Jane Haskett Bock
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Jane Haskett Bock is a professor emerita in biology at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
Bock was born Jane Haskett. She intended to follow her mother’s footsteps as a chemist, but once in college, she decided to switch to botany. She received a bachelor's degree from Duke University, a master's degree from Indiana University Bloomington, and earned a PhD in Botany from the University of California at Berkeley in 1966.[1] She has one daughter with husband and zoologist Carl E. Bock, where they were both directors of the "Research Ranch" in Arizona. Additionally, both taught at the University of Colorado in 1968.[2]
Career
In 1982, a medical examiner approached Bock and asked her to identify the food plants in the stomach of a murder victim. She created samples by chewing up food herself and comparing it to the contents of the victim’s stomach. Her work led the police to the killer, and she was regularly recruited to homicide investigations.[citation needed]