Pioneer Plant Pathologist

Description

Dr. Regina Vidaver (52) interviews her mother, Dr. Anne Vidaver (85) about her career as a Professor and Department Chair in Plant Pathology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL). Anne completed her PhD in 1965, a time when very few women were in graduate school. She married Dr. George Vidaver, and followed him to his first job as Professor of Biochemistry at UNL. Finding that the professor who Anne was supposed to do a post-doctoral fellowship with was leaving, and had made no arrangements for her, she worked for free in the Plant Pathology department until she got her first grant. She was eventually hired as faculty, and elevated to Department Chair, the first woman in the world to hold this position.

Participants

• Regina Vidaver
  
• Anne Vidaver
  

Interview By

• Regina Vidaver