Keim, Wayne - Senior Scholars oral history interview

Abstract

Robert Zimdahl interviews Wayne Keim on August 12, 2013. Wayne F. Keim, Ph.D. - Wayne Keim received his B.S. in 1947 from the University of Nebraska in Biology and Agriculture. He next received his Master's degree in 1949 and Ph.D. in 1952 at Cornell University. After obtaining his Ph.D., Dr. Keim took a faculty position at Iowa State University in the Department of Botany. Four years later he accepted a faculty position in Genetics and Plant Biology at Purdue University where he remained for twenty years. In 1975, Dr. Keim came to Colorado State University and assumed an administrative role as department chair of the Department of Agronomy. He retired in 1992.