Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases
University of Georgia
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In 1952, the Department of Bacteriology is established as its own department. Since the war years, bacteriology had been part of the Division of Biological Sciences without its own leadership structure. The department was tasked with overseeing all bacteriology courses and research on campus, which included programs in the College of Agriculture and the College of Veterinary Medicine. …
In 1948, Bernard B. Riedel joined UGA as a research associate in the Department of Poultry Science following his completion of a Ph.D. at Kansas State College. His research focus is on ascarid infections and coccidia control in chickens. In the mid-1950s, he took a position as Associate Parasitologists at the Mississippi Experiment Station.
The second event to disrupt the momentum of parasitology at UGA was World War II. Not only were young men enlisting instead of heading to college, many faculty members would also request leaves of absence as their expertise was needed for the war effort. Among the faculty enlisting, the scientists who played a role in …
The momentum Boyd began in 1926 to establish scientific research at UGA was slowed by two major historical events. The first was the Cocking Affair in 1941, when Governor Eugene Talmadge fired professors, administrators, and Board of Regents members for promoting racial equality. It is so named the Cocking Affair as the dean of the …
In 1938, the Board of Regents approved a Ph.D. program in the Department of Zoology. It was 1 of only 2 departments granted the privilege of conferring the Doctor of Philosophy degree at the University of Georgia. In order to be allowed to confer this degree, a department had to have at least one professor …
In 1934, Elon E. Byrd joined UGA faculty. His four decades of research made him an authority on helminth parasites and filarial worms. In an examination of the helminth collection that he left behind at UGA upon his retirement in 1972, 35 type-specimens in which Byrd is the taxonomic authority were found. In 1990, these …
H.O. Lund serves as an instructor of entomology until 1938 when he becomes an assistant professor in the department of Zoology until 1942, when he takes a leave of absence to enlist in the U.S. Navy, as a Lieutenant Commander and Malaria Control Office. Following the war (1946), he returned to UGA as a professor …
Clay G. Huff joins the Zoology Department as an Associate Professor. During his tenure, he worked alongside Boyd to cement early research into vector-parasite relationships and after leaving UGA for a position at the University of Chicago, he served as a foundational mentor to future UGA giants A.B. Weathersby and Barclay McGhee (M.S. 1942). https://doi.org/10.1016/0014-4894(73)80091-8
George Boyd came to UGA to be head of the Department of Zoology. During his time at UGA he would serve as Chairman of the Biological Sciences Division (1940) which included the departments of zoology, botany, microbiology, biochemistry, and entomology, and Dean of the Graduate School (1943-1959). He was a strong supporter of research studies at …
