Distinguished Alumni

Dr. George Wallace Morgan (Bachelor of Science in Poultry Science 1964, Master of Science in Animal Physiology 1966, and Doctor of Philosophy in Animal Physiology 1970) has a lengthy career in teaching and research. His research and regulatory efforts at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, helped produce the first set of proposed standards for human HLA typing sera, a genetic test used to match patients and donors for bone marrow, cord blood, and organ transplant.

Morgan then joined the poultry science department at North Carolina State University before being recruited by MSU in 1980 to update the university's poultry science curriculum and increase undergraduate enrollment. His work at MSU led to exponential enrollment increases, and he received four teaching and advising awards, becoming department head in 1987. He continued strengthening the university's poultry science department, developing a close working relationship with the Mississippi poultry industry. He considers the student who are the industry's leaders as the department's largest contribution to Mississippi poultry.

Morgan retired in 2007 and remained in Starkville. An endowed poultry science scholarship was funded in his honor by friends and colleagues.