Department History
Our Department Timelines
- Pictorial timeline (1880s to 2017)
- Timeline table (below)
UK Department of Plant Pathology Timeline | |
1865 | • UK founded as Agricultural and Mechanical (A&M) College of Kentucky University |
1885 | • Kentucky Agricultural Experiment Station established. |
1886 | • Bulletin #8. Wheat smut caused much damage. Scoville, Spurr, and Brewer. |
1889 | • Harrison Garman appointed Entomologist and Botanist (retired, ca. 1929). Work included disease diagnosis, pathogen identification and management recommendations. |
1908 | • College of Agriculture founded |
1910 | • Agricultural Extension Service established in KY, one of the first in the U.S. |
1918 | • M. Roe appointed as Assistant Plant Pathologist, in Department of Agronomy (one year appointment). |
1919 | • WD Valleau* appointed first Professor of Plant Pathology, in Agronomy (retired, 1961). |
1923 | • E. Johnson appointed Assistant Plant Pathologist (retired, 1966). |
1931 | • L. Henson appointed (retired, 1974). |
1936 | • H. Thornberry appointed (resigned, 1937). |
• Plant pathologists moved from basement of Agricultural Experiment Station Building to new Tobacco Research Laboratory. | |
1937 | • Stephen Diachun* appointed (retired, 1978). |
1950 | • Richard Chapman appointed (retired, 1984). |
1953 | • Granville Stokes appointed; became Associate Director of Ag Experiment Station, 1966 (retired, ca. 1993). |
1960 | • Raymond Hampton appointed (resigned, 1970). |
1962 | • R. Reinert appointed (resigned, 1967). |
• Christopher Litton (USDA-ARS; Research Specialist) transferred from Agronomy to Plant Pathology, (retired, ca. 1987). Assistant Professor 1963-1966. | |
• Ph.D. offered in Biology with Plant Pathology “cooperating”. | |
1963 | • Department of Plant Pathology established with Richard Chapman as chairman. |
• John Oswald* appointed University President and Professor of Plant Pathology. | |
1964 | • Plant Pathology moved from the Tobacco Research Laboratory to the Agricultural Science Center - North building. |
• James Hendrix appointed (retired, 2004). | |
1965 | • C. Yang appointed (resigned, 1972). |
• First Ph.D.’s (in Biology, Plant Pathology cooperating). | |
1966 | • Malcolm Siegel* appointed (retired, 1998). |
1967 | • Ph.D. program in Plant Pathology established. |
• Harry Wheeler* appointed (retired, 1984). | |
• Thomas Pirone* appointed (retired, 2001). | |
1968 | • First Ph.D.’s (in Plant Pathology). |
• Stephen Diachun became chairman. | |
• John Shaw* appointed (retired, 2000). | |
• Albert Williams appointed (transferred to Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, as chairman, 1975). | |
1971 | • John Hartman* appointed (retired, 2011). |
1972 | • Said Ghabrial* appointed (retired, 2013). |
• Louis Shain appointed (retired, 1999). | |
1974 | • Joseph Kuc* appointed (retired, 1995). |
1975 | • Shuh-Ji Sheen transferred from Agronomy (retired, 1991). |
• Richard Stuckey appointed (resigned, 1989). | |
1977 | • First full-time plant disease diagnostician hired |
1978 | • Thomas Pirone became chairman. |
• Richard Ferriss appointed (resigned, 1991). | |
1979 | • William Nesmith appointed (retired, 2004). |
• David Smith appointed (retired, 2012). | |
1982 | • Wayne Wilcox appointed (resigned, 1984); first Plant Pathology faculty member at Research and Education Center, Princeton. |
1984 | • Donald Hershman appointed; Research and Education Center, Princeton. |
• Robert Shepherd* appointed (retired, 1996). | |
1985 | • Christopher Schardl* appointed. |
1986 | • David Smith became chairman. |
1989 | • W. Walla appointed; served solely as Associate Dean for Extension (retired, 2001). |
1990 | • Paul Vincelli appointed. |
1993 | • S. He appointed (resigned, 1995). |
1996 | • Lisa Vaillancourt appointed; first female faculty member. |
1997 | • Mark Farman appointed. |
1999 | • Peter Nagy appointed. |
2002 | • Michael Goodin appointed. |
• Pradeep Kachroo appointed. | |
2003 | • Plant Pathology moved from Ag Science-North to the Plant Science Building. |
2005 | • Kenneth Seebold, Jr. appointed (resigned, 2014). |
• Doctoral program ranked #1 in nation in Academic Analytics’ Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index. | |
2006 | • Aardra Kachroo appointed. |
2010 | • Again, ranked #1 by Academic Analytics. |
2011 | • Christopher Schardl became chairman. |
• Nicole Ward (Gauthier) appointed. | |
2015 | • Emily Pfeufer appointed |
• Carl Bradley appointed at Princeton | |
• Tyler Dreaden, USDA FS, appointed Adjunct Professor | |
2016 | • Robert Louis Hirsch appointed Lecturer |
2107 | • Kiersten Wise appointed at Princeton |
*Fellow of American Phytopathological Society