BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
George Charles Poppensiek (1918- ) received his V.M.D. (Latin spelling of D.V.M.)
degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1942 and an M.S. from Cornell
University in 1951. He taught at the University of Pennsylvania and the University
of Maryland before working as a department head with the Lederle Laboratories
Division of American Cyanamid Company where he was responsible for veterinary
vaccine and antiserum production. In 1949 he came to Cornell to begin graduate
studies in virology and pathology. From 1951 to 1955 he served as a research
associate in the Veterinary Virus Research Institute at Cornell. From 1955 to 1958,
he worked at the U.S.D. A.'s Plum Island Animal Disease Laboratory, working on
highly infectious foreign animal diseases. In 1959 he returned to Cornell to become
Dean of the New York State Veterinary College at Cornell University, a position he
held until 1974. He was then named as the James Law Professor of Comparative
Medicine. He retired in 1988. From 1974 to 1988 he also was appointed to the staff
of the Department of Preventative Medicine at the Upstate Medical Center in Syracuse
as a Research Professor. He belonged to numerous veterinary organizations and served
as a consultant to other universities and projects.
