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Nationality
  
American

Fields
  
Entomology

Role
  
Entomologist

Name
  
May Berenbaum



Institutions
  
University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign

Alma mater
  
Yale University Cornell University

Notable awards
  
National Medal of Science (2014)

Awards
  
Robert H. MacArthur Award

Education
  
Cornell University (1980), Yale University (1975)

Books
  
Bugs in the System: Insects a, The Earwig's Tail: A Mo, Ninety‑nine More Maggots, Ninety‑nine Gnats - Nits - and Nibbl, Buzzwords: A Scientist Muses on

Similar People
  
David Sadava, David Hillis, Craig Heller

Residence
  
Illinois, United States

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May Roberta Berenbaum (born 1953) is an American entomologist whose research focuses on the chemical interactions between herbivorous insects and their host-plants, and the implications of these interactions on the organization of natural communities and the evolution of species. Member of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) of the U.S.A. and Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1996).

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Early life and education

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Berenbaum graduated summa cum laude, with a B.S. degree and honors in biology, from Yale University in 1975; she attended graduate school at Cornell University and received a Ph.D. in ecology and evolutionary biology in 1980.

Career

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Since 1980, Berenbaum has been a member of the faculty of the department of entomology at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign and has served as head of the department since 1992. In addition to her research, she is devoted to teaching and to fostering scientific literacy. In 1996, she was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. she is the recipient of the 1996 Entomological Society of America North Central Branch Distinguished Teaching Award and has authored numerous magazine articles, as well as three books about insects for the general public. She has also gained some measure of fame as the organizer of the Insect Fear Film Festival at the University of Illinois, an annual celebration of Hollywood's entomological excesses.

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Berenbaum received the 2009 Public Understanding of Science and Technology Award from the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

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She also had a character in The X-Files named after her: Dr. Bambi Berenbaum, a famous entomologist and love-interest of Agent Mulder.

In March 2011, she was awarded the University of Southern California's Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement.

It was announced that she would have her first new species (Xestoblatta berenbaumae Evangelista, Kaplan, & Ware 2015) named after her publicly in November 2014.

On 3 October 2014, President Barack Obama awarded the National Medal of Science to Berenbaum. She received the medal in a White House ceremony on November 20, 2014.

References

May Berenbaum Wikipedia


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