Current Named Endowments

ENDOWED OPERATING FUNDS

Tio & Janell Kleberg Wildlife Research Park Endowment

 

Fred C. Bryant Director’s Infrastructure Endowment

 

ENDOWED CENTERS

 

Richard M. Kleberg, Jr. Center for Quail Research

 

ENDOWED POSITIONS

 

Stuart W. Stedman Chair for White-tailed Deer Research - Dr. Michael Cherry

 

Meadows Professorship in Semi-arid Land Ecology - Dr. Evan P. Tanner

 

Leroy G. Denman, Jr. Endowed Director of Wildlife Research - Dr. David G. Hewitt

 

C. C. (Charlie) Winn Endowed Chair for Quail Research - Dr. Leonard Brennan

 

Alfred C. Glassell, Jr. Endowed Chair for Quail Research - Dr. Fidel Hernandez

 

C. Berdon and Rolanette Lawrence Endowed Chair in Waterfowl Research - Dr. Bart Ballard

 

Dan L Duncan Endowed Director of South Texas Natives and Texas Native Seeds – Dr. Anthony Falk

 

Frank Daniel Yturria Endowed Chair for Wild Cat Studies - Dr. Michael E. Tewes

 

Frances and Peter Swenson Chair in Rangeland Restoration Research - Dr. David Wester

(Swenson Fellowship matched by the Estate of Nadine Arrington)

 

ENDOWED FELLOWSHIPS

 

Sam Walton Fellowship in Quail Research

 

Alice Kleberg Reynolds Foundation Endowed Fellowship in Quail Research

 

Elliot B. and Adelle Bottom Fellowship in Quail Research

 

Walter Fondren, III Fellowship in Shorebird and Wading Bird Research

 

Betty and George Coates Fellowship in Habitat Enhancement Research

 

Jess Y. Womack, II Fellowship in Wetlands and Wetland Bird Research

 

Boone and Crockett Club Fellowship in Ungulate Research

 

Hixon Fellowships in Deer, Quail, and Range Restoration Research (3)

 

Kenneth E. Leonard Fellowship for Livestock-Wildlife Research

 

Stuart W. Stedman-Faith Ranch Fellowships in Deer Research (2)

 

Mike and Mary Terry Family Endowed Fellowship for Habitat Research

 

Coates-Kelso Graduate Fellowship for Conservation and Management of White-tailed Deer

 

Phil and Karen Starr Hunke Fellowship in Wild Cat Research

 

ENDOWED FUNDS

 

T. Dan Friedkin Endowment for White-tailed Deer Research

 

Brittingham Conservation Foundation Endowment for White-tailed Deer Research

 

F. Peter Zoch, III Fund for Research in Habitat Enhancement

 

Frank and Mary Grace Horlock Endowment for Wildlife Research

 

Richard M. Kleberg, Sr. Fund for Native Plant Development & Habitat Restoration

 

Linda and Edward E. Whitacre, Jr. Endowment for Waterfowl Research

 

Stuart W. Stedman Endowment for White-tailed Deer Research

 

Ann and Henry R. Hamman Fund for Wildlife Research

 

Buddy and Ellen Temple Endowment for Native Plant Research

 

Tim and Karen Hixon Fund for Wild Cat Research

 

Tom C. Frost Endowed Fund for Rio Grande Turkey Research

 

Daphne and Ben Vaughan III Endowment for Birds of Prey, Songbirds, Shorebirds and Habitat Research 

 

David Killam Fund for Wildlife Research

 

Allison and Bryan Wagner Director’s Excellence Fund

 

Doris and Terry Looper Endowed Fund for Wildlife Research

 

Edward E. Whitacre, Jr. Endowed Fund for Wildlife Research

 

Neal P. King Memorial/Las Islas Endowment for Habitat Research

 

Grady Cage Memorial Fund for Quail Research

 

Ellen B. Randall Fund for Wildlife Research

 

Ann and A.C. Jones, IV Fund for Invasive Grasses Research

 

The Robert and Janice McNair Foundation Endowed Fund for Wildlife Molecular Genetics Research

 

Tio Kleberg Endowment for Applied Wildlife Research

 

Charles A. DeYoung Endowed Fund for White-tailed Deer Research

 

Leonard Family Endowed Fund for Wildlife Habitat Research

 

Leonard Family Endowed Fund for White-tailed Deer Research

 

Stacy and Chad Auler Fund for Wildlife Research

 

Nancy Lee and Perry Bass Memorial Endowment for Bobwhite Quail Research

 

Mesteña Endowed Fund for Quail Research

 

Helen and Curtis Pinnell Endowed Fund for Shorebird and Waterbird Research

 

Frances and James A. McAllen Endowed Fund for Wildlife Research

 

Angie and Billy Lemmons Endowment for Wildlife Research

 

Vannie E. Cook Endowment for Wildlife Research

 

Stanton Bell Endowment for Wildlife Research

 

Holt-Atherton Memorial Fund for Wildlife Research and Education

 

The Morton Cohn Family Endowment for Quail Research 

 

Benjamin Franklin Pitman, III Endowment for Wildlife Research

 

Celia & Cornelius Dupre Program in Wildlife Education

 

Laurie & Duane Leach Avian Research Endowment

 

Meredith Long Wildlife Internship Program

 

William E. Watt, II Memorial Fund for Quail Research 

 

James R. & Alinda H. Wikert Endowment for Quail Research

 

Isabel B. and Wallace S. Wilson Endowment for Quail Research

 

The Robert and Laura Underbrink Endowment for Quail Research

 

ENDOWED LECTURESHIPS

 

David W. Killam Distinguished Lectureship in Deer Research and Management

 

ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIPS

 

Robert and Rebecca Palmer Scholarship Fund

 

A.E. Leonard Undergraduate Scholarship in Wildlife Conservation

 

Phillip M. Plant Endowment for Graduate Scholarships in Wildlife Research

 

Alec D. Ritzell Memorial Fund for Wildlife Research and Education