Congratulations to Dr. Kelley Tilmon for being selected as the 2025 Entomological Society of America Founders' Memorial Award Lecture recipient. The Founders' Memorial Award honors the memory of scientists who made outstanding contributions to entomology. As the recipient of the award, Dr. Tilmon will deliver a lecture honoring the life Maud Doria Haviland (1889-1941), a British entomologist and ornithologist who researched tropical treehoppers and was the first to experimentally document maternal care in treehoppers. Dr. Tilmon began researching Maud Doria Haviland in 2023 while on a year long sabbatical. The lecture (titled "Maud Doria Haviland's Life of Science, Service, and Adventure,"), will be delivered at the Awards Breakfast and Closing Plenary, beginning at 7 a.m. PT on Wednesday, November 12 at the annual ESA meeting.
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