Awards

National Academies - 1933

American Association for the Advancement of Science

About Stanley Cain

Stanley Cain was a notable researcher in phytogeography, ecology, and conservation. He completed a B.S. degree at Butler University in 1924, and a master's and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago by 1930.Cain served as an Assistant Professor at Indiana University from 1931-1933 and was a Research Associate at the Waterman Institute from 1933-1935.

Cain was at the Cranbrook Institute of Science from 1946-1950 and served as the first president of The Nature Conservancy in 1950. He then joined the faculty of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor from 1950-1972. He took leave from the university in 1965 when President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed him Assistant Secretary of the Interior. In that capacity he oversaw the operations of the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries, the Fish & Wildlife Service, and the National Park Service. In 1972 he moved to California and served as an adjunct professor at University of California, Santa Cruz until 1995.

For his notable contributions to science, Cain received numerous honors and awards, including a Certificate of Merit from the Botanical Society of America in 1956, and an Honorary Doctor of Science in 1959 from the University of Montreal. He was the 1965 Michigan Conservationist of the Year, received the Eminent Ecologist Award from the Ecological Society of America in 1969, and the next year he was elected as a member of the National Academy of Science.