Texas Tech University

R. A. and Elizabeth Long Graduate Assistantship in Beef Cattle Science

The R. A. and Elizabeth Long Graduate Endowment was established in 1991 by faculty, current students, alumni and friends of the Department of Animal and Food Sciences to honor the career of Dr. Robert A. Long in the beef cattle profession, and to provide funds to support graduate and doctoral students pursuing study in the areas of beef cattle breeding and genetics, composition, reproductive physiology, nutritional energetics, environmental physiology, or health.

Robert Allen Long was born and raised on a general livestock farm in Jackson County Ohio. He received the Bachelor of Science from The Ohio State University and a Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy from Oklahoma State University. He held teaching and research appointments at Oklahoma State and the University of Kentucky before becoming Chairman of the Animal Science Division at the University of Georgia, a post he held for eleven years. In 1967, he joined Ankeny Angus Corporation as Vice President for Research and Development and became Executive Vice President and Chief Operating officer.

Dr. Long lectured on the breeding, feeding and management of beef cattle in beef producing countries throughout the world. He served major meat packers in the United States, Argentina and Brazil by training their cattle buyers, served as a consultant for various purebred breeders, and judged beef cattle at all major national shows in the United States and at most state fairs. His research projects were concerned with skeletal size and muscularity of feeder cattle as they effect feedlot performance and carcass characteristics, and the use of identical twins resulting from embryo splitting to study the effects of caloric density of diet upon efficiency of production. Professionally, he was a member of the American Society of Animal Science, Phi Kappa Phi, Alpha zeta, Gamma Sigma Delta, and Sigma XI.

In 1976 Dr. Long joined the Animal Science faculty at Texas Tech University where he was in charge of beef cattle programs and teaching. He was then appointed to Chairman of the Animal Science Department in June 1986 and served in that capacity until he retired in December 1991.

Dr. Long is married to Elizabeth Reeder Long and they have two sons, Robert Allen Long, Jr. and Randall Reeder Long.

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Contact

Alex Yack
Alex.Yack@ttu.edu
Senior Director of Development
806.742.2802

Matt Williams
matt.williams@ttu.edu
Director of Development
806.742.2802

Shelbey Havens
shelbey.havens@ttu.edu
Assistant Director of Development
806.834.1108