Dr. Bruce A. McPheron joined the department in August, 2021, following nearly 6 years of service as Ohio State’s executive vice president and provost. Prior to that appointment, he served as vice president for agricultural administration and dean of Ohio State’s College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences and as dean of the College of Agricultural Science at Penn State University. He serves as Dean’s Chair of CFAES International Programs and Professor of Entomology.
Throughout his academic career, he has taught undergraduate and graduate courses, including courses in general entomology, arthropod taxonomy and evolution, molecular methods, and international agriculture. His research focuses on modes of speciation in phytophagous insects (using tephritid fruit flies as a model system), on the use of genetic tools to examine population structure and invasion biology in pest insects of global quarantine significance (focused on the Mediterranean fruit fly and other pest tephritids), and on insect molecular systematics. His work is widely published in peer-reviewed publications and, among his many national recognitions and honors, he is an elected Fellow of both the Entomological Society of America and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.