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Gwen Pearson
Alma materNorth Carolina State University Ohio State University
Awards2016 Medal of Honor Entomological Foundation.
Scientific career
InstitutionsPurdue University

North Carolina State University University of Texas of the Permian Basin

Albion College

Gwen Pearson is a science writer and education coordinator in the Department of Entomology at Purdue University.

Education

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Pearson completed a Bachelors in Zoology at Ohio State University in 1984.[1] In 1991, Pearson testified before a Congressional Hearing to request that the tax-exempt status of graduate student stipends should be maintained.[2] She completed her graduate studies at North Carolina State University in 1992, where she worked on sesiid pheromone biology.[3][4][5]

Career

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Pearson joined University of Texas of the Permian Basin as an Assistant Professor in 1992.[6] In 1994 she won a National Science Foundation grant, "Behavioral Responses to Conspecific and Confamilial Pheromones".[7] She joined Albion College as a biology professor in 1996, where she served insect food.[8] In 1997 with a grant from Michigan Campus Compact, Pearson designed a program to introduce children to Entomology.[9]

In 2002 Pearson moved to Michigan State University, and became the Assistant Director for Education and Outreach at Kellogg Biological Station in 2007. During her time at KBS, she served as a member of the Governing Board of the Organization of Biological Field Stations, an international consortium of research stations.[10] In 2004 Pearson started blogging under the pseudonym Bug Girl, ranked in the top 50 science blogs globally in 2009.[11][12]

She started writing the Charismatic Minifauna for Wired Magazine in 2013.[13] In 2015 she began work as Outreach Coordinator for Purdue's Department of Entomology.[14] She is a freelance science writer whose work has featured in Wired, Mental Floss, Science Magazine, National Geographic and Nature.[15][16][17][18][19][20] She is the entomological expert of The Washington Post.[21] She has appeared on US Public Radio.[22][23]

She won the 2016 Medal of Honour from the Entomological Foundation, the highest award presented by the Foundation.[24] She won the Bobby Pass Student Choice award in 2016.[25] Writer Chuck Wendig dedicated his book Invasive to Pearson.[26]

Pearson founded "EntoAllies" in 2014 to create a network of visible colleagues at professional Entomological meetings to serve as support for those who have been harassed and bullied. This paralleled introduction of a code of conduct for the Entomological Society of America.[27] The Ento-Allies are a semi-structured way to make reporting bad behavior easier, and to help conference attendees get the support they need. They do not enforce the code of conduct, but support victims of abuse.[28][29][30]

In 2017, she was selected to lead the Entomological Society of America Annual Meeting Plenary session with Mary Roach.[31]

References

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  1. ^ "Newsletter of the Michigan Entomological Society" (PDF). Michigan Entomological Society. Retrieved 2018-02-15.
  2. ^ ERIC (1992). ERIC ED342300: Oversight Hearing on the Reauthorization of the Higher Education Act of 1965: Raleigh, North Carolina. Hearing before the Subcommittee on Postsecondary Education of the Committee on Education and Labor. House of Representatives, One Hundred Second Congress, First Session (Raleigh, NC, June 28, 1991).
  3. ^ Pearson, G. A.; Schal, Coby (1999-12-01). "Electroantennogram Responses of Both Sexes of Grape Root Borer (Lepidoptera: Sesiidae) to Synthetic Female Sex Pheromone". Environmental Entomology. 28 (6): 943–946. doi:10.1093/ee/28.6.943. ISSN 0046-225X.
  4. ^ "Gwen A. Pearson - Google Scholar Citations". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2018-02-22.
  5. ^ ORCID. "Gwen Pearson (0000-0002-1738-0244) - ORCID - Connecting Research and Researchers". orcid.org.
  6. ^ "Ben Stein: This Is What Academic Intimidation Looks Like". Mike the Mad Biologist. Retrieved 2018-02-15.
  7. ^ "NSF Award Search: Award#9407968 - RPG: Behavioral Responses to Conspecific and Confamilial Pheromones". www.nsf.gov. Retrieved 2018-02-15.
  8. ^ "Battle Creek Enquirer from Battle Creek, Michigan on November 30, 1999 · Page 3". Newspapers.com. Retrieved 2018-02-22.
  9. ^ "Io Triumphe! A magazine for alumni and friends of Albion College". Issuu. Retrieved 2018-02-15.
  10. ^ "OBFS: Annual Report" (PDF). Organization of Biological Field Stations. 2012. Retrieved 2018-02-22.
  11. ^ "Social Media for Science Outreach – A Case Study: Career changing and pseudonyms". SpotOn: Science policy, outreach and tools online. Retrieved 2018-02-22.
  12. ^ Entomological Society of America (2011-11-30), Bug Girl Interview at Entomology 2011, retrieved 2018-02-15
  13. ^ "Charismatic Minifauna". Wired. Retrieved 2018-02-15.
  14. ^ "Cornell Bet Program : Events | Gwen Pearson, Wired magazine". www.best.cornell.edu. Archived from the original on 2018-02-13. Retrieved 2018-02-15.
  15. ^ "Honeybees Go "Whoop!" When They Bump Into Each Other". 2017-02-16. Retrieved 2018-02-22.
  16. ^ "A Horrifying List of Creatures That Can Crawl Into Your Body". 2017-02-14. Archived from the original on February 15, 2017. Retrieved 2018-02-22.
  17. ^ "Gwen Pearson". www.wired.com. Retrieved 2018-02-15.
  18. ^ "Gwen Pearson". muckrack.com. Retrieved 2018-02-15.
  19. ^ Pearson, Gwen (2016-07-23). "Tick season is here, and it's time to learn how to stop the suckers". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2018-02-15.
  20. ^ "Gwen Pearson". Science. 2016-12-14. Retrieved 2018-02-15.
  21. ^ Bever, Lindsey (2017-02-13). "Woman claims flesh-eating screwworms ate her 'from the inside out'". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2018-02-22.
  22. ^ "#230 - Bug Music: Science for the People". www.scienceforthepeople.ca. Retrieved 2018-02-22.
  23. ^ "Episode 31: Ask Sam | Snow Fleas, Wind, Mount Mitchell". Outside/In. Retrieved 2018-02-22.
  24. ^ "Entomological Foundation Names Winners of 2016 Awards". The Entomological Foundation. Archived from the original on 2018-02-16. Retrieved 2018-02-15.
  25. ^ "H. Garman Entomology Club, University of Kentucky, 2018". www.glunis.com. Retrieved 2018-02-22.
  26. ^ "Chuck Wendig: An Invasive Interview". Locus Online. Retrieved 2018-02-22.
  27. ^ "ESA's Code of Conduct - Entomological Society of America". www.entsoc.org. 22 March 2024.
  28. ^ Reece, Robert L.; Hardy, Margaret C. (1 September 2017). "Moving Beyond Metrics: A Primer for Hiring and Promoting a Diverse Workforce in Entomology and Other Natural Sciences". Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 110 (5): 484–491. doi:10.1093/aesa/sax059.
  29. ^ "Developing Anti-Harassment Programs in Academic Societies and Meetings: A Resource Guide" (PDF). University of Michigan ADVANCE Program. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-06-15.
  30. ^ "Steps to Building a No-Tolerance Culture for Sexual Harassment - Eos". eos.org. 28 January 2016.
  31. ^ "Mary Roach: A "Gateway Drug" for Science". Entomology Today. 2017-11-06. Retrieved 2018-02-22.
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