University of Minnesota bug expert advocated for a free Ukraine

June 11, 2022

Alexander Granovsky was a poet, painter, U.S. Army private during World War I and a renowned insect expert at the University of Minnesota in the mid-1900s.

Ukrainian-born Alexander Granovsky, PhD, joined the University of Minnesota's Department of Entomology and Economic Zoology in 1930. He retired from the U in 1956.