Institute of Ecology records, Richard Carpenter interview, 1985 April 25
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Summary
- Creator:
- Carpenter, Richard
- Date:
- 1985 April 25
- Extent:
- 1 interview(s) (28.0 minutes)
- Language:
- English
- Preferred citation:
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Institute of Ecology records, Richard Carpenter interview, har-ua97-066_0003-1, University of Georgia Archives, Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries.
Background
- Scope and content:
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Richard Carpenter discusses the Institute of Ecology, including its origins, its approaches to research, its relationship with colleges and universities, its structural and funding challenges, and its demise.
- Biographical / historical:
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Dr. Richard J. Carpenter was well known for his teaching, for his notable work in ecology, and for his long list of publications in his field. After graduating from the University of Illinois in 1932 with honors in zoology, Carpenter attended the University of Oklahoma, taking a M.S. degree in zoology and botany in 1934. He was a Rhodes Scholar at Lincoln College, Oxford for the next three years and received the Biological Science degree. In 1939, he completed his thesis on the ecology of the grassland biome and was awarded his doctorate at the University of Oklahoma. In his Biology courses at Black Mountain College, North Carolina, he stressed the position of man as an organism in a living environment of other organisms, plants and animals, together with a study of their ecological relationships and the relations of their physical environment.
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Resources may be used under the guidelines described by the U.S. Copyright Office in Section 107, Title 17, United States Code (Fair use).
- Preferred citation:
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Institute of Ecology records, Richard Carpenter interview, har-ua97-066_0003-1, University of Georgia Archives, Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries.