Heritage Lunch

In 2011 the ASAS Foundation held the inaugural Heritage Lunch during the Joint Annual Meeting in New Orleans, LA.  Each year the Foundation Heritage Lunch will honor notable Animal Scientists for their achievements.  The Heritage Lunch will be held during the Joint Annual Meeting.

2013

The ASAS Foundation has chosen honorees for the third annual ASAS Foundation Heritage Lunch to be held Wednesday, July 10 at 12:30 pm at the Westin Indianapolis. The 2013 honorees are Gordon Dickerson and Wise Burroughs. Please join us at this Foundation fundraiser to honor these two pioneers of animal science.

2012

The luncheon program consisted of a special tribute to honor the many contributions of two former society members, Drs. L.E. Casida and A.B. Chapman. These two prominent Wisconsin researchers combined their interests in reproductive physiology and animal genetics in examining various impacts of genetics and environment on reproduction in sheep, cattle and pigs.

2011

H. Allen Tucker (1936-2009) worked for 38 years as a professor in the Departments of Animal Science and Physiology at Michigan State University. Tucker is best known for his research into the hormones responsible for bovine lactation. In fact, his descriptions of variations in hormones during mammary growth, lactation, and different seasons were among the first ever published in the field. Tucker, known as “Tuck,” also worked to understand how temperature and photoperiod could be used to control hormone secretion and rate of growth and lactation in cattle. Today, animal science students worldwide use his textbook Dairy Cattle: Principles, Practices, Problems, Profits.

David H. Baker (1939-2009) is well known for his discoveries in both animal and human nutrition. During his decades of research at the University of Illinois, Baker studied amino acid metabolism, animal and human nutrition, and toxicology. He created diet formulas for pigs, mice, rates, chickens, cats, and dogs. Baker published more than 600 peer-reviewed journal articles and held much influence in the industry. For example, when Baker found that cupric oxide, a copper supplement used in many animal and human vitamins, was not absorbed by the body, leading supplement makers switched to copper sulfate instead. Baker worked as a professor for 42 years and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2005.