Dr. Andrine Shufran has been employed with the Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology since 2003. Shufran earned a B.S. in Horticulture and Entomology from Texas A&M University, an M.S. in Agricultural Biology from New Mexico State University where she was recognized with the Dean's Award for Excellence (2000) and Distinguished Departmental Alumnus (2013), and a Ph.D. in Entomology from OSU in 2008. She is currently Coordinator of the OSU Insect Adventure and an Associate Extension Specialist. Her job at the Insect Adventure involves husbandry of numerous arthropod species, supervising student entomologists, maintaining USDA quarantine regulations, overseeing improvements to the facility, and providing more than 200 educational programs on arthropods, annually, to children of all ages throughout the state. She enjoys skeet shooting with her husband, playing piano, reading, movies, and gardening, but most of all, she LOVES her job because she gets to be a kid who never grows up!