Merlin Tuttle
Michael J. Ryan
Michael J. Ryan is the Clark Hubbs Regents Professor in Zoology at the University of Texas, Austin, and a Senior Research Associate at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama. Ryan received his Bachelor’s degree at Glassboro State College, his MS at Rutgers University, his PhD at Cornell University, and was a Miller Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley. Ryan is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Institute of Advanced Studies in Berlin.