A 2006 book to which Professor of Biology and Associate Dean of Faculty Pat Reynolds contributed a chapter, has been chosen as a winner of the Florida Publishers Association 2008 Book Awards. The Mollusks: A Guide to Their Study, Collection, and Preservation was named in the best Adult Nonfiction category. Reynolds' chapter is on the class Scaphopoda, known as the tusk shell because of its hollow, curved, conical tube shape.
Award winners were selected by the competition's 35 judges (32 librarians from across Florida and 3 members of a nationally recognized book design firm.) The book is a publication of the American Malacological Society, "a dynamic international society of individuals and organizations with an active interest in the study and conservation of mollusks."
