Professor Wilbur W. Mayhew came to UC Riverside in 1954 as an instructor in biology. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. He was the recipient, in 1983, of the Aldo Starker Leopold Conservation Award from The Nature Conservancy's California chapter. In 1994, a dormitory for visiting scientists at the Boyd Deep Canyon Desert Research Center in Riverside County was named after him as the Wilbur W. Mayhew Building.
The Natural Areas Association awards the George B. Fell Award annually to an individual who has demonstrated the highest level of leadership in natural areas stewardship. The award recognizes:
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1. Accomplishments (e.g., in program development, stewardship, education, research, and policy) that have significantly advanced natural area preservation, protection, and management.
2. An individual who has demonstrated the best qualities of our profession-qualities exemplified by George B. Fell through his lifelong dedication of the protection of natural areas.
3. Any area of professional activity (journalism, law, science, and natural resource management) that was applied toward stewardship of natural areas and the protection and understanding of natural diversity.
The mission of the Natural Areas Association is to advance the preservation of natural diversity. The Association works to inform, unite, and support persons engaged in identifying, protecting, managing, and studying natural areas and biological diversity across landscapes and ecosystems.
The University of California, Riverside offers undergraduate and graduate education to nearly 16,000 students and has a projected enrollment of 21,000 students by 2010. It is the fastest growing and most ethnically diverse campus of the preeminent ten-campus University of California system, the largest public research university system in the world. The picturesque 1,200-acre campus is located at the foot of the Box Springs Mountains near downtown Riverside in Southern California. More information about UC Riverside is available at www.ucr.edu or by calling 909-787-5185. For a listing of faculty experts on a variety of topics, please visit http://mmr.ucr.edu/experts/.