OSU zoology professor receives research award

Wednesday, April 25, 2012

 

OSU zoology professor receives research award

Dr. Stanley Fox, OSU Regents Professor of Zoology, was selected to receive the Donald W. Tinkle Research Excellence Award from the Southwestern Association of Naturalists (SWAN) at the group’s annual meeting last week at Autonomous University of State of Mexico in Valle de Bravo, Mexico. This is the first time the award has been given since 2009.  

The Tinkle Research Excellence Award is presented to an individual who has made a significant contribution to the knowledge and understanding of the biota of the southwestern United States, Mexico, and Central America through scientific articles and books in the last decade. The significance, quality and quantity of these written works are factors in the selection of a recipient for the award.

The award is named in honor of Dr. Donald W. Tinkle, a prominent herpetologist, ecologist, and evolutionary biologist at the University of Michigan who was also a long time member of SWAN.  Tinkle was a pioneer in developing life history theory and served as Curator in the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology.