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Whitney R. Harris World Ecology Center honors alumna Jaqueline Goerck with Robert R. Hermann World Ecology Award

Goerck, a 1999 PhD graduate, helped found SAVE Brasil, which works to protect birds and their natural environments in her native Brazil....

Whitney R. Harris World Ecology Center renaming World Ecology Award to honor late philanthropist Robert R. Hermann

Hermann was a longtime supporter of the Harris Center and presented singer and activist John Denver with the first World Ecology Award in 1990....

Bob Samples retiring after 31 years as spokesperson, key policy advisor at UMSL

Samples has helped lead UMSL's marketing and communications efforts since 1990, and he's most recently served as chief of staff to Chancellor Kristin Sobolik....

Harris Center honors Missouri Botanical Garden, Saint Louis Zoo for work in Madagascar

Zoo President Jeffrey Bonner and Garden President Peter Wyse Jackson accepted World Ecology Awards from Anna Harris on behalf of their institutions at a gala on Friday night....

Renowned entomologist Edward O. Wilson receives World Ecology Award

The medal from the Whitney R. Harris World Ecology Center at UMSL honors work in environmental protection and biodiversity conservation....