Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos.

Veterinary School.
General Studies 1988-1989.
Lima-Peru.

Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina.

Faculty of Sciences.
Department of Biology.
Bachelor degree 1995.
Lima-Peru.

University of Missouri-St. Louis.

Department of Biology.
Graduate Certificate in Conservation
Biology 1996.
St. Louis-Missouri.

University of Maryland

Department of Entomology
Master degree 1999.
College Park-Maryland.

University of Maryland

Department of Entomology
PhD. degree expected 2005.
College Park-Maryland.

Sociedad Peruana de Entomología.

Laboratorio de Control Biológico
Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina.

National Museum of Natural History
Smithsonian Institution.

Entomological Society of America.

Ecological Society of America.

The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi

Plant-Insect, Predator-Prey and Parasitoid-Host Interactions.

Influence of host-plant association in the genetic differentiation of hymenopteran parasitoids.

Spanish: Fluent conversation, writing and reading.

English: Fluent conversation, writing and reading.

Italian: Fluent conversation, writing and reading.

Portuguese: Fluent conversation and reading, adequate writing.

French: adequate conversation, writing and reading.

1993 Summer workshop: Training Peruvian students in insect mounting techniques.

Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina. Lima-Peru.

1994 Teaching assistant of insect workshop in field and laboratory techniques for canopy fogging in Ecuador.

1996-1997 Teaching Assistant of Principles of Biology I.

Department of Biology
University of Maryland

1997-2001 Teaching Assistant of Principles of Biology II.

Department of Biology
University of Maryland.

2001 Instructor in OTS Tropical Ecology Course. Iquitos, Peru.

2001-present Teaching Assistant of Biostatistics I, Department of Animal Sciences, University of Maryland.

1998 Faculty-student representative.
Entomology Department
University of Maryland

2000 Search committee of Biology course coordinator.
Biological Sciences Program
University of Maryland

1990 Lima-Perú. Workshop: Methodology to estimate biological diversity. BIOLAT-MUSM.

1991 Lima-Perú. Symposium : Biogeography, ecology and conservation of the mountain forest in Perú. MUSM.

1992 Lima-Perú. X National Congress of Biology.

1992 Lima-Perú. Workshop: Principles of general and applied entomology. Universidad Ricardo Palma.

1992 Lima-Perú. Symposium: Abiseo National Park: biodiversity, cultural history and future. APECO

1994 Lima-Perú. Seminar Dr. Prigogine and the refunding of Science. IPIC.

1995 Lima-Perú. Seminar/Workshop: Biological diversity in Perú: Current situation and basis for a national program.

1997 Maryland-USA. Parasitic Hymenoptera Course X. University of Maryland.

1998 Washington, D C-USA. Walt Brown Course in Scanning Electro Microscopy. National Museum of Natural History Smithsonian Institution.

1990 Paracas-Perú. Assistant. Banding of shore birds. Juan Carlos Riveros project.

1990 Playa Chica, Huacho-Perú. Assistant. Census of waterfowls. Juan Carlos Riveros project.

1991 Manu National Park, Perú. Assistant. Beetle diversity. Dr. Terry L. Erwin project.

1993 Huaros, Lima-Perú. Assistant. Botanical collections. Prof. Mercedes Flores project.

1993 Huarmiragra, Huanuco-Perú. Assistant. Entomological biodiversity comparisons between crops and natural areas. Dr. Edgar Sanchez project.

1994 Onkone Gare, Napo-Ecuador. Assistant. Beetle diversity. Dr. Terry L. Erwin project.

1994 Sierrazul, Ecuador. Assistant. Beetle diversity. Dr. Terry L. Erwin project.

1994 Cieneguilla, Lima-Perú. Feeding behavior of Bufo limensis. Ariadne Angulo and Raul F. Medina project.

1996 Pitilla, Area de Conservacion Arenal-Costa Rica. Chelonodema spp (Coleoptera: Carabidae) collection. Raul F. Medina project.

1996 Tenorio, Area de Conservacion Guanacaste-Costa Rica. Chelonodema spp (Coleoptera: Carabidae) collection. Raul F. Medina project.

1996 ALAS project, La Selva Biological Station-Costa Rica. Searching for Chelonodema spp (Coleoptera: Carabidae). Raul F. Medina project.

1996 La Selva Biological Station, Sarapiqui-Costa Rica. Graduate assistant. PLAGAS: herbivory of tropical tree species. Dr. Robert Marquis and Dr. Elizabeth Braker project.

1994 XX Congresso Brasileiro de Zoología. Rio de Janeiro. Avaliacao preliminar da situacao populacional e observacoes sobre a biologia de Bufo limensis na localidade de Cieneguilla, Lima, Perú. Angulo, A., and R. F. Medina. Oral presentation.

1998 Eastern Branch Entomological Society of America 69th Annual Meeting. Cherry Hill, New Jersey. Temporal Variation in Consumption of Orgyia leucostigma Larvae on Acer negundo Saplings by a Naturally Occurring Predatory Community. Medina, R. F., and P. Barbosa. Oral presentation.

1998 Ecological Society of America 83rd Annual Meeting. Baltimore, Maryland. Differential Consumption of Orgyia leucostigma (Lepidoptera: Lymantriidae) Larvae on Acer negundo L. (Sapindales: Aceraceae) saplings by vertebrate and Invertebrate predators. Medina, R. F., and P. Barbosa. Oral presentation.

1998 Entomological Society of America 1998 Annual Meeting. Las Vegas, Nevada. Predation of Orgyia leucostigma (Lepidoptera: Lymantriidae) Larvae by Invertebrate and Vertebrate Predatory Communities. Medina, R. F., and P. Barbosa. Oral presentation.

1999 Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina. Lima, Peru. Estudios de Grado en el Extranjero: Requisitos y Pasos a Seguir. Medina, R. F. Oral presentation.

1999 Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina. Lima, Peru. Predacion de Larvas de Lepidoptera por Vertebrados e Invertebrados. Medina, R. F. Oral presentation. .

2000 Ecological Society of America 2000 Annual Meeting. Snowbird, Utah. Comparisons Among the Arthropod Community Found at the Leaf Litter, Aerial Space Under the Canopy and Box Elder (Acer negundo) Saplings in a Hardwood Forest in Maryland. Medina, R.F.., and P. Barbosa. Oral presentation.

2000 Entomological Society of America 2000 Annual Meeting. Montreal, Canada. Comparisons Among the Arthropod Community Found at the Leaf Litter, Aerial Space Under the Canopy and Box Elder Trees (Acer negundo Sapindales: Aceraceae) in a Hardwood Forest in Maryland. Medina, R.F., and P. Barbosa. Poster.

2000 Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina, Escuela de Postgrado. Lima, Peru. Vulnerabilidad de Orgyia leucostigma al ataque de vertebrados e invertebrados. Medina, R. F., and P. Barbosa. Oral presentation.

2002 Mid Atlantic Plant Molecular Biological Society 37th Annual meeting. Beltsville, Maryland-US. The role of host-plant association on the genetic differentiation of sympatric populations of Aleiodes nolophanae (Ashmead) (Hymenoptera: Braconidae). Medina, R.F., and P. Barbosa. Poster.

1994 Comments about insects for the television documentary "Tumbes Bosques y Manglares". PANAMERICANA TELEVISION, Lima-Peru.

1996 Classification of Chelonodema spp (Coleoptera: Carabidae) specimens at the Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad (INBio). Costa Rica.

1996 Classification of Chelonodema spp (Coleoptera: Carabidae) specimens at the Universidad de Costa Rica Museum. Department of Biology. Costa Rica.

1996 Classification of Chelonodema spp (Coleoptera: Carabidae) specimens at the Museo Nacional. Costa Rica.

2000 Construction of the Plummers Island inventory web-page as a link of the web page of the Department of Entomology at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History.

1995 International Center for Tropical Ecology fellowship to study in the Graduate Certificate Program in Tropical Biology and Conservation at the University of Missouri- St. Louis.

1996 General Service Award from the University of Missouri-St. Louis. Grant for an Internship at INBio- Costa Rica. A Preliminary Study of the Chelonodema spp (Carabidae: Coleoptera) of Costa Rica.

1997 Allen L. Steinhauer Award for Excellence in Teaching. Honorable Mention. Department of Entomology. University of Maryland.

1998 Student Paper Competition Award. Second Place. Eastern Branch Entomological Society of America 69th Annual Meeting. Cherry Hill, New Jersey.

1998 Allen L. Steinhauer Award for Excellence in Teaching. Honorable Mention. Department of Entomology. University of Maryland.

1998 Goldhaber Travel Award. Fellowship Office, Graduate Studies and Research. University of Maryland.

1999 Washington Biologists’ Field Club award for the proposal: Natural History of Plummers Island, Maryland: 100 years of Data on the Ground Beetles of a Temperate Forest site (Coleoptera: Carabidae). Erwin, T. L. and Medina, R.

1999 Allen L. Steinhauer Award for Excellence in Teaching. Honorable Mention. Department of Entomology. University of Maryland.

2000 BEES summer fellowship Program in Behavior, Ecology, Evolution and Systematics. University of Maryland.

2000 Allen L. Steinhauer Award for Excellence in Teaching. Department of Entomology. University of Maryland.

2001 The Center for Teaching Excellence, Undergraduate Studies and the graduate School at the University of Maryland recognition as a Distinguished Teaching Assistant.

2001 BEES summer fellowship Program in Behavior, Ecology, Evolution and Systematics. University of Maryland