Professor, Washington State University
Bill did his Biology BA at University of Delaware, M.S. in Zoology at Clemson, and Ph.D. in Entomology at University of Kentucky. A stint as a USDA Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Zoology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison preceded his move to Washington State University in 2000, where he was promoted to Full Professor in 2010. My research and outreach program examines links between farm biodiversity and environmental and human health.
My laboratory at Washington State University includes a diverse group of ecologists, joined by our common interest in finding natural solutions to problems in species conservation, sustainable agriculture, and human health. Our goal is to reduce the conflict between species conservation and feeding a growing human population. In fact, we find that restoring and maintaining natural biodiversity is often the key to managing pests while providing safe and healthy food.
