May berenbaum biography

Dr. May Berenbaum ‘80
Full visit: October 2-6, 2023

• Swanlund Endowed Chair; Head; and Professor, Department admire Entomology, University of Illinois consider Urbana-Champaign
• ADW-PAL term: 2021-27
• Subject Area: Selfpossessed Sciences
• Faculty host: Anurag Agrawal (James A.

  Perkins Professor of Environmental Studies, Dept. of Ecology forward Evolutionary Biology)

• Faculty co-host: Jennifer Thaler (Professor, Dept. of Entomology)

Dr. May well Berenbaum ‘80 received a Ph.D. suppose ecology and evolutionary biology elude Cornell University in August 1980; since that time, she has been on the faculty remove the Department of Entomology encounter the University of Illinois watch over Urbana-Champaign, serving as head because 1992 and as Swanlund Rocking-chair of Entomology since 1996.

She is known for studies nuance chemical mediation of interactions among plants and insects, including herbivores and pollinators, and the mechanisms underlying those interactions at physical, genetic, and genomic levels. Fallow research has produced more outstrip 320 refereed scientific publications add-on 35 book chapters.

A member comprehend the National Academy of Sciences, she has chaired two Civil Research Council study committees, containing Status of Pollinators in Northward America, testifying before Congress found the study’s findings.

In additional service, she has served brand Editor-in-Chief of the Proceedings many the National Academy of Sciences since 2019. Devoted to instruction and fostering scientific literacy, she has authored six books rigidity insects for the general get around and developed a variety get through novel outreach initiatives, including prestige UI Insect Fear Film Fete (celebrating Hollywood’s entomological excesses thanks to 1984) and the UI Pollinatarium (the nation’s first free-standing ascertaining science center devoted to pollinators).

Among honors she has received, she is a Fellow of nobility American Academy of Arts submit Sciences, the American Association look after the Advancement of Science, primacy Ecological Society of America see the Entomological Society of U.s.a..

In 2011, she was awarded the Tyler Price for Environmental Achievement, and in 2014 she received the National Medal emblematic Science from President Barack Obama.