The Dr. Warren B. Ballard, Jr. Memorial Scholarship Endowment was established by Heather Whitlaw in 2012. The scholarship is awarded to incoming or current Texas Tech University Natural Resources Management graduate students whose interests focus on science based solutions to applied problems. The student must have an exceptional work ethic, work independently, be a leader among peers, and show promise to be an outstanding professional.

Dr. Warren B. Ballard, Jr. was a widely-published author and nationally-recognized professor in Texas Tech University's Department of Natural Resources Management. He earned a Bachelor's degree in fish and wildlife management from New Mexico State University and his Master's degree in environmental biology from Kansas State University. His earned his doctorate in wildlife science from the University of Arizona.

Dr. Ballard was a Texas Tech Horn Professor and the Bricker Chair in Wildlife Management. A Horn professorship is the highest honor a faculty member can receive from the university. Warren was the Editor-in-Chief of the Wildlife Society Bulletin, an international scientific journal for wildlife scientists. In 2009, Ballard was awarded the Outstanding Research Award from Texas Tech's Davis College of Agricultural Sciences & Natural Resources, and the Outstanding Achievement Award from the Texas Chapter of the Wildlife Society in 2007. He was named a Wildlife Society Fellow by the National Wildlife Society in 2005, and was presented the Chancellor's Council Distinguished Research Award at Texas Tech in 2002. He was presented a special service recognition award from the Wildlife Society that same year. In 1989, Warren was honored by his peers with the Distinguished Moose Biologist award.

Prior to joining the Tech faculty in 1998, Dr. Ballard worked as a research supervisor with the Arizona Game and Fish Department. He also served as director and associate professor with the New Brunswick Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit at the University of New Brunswick (Canada). Warren spent 18 years as a wildlife biologist and research scientist with Alaska Department of Fish and Game. His ground-breaking research on predator-prey relationships, wolf ecology, and ungulate populations is still widely recognized.

Warren married Heather Whitlaw in 1995. He had four children: Warren, III, Cindy, Raymond and Laurina.

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