Category: Timeline Stories

The Department of Entomology formed as its own discipline, separate from the Department of Zoology in 1954. H. O. Lund served as the first department head. It was jointly staffed with the College of Agriculture and Franklin College of Arts & Sciences. 3 faculty members made up the department. It was determined at the time …

For over 25 years, T. Bonner Stewart served as head of the Swine Parasite Laboratory at the Coastal Plains Experiment Station.  Though employed by the USDA, he had adjunct faculty status at UGA and worked closely with parasitologists at UGA. The Coastal Plains Experiment Station, originally created in 1918 as an autonomous entity affiliated with …

In 1953, Richard Reynolds, Jr. granted UGA use of land and property at Sapelo Island, the fourth-largest barrier island in Georgia. Primarily used for marine biology research, the work at the time was overseen by the Department of Zoology. Byrd, along with graduate students Mary C. Dunn and Helen E. Jordan, conducted studies of trematodes on …

Donald Elmer Cooperrider was hired on November 15, 1949 as an associate professor of veterinary parasitology at the School of Veterinary Medicine. He collaborated with Hayes on Trichuris vulpis infection and treatment as well as treatment of ascardiosis in dogs. With V.B. Robinson, he studied Dioctophyme renale in dogs. He served as the secretary-treasurer (1961-1969) …

Thomas A. Samuel Hays was appointed associate professor of pathology and parasitology in 1947. He organized coursework and the collection of material for teaching veterinary parasitology. His position was terminated July 15, 1949

The Department of Zoology consisted of 1 full professor (Boyd), 1 associate professor, 2 instructors, and 7 graduate students. Due to high enrollment in lab courses and needed supplies for those curses, there was very little money left for the department to purchase large equipment. That year they received a used x-ray machine and a …

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.

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 …