The Distinguished Service to Myrmecology Award

The Ant Course Distinguished Service Award is presented by Ant Course to honor a lifetime of achievement in the study of ants. The Award is especially intended to acknowledge individuals who have through their research, their writing, or through their personal effort and example, have provided help, encouragement, training, or inspiration to others in Myrmecology, or who have opened the doors to a wider appreciation of ants for the public.

2003 Award:

Dr. Wade Sherbrooke and Emily Sherbrooke
For their long and wise stewardship of the Southwestern Research Station, the crown jewel of North American field stations and the center of ant research in the American West, for providing assistance and encouragement at every step in developing the Ant Course, and most of all, for providing the Ant Course with a home.

2002 Awards:

Dr. Howard Topoff (right)
For his long and illustrious career in ecology and behavioral biology, the breadth and depth of his pioneering research on slave-making ants and army ants, and his long-term fostering and encouragement of ant research in the Chiricahua Mountains

Prof. Dr. Bert Hölldobler (left)
For the sustained excellence of his research concerning nearly every aspect of ant sociobiology, the critical role he has played in the training and development of a new generation of social insect biologists, and for his synthetic studies, that have brought to wonders of the ant world to an ever larger audience.