Professor Perlman attended Yale as an undergraduate and Harvard for his Ph.D. A 1987 Fulbright Scholar, Perlman received the Louis Dembitz Brandeis Prize for Excellence in Teaching, in 2006, and the Student Union Teaching Award in 2004 and 2005. Professor Perlman’s recent research has focused on creating new methods for setting priorities in the practice of conservation biology. He recently launched a Web site from which he freely distributes teaching materials he has developed for ecology and environmental studies (www.EcoLibrary.org).(perlman@brandeis.edu)