Dr. Joseph O. Kuti
.5 linear feet
A2018-006
1890-1945 (unknown)
Joseph O. Kuti was born in Nigeria, West Africa. He received his early schooling at St. James Anglican Elementary School, Ogbomoso Grammer School and the University of Ife, Nigeria, where he obtained a baccalaureate degree in veterinary science in 1971. He worked briefly as an assistant veterinary officer with the Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources until 1974, when he moved to the United States to continue his education. He obtained a bachelor's degree in microbiology in 1978 at the Catholic University of America, Washington D. C. Dr. Kuti graduated from Howard University, Washington D. C. with a graduate degree in Botany and Microbiology in 1981. He began his doctoral work in the fall of 1983 at the Department of Horticulture, University of Maryland College Park. His Ph.D. project was on breeding, genetics, and biochemical studies of disease resistance in vegetable crops. He was the recipient of 1986 Leland C. Scott Excellence in Graduate Research Award from the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, University of Maryland.
After graduating with a doctoral degree in 1987, he took a post-doctoral research associate position with the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Maryland, where he worked on natural product chemistry and the chemopreventive nature of Baccharis plants on leukemia cancer cells. In the fall of 1988, he accepted an assistant professor of horticulture position with Texas A&I University. Here he pursued an aggressive research program and established the Horticulture Crops Research Laboratory at the College of Agriculture and Human Sciences. Dr. Kuti was the recipient of the 1994 Distinguished TAMUK Faculty Researcher Award. He was promoted to full professor in 1998. In 2003 Dr. Joseph Kuti left Texas A&M University-Kingsville.
The collection contains Dr. Kuti's professional papers, biographical information, published and presented papers and the services and consultations he rendered. Correspondence from his peers cover his range of experience and progress in his field.
The collection is arranged in twelve folders by subject of the material.
South Texas Archives, James C. Jernigan Library, Texas A&M University-Kingsville
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Dr. Joseph O. Kuti Collection, A2018-006.XXXX- South Texas Archives, James C. Jernigan Library, Texas A&M University-Kingsville
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A2018-006 was transferred to South Texas Archives in 2003 to Cecilia Aros Hunter by Dr. Kuti
In 2018 Lori Atkins, the University Archivist, found the collection in the UA Reference vertical file while migrating records to the new database, ArchivesSpace. She separated the records into a singular collection. She created the finding aid and Daniel Thacker, the Digital Archivist, created the EAD documents and posted the collection on the STA website.