Wilson Gets Audubon Prize

Pellegrino University Professor Edward O. Wilson Will Receive the National Audubon Society's Audubon Medal at a benefit dinner in New York City next month.

Profits from the dinner will help support the Audubon Society's programs which protect endangered species and wildlife habitats.

"E.O. Wilson personifies the Audubon spirit of environmental activism," Audubon Society president John Flicker told the Harvard Gazette.

"Dr. Wilson, through, his work, advances the cause of conservatism and restoration of natural ecosystems every day."

Wilson, a biology professor, his received two Pulitzer prizes.

He currently teaches Science B-15, "Evolutionary Biology".

Wilson has also recently won two prizes for his book Journey to the Ants cowritten with Berk Holldobler. The book won the Phi Beta Kappa Prize in Science.

The German National jury of science writers and journalists named the work Science Book of the Year.