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Brody Memorial Lectures

Establishment of Brody Memorial Lectureship

A committee was appointed by Dean Longwell to consider the possibility of creating a memorial for Samuel Brody. It was the opinion of the committee that a permanent lectureship would be most suitable if sufficient funds were obtained from friends, relatives, organizations, and the University Faculty invited to contribute to this memorial.

Friends, relatives and organizations interested in recognizing Dr. Brody provided the initial funds, which were supplemented by a generous grant from the King Ranch and matching funds from the Alumni Achievement Funds.

The Board of Curators approved the establishment of the Samuel Brody Lectureship Fund in April, 1959. Lectures have been held as often as sufficient income from the interest provided expenses and a small honorarium for a distinguished lecturer.

The present Brody Memorial Lectureship Committee was appointed by Dean Roger Mitchell.
Dr. Donald E. Spiers, Committee Chairperson
Dr. James Spain, Sigma Xi Representative
Dr. Matt Lucy, Gamma Sigma Delta Representative

Previous Brody Lectures

1. Max Kleiber, Department of Animal Science, University of California, Berkeley, 1960

2. Knut Schmidt-Nielsen, Department of Zoology, Duke University, 1961

3. F. W. Went, Director, Missouri. Botanical Garden, 1963

4. K. L Blaxter, Department of Nutrition, Hannah Dairy Research Institute, 1964

5. C. Ladd Prosser, Department of Physiology, University of Illinois, 1965

6. H. T. Hammel, Physiol. Group, John B. Pierce Foundation Lab. 1966

7. H. N. Munro, Department of Physiological Chemistry, Mass. Institute Tech., 1967

8. James D. Hardy, Department of Physiology, Yale University, 1968

9. Loren D. Carlson, Department of Physiology, University of California - Davis, 1969

10. R. L. Baldwin, Department of Animal Science, University of California - Davis, 1971

11. John R. Brobeck, Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, 1972

12. Bruce A. Young, Department of Animal Science, University of Alberta, 1974

13. D. E. Johnson, Department of Animal Science, Colorado State University, 1975

14. Albert L. Lehniger, Department of Physiological Chemistry, The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, 1976

15. Henry A. Lardy, Department of Biological Science, University of Wisconsin - Madison, 1979

16. H. Allen Tucker, Department of Dairy Science and Dept. Physiology, Michigan State University, 1981

17. H. Russell Conrad, Department of Dairy Science, The Ohio State University, 1982

18. David Robertshaw, Department of Physiol./Biophysics, Colorado State University, 1984

19. Allen Munck, Department of Physiology, Darmouth Medical School, 1986

20. Lawrence J. Machlin, Dir. Clinical Nutrition, Vitamins and Fine Chemicals Division, Hoffman-La Roche Inc., 1988

21. Keith W. Kelly, Department of Animal Science, University of Illinois, 1992

22. Clifton A. Baile, Head Animal Science/Molecular Biology Division, Monsanto Agricultural Company, 1993

23. David Wolfenson, Department of Animal Science, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1999

24. Jean Noblet, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, 2000

25. Michal Horowitz, Environmental Physiology, The Hebrew University, Hadassah Medical Center, Jerusalem, 2005

Brody Lectures at the 16th International Congress on Biometeorology, 2002

Slivia E. Valtorta, Conicet, Esperanza, Santa Fe, Argentiz, Animal production in a changing climate: Impacts and mitigation.

G. LeRoy Hahn, USDA/ARS, Clay Center NE, Living with climatic variability and potential global change: Climatological analyses of impacts on livestock performance.

Matt C. Lucy, University of Missouri - Columbia, Reproductive loss in farm animals during heat stress.

Robert J. Collier, University of Arizona, The use of genomics in genetic selection programs for environmental stress tolerance in domestic animals.

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