2014-2015 General Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Animal Sciences (Graduate Program)
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Program Overview
The School of Animal Sciences offers graduate degrees with areas of specialization in breeding and genetics, growth and metabolic physiology, meat science and technology, dairy production and dairy foods technology (includes quality assurance, dairy microbiology, dairy chemistry, and product development), ruminant and nonruminant nutrition, reproductive physiology, and biotechnology.
Research is performed with beef cattle, dairy cattle, horses, pigs, sheep, goats, poultry, and various laboratory species. Interactions of school faculty with scientists in the School of Veterinary Medicine, Pennington Biomedical Research Institute, and units of the Louisiana Agricultural Experiment Station (LAES) throughout the state provide a vast array of research opportunities for graduate students in the animal sciences.
Administration
Admission
Applications for admission are received and evaluated by the School of Animal Sciences for each semester (fall, spring, summer). Applicants must adhere to the application deadlines established by the Graduate School.
Students seeking admission must submit satisfactory credentials from previous study, acceptable GRE scores, and three letters of recommendation. International students whose native language is not English must also submit an acceptable TOEFL, IELTS, or PTE score.
When all admission requirements are met, full admission will be considered by the graduate faculty members in the prospective student’s area of interest. Final admittance to the program must be supported by a member of the graduate faculty in the school, thus students are encouraged to communicate with faculty directly about the possibility of working in a faculty member’s program. If a student does not meet all requirements, he or she may be admitted provisionally (e.g., on probation if the GPA is not 3.0 or better).
Financial Assistance
Financial assistance is available to some students. Support may be available through the school or other units in the form of research or teaching assistantships. Graduate assistantships are available on a competitive basis. Assistantships are awarded through faculty members, so applicants should contact individual faculty members concerning the availability of funding. Students on assistantship receive full tuition waivers but are responsible for university fees. To ensure consideration for financial aid, all application materials should be submitted as early as possible before the actual admitting semester.
Graduate Faculty
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Kayanush Aryana (M) • Dairy foods technology
Thomas D. Bidner (M) • Influence of diet, genetics, and postmortem factors on meat composition and quality
Charles A. Boeneke (7M) • Dairy foods technology
Kenneth R. Bondioli (M) • Reproductive physiology/biotechnology; embryo biotechnology, somatic cell nuclear transfer, genetic modification of animals, stem cell biology and epigenetic regulation of gene expression
Richard K. Cooper (3A) • Aquatic Diseases Sidney M. Derouen (3F) • Beef cattle genetics and management
Philip H. Elzer (M) • Infectious Diseases
Matthew Garcia (6A) • Animal genetics
Glen T. Gentry, Jr (6A) • Reproductive physiology – reproductive efficiency, endocrine control of reproduction and nutrition-reproduction interactions
Robert A. Godke (EM) • Reproductive physiology, embryo technology
William Hansel (M) • Reproductive biology and biotechnology
Karl W. Harborth (3F) • Beef cattle nutrition and management
Bruce F. Jenny (M) • Dairy cattle nutrition and management
Thomas R Klei (M) • Parasitology
Jerome F. La Peyre (7M) • Oyster diseases
Theresia A. Lavergne (3P) • Nutrition, poultry management, waste management
Kenneth W. McMillin (M) • Meat properties, processing, and packaging; food safety; goat meat
James E. Miller (M) • Parasitology; Small ruminant health
Vinicius R. Moreira (3F) • Dairy cattle nutrition and management
Christine B. Navarre (M) • Extension Veterinarian, animal health and diseases
William E. Owens (M) • Lactation biology, bovine mastitis, mammary immunology
L. Lee Southern (EM) • Nonruminant nutrition
Donald L. Thompson, Jr (M) • Equine reproductive physiology and endocrinology, endocrine aspects of growth and metabolism
Ronald L. Thune (M) • Molecular microbiologist/infectious diseases
Cathleen C. Williams (6A) • Dairy calf and heifer nutrition, dairy management
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