Category: TWS News

September 29, 2021

Students and professionals put their EARS on

When Laken Ganoe was the student liaison to Council, she had an idea after returning from the annual TWS conference in Reno, Nevada. She noticed that some students and professionals...

September 28, 2021

Bob Lanka wins TWS Special Recognition Award

The Wildlife Society has awarded Bob Lanka with the Special Recognition Award for a “Herculean effort” to update and improve the society’s bylaws for new generations of wildlifers. Lanka, a...

September 22, 2021

TWS member Tony Wasley elected AFWA president

Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies members have elected Nevada Department of Wildlife Director Tony Wasley as the organization’s new president. The announcement came during AFWA’s 111th Annual Meeting in...

September 20, 2021

TWS Annual Conference ready to go live

The Wildlife Society’s 28th Annual Conference is coming up Nov. 1-5. The virtual conference will feature lots of live content for wildlifers to learn and network. Here are just a...

September 17, 2021

TWS’ Leadership Institute receives grant from DSC Foundation

The Dallas Safari Club Foundation has continued to support The Wildlife Society’s Leadership Institute through a $5,000 grant for the class of 2020. For several years, the Dallas Safari Club...

September 15, 2021

TWS member Janelle Chojnacki honored for outstanding achievement

TWS member Janelle Chojnacki, a graduate student at Humboldt State University, won the 2021 California State University Trustees’ Award for Outstanding Achievement. The award recognizes students for their superior academic...

September 14, 2021

Stephen F. Austin Chapter earns award second year in a row

The Stephen F. Austin State University Student Chapter of The Wildlife Society won the Student Chapter of the Year award for the second consecutive year. “To our chapter, I think...

September 9, 2021

Alex Fish receives 2021 Rusch scholarship

Fish is studying American woodcock (Scolopax minor) migration ecology in eastern North America. He helped build a collaborative research team involving 36 governmental, nongovernmental and nonprofit organizations to increase the...

September 3, 2021

North Carolina names Lori Williams ‘Biologist of the Year’

Lori Williams, a TWS member and wildlife biologist in the Wildlife Diversity Program with the North Carolina Wildlife Resource Commission, recently earned the title of 2020 Biologist of the Year....

September 2, 2021

Elizabeth Flaherty wins Excellence in Wildlife Education Award

Elizabeth Flaherty makes one thing clear about the students taking her classes: They won’t often be passively sitting and listening to her lecture. Flaherty, an associate professor of wildlife ecology...