Dr. Thomas D. Seeley is the Horace White Professor in Biology at Cornell University. He is based in the Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, where he teaches courses on animal behavior and does research on the behavior and social life of honey bees. His work is summarized in three books: Honeybee Ecology (1985), The Wisdom of the Hive (1995), and Honeybee Democracy (2010).
Awards & Honors
Public Lecture in Biology 2015 Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Merrill Presidential Teaching Award 2014 Cornell University
Plenary Speaker 2014 International Behavioral Ecology Congress
Public Lecture 2014 Utah Symposium in Science and LIterature
R. Melville Cramer Lecture 2014 Dartmouth College
Foundation Lecture 2013 Carl Friedrich von Siemens Foundation
Sir Richard E. Southwick Lecture 2011 Oxford University
Elected Fellow of the Animal Behavior Society 2008 Animal Behavior Society
Distinguished Lecturer, Keck Center for Behavioral Biology 2007 North Carolina State University
John T. Emlen Lecture 2007 University of Wisconsin
Plenary Speaker, Honey Bee Genomics and Biology Workshop 2007 Cold Spring Harbor Lab
Felix Santschi Distinguished Lecture 2004 University of Zurich
Elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 2001 American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Gold Medal for the Best Science Book (The Wisdom of the Hive) 1998 Apimondia
Cornell faculty members are offering the first honeybee health course at Cornell for veterinary student; the bees are important for New York’s agricultural economy.