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John Janovy, Jr. is a successful author, a respected scientist, an artist, and an award-winning teacher. He retired from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2011, where he was the Paula and D. B. Varner Distinguished Professor of Biological Sciences. Janovy’s works with a natural history theme include the well-known Keith County Journal (St. Martin’s, 1978), Yellowlegs (St. Martin’s, 1980; fiction), Vermilion Sea: A Naturalist’s Journey in Baja California (Houghton Mifflin, 1992), On Becoming a Biologist (Harper and Row, 1985; and University of Nebraska Press, 2004), Ten Minute Ecologist (St. Martin’s. 1997), and Pieces of the Plains: Memories and Predictions from the Heart of America (J&L Lee, 2009). His other book subjects include high school athletics (Field of Friendly Strife, Viking, winner of the American Health magazine book award for 1987), anti-intellectualism in America (Comes the Millennium, St. Martin’s, as Jack Blake), higher education (Teaching in Eden, RoutledgeFalmer, 2003), and travel (Africa Notes: Reflections of an Ecotourist, Center for Great Plains Studies, 2018). He is the co- author of five editions of Foundations of Parasitology, the leading textbook in his discipline, and the senior editor of A Century of Parasitology: Discoveries, Ideas and Lessons Learned by Scientists who Published in The Journal of Parasitology, 1914-2014 (John Wiley and Sons, 2016). Janovy’s honors include the University of Nebraska Distinguished Teaching Award (1970), UNL’s Outstanding Research and Creativity Award (1997), Mayor’s Arts Award (Literary Heritage, 1988), State of Nebraska Pioneer Award (1983); University Honors Program Master Lecturer (1986), Nebraska Library Association Mari Sandoz Award (2002), Friends of the UNL Libraries Hartley Burr Alexander Award (2005), the UNL Louise Pound-George Howard Distinguished Career Award (2013),13 years’ of recognition by the UNL Parents Association and Teaching Council for Contributions to Students, and the American Society of Parasitologists Clark P. Read Mentorship Award (2003). Janovy taught at the Cedar Point Biological Station for thirty-five years and was the director of that off-campus program for 13 years, served as Interim Director of the University of Nebraska State Museum twice, and has read approximately 500,000 pages of student writing. His teaching experiences include almost continuous service in large-enrollment introductory biology courses in addition to his upper division and graduate seminars. He has supervised 18 MS, 14 PhD students, and approximately 50 undergraduate researchers, including 10 Howard Hughes scholars and two Fulbright Scholarship winners. His wife Karen is now retired, but served as Curator of Education at UNL’s Sheldon Museum of Art for 25 years. The Janovys have three grown children, two daughters who are journalists and a son in the real estate business.
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