2000 Fellow Award
At-Large
Category
Sponsored by
American Society of Animal Science
Robert A. Bellows graduated from Montana State University
with a B.S. degree in Animal Industry in 1956 and an M.S. degree in Animal
Science in 1958. He received his Ph.D. in Endocrinology in 1962 from the
University of Wisconsin. Scholastic honors he garnered as a student included
membership in Alpha Zeta, Phi Kappa Phi Scholastic Honorary, and Sigma Xi.
Dr. Bellows
began work at the USDA, ARS Fort Keogh Livestock and Range Research Laboratory
in 1962. His distinguished career includes the publication of over 400 papers
on improving reproductive performance in beef cattle. His areas of particular
expertise are dystocia, fetal growth, superovulation and twinning, nutrition
and breed effects on reproduction, and estrus synchronization.
Dr. Bellows has a long history of service to the American
Society of Animal Science. He has served as a director, a member, or chairman
of numerous national and Western Section committees, as President,
Vice-President, and Secretary-Treasurer of the Western Section, and as Section
Editor of the Applied and Biographical Sketches sections of the Journal of
Animal Science. The Society has recognized his contributions by awarding him
the Animal Management Award and the Western Section ASAS Distinguished Service
Award. Dr. Bellows’ professional leadership is also reflected by his activities
in conducting and reviewing cooperative research in Regional Technical
Committees and in Canada, the former Soviet Union, Egypt, Kazakstan, and
Krygystan. In addition to ASAS awards, Dr. Bellows has received other
professional awards, including the Tooby Memorial Chair as Honor Professor,
International Stockman’s School; the King Visiting Scholar Award from the
University of Arkansas; John B. Peters Memorial Lecturer, University of West
Virginia; the USDA Superior Service Award; the International Honor Award from
USDA, Office of International Cooperation and Development; ARS Northern Plains
Area Senior Research Scientist Award; and the Outstanding Leader in Montana
Agriculture Award from Montana State University.
Dr. Bellows and his wife, Laura, live in Miles City, MT;
they have four children and four grandchildren.