Biography

Zachary Huang is an associate professor in entomology at the Michigan State University. Zachary grew up in a small village in Hunan and attended an agricultural college in China (first batch of college students after the cultural revolution). During the early 80s, he obtained a national scholarship to study honey bees in Canada. After obtaining his Ph.D. he moved with his family to University of Missouri at Columbia to work with plant mites. One and half year later they moved to University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and returned to honey bees again. November 1st, 1998, he came to the Michigan State University as an assistant professor. He became tenured and was promoted to be an associate professor Oct of 2004.

At MSU, his main responsibilities include extension, research and teaching. He is known for developing the social inhibition model (at UIUC), the mitezapper (MSU), his cyberbee.net (started in 1997 but developed mainly at MSU), and award winning photographs. He was awarded the J.I. Hambleton Award for Outstanding Research by the Eastern Apicultural Society of North American Inc. August 2008.

His academic journey before MSU: [Guelph Time, Mizzou Time, UIUC time]

Yearly reports at MSU: 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | –Will update 2004-2011 around Feb 2011…

Full CV available here as a pdf file.