Catherine N. Duckett

Catherine N. Duckett (born 1961) is the Associate Dean of the School of Science at Monmouth University. Formerly she worked as Associate Director of the Office for the Promotion of Women in Science, Engineering and Mathematics, and the Program Manager of the Ocean Biogeographic Information System at Rutgers University, as well as a former Associate professor of Biology at University of Puerto Rico at Rio Piedras. She is also a prominent systematic entomologist, specializing in the phylogeny of flea beetles, and an adjunct professor at Rutgers. as new to science. Duckett and collaborators have also described the first immatures known in three genera including Ivalia Jacoby.

Duckett and collaborators have also published systematic hypotheses about the evolution of Chrysomelidae, and flea beetles as listed on her curriculum vitae.

Women's studies

Duckett worked alongside Joan W. Bennett at the Office for the Promotion of Women in Science, Engineering and Mathematics at Rutgers University. The organization is unique in its online catalog of influential women scientists and researchers from fields spanning from physics to anthropology. Duckett's own story is posted. She currently co-directs the women in science and mathematics program at Monmouth University.

Awards

-1996 & 2002, "Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers."

-1999, Universidad de Puerto Rico Recinto de Río Piedras, “Reconocimiento por Excelencia Académica y Productividad”.

-1989-1990, Fulbright-Hays Fellowship to Venezuela to conduct field and museum studies.

Education

-1987-1993, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York., Ph.D. Entomology.

-1985-1987, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, M.A. Biology.

-1979-1983, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, B.A. with Honors.