Dr. Alfred Dufty taught biology at Boise State University and also served the University as the Associate Dean for the Graduate College. He earned an A.B. at Princeton University, and both his M.S. and Ph.D. at the State University of New York at Binghamton. The general focus of Dr. Dufty's research was behavioral endocrinology and behavioral ecology, including stress physiology, avian brood parasitism, raptor migration, and phenotypic development. Aspects of his work are applicable to conservation biology, through exploration of the ecological and physiological responses of animals to environmental perturbation.