UW’s Koprowski to receive Aldo Leopold Memorial Award

The University of Wyoming has announced that the dean of UW’s Haub School of Environment and Natural Resources, John Koprowski, has been named the 2022 recipient of The Wildlife Society’s Aldo Leopold Memorial Award, the highest award given by the 11,000-member organization of professional wildlife scientists.

Founded in 1937, The Wildlife Society’s mission is to inspire, empower and enable wildlife professionals to sustain wildlife populations and habitats through science-based management and conservation.

Koprowski, a mammalogist, conservation biologist and leading expert on the ecology and conservation of wildlife, receives the award for distinguished service to wildlife conservation. The first UW faculty member to receive the honor, he joins luminaries in the field including Olaus Murie – awarded in 1952 – and John Craighead – awarded in 1998 – whose names are familiar in Wyoming for their conservation efforts in the greater Yellowstone area.

According to UW, in addition to serving as dean of the Haub School, Koprowski holds a Wyoming Excellence Chair at the university. He’s working to expand the reach of the Haub School to advance the understanding and resolution of complex environmental and natural resource challenges in the West and around the world through its educational, research, outreach and collaborative problem-solving programs.