Quentin D. Wheeler | |
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President SUNY Environmental Science and Forestry | |
In office January 2014 – June 30, 2018 | |
Preceded by | Cornelius B. Murphy, Jr. |
Succeeded by | David C. Amberg |
Vice-President and Dean ASU College of Liberal Arts and Sciences | |
In office 2007 –2011 | |
Interim Dean ASU Division Of Natural Sciences | |
In office 2006–2007 | |
Personal details | |
Alma mater | Ohio State University (B.S.), (M.S.), (Ph.D.) |
Fields | Entomology Taxonomy Phylogenetics |
Quentin Duane Wheeler (born January 31, 1954)[1] is an American entomologist, taxonomist, author and newspaper columnist, and is the founding director of the International Institute for Species Exploration. He was the fourth President of the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, in Syracuse, New York until his retirement.[2] Other positions have included: professor of entomology at Cornell University and Arizona State University; 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.