Dr. Shahroukh Mistry, Westminster College assistant professor of biology, has been chosen as recipient of the 2007-2008 Henderson Lectureship Award.

Mistry's research focuses on how global climate change can influence the distribution of species, in particular the range extension of the vampire bat, Desmodus rotundus, in North America. The Henderson Lecture will take place Wednesday, Oct. 3, at 7 p.m. in the Witherspoon Maple Room of the McKelvey Campus Center.

The Henderson Lecture was founded by Dr. Joseph Henderson and his wife, Elizabeth, to encourage and recognize original and continuing research and scholarship among Westminster College faculty, and to share their research with the academic community. Henderson is professor emeritus of education and former chair of the department and director of the Graduate Program.

Mistry, who has been with Westminster College since 2003, earned his undergraduate degree from Maharaja Sayajirao University in India, master's from the University of Tennessee, and his Ph.D. from the University of New Mexico.

For more information, contact Mistry at (724) 946-7210 or e-mail mistrys@westminster.edu.