John Tuxill, an assistant professor at Fairhaven College of the Environment, has been elected to the national Board of Directors of the Society of Ethnobiology, a nonprofit professional organization that is dedicated to the interdisciplinary study of the relationships of plants and animals with human cultures worldwide, including past and present relationships between peoples and the environment.”

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Among other accomplishments, the Society publishes the Journal of Ethnobiology, the leading academic journal for the field.

Tuxill’s term of service on the Board will run from 2008 to 2011. More information on the Society of Ethnobiology is available at http://www.ethnobiology.org/index.html.