May Berenbaum Appointed to President’s Committee on the National Medal of Science

In March, President Biden announced his intent to appoint several individuals to serve in key roles, including entomologist May Berenbaum to serve on the President’s Committee on the National Medal of Science.

Berenbaum has been on the faculty of the Department of Entomology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for more than 40 years, serving as head since 1992 and as Swanlund Chair of Entomology since 1996. A member of the National Academy of Sciences, she has chaired two National Research Council study committees, including Status of Pollinators in North America, testifying before Congress on the study’s findings. Since January 2019, she has served as Editor-in-Chief of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Ecological Society of America, and the Entomological Society of America. In 2011, she was awarded the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement, and, in 2014, she received the National Medal of Science from President Obama.