Quentin D. Wheeler
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| 4th President State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry | |
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Assumed office January 2, 2014 |
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| Preceded by | Cornelius B. Murphy, Jr. |
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Vice-President and Dean ASU College of Liberal Arts and Sciences |
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In office 2007 – 2011 |
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Interim Dean ASU Division Of Natural Sciences |
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In office 2006–2007 |
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Ohio State University (B.S.), (M.S.), (Ph.D.) |
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Entomology Taxonomy Phylogenetics |
Quentin Duane Wheeler (born January 31, 1954) is the fourth President of the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, in Syracuse, New York. He is an American entomologist, taxonomist, author and newspaper columnist, and is the founding director of the International Institute for Species Exploration. Previously, he had been professor of entomology at Cornell University and Arizona State University, and had served as the Keeper and Head of Entomology at the Natural History Museum in London, and Director of the Division of Environmental Biology at the National Science Foundation.
Wheeler holds bachelor (1976), master's (1977) and Ph.D. (1980) degrees in entomology from The Ohio State University. His Ph.D. dissertation was entitled, "Comparative morphology, cladistics, and a revised classification of the genera Lymexylidae (Coleoptera), including descriptions of two new genera".
Wheeler was a faculty member for 24 years at Cornell University, where he earned the rank of tenured full professor. He was chair of entomology and director of the Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium at Cornell. Wheeler also previously served as the Keeper and Head of Entomology at the Natural History Museum in London from 2004–2006, and was director of the Division of Environmental Biology at the National Science Foundation from 2001-2004.
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