Rita whom he says "'She has made my life easier for all these years and has provided unselfish support, freeing me to pursue my research'". The chair is called the Tim M. and Rita M. Berra Endowed Chair in Evolutionary Biology, in the Department of Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology. Personal life Berra decided to apply his professional curiosity towards one of his other passions, bourbon. He attended Bourbon Academy and Moonshine University, read many books and in 2019 authored his own, BOURBON: What the Educated Drinker Should Know. Berra states that his "scientific training and methods helped him find and organize information". Until 2022, Berra was spending winters as a resident of Anna Maria Island in Florida. Married to Rita M. Berra. Awards National Center for Science Education (NCSE) presented Berra the 2022 "Friend of Darwin" award. Executive director Ann Reid stated, "Tim Berra has helped to expose the flaws of creationism going back to the days of creation science". Selected publications Books References External links Charles Darwin: The Story of an Extraordinary Man (audio only) - University of Toledo - November 17, 2009 Show us your Donga - ABC Darwin - 2016 Spectrum News 1 - October 28, 2019 - OSU Professor Turns Bourbon Passion into New Book May 8, 2010 - NPR All Things Considered - Darwin A Case Study In His Own Theory: Inbreeding American ichthyologists American science writers Charles Darwin biographers Charles Darwin University faculty Critics of creationism Living people Ohio State University faculty University of Papua New Guinea faculty 1943 births