Alumna Jessica Ware, a curator at the American Museum of Natural History, helps prepare exhibits that educate the public about insects. At any given time, about 10 quintillion individual insects fly, hop, or crawl their way across the earth. They’re so abundant, in fact, that they make up about 90 percent of all animal life. […]
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Jessica Ware (GSNB’08-Entomology): The Insect Curator
Alumni Profile As a freshman at the University of British Columbia, Jessica Ware envisioned a career as a marine biologist. But in an invertebrate zoology class, she was stunned to learn there are more species of insects than any other animal on the planet. About a million insect species have been identified but several million […]
Alumna Jessica Ware (GSNB’08) Answers on NPR: Why Do We Only See Dragonflies in the Summer?
Jessica Ware (GSNB’08-Entomology), associate professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at the Rutgers-Newark College of Arts and Sciences, tells NPR’s “What’s Bugging You?” the intriguing facts about the life cycle of the dragonfly and its dramatic mating process. Listen at NPR.
Alumni Story: Jessica Ware (GSNB ’08) – Chasing Dragonflies
Celebrated in art and literature over the centuries, dragonflies continue to fascinate people, and none more than Jessica Ware (GSNB-Entomology ’08). An assistant professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at the Rutgers-Newark College of Arts and Sciences, Jessica credits her Canadian upbringing for her passion for dragonflies. “I thank my grandparents, Gwen and Harold […]
Prof. Jessica Ware (SEBS ’08) Wins Prestigious NSF Early CAREER Award
Rutgers-Newark biology professor Jessica Ware, who graduated with a Ph.D. in entomology in 2008, received an Early CAREER award worth $800,000 over the next five years from the National Science Foundation (NSF). Ware’s award will be used to examine how the social structure of lower-termite colonies might have arisen 140 million years ago, testing whether […]
1 million species under threat of extinction because of humans, report finds
Pam McElwee – Department of Human Ecology
Jessica Ware – SEBS Alumna
Is the Insect Apocalypse Really Upon Us?
Jessica Ware, Rutgers-Newark (GS-NB ’08)
Entomology Students Honored at Entomology Society Meeting
At this year’s annual meeting of the Entomological Society of America’s Eastern Branch three students working in entomology-related laboratories were honored: Robert (Rob) Holdcraft Robert Holdcraft, a technician and master’s degree student in professor Cesar Rodriguez-Saona’s lab at the Phillip Marucci Blueberry-Cranberry Research Center won the branch’s Asa Fitch award for this year’s outstanding Masters […]
The charming, useful ladybug
Jessica Ware – Department of Biological Sciences
Small Dragonfly Is Found to Be the World’s Longest-Distance Flyer
Alumna Jessica Ware (GSNB-Entomology ’08), biology professor at Rutgers Newark, is lead author of a study looking at the mixing of genes of the dragonfly Pantala flavescens across vast geographic expanses. The research indicates that the insect is one of the world’s most traveled, far exceeding the Monarch butterfly. Read more at Rutgers Today.
