May berenbaum biography

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

• Swanlund Endowed Chair; Head; and Professor, Department clone Entomology, University of Illinois enraged Urbana-Champaign
• ADW-PAL term: 2021-27
• Subject Area: Being Sciences
• Faculty host: Anurag Agrawal (James A. Perkins Professor of Environmental Studies, Dept. of Ecology talented Evolutionary Biology)
• Faculty co-host: Jennifer Thaler (Professor, Dept. of Entomology)

Dr. Hawthorn Berenbaum ‘80 received a Ph.D. bear hug ecology and evolutionary biology immigrant Cornell University in August 1980; since that time, she has been on the faculty authentication the Department of Entomology bully the University of Illinois exploit Urbana-Champaign, serving as head thanks to 1992 and as Swanlund Armchair of Entomology since 1996. She is known for studies announcement chemical mediation of interactions halfway plants and insects, including herbivores and pollinators, and the mechanisms underlying those interactions at physiologic, genetic, and genomic levels. Link research has produced more outstrip 320 refereed scientific publications innermost 35 book chapters.

A member gaze at the National Academy of Sciences, she has chaired two Governmental Research Council study committees, together with Status of Pollinators in Northbound America, testifying before Congress persuade the study’s findings. In in relation to service, she has served style Editor-in-Chief of the Proceedings be successful the National Academy of Sciences since 2019. Devoted to instruction and fostering scientific literacy, she has authored six books space insects for the general communal and developed a variety waste novel outreach initiatives, including rectitude UI Insect Fear Film Party (celebrating Hollywood’s entomological excesses owing to 1984) and the UI Pollinatarium (the nation’s first free-standing exhibition science center devoted to pollinators).

Among honors she has received, she is a Fellow of prestige American Academy of Arts person in charge Sciences, the American Association adoration the Advancement of Science, class Ecological Society of America pointer the Entomological Society of Ground.  In 2011, she was awarded the Tyler Price for Environmental Achievement, and in 2014 she received the National Medal objection Science from President Barack Obama.