Jerry Cohen:
CLASS OF 1967
Dixon High SchoolClass of 1967
Dixon, CA
University of Maryland Class of 1999
College park, MD
Michigan State UniversityClass of 1979
East lansing, MI
San Diego State UniversityClass of 1974
San diego, CA
University of CaliforniaClass of 1972
Riverside, CA
Jerry's Story
DIXON HIGH SCHOOL CLASS of 1967 REUNION (updated)
Name: Jerry Cohen (wife: Susan Cohen)
• Family: Father: Herman (Passed away in 2017 at 100.5 years); Brother: Michael (Statistical Mathematician); Wife: Susan (Regulatory Biologist); Son: Aaron (Electrical and Computer Engineer); Daughter-in-law: Hoernisa (MBA); Grandson: Eli
• Education: B.S. 1972 Microbiology UC Riverside; M.S. 1974 Plant Physiology San Diego State University; Ph.D. 1979 Plant Biochemistry Michigan State University; Postdoctoral 1979-1981 Plant Biochemistry/Mass Spectrometry Michigan State University
• Work: Plant Physiologist/Research Chemist, 1981-1999 USDA-Agricultural Research Service, Beltsville, MD; 1998-1999; 2004-2005 Deputy Division Director, Molecular and Cellular Biosciences, National Science Foundation; 2000-present, Gordon and Margaret Bailey Professor (since 2013, also Distinguished Graduate Teaching Professor), Horticultural Science, University of Minnesota
• Retirement: Not anytime soon, unless I get hit by a truck.
• If you had it to do all over again: I would likely have changed from government to the university sooner, would have paid more attention in Spanish class, and would have learned to play a string or keyboard instrument.
• Hobbies: Wood and metal shop, mini-farm
• Travel: Lots of trips, some of the more exotic: Israel 1980 and 1992; Poland 1980; East Germany (DDR) 1986; Czechoslovakia 1988; then multiple trips to Europe, Scandinavia, Japan, China, and South America. Went to Vienna Austria in February 2020 - ju...Expand for more
st before COVID-19 hit! With COVID still with us, I traveled to Pucon and Temuco Chile (Nov/Dec 2022) - nice with 2+3 vaccinations to still be COVID-free.
• Life lessons: Many of those things I learned in kindergarten have served me well: Sharing, clean up your own messes, care about others and treat them like you want to be treated, listen well, and use your imagination.
• Gratitude for: Science and higher education have allowed me to impact in a positive way the lives of many wonderful people. It seems that each day I am thinking, listening, articulating ideas, designing new experiments, and explaining biology, all while trying to thoughtfully mentor young scientists and colleagues. Each of these activities enriches me and pushes me intellectually and/or emotionally but also helps others around me to develop their innate capacities.
• Proudest moments: 1) Birth of my son and each of his major life accomplishments; 2) The graduation of each Ph.D. who I have help educate; 3) being awarded ‘Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science’ in Biology the same day and on the same stage as my brother Michael received ‘AAAS Fellow’ in Statistics (2015).
You can read more about my academic life here: [Oops, Classmates made me delete the web link] so, just Google "ASPB Legacy Society" and click on my name. :-)
You can also find more at the University of Minnesota web site: Google 'UMN Horticultural Science" and follow the link, click About, click People, click Faculty, click on my name.....
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