This Wilson Pond Appreciation Club was formed to recognize the contribution of Dr. Wilson Pond to the field of non-ruminant nutrition and to the American Society of Animal Science. Money from the club is used to support 2 to 4 international travel funds for study by students and early career professionals.

Wilson G. Pond was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota on February 16, 1930 and was raised in Bloomington, Minnesota. He received a BS degree (1952) from the University of Minnesota and a MS degree (1954) and PhD degree (1957) from Oklahoma State University. He began his career in 1957 at Cornell University, where he served successively as assistant professor, associate professor, and professor in the Department of Animal Science with a joint appointment on the faculty of the Graduate School of Nutrition. In 1978, he was named nutrition research leader at the Roman L. Hruska US Meat Animal Research Center (Clay Center, Nebraska) and adjunct professor, Department of Animal Science, University of Nebraska, Lincoln. In 1990, he became a research animal scientist at the USDA Children’s Nutrition Research Center and adjunct professor, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas. In 1997, he returned to Cornell University as a visiting professor, Department of Animal Science.

During his career, Pond has served on the graduate committee of many PhD and MS degree candidates and as supervisor of five postdoctoral fellows. His graduate and postdoctoral students have contributed to nutrition research focused on questions in commercial swine production and in use of the pig as an animal model for human nutrition.

Value of club as of 6/30/2010: $25,776.30

Value of club as of 12/31/2009: $23,034

Approximate Total of Donations and Pledges to the Club since inception: $40,000
 

2011 Travel Fund Awards:

Rodrigo Manjarin, Michigan State University

Erika Downey, Iowa State University

Dustin Boler, University of Illinois

Christina E. Phillips, University of Minnesota

Blaire Aldridge, Purdue University

2010 Travel Fund Awards:

Amy K. McLean, University of Wyoming

Christy Oliver, North Dakota State University

Christina E. Phillips, University of Minnesota

Christina Taylor-Edwards, US FDA Center for Veterinary Medicine

2009 Travel Fund Awards:

These awards were given to Ashley DeDecker, a PhD student at the University of Illinois, and Allison Meyer, a PhD student at North Dakota State University.