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Show New Animal Expert Arrives Dr. Loius L. Madsen, recently appointed head of the Utah State Agricultural college department of animal husbandry, arrived on the college campus Thursday to assume as-sume department duties, according to Dr. R. H. Walker, dean of the school of agriculture. For the past several years, Dr. Mudsen has been employed as animal an-imal nutritionist for the U. S. department of Agriculture, bureau of animal industry, Beltsville, Md., where he has been in charge of nutrition studies with farm ani. mals. He also has conducted research re-search projects in many sections of the United States as well as at Beltsville. Dr. Madsen is a native of Utah and a graduate of USAC, where he was valedictorian of the graduation grad-uation class. He was awarded a scholarship to Cornell University, where he completed requirements for his doctrate degree, and received re-ceived a National Research Council Coun-cil fellowship for advanced study in animal nutrition and pathology at Columbia University. I Before accepting the bureau of j animal industry post, Dr. Madsen was animal nutritionist at Michigan Michi-gan state college and experiment ( .station. He is a member of the honorary and scholastic societies of Phi Kappa Phi, Alpha Zeta, honorary agricultural fraternity, and Sigma Xi, national honorary research fraternity, and of several profes- sional societies including the Society Soc-iety of Animal Production, the Institute of Nutrition, the Society .of Experimental Biology, The American Am-erican Chemical society, and the American Society for the Advancement Advance-ment of Science. Dr. Madsen's research has been directed particularly toward the ! Utrty of nutritional deficiency,' diseases of farm animals and will continue studies along this line at USAC. Active also in civic and religious relig-ious affairs, Dr. Madsen was pres. ident of the Beltsville Parent-Teacher Parent-Teacher association, and headed the Beltsville branch of the LDS church. |