A World of Insects: The Harvard University Press Reader

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Ring T. Cardé is Distinguished Professor and A. M. Boyce Chair in the Department of Entomology at the University of California Riverside. Vincent H. Resh is Professor of Entomology at the University of California Berkeley. Bert Hölldobler is the Robert A. Johnson Professor in Social Insect Research at Arizona State University. He was previously Professor of Biology and Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology at Harvard University and subsequently held the chair for Behavioral Physiology and Sociobiology at the University of Würzburg Germany. He is an elected member of many academies including the American Academy of Arts and Sciences the US National Academy of Sciences and the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. He has received many awards among them the Pulitzer Prize for The Ants coauthored with E. O. Wilson. Edward O. Wilson was Pellegrino University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University. In addition to two Pulitzer Prizes (one of which he shares with Bert Hölldobler) Wilson has won many scientific awards including the National Medal of Science and the Crafoord Prize of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Mark L. Winston is Professor and Senior Fellow at Simon Fraser Universitys Centre for Dialogue and Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences. Thomas D. Seeley is Professor of Biology Cornell University. Gilbert Waldbauer is Professor Emeritus of Entomology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Bernd Heinrich is Professor Emeritus of Biology at the University of Vermont. He has written several memoirs of his life in science and nature including One Mans Owl Ravens in Winter and A Year in the Maine Woods which won the 1995 Rutstrum Authors Award for Literary Excellence. Thomas Eisner was J.G. Schurman Professor of Chemical Ecology at Cornell University. In 1994 he was awarded the National Medal of Science. His film Secret Weapons won the Grand Award at the New York Film Festival and was named Best Science Film by the British Association for the Advancement of Science. Kenneth D. Roeder was a Professor of Physiology and Chairman of the Department of Biology Tufts University. Andrew Ross is Principal Curator of Invertebrate Palaeontology and Palaeobotany at the National Museums Scotland. M. Lee Goff is Coordinator of the Forensic Sciences Program and Professor of Forensic Sciences at Chaminade University of Honolulu. James T. Costa is Executive Director of Highlands Biological Station and Professor of Biology at Western Carolina University.