Eldridge Adams
Dr. Eldrige Adams joined the EEB Department in 1997, and was widely recognized for his theoretical and empirical contributions to social insect population ecology, organization, territoriality, competition and cooperation. He was awarded the UConn Faculty Excellence in Graduate Teaching Award in 2016.
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Les Mehrhoff
Dr. Les Mehrhoff received both M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from UConn and was a collections manager in EEB until his retirement in 2009. He was instrumental in the IPANE project, and was widely regarded as the foremost authority on the plants of New England
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Carl Rettenmeyer
Carl W. Rettenmeyer, founding Director of the Connecticut State Museum of Natural History, was a life-long student of Army Ants and their guests, documenting over 350 different kinds of animals that live with a single species of ant
Peter Rich
Dr. Peter Rich received his Ph.D. at Michigan State University and studied limnology, aquatic ecosystems, and carbon flow and recycling in lakes and estuaries over his 35 year career at UConn.
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Carl Schaefer
Carl W. Schaefer was one of the world’s foremost authorities on Hemiptera/Heteroptera, authored more than 240 papers and (co-)edited 7 books, and edited Annals of the Entomological Society of America for 25 years.
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James Slater
James A. Slater was a world authority on the true bug family Lygaeidae; he named numerous new species and genera in hundreds of publications on the group. He was also an authority on milk glass and early New England gravestone carvers
Francis Trainor
Dr. Francis (Frank) Trainor was a phycologist and member of the EEB Department for more than 40 years, training 19 Ph.D and many M.S. students. He retired in 1997
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