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Show Dr. Louis L IMadsen To Assume Presidency July 1 At Utah State One of the nations leading authorities in animal nutrition will take office July 1 as the new president of Utah State Agricultural college. He is Dr. Louis L. Madsen, recently chosen chos-en to succeed Dr. Franklin S. Harris. Dr. Harris, who has served as USAC president since 1945, has been transferred to the status of president emeritus by the board of trustees. He will leave in late June to head a mission on technical collaboration between be-tween the governments of the United States and Iran. Dr. Madsen has served since 1945 as head of the animal husbandry hus-bandry department at USAC. He is a leader in the new Institute Ins-titute of Nutrition which has been adding to the sum of val- human knowledge on the campus for the past two years. Prior to his coming to USAC Dr. Madsen conducted significant signifi-cant experiments in several eastern east-ern and mid-western institutions. institu-tions. Publication of the results of his research has won him international in-ternational renown as a scientist. scien-tist. Dr. Madsen was born in Salt Lake county in 1907. He was reared on a farm. After graduation gradu-ation from Granite high school in 1926, he enrolled at USAC and was graduated as valedictorian valedic-torian in 1930. Next he was appointed re; search assistant in animal nutrition nu-trition in the Cornell University Experiment station. He also registered reg-istered in graduate school, with a major in animal nutrition in biochemistry and physiology. He completed requirements for the doctor of philosophy degree in 1934. On receiving his degree he was awarded the National Research Re-search Council fellowship in agriculture. ag-riculture. He was assigned to Columbia university where he worked in the departments of bacteriology and biochemistry of the college of physicians and surgeons. After finishing his work at Columbia in 1935 he returned to Cornell as research assistant nutritionist in the experiment station. Next he served as re search assistant irTcW the experiment station of '? h t igan State college. ' 4 At Michigan he cond,,. tritional and chemical in animal husbandry TSear " he became associate in l93l nutrition in the burea,, "I'N imal industry, U. S deoaH ? of agriculture with hearin, meilt at Beltsville, Md. aduartet, , He was advanced to n,,t . $ ist for the Bureau in iq served in that capacity !, He resigned to go to . USAr"1 hs u ly, 1945. In 1946 he s'n ed a member of the en I on animal nutrition oiTA t tional Research Cofi 1 Dr. Madsen has suok . j ' many institutions as a T m,r 111 fo'J lecturer in his field, of pL 0nsl f He has published I scientific articles and hi Ity ti tributed five articles to th! ' and 1942 yearbook T of 1933 culture. He is co-autho f bulletin of he National V ": search Council. w v iS |