FWCB and Conservation Sciences Spotlight: Honoring our Alumni, Graduate Students, Undergraduate Students, and Faculty

Please join us for the Fisheries, Wildlife and Conservation Biology and Conservation Sciences Spotlight: Honoring our Alumni, Graduate Students, Undergraduate Students, and Faculty. Our annual celebration on Thursday, October 1, 3-5 PM, will be online this year and easy to attend for alumni and friends near and far.

Highlights include undergraduate and graduate student awards, presentation of the Early Career Alumni Award to owl biologist Jon Slaght (M.S. '05, Ph.D. '11) and the Distinguished Career Alumni Award to wetland biologist and former DNR Commissioner Tom Landwehr (B.S. '80, M.S. '86), and “Thesis-in-Three Minutes” presentations by graduate students.

The Spotlight will conclude with the Distinguished Professor Lecture by Francie Cuthbert, who will present "Recovering a conservation reliant endangered shorebird: Four decades of science and progress in the Great Lakes."