Michigan State University professor takes lead role at magazine for insect science
Annapolis, MD; January 26, 2021 Zsofia Szendrei, Ph.D., associate professor and vegetable entomologist at Michigan State University, has been named the next editor-in-chief of
American Entomologist, the Entomological Society of America s quarterly membership magazine. Szendrei will serve as co-editor-in-chief in 2021 alongside current editor-in-chief Kevin Steffey, Ph.D., who will step down at the end of the year.
The ESA Governing Board approved Szendrei s selection last week after an open search was conducted in late 2020 by an appointed search committee. Steffey has served at the magazine s helm since 2017 and led the publication to new heights, including an award-winning, cover-to-cover redesign in 2019.
This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island.
Of at least one Rock Islander, Benjamin Dann Walsh, it can truly be said that there was some good news and some bad news. The good news was that early on the morning of November 12, 1869, as he was collecting bugs along the Chicago and Rock Island railroad tracks near 34th Street in Rock Island, a Chicago bound train ran over his left leg.
Walsh had emigrated from England to Chicago, and then, in 1850, to Rock Island. He became a successful lumberman and real estate developer, but his real passion was entomology the study of bugs. He collected them, studied them, and wrote about them.