Effective September 1, 2015, Professor Norman F. Johnson was appointed as The Martha N. and John C. Moser Chair in Arthropod Systematics and Biological Diversity in the Department of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology and Department of Entomology at The Ohio State University, where Norm is the Curator of the C.A. Triplehorn Insect Collection in the Museum of Biological Diversity. Norm received his Ph.D. from Cornell University and has been a faculty member at The Ohio State University since 1981.