Biology Professor Retires from University

11 September 2002 -- Adam Anthony, professor of biology, has retired from the Eberly College of Science with emeritus status after 49 years at Penn State.

As a researcher, Anthony focused on analytical histochemistry, physiology of noise stress, low-oxygen acclimation, pathogenesis of disease states, and toxicology. He has had 140 articles accepted for publication in professional journals, largely dealing with physiological and histochemical aspects of environmental stresses such as noise, oxygen lack, toxicants, and age-related disease states. As a professor, Anthony has taught thousands of students in a variety of biology classes. He has directed or co-directed 145 theses, 55 of which were doctoral.

He has worked as a highly active member of the Penn State community, serving the University, the Eberly College of Science, and the Department of Biology with participation in numerous activities and on several committees. He was actively involved in establishing a graduate program in biophysics, which became a department in 1962, and in setting up interdisciplinary doctoral programs in physiology, bioacoustics, and bioengineering. He served as program director in bioaccoustics research from 1956 to 1962, in altitude physiology from 1956 to 1970, and in various analytical histochemistry projects from 1965 to the present. He assumed a heavy involvement in the physiology program, serving as chairman from 1970 to 1973 and as vice-chairman from 1965 to 1970.

Among the many awards he has received throughout his career are Penn State's C.I. Noll Award for outstanding science teaching in 1990, the Pennsylvania Academy of Natural Sciences' Darbaker Award in microscopical science in 1969, 1968, and 1966, and the University of Chicago's John M. Prather Award in 1951 and 1950. Anthony is also a current or past member of more than a dozen professional societies.

Anthony received his doctoral degree in zoology-physiology from the University of Chicago in 1952. He earned his master's degree in zoology-endocrinology from Marquette University in 1948. From 1943 to 1945, Anthony completed three years of an accelerated program in medicine at Buffalo Medical School through the State University of New York (SUNY). He earned his bachelor's degree in zoology from the SUNY, Buffalo, in 1943.