University Catalog 2024-2025

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Animal Science and Poultry Science (PhD): Poultry Science Concentration

Degree Requirements

Required Courses7
PO 801
Graduate Seminar In Poultry Science
PO 885
Doctoral Supervised Teaching
ST 511
Statistical Methods For Researchers I
or ST 512
 Statistical Methods For Researchers II
Graduate Electives / Research Courses65
"Graduate Electives / Research Courses" that will be applied to reach 72 credit hours will be determined in conjunction with the advisory committee.
Students are encouraged to choose these courses from the "Graduate Elective Courses" and "Graduate Research Courses" listed below
Total Hours72

Graduate Electives

Students are encouraged to select from the courses below:
PO 504Avian Anatomy and Physiology4
PO 506Physiological Aspects of Poultry Management3
PO 510Poultry Product Safety3
PO 515Comparative Nutrition3
PO 524Comparative Endocrinology3
FM 525Feed Manufacturing Technology3
PO 533Poultry Processing and Products3
PO 566Animal Cell Culture Techniques2
FM 580Feed and Ingrdient Quality Assurance3
PO 590Special Problems in Poultry Science1-3
FM 594Advanced Feed Mill Practicum3
IMM 757Comparative Immunology3
PO 775Mineral Metabolism3
FM 790Advanced Feed Formulation3

Graduate Research Courses

Students are encouraged to choose from the following courses:
PO 893Doctoral Supervised Research1-9
PO 895Doctoral Dissertation Research1-9
PO 899Doctoral Dissertation Preparation1-9

Faculty

Full Professors

  • Glen William Almond
  • Kenneth E. Anderson
  • Frank W. Edens
  • Joan Eisemann
  • Charlotte E Farin
  • Vivek Fellner
  • Peter R. Ferket
  • Williams Lucas Flowers, IV
  • Jesse Lee Grimes
  • Aaron Kiess
  • Sung Woo Kim
  • Matthew D. Koci
  • Duane K. Larick
  • Hsiao-Ching Liu
  • Christian Maltecca
  • Melissa Schuster Merrill
  • Paul Edward Modziak
  • Jeannette A Moore
  • Jack Odle
  • Edgar Orlando Oviedo-Rondon
  • Shannon Elizabeth Phillips
  • Jorge A Piedrahita
  • Matt H Poore
  • Coby J. Schal
  • Miles T See
  • Paul David Siciliano
  • Frank Siewerdt
  • Eric VanHeugten

Associate Professors

  • Lisa Bielke
  • Adam Charles Fahrenholz
  • Dana J. Hanson
  • Mark T. Knauer
  • Daniel Heath Poole
  • Korinn Edna Saker
  • Giuseppe Valacchi

Assistant Professors

  • Yan Campbell
  • Deborah A. Esposito
  • Jonathan Paul Holt
  • Jicai Jiang
  • Michael Vadakekara Joseph
  • Suzanne McKay Leonard
  • Samuel Mwangi
  • Casey C. Nestor
  • Carrie L. Pickworth
  • Allison Pullin
  • Mahmoud Ahmed Nabil Ahmed Naguib Sharara
  • Felipe Alves Correa Carvalho da Silva
  • Lin Walker
  • Xiaoqiu Wang
  • Stephanie Hill Ward

Practice/Research/Teaching Professors

  • Thomas J. Frost
  • Kimberly Dawn Ange-Van Heugten
  • Deidre Danielle Harmon
  • Francesco Tiezzi Mazzoni Della Stella Ma
  • Shweta Trivedi
  • Lin Xi

Emeritus Faculty

  • Brenda P Alston-Mills
  • Geoffrey A. Benson
  • Leonard S Bull
  • Thomas A. Carter
  • Vern L. Christensen
  • Roger G. Crickenberger
  • Patricia Ann Curtis
  • Eugene Eisen
  • Kenneth L. Esbenshade
  • Jimmy Dale Garlich
  • Winston Murry Hagler
  • Raymond W. Harvey
  • Gerald B. Havenstein
  • Brinton Alden Hopkins
  • Gerald B. Huntington
  • James R. Jones
  • Jean-Marie Luginbuhl
  • Roger Lee McCraw
  • William M Morrow
  • Richard M. Myers
  • James N. Petitte
  • Robert M. Petters
  • Odis Wayne Robison
  • Frank D. Sargent
  • Brian W. Sheldon
  • Jason C. Shih
  • Thomas David Siopes
  • Jerry Wayne Spears
  • Steven Paul Washburn
  • Michael David Whitacre
  • Lon Weidner Whitlow
  • Charles Michael Williams
  • Michael John Wineland

Adjunct Faculty

  • Robert Byron Beckstead
  • Raymond Dean Boyd
  • Max T. Coffey
  • Marissa Cohen
  • Kent A. Gray
  • William O. Herring
  • Elizabeth A. Koutsos
  • Michael Patrick Martin
  • Donald R. McIntyre
  • Teena F. Middleton
  • Douglas Wyatt Newcom
  • Basheer Nusairat
  • Hugo Romero-Sanchez
  • Simon M. Shane
  • Yanbin Shen
  • Charles Robert Stark
  • Zehava Uni
  • Christopher J. Williams