1977 In the Department of Biological Science at Florida State University (updated 4 May 2009)

Also in 1977, Dr. Ralph W. Yerger was appointed Associate Dean of Arts and Sciences, a post in which he served until 1983, serving at one point as acting dean during the dean's extended illness.

Administration
Faculty roster
Arrivals
Departures
Awards to faculty, students, staff
Publications
Obituaries

Administration

Chair: A. Gib DeBusk
Associate Chair for Graduate Studies: Richard N. Mariscal
Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies:

• new Associate Professor and Curator of Birds and Mammals Frances C. James

• new Assistnt Professor Gerald P. Schatten

• new graduate advisor Judith A. Bowers (then Judith A. Bradford), who came to the department on 1 July from the Psychobiology (later Neuroscience) program, where she had worked since 1972

• new Clerk Typist III Anne B. Thistle, who began work 16 November in Dr. Robert J. Livingston's laboratory, then moved to the department's Conradi clerical office in the spring of 1979

• Associate Professor Marc E. Freeman received a five-year National Institutes of Health Research Career Development Award, to run 1977-1982.

• Associate Professor Daniel Simberloff received an FSU Developing Scholar Award.

• Professor J. Herbert Taylor was elected to the National Academy of Sciences of the USA