Terry McGlynn is an ecologist, entomologist, and publicly engaged scholar addressing issues in sustainability, higher education, equity, and justice in STEM. His current research focus is the ecology and evolution of infrared thermal traits of insects and birds. He is author The Chicago Guide to College Science Teaching (University of Chicago Press, 2020), which introduces kind and equitable teaching teaching practices to less experienced science instructors.
He is Professor of Biology at California State University Dominguez Hills, where serves as Chair of the Academic Senate. He is appointed as a Research Associate in the Department of Entomology in the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. He served as Director of the California Desert Studies Consortium, which operates the Desert Studies Center, a large field station in the Mojave Desert, and prior to that was the Director of Undergraduate Research at CSUDH.
TMcGlynn has led many projected funded by the National Science Foundation to conduct research and provide opportunities for undergraduates. McGlynn is a 2022 Fellow of the Earth Leadership Program, a National Geographic Explorer, recipient of the Presidential Outstanding Professor Award from CSU Dominguez Hills in 2021, and is an elected Fellow of the Ecological Society of America. He has served on editorial board of Biotropica and was an Associate Editor of Insectes Sociaux.
McGlynn’s writes regularly at Science For Everyone. He founded the popular blog Small Pond Science, and can be found on bluesky as @hormiga. He lives in Pasadena, California, and pair of backyard scrub jays who may or may not respond to the names of Mordecai and Margaret.
For more information, see McGlynn’s full Curriculum Vitae.
Contact McGlynn at terry@mcglynn.us, and common questions may be answered at his FAQ.