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Jessica Lee Ware is a Canadian-American scientist who studies how living things change over time, especially insects. She is an entomologist, which means she is an expert on insects. Dr. Ware works at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. There, she is in charge of the part of the museum that studies animals without backbones, like insects.
Dr. Ware has led important groups like the Entomological Society of America. She also used to be the president of the Worldwide Dragonfly Association. She studies how insects like dragonflies and cockroaches have changed over millions of years. She also looks at where different insects live around the world. Dr. Ware has helped with big studies about the family trees of insects. She also warns that many types of insects are disappearing quickly.
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Becoming a Scientist
Jessica Lee Ware was born in 1977 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. She has a twin brother named Syrus Marcus Ware.
Dr. Ware became interested in biology because of her grandparents. They lived in northern Canada and encouraged her to collect snakes, insects, and frogs. She went to the University of Toronto Schools for her early education.
University Studies
In 2001, Dr. Ware earned her first degree in zoology from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. She decided to focus on insects after working at the Spencer Entomological Museum. This job helped her pay for her studies.
After university, Dr. Ware traveled to Costa Rica. She worked with another scientist, Diane Srivastava, for a semester. This trip made her want to become a researcher. It was also her first time working with other scientists of color.
Dr. Ware then went straight into a PhD program at Rutgers University. In 2008, she earned her PhD. Her research was about the history of dragonflies and a group of insects called Dictyoptera.
Dr. Ware's Work
In 2010, Dr. Ware became a professor at Rutgers University. She later moved to the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in New York in 2020. At the AMNH, she studies dragonflies and other insects. She is also helping to create a new insect exhibit at the museum. This exhibit will show how diverse and important insects are.
Dr. Ware has done fieldwork all over the world. She has helped with major studies about the evolution of insects. She also works to create molecular family trees for all six-legged insects, known as hexapods.
Encouraging Others
Dr. Ware is very active in encouraging women and people from different backgrounds to study insects. She spoke at the March for Science in Washington D.C. in 2017. She also helped start a group called Entomologists of Color. In February 2021, she helped organize #BlackInEnto week.
She writes for Entomology Today and is on the boards of several insect science magazines.
Dr. Ware has held important leadership roles in the Entomological Society of America. She became the president of this society in November 2021. From 2019 to 2021, she was also the president of the Worldwide Dragonfly Association.
She has appeared on NOVA PBS shows about insects. She has also been a guest on Jonathan Van Ness's podcast Getting Curious. She was also the narrator for the PBS Terra show Insectarium.
Awards and Recognition
Dr. Ware has received many awards for her important work:
- 2022: She was named a Fellow of the California Academy of Sciences.
- 2019: She received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) from the U.S. Government. This is a very high honor for young scientists.
- 2019: She won the Leader in Faculty Diversity Award from Rutgers University. This award recognizes her work in promoting fairness and inclusion.
- 2017: She received the SysEB Snodgrass Memorial Research Award from the Entomological Society of America.
- 2015: She received the NSF Early CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation.
- 2008: She won the John Henry Comstock Graduate Student Award from the Entomological Society of America.
About Her Life
Dr. Ware's family on her mother's side is from England. They moved to Canada in the early 1900s. Her father's family is from the southern United States. Dr. Ware is a citizen of both Canada and the United States.
Dr. Ware has two children.
See also
In Spanish: Jessica Ware para niños
