Dean Designates Department's Dr. Janzen - DiMaura Professor
The Department of Biology is delighted to announce that Dr. Daniel H. Janzen, Professor of Biology and Thomas G. and Louise E. DiMaura Term Professor, has been designated as the DiMaura Professor, effective July1, 2005.
Professor Janzen, an internationally eminent ecologist and conservation biologist, is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the recipient of prestigious awards and honors that include the Albert Einstein World Award for Science (World Cultural Council), the Kyoto Prize (The Inamori Foundation, Kyoto, Japan), the Crafoord Prize in Biology (Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences), and a MacArthur Fellowship.
His long-standing research interests, which have achieved world recognition and acclaim, have focused on involving ecology as an interface between society and the complex interactions that are found in tropical wildland biodiversity. Dr. Janzen's strategy has been one of educating the populace and the political infrastructure concerning the value of tropical biodiversity with the inclusion of testing the concept that the tropical forest can be re-grown from the remaining resources available.
The Thomas G. and Louise E. DiMaura Endowed Term Chair in Conservation Biology was established by alumnus Paul W. DiMaura to honor his mother and the memory of his father. Mr. DiMaura, C'65, is the president of his family business, Hillside Management Company, a real estate firm near Boston.
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