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Andrew T. Smith, now a Professor Emeritus, served on the faculty of the School of Life Sciences at Arizona State University for 39 years. He was chosen as Professor of the Year by the Parent's Association in 2006 and awarded the rank of President's Professor in 2010. The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences awarded Smith the Zebulon Pearce Distinguished Teaching Award in 2016.Smith is a conservation biologist whose work includes the behavioral ecology of mammals, effects of habitat fragmentation, and ecosystem services provided by small mammals. He primarily works in the mountains of western United States and on the Tibetan plateau. His research focuses on the pika, a small relative of rabbits. He is an avowed field biologist who is proud to have not conducted any lab bench work in his long career.Smith is involved in global conservation issues and served as Chair of the IUCN Species Survival Commission Lagomorph Specialist Group from 1991 - 2021. He has also advised the Chinese government on issues concerning biodiversity (Biodiversity Working Group of the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development). The American Society of Mammalogists chose Smith as recipient of its 2015 Aldo Leopold Conservation Award. In addition to publishing ~130 papers, his A Guide to the Mammals of China (Princeton University Press; 2008) was the first comprehensive treatment of the 556 mammal species found in China (also available in Chinese - Hunan Education Publishing House: Changsha, Hunan, China; 2009). Smith has also produced Mammals of China (Princeton University Press Pocket Guide; 2013) and Lagomorphs: Pikas, Rabbits, and Hares of the World (Johns Hopkins University Press; 2013). He teamed with his wife, Harriet, to write The Astonishing, Astounding, Amazing Sonoran Desert (Dockside Sailing Press; 2019, Second Edition - Publish Authority, 2021)