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| 1910 · Ernst Athearn Bessey appointed chair of Botany. Retired in 1944. 1913 · Seminarium Botanicum (Sem Bot) a botanical honorary society, established by G.H. Coons. It continued until about 1956. The original chapter was established at the Univ. of Nebraska by C.E. Bessey in 1886. 1925 · First Ph.D. at MAC awarded to E.J. Petry, for research on the root nodules of Ceanothus americanus. Of the MAC faculty with Ph.D. degrees, one-third were in the Department of Botany. 1925 · College name changed to Michigan State College of Agriculture and Applied Science. 1932 · Department name changed to Botany and Plant Pathology. |
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| Ruth Allen - Faculty, 1910-14. Cytology of rust fungi at Wellesley College
and USDA, Berkeley, Calif. APS Ruth Allen Award in her honor. George H. Coons - Faculty, 1910-29. Sugarbeet pathology, Beltsville, Md. Carlyle W. Bennett - Faculty, 1917-28. Sugarbeet pathology, USDA, Salinas, Calif. Carl Swanson - Faculty, 1941-43. Cytogeneticist. Distinguished career at Johns Hopkins Univ., Univ. of Massachusetts, and The National Institutes of Health. |
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| Harold H. McKinney
- B.S. 1918. Outstanding cereal
virologist, USDA, in Madison, Wis. and Arlington, Va. Henry J. Oosting - M.S. 1927. Eminent ecologist at Duke Univ., Durham, N.C. Eugene C. Ogden - B.S. 1932. New York State Botanist. Horace L. Barnett - Ph.D. 1937; MSC Faculty, 1937-40. Famous fungal physiologist and Chair of Department of Plant Pathology, W. Va. Univ., Morgantown. John R. Reeder - B.S. 1939. Curator of Herbarium and Chair of Botany Department, Yale Univ., New Haven, Conn. |
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| Herbert C. Beeskow - Plant
Physiology Ernst A. Bessey - Chair, Mycology Donald Cation - Fruit Pathology Henry T. Darlington - Taxonomy Richard de Zeeuw - General Botany Buford H. Grigsby - Selective Herbicides Rufus P. Hibbard - Plant Physiology Jessie H. Muncie - Potato and Bean Pathology Ray Nelson - Muck Crop and Ornamental Pathology Forrest C. Strong - Forest and Woody Ornamental Pathology Miriam C. Strong - Tomato and Greenhouse Vegetable Pathology Edward F. Woodcock - Anatomy and Histology |
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Thesis Title | Major Professor |
| M.S. * | 1912 | Mancel T. Munn |
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Seed Trade Conditions in Michigan | N/A |
| M.S.* | 1924 | Miriam Carpenter |
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Identification of the Genus Fusarium: Biological Relationships | Bessey & Coons |
| Ph.d. | 1925 | Edward J. Petry |
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Physiological Studies in Ceanothus americanus: The Root Nodules and Some Characters of the Causal Organism | Bessey & Hibbard |
| Ph.D. | 1926 | Elba E. Watson |
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Contributions to a Monograph of the Genus Helianthus | N/A |
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| First woman faculty
member: Ruth Allen
(Ph.D.). Instructor 1910-14. First woman faculty member to receive tenure: Miriam Carpenter Strong (M.S.). Assistant in Research 1924-40, Assistant Professor 1940-62. First minority faculty member (Asian-Am.): Harry H. Murakishi (Ph.D.) 1956-88. First minority faculty member (African-Am.): Clifford J. Pollard (Ph.D.) 1960-88. |