UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Robert G. Elkin, professor of animal sciences at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind., has been named head of the poultry science department in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences, effective August 1.
"Bob Elkin will provide the vision and leadership that will guide our Poultry Science Department into the new century," says Robert Steele, dean of the College of Agricultural Sciences. "We are extremely pleased that a nationally known scholar of his stature will be joining our college."
Elkin joined the faculty at Purdue as an assistant professor in 1981. He was promoted to associate professor in 1986 and to professor in 1999. His research has focused on modification of avian cholesterol and lipoprotein metabolism, and amino acid nutrition and metabolism in poultry. He has authored or co-authored 51 papers and 40 abstracts in refereed scientific journals and has delivered invited lectures at numerous state, national and international research symposia.
He has taught courses in Laboratory Techniques, Monogastric Nutrition and Natural Toxicants in Feedstuffs.
Elkin, whose work on the pharmacological reduction of egg cholesterol content has received popular coverage in the national news media, has won numerous honors, including the American Feed Industry Association Nutrition Research Award in 1997, an Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Research Fellowship in 1995, a Fulbright Scholar Research Award in 1992-93, and the American Egg Board Research Award in 1991. He is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Society for Nutritional Sciences, the Poultry Science Association and other academic and professional organizations.
Elkin received his bachelor's degree in animal science (with distinction) from Penn State in 1975, his master's degree in nonruminant nutrition from Purdue in 1977 and his doctorate in nutritional biochemistry from Purdue in 1981. He succeeds Michael Hulet, associate professor of poultry science, who has been interim department head since the retirement of William Weaver in August 1998.
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