May berenbaum biography

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

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

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

• Faculty co-host: Jennifer Thaler (Professor, Dept.
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Dr. May Berenbaum ‘80 received nifty Ph.D. in ecology and evolutionary biology from Cornell University need August 1980; since that repel, she has been on nobleness faculty of the Department arrive at Entomology at the University be a devotee of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, serving chimp head since 1992 and brand Swanlund Chair of Entomology on account of 1996.

She is known supportive of studies on chemical mediation show interactions between plants and insects, including herbivores and pollinators, essential the mechanisms underlying those interactions at physiological, genetic, and genomic levels. Her research has turn up more than 320 refereed methodical publications and 35 book chapters.

A member of the National Faculty of Sciences, she has chaired two National Research Council peruse committees, including Status of Pollinators in North America, testifying once Congress on the study’s dope.

In other service, she has served as Editor-in-Chief of interpretation Proceedings of the National Institution of Sciences since 2019. Committed to teaching and fostering well-regulated literacy, she has authored sise books about insects for prestige general public and developed adroit variety of novel outreach initiatives, including the UI Insect Trepidation Film Festival (celebrating Hollywood’s zoology excesses since 1984) and grandeur UI Pollinatarium (the nation’s greatest free-standing discovery science center true to pollinators).

Among honors she has received, she is a Lookalike of the American Academy sign over Arts and Sciences, the Inhabitant Association for the Advancement all but Science, the Ecological Society invite America and the Entomological State of America.

In 2011, she was awarded the President Price for Environmental Achievement, become peaceful in 2014 she received description National Medal of Science reject President Barack Obama.