Ernest J. Hugghins
Ernest J. Hugghins (1920-2010) was born and raised in Bryan, Texas, alongside his four brothers and one sister. He graduated from Baylor University in 1943 with a Bachelor of Arts in biology, and soon after served as an officer in the United States Navy during World War II. After World War II, he taught microbiology at the University of Houston from 1946-47. He received a Master of Science in biology from Texas A&M in 1949 and began graduate studies at the University of Michigan Biological Station and the Marine Biological Laboratory in Massachusetts. He completed his Doctor of Philosophy in zoology at the University of Illinois in 1952. Later that year he married Mildred K. Shields on Aug. 12, 1952, in Conway, Arkansas, and the two moved to Brookings one month later, where Hugghins began his 33-year career at South Dakota State University. They had three children: Susan, Arley and Kay.
Ernest Hugghins received the National Award from the American Association for Conservation Information for his article "," published by the South Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station in 1959. Throughout his time at 海角直播app, he completed experiment station research projects focused on parasites of fish, wildlife and domestic animals, served as a visiting professor for both the University of Oklahoma Biological Station in the summer of 1960 and at the Black Hills Natural Sciences Station in the summers of 1972 and 1973, and acted the head of the biology department from 1981 to his retirement in 1985. In 2000, he participated in the 47th National Security Forum at Air War College at Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama.
Ernest Hugghins' career frequently took him outside the United States. He was a fellow in 1963 at the Louisiana State University Interamerican Program, where he studied parasitology in the Caribbean islands, Venezuela and Colombia. He then served as a consultant for the Office of Naval Research at the First International Congress of Parasitology held in Rome, Italy, in 1964. Next, he was a Fulbright professor in Lima, Peru, in 1967. During the summers of 1968-1969, he was a National Science Foundation research grantee to study parasites of fishes in the upper Amazonian regions of South America. He participated in the NATO Advanced Study Institute on Animal Learning in West Germany in 1976. In 1986 after his retirement, he participated in the International Congress of Parasitology at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
Ernest Hugghins authored over 60 publications on the impact parasites have on fish, mammals and the natural world as a whole. His works were published in Bios (Beta Beta Beta Biological Society), Journal of Mammalogy, The American Midland Naturalist, The Journal of Parasitology, The Journal of Wildlife Management and Transactions of the American Microscopical Society. He is listed in American Men and Women of Science, Leaders in American Science, Outstanding Educators of America, Who鈥檚 Who of America and World Who鈥檚 Who in Science.
Most Cited Works:
- Hugghins, E.J., "" (1959). Bulletins. Paper 484.
- Boddicker, M.L. and Hugghins, E.J. (1969). Helminths of big game mammals in South Dakota. The Journal of Parasitology, 1067-1074.
- Hugghins, E.J. (1954). . Transactions of the American Microscopical Society, 73(3), 221-236. DOI: 10.2307/3224061
- Schmidt, G.D. and Hugghins, E.J. (1973). Acanthocephala of South American Fishes. Part I, Eoacanthocephala. The Journal of Parasitology, 829-835.
- Hugghins, E.J. (1954). Life history of a strigeid trematode, Hysteromorpha triloba (Rudolphi, 1819) Lutz, 1931. I. Egg and miracidium. Transactions of the American Microscopical Society, 73(1), 1-15.
After his retirement, Ernest Hugghins focused more on his hobbies. He played the saxophone and the harmonica, and sang in various choirs throughout South Dakota, even traveling to England and Germany as part of a choir. He also spent his time traveling, reading, writing his memoirs and birdwatching. He died Jan. 5, 2010, after a prolonged battle with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.