May 21, 2009
He was selected the winner of the "Excellence in Education Award" in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences.
Rosenheim developed a first-year biology course, Biological Sciences 2B--an introduction to ecology and evolution--that drew rave reviews from the students. Some 360 students enrolled in the course.
Students nominate and select the recipients. This year the students nominated some 150 professors, lecturers and teaching assistants. The Academic Affairs Commission narrowed the list to 18 finalists and then conducted interviews before selecting the winners.
The Academic Affairs Commission paid tribute to the six UC Davis professors at its seventh annual Excellence in Education awards ceremony, held May 20 in the Memorial Union.
In addition to Rosenheim, the winners are Stephen Lewis from Engineering, Charles Walker from Social Sciences, Michael Lazzarra from Humanities, Arts and Cultural Studies, Andreas Toupadakis from Mathematics and Physical Sciences, and Douglass Gross from Biological Sciences. All nominees received a certificate featuring a quote, while the winners were given a plaque.
Rosenheim joined the UC Davis Department of Entomology faculty in 1990. He received his bachelor of science degree from UC Davis in 1983 with a double major in entomology and genetics, and his doctorate in entomology from UC Berkeley in 1987. He completed postdoctoral work at the University of Hawaii, 1987-1989, and was a Fulbright Scholar in Israel from 1989 to 1990.
His research involves predator ecology (predator-predator interactions and cannibalism); parasitoid ecology (evolution of egg limitation); life history evolution for organisms in unpredictable environments; and the application of ecoinformatics approaches to problem solving in agricultural insect ecology.
Rosenheim's work has appeared in some 130 publications. He serves or has served on numerous editorial boards and distinguished research organizations. His credits include Annual Review of Entomology; Biological Control; Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata; Oecologia; Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society; guest editor, Ecology, and associate editor, Journal of Insect Science.
--Kathy Keatley Garvey
Communications specialist
UC Davis Department of Entomology
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