Duane E. Jeffery papers
Collection
Identifier: ACCN 1372
Scope and Contents
The Duane E. Jeffery papers (1814-2011) consist of professional and administrative materials, research materials, subject files, and professional writings by Jeffery. The collection has been divided into 3 series.
The first series contains personal and administrative materials focusing on Jeffery's professional career. The collected correspondence is largely professional, but also contains personal correspondence. Also included are Jeffery's writings and academic interests, courses he taught, and files on individuals he worked with and mentored. Jeffery also collected materials pertaining to BYU as a larger institution as well as departmental materials within the sciences.
The second series contains materials Jeffery collected during his involvement with the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), BYU Chapter. Materials pertain to academic freedom and campus censorship as well as information relating to the dismissal of several BYU professors. Correspondence, memoranda, newsletters, news clippings, reports made to the national AAUP, faculty member accounts of their dismissals as well as hearing records, AAUP organizational information, and other materials are incorporated in this series.
The third series consists of research files. The folders in this section are arranged alphabetically by topic or by last name of an individual and contain a variety of materials such as news clippings, articles, brochures, photocopies, advertisements, correspondence, and other materials.
The first series contains personal and administrative materials focusing on Jeffery's professional career. The collected correspondence is largely professional, but also contains personal correspondence. Also included are Jeffery's writings and academic interests, courses he taught, and files on individuals he worked with and mentored. Jeffery also collected materials pertaining to BYU as a larger institution as well as departmental materials within the sciences.
The second series contains materials Jeffery collected during his involvement with the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), BYU Chapter. Materials pertain to academic freedom and campus censorship as well as information relating to the dismissal of several BYU professors. Correspondence, memoranda, newsletters, news clippings, reports made to the national AAUP, faculty member accounts of their dismissals as well as hearing records, AAUP organizational information, and other materials are incorporated in this series.
The third series consists of research files. The folders in this section are arranged alphabetically by topic or by last name of an individual and contain a variety of materials such as news clippings, articles, brochures, photocopies, advertisements, correspondence, and other materials.
Dates
- 1814-2011
Creator
- Jeffery, Duane E. (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
Twenty-four hour advanced notice encouraged. Materials must be used on-site. Access to parts of this collection may be restricted under provisions of state or federal law.
Conditions Governing Use
The library does not claim to control copyright for all materials in the collection. An individual depicted in a reproduction has privacy rights as outlined in Title 45 CFR, part 46 (Protection of Human Subjects). For further information, please review the J. Willard Marriott Library’s Use Agreement and Reproduction Request forms.
Biographical Sketch
A native of Delta, Utah, Professor Duane E. Jeffery graduated from Utah State University in with a B.S. in Wildlife Management. He earned an M.S. a year later. He then studied fruit flies at University of California Berkeley receiving an M.A. and a Ph.D. in Zoology-Genetics in 1966 and 1969. He joined the Zoology Department at BYU in 1969 and become a full professor in 1988.
Dr. Jeffery spent a sabbatical year at University of Hawaii at Hilo in 1974-75, largely because Hawaii is a Mecca for fruit fly research. His research interests are in evolutionary genetics. For years he was the director of Fanny Farkle's Fantastic Fly Factory-the name his students gave his lab. "I love gaining new knowledge and sharing it with dedicated students," he say. "I can't imagine anything more exciting for a career."
The fruit fly has always been Dr. Jeffery's passion so much, so that his students named him director of Fanny Farkle's Fantastic Fruit Fly Factory- aka his lab.
While at BYU, he won numerous teaching awards, including ASBYU "Master Teacher" (1971), BYU Honors Professor of the Year (1979), a College of Biology-Agriculture Distinguished Teacher Award (1984), a university Alcuin Award (1986-91), the Karl G. Maeser Distinguished Teacher Award (1991), a Zoology-Outstanding Service Award (1996), and a Biology-Agriculture Distinguished Teacher Award (2004). He was a long standing member of the Board of Directors of the National Center for Science Education (1994-present). He has written extensively about the compatibility of science and religion. "The church has long had the fundamental concept that God works through natural laws," he says. "Science is the study of those laws."
He and his wife, Kaye, have three children and six grandchildren.
(This biography was taken from BYU College of Life Sciences Magazine, Spring 2009.)
Dr. Jeffery spent a sabbatical year at University of Hawaii at Hilo in 1974-75, largely because Hawaii is a Mecca for fruit fly research. His research interests are in evolutionary genetics. For years he was the director of Fanny Farkle's Fantastic Fly Factory-the name his students gave his lab. "I love gaining new knowledge and sharing it with dedicated students," he say. "I can't imagine anything more exciting for a career."
The fruit fly has always been Dr. Jeffery's passion so much, so that his students named him director of Fanny Farkle's Fantastic Fruit Fly Factory- aka his lab.
While at BYU, he won numerous teaching awards, including ASBYU "Master Teacher" (1971), BYU Honors Professor of the Year (1979), a College of Biology-Agriculture Distinguished Teacher Award (1984), a university Alcuin Award (1986-91), the Karl G. Maeser Distinguished Teacher Award (1991), a Zoology-Outstanding Service Award (1996), and a Biology-Agriculture Distinguished Teacher Award (2004). He was a long standing member of the Board of Directors of the National Center for Science Education (1994-present). He has written extensively about the compatibility of science and religion. "The church has long had the fundamental concept that God works through natural laws," he says. "Science is the study of those laws."
He and his wife, Kaye, have three children and six grandchildren.
(This biography was taken from BYU College of Life Sciences Magazine, Spring 2009.)
Extent
105.5 Linear Feet
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
The Duane E. Jeffery papers (1814-2011) consist of professional and administrative materials, research materials, subject files, and professional writings by Jeffery. Jeffery was a distinguished professor at Brigham Young University (BYU) specializing in evolutionary genetics.
Arrangement
This collection was organized into five series: I. Professional and administrative materials; II. American Association of University Professors (AAUP), BYU Chapter; and III. Research materials.
Original folder titles provided by the creator of the collection have been maintained.
Original folder titles provided by the creator of the collection have been maintained.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Box 1 was donated by Duane E. Jeffery in 1993.
Boxes 2-225 were donated by Duane E. Jeffery in 2012.
Boxes 2-225 were donated by Duane E. Jeffery in 2012.
Processing Information
Processed by Manuscripts Division staff in the 1990s.
Addendum processed by Matthew Wright, Maggie Anderson, Emma McFarland, and Betsey Welland in 2012-2013.
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Addendum processed by Matthew Wright, Maggie Anderson, Emma McFarland, and Betsey Welland in 2012-2013.
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Creator
- Jeffery, Duane E. (Person)
- Title
- Inventory of the Duane E. Jeffery papers
- Author
- Finding aid created by Manuscripts Division staff and Betsey Welland.
- Date
- 1990 (last modified: 2013 and 2019)
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
Revision Statements
- 2013: Finding aid revised and re-encoded to include addendum by Betsey Welland.
Repository Details
Part of the J. Willard Marriott Library Special Collections Repository
Contact:
295 South 1500 East
Salt Lake City Utah 84112 United States
801-581-8863
special@library.utah.edu
295 South 1500 East
Salt Lake City Utah 84112 United States
801-581-8863
special@library.utah.edu