Hugh H. Genoways

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Hugh Howard Genoways (born December 24, 1940 in Scottsbluff , Nebraska ) is an American mammal scientist , systems biologist and university professor .

Life

Genoways is the son of Theodore Thompson and Sarah Louise Genoways, nee Beales. After graduating with a Bachelor of Arts from Hastings College , Nebraska in 1963, he completed a postgraduate year at the University of Western Australia in 1964 with the support of a Fulbright Scholarship . In 1963 he married Joyce Elaine Cox. From this marriage a son and a daughter were born. In 1971 he was with the dissertation Systematics and evolution of the spiny pocket mice of the genus Liomys for Ph.D. from the University of Kansas at Lawrence . From 1971 to 1972 he was a research assistant at the Museum of Texas Tech University . In 1972 Genoways became curator of mammals at the Museum of Texas Tech University. From 1973 to 1976 he was associate professor at both the Faculty of Biosciences and the School of Medicine, and from 1975 to 1976 he was assistant coordinator for research at the museum. Genoways was also active in setting up the museum research program at Texas Tech University and became a lecturer in 1974. He supervised 16 masters students in the museum research program during his five-year collaboration with Texas Tech University. Genoways has been a research fellow at the Natural Science Research Laboratory (NSRL) since 1999. From 1974 to 1978 he was editor-in-chief at the Journal of Mammalogy . From 1975 to 1976 he was an editor for Museology magazine at Texas Tech University. In 1976, Genoways was hired as the curator of mammals at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh . In 1986 he became director of the University of Nebraska State Museum and served in that position until 1994. In 1994 he became chairman of the museum research program and professor of museum research at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln , a position he held until 2006. From June 2006 to March 2016 he stayed at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln as professor emeritus .

Genoways was President of the Southwestern Association of Naturalists from 1984 to 1985 and President of the American Society of Mammalogists (ASM) from 1984 to 1986 .

His research interests include the systematics , biogeography, and ecology of the mammals of the New World , particularly rodents and bats . He has published more than 228 scientific papers and written or edited several books. These include the works Bats of Jalisco, Mexico (1972), Systematics and Evolutionary Relationships of Spiny Pocket Mice, Genus Liomys (1973), Supplies and Suppliers for Vertebrate Collections (1976), Systematists, other users and uses of North American Collections of Recent Mammals (1976), Mammalian biology in South America: a symposium held at the Pymatuning Laboratory of Ecology, May 10-14, 1981 (1982), Current Mammalogy Volume 1 (1987), Current Mammalogy Volume 2 (1990), Museum philosophy for the twenty-first century (2006) and Museum origins: readings in early museum history and philosophy (2008).

Genoways was involved in the first descriptions of Reithrodontomys paradoxus , Molossops neglectus , Lophostoma schulzi , Heteromys spectabilis , Geomys knoxjonesi , Eptesicus guadeloupensis , Cynomops mexicanus , Chiroderma improvisum , Rhogeessa hussoni and Ancenycteris rasmusseni .

Honors and Dedication Names

In 1987 Genoways received the C. Hart Merriam Award from the American Society of Mammalogists. In 2002 he was made an honorary member of the ASM. In 2004, Genoways received the HHT Jackson Award from the American Society of Mammalogists in recognition of outstanding service to society. Robert J. Baker named the bat species Rhogeessa genowaysi in honor of Genoways in 1984 .

literature

  • Who's who in the Midwest: A Biographical Dictionary of Noteworthy Men and Women of the Central and Midwestern States , AN Marquis Company, 2005, p. 205
  • Lisa C. Bradley, John R. Suchecki, Brian R. Amman, Joel G. Brant, Hugh H. Genoways, L. Rex McAliley, Robert J. Baker, Francisca Mendez-Harclerode, and Robert D. Bradley: Mammalogy at Texas Tech University : A Historical Perspective. Occasional papers. Museum of Texas Tech University, No. 243, 2005, p. 16
  • Hugh Howard Genoways. American Men & Women of Science: A Biographical Directory of Today's Leaders in Physical, Biological, and Related Sciences, Gale, 2008. Biography In Context, Retrieved May 5, 2019

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SURNAME Genoways, Hugh H
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Genoways, Hugh Howard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American mammal scientist, systems biologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH December 24, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Scottsbluff , Nebraska