Students, researchers and other industry professionals tuned in via Zoom to honor award recipients and discuss research and career topics at the virtual National Conference on Urban Entomology & Invasive Pest Ant Conference (NCUE & IPAC), May 24-25. The event, held biannually since 1986, was rescheduled from its original 2020 date due to the COVID-19 pandemic. During the first day of the conference, 11 undergraduate and graduate students gave 10-minute presentations on various aspects of urban entomology and invasive ant management as part of NCUE/IPAC’s student paper competition. Maria A. Gonzalez-Morales, a Ph.D. candidate at North Carolina State University, took home first place and $1,000 for her paper, “Resistance to Fipronil in the Common Bed Bug,