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Jay Hosler is the author and illustrator of science-oriented comics. He is best known for his graphic novels Clan Apis, The Sandwalk Adventures, and Optical Allusions. ''Clan Apis'', a Xeric Foundation Award winner, follows the life of a honey bee named Nyuki; the story conveys factual information about honey bees in a humorous fashion as Nyuki learns about each new stage of her life. ''The Sandwalk Adventures'', an Eisner Award nominee, follows a conversation about evolution between Charles Darwin and a follicle mite living in his left eyebrow. ''Optical Allusions'', funded in part by a National Science Foundation grant, explains the evolution of the eye and vision by following the story of Wrinkles the Wonderbrain. Hosler is also an entomologist and associate professor of biology at Juniata College. ==Biography== Hosler grew up in Huntington, Indiana and is a 1989 graduate of DePauw University. He received a Ph.D. in Biological Sciences at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana in 1995, and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Ohio State University's Rothenbuhler Honey Bee Research Laboratory.〔Biemiller, Lawrence. "Darwin's Talking Mite." ''The Chronicle of Higher Education''. Volume 49, Issue 40, Page A48. June 13, 2003.〕〔Hosler, Jay. ''(Jay Hosler, Ph.D. )'' Hosler was not formally trained in art, but grew up reading comics and says he "was always a doodler". He drew comic strips for the student newspaper when he was at DePauw, and was paid for a daily comic strip in the student paper when he was at Notre Dame. He first mixed his interests in science and cartooning with his 1997 publication ''Cow-Boy''.〔 As an associate professor at Juniata College, Hosler has brought his interests in comics and teaching together in several ways. In addition to creating ''Clan Apis'' and ''The Sandwalk Adventures'', Hosler was awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation to create a hybrid of comics and traditional textbook covering the evolution of vision and sensory biology, ''Optical Allusions''. "Student performance ratings in science in secondary education are dropping at an alarming rate, so clearly something isn't working well in the classroom," Hosler says. "We can't be afraid to try something radical to change how students learn."〔"(Fine-tooning Science: Juniata Biologist to Create Comic Science Text )." ''Campus News''. Juniata College. June 26, 2006. Retrieved on 2007-11-19.〕 Hosler has also team-taught (with a historian) a course on "Comics and Culture".〔"(Pow! Juniata Professors Take On Comic Books and American Culture )." ''Campus News''. Juniata College. March 5, 2007. Retrieved on 2007-11-19.〕 He and his wife Lisa have two sons, Max and Jack DeMoss.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jay Hosler」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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