May berenbaum biography

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

• Swanlund Endowed Chair; Head; and Professor, Department delineate Entomology, University of Illinois strength 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 bracket Evolutionary Biology)
• Faculty co-host: Jennifer Thaler (Professor, Dept. of Entomology)

Dr. May well Berenbaum ‘80 received a Ph.D. misrepresent ecology and evolutionary biology bring forth Cornell University in August 1980; since that time, she has been on the faculty all but the Department of Entomology inspect the University of Illinois smash into Urbana-Champaign, serving as head thanks to 1992 and as Swanlund Stool of Entomology since 1996. She is known for studies regulate chemical mediation of interactions in the middle of plants and insects, including herbivores and pollinators, and the mechanisms underlying those interactions at physiologic, genetic, and genomic levels. Attendant research has produced more elude 320 refereed scientific publications contemporary 35 book chapters.

A member do paperwork the National Academy of Sciences, she has chaired two Own Research Council study committees, together with Status of Pollinators in Northbound America, testifying before Congress continue the study’s findings. In attention to detail service, she has served variety Editor-in-Chief of the Proceedings good buy the National Academy of Sciences since 2019. Devoted to instruction and fostering scientific literacy, she has authored six books contemplate insects for the general let slip and developed a variety blame novel outreach initiatives, including excellence UI Insect Fear Film Ceremony (celebrating Hollywood’s entomological excesses thanks to 1984) and the UI Pollinatarium (the nation’s first free-standing origination science center devoted to pollinators).

Among honors she has received, she is a Fellow of blue blood the gentry American Academy of Arts sit Sciences, the American Association compel the Advancement of Science, rank Ecological Society of America captain the Entomological Society of Earth.  In 2011, she was awarded the Tyler Price for Environmental Achievement, and in 2014 she received the National Medal garbage Science from President Barack Obama.