Brian D. Farrell

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Brian D. Farrell
BornVermont
Spouse(s)Irina Ferreras
Children2
Academic background
EducationBA., University of Vermont
MS., PhD, University of Maryland
Academic work
Institutions University of Colorado Boulder
Harvard University
Main interestsInteraction between insects and plants, specifically the interplay of adaptation and historical contingency in ecological and taxonomic diversification.

Brian Dorsey Farrell is a professor of biology and curator in entomology at Harvard University's Museum of Comparative Zoology. As of 2014, Farrell is also Director of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University.

Harvard University Private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

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Museum of Comparative Zoology natural history museum at Harvard University

The Museum of Comparative Zoology, full name "The Louis Agassiz Museum of Comparative Zoology", often abbreviated simply to "MCZ", is the zoology museum located on the grounds of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It is one of three natural history research museums at Harvard whose public face is the Harvard Museum of Natural History. Harvard MCZ's collections consist of some 21 million specimens, of which several thousand are on rotating display at the public museum. The current director of the Museum of Comparative Zoology is James Hanken, the Louis Agassiz Professor of Zoology at Harvard University.

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Early life and education

Farrell was one of eight children born to a United States born mother and Lebanese-descendent father. [1] He earned his BA in zoology and botany from the University of Vermont and his M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Maryland. [2]

University of Vermont public research university in Burlington, Vermont, USA

The University of Vermont (UVM), officially The University of Vermont and State Agricultural College, is a public research university in Burlington, Vermont. It was founded in 1791 and is the state's land-grant university. UVM is among the oldest universities in the United States and is the fifth institution of higher education established in the New England region of the U.S. northeast. It is also listed as one of the original eight "Public Ivy" institutions in the United States.

Career

Farrell accepted a position at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he had his first child. In 1995, he returned to the East Coast to accept a position at Harvard University as a Professor in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology. [1] In 2014, Farrell was named Director of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University. He also received a grant to study insect fossils in the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard. [3] In 2018, he was named Faculty Dean of Leverett House. [2]

University of Colorado Boulder public university in Boulder, Colorado, USA and flagship of the University of Colorado System

The University of Colorado Boulder is a public research university located in Boulder, Colorado, United States. It is the flagship university of the University of Colorado system and was founded five months before Colorado was admitted to the Union in 1876.

Personal life

Farrell and his wife Irina Ferreras have two children, who also enrolled in Harvard. [4]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Brian Farrell". leverett.harvard.edu. Retrieved November 4, 2019.
  2. 1 2 Goldman, Aaron (March 21, 2018). "New faculty deans for Leverett House". Harvard Gazette. Retrieved November 4, 2019.
  3. ↑ Kim, Jessica (February 25, 2015). "Lab Rat of the Week: Brian D. Farrell". thecrimson.com. Retrieved November 4, 2019.
  4. ↑ "Brian D. Farrell". alumni.harvard.edu. Retrieved November 4, 2019.
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