Burghardt Honored with Herpetology Award
Professor Emeritus Gordon Burghardt received the 2026 Henry S. Fitch Award for Excellence in Herpetology. He is an Alumni Distinguished Service Professor of the psychology and the ecology and evolutionary biology departments.
Alumni Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus Gordon Burghardt received the 2026 Henry S. Fitch Award for Excellence in Herpetology.
Awarded by the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, the prize recognizes long-term excellence in the study of amphibian and/or reptile biology, based principally on the quality of the awardee’s research.
Among Burghardt’s numerous books written while a professor of psychology and ecology and evolutionary biology at UT, he is a co-author of The Secret Social Lives of Reptiles and editor of Health and Welfare of Captive Reptiles.
His numerous honors include a 2024 Distinguished Animal Behaviorist Award.
by Amy Beth Miller