field work but continues to teach and research at UNL, ran the highly regarded conference for more than 20 years.

Kamble joined the university and in 1989, and when then-University of Nebraska professor Dr. Roger Gold left for Texas A&M University, he was elevated to his current position.

Kamble is responsible for developing and coordinating pest management education programs for PMPs, as well as overseeing research efforts that focus on genomic research or the molecular structure of an insect.

During his tenure, Kamble’s research and extension projects have been awarded more than $3.72 million dollars in research grants, he has been published in more than 150 research and extension publications.