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Contributing Institution:
Special Collections and Archives, University of California, Irvine Libraries
Title: Edward A. Steinhaus papers
Creator:
Steinhaus, Edward A. (Edward Arthur)
Identifier/Call Number: MS.F.001
Physical Description:
25 Linear Feet
(25 boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1936-1975
Date (bulk): 1939-1969
Physical Location: The collection is stored offsite at SRLF. Advanced notice is required for access.
Abstract: This collection comprises the personal and professional papers of entomologist and academic Edward A. Steinhaus. The bulk
of this collection comprises materials documenting Steinhaus' career at the University of California, Berkeley (UCB) and Irvine
(UCI), including the establishment of the Laboratory of Insect Pathology at UCB and his appointment as the first Dean of the
School of Biological Sciences at UCI. Other UCI files contain materials relating to the founding of the School of Biological
Sciences and Center for Pathobiology, in addition to the planning and opening of the UCI campus. This collection also contains
files documenting Steinhaus' research in insect pathology, insecticides, and microbial control; his professional activities,
particularly with the Entomological Society of America, Society for Invertebrate Pathology, and National Academy of Sciences;
and his extensive work with scientific journals such as the
Journal of Insect Pathology and
Annual Review of Entomology. Materials include correspondence, research files, and published and unpublished writings, in addition to some photographs,
slides, and audio recordings.
Language of Material:
English
.
Collection is open for research.
Property rights reside with the University of California. Literary rights are retained by the creators of the records and
their heirs. For permissions to reproduce or to publish, please contact the Head of Special Collections and University Archives.
Edward A. Steinhaus papers. MS-F01. Special Collections and Archives, The UC Irvine Libraries, Irvine, California. Date accessed.
For the benefit of current and future researchers, please cite any additional information about sources consulted in this
collection, including permanent URLs, item or folder descriptions, and box/folder locations.
Gift of Mabry C. Steinhaus, 1974.
Processed by Kirstin Julian, 2001. Guide edited and completed by Adrian Turner, 2002.
Edward A. Steinhaus was a noted entomologist and academic known for his extensive work in insect pathology and was the first
Dean of the School of Biological Sciences at the University of California, Irvine (UCI). He was born on November 7, 1914 in
Max, North Dakota and entered North Dakota Agricultural College (now North Dakota State University) in 1932, graduating with
a B.S. in Bacteriology in 1936. In 1939 he received his Ph.D. in Bacteriology, with a minor in entomology, from Ohio State
University. He stayed at Ohio State University for another year, engaged in post-doctoral research. In 1940 he married Mabry
Clark.
From 1940 to 1944 Steinhaus was employed as a bacteriologist at the US Public Health Service Rocky Mountain Laboratory in
Hamilton, Montana, where he conducted research primarily on tick-borne diseases and associated vaccines. He resigned from
the Rocky Mountain Laboratory when he was appointed Assistant Professor of Bacteriology at the University of California, Berkeley
(UCB) in 1944.
At UCB Steinhaus was concerned mainly with bacteriology but also worked as a consultant to various agencies and organizations
on arthropod-borne microorganisms of medical value. He was later transferred to the Division of Beneficial Insect Investigations
and in 1945 he helped establish the Laboratory of Insect Pathology within this Division. He also began teaching courses in
insect pathology during this time and compiled a textbook to support his courses,
Insect Microbiology, which was published in 1946. This publication was followed by
Principles of Insect Pathology in 1949, which also served as a course textbook.
Steinhaus' continued interest in the relationship between insect pathology and microbial control motivated him to found the
Journal of Insect Pathology which later expanded its focus and was renamed
Journal of Invertebrate Pathology. He served as editor-in-chief for these publications until 1969. In addition to his research and teaching duties at UCB,
he was highly active in a number of scientific professional organizations, including the Entomological Society of America
(ESA). In addition he continued to publish his research findings, work as a consultant, and serve as an editor and on editorial
boards for journals such as
Annual Review of Entomology,
Journal of Entomology, and Virology. From 1962 to 1963 he served as President of the ESA. In 1960 Steinhaus established a separate Department of Insect Pathology
at UCB, which he administered as Chairman until 1963.
University of California, Irvine (UCI) Chancellor Daniel Aldrich invited Steinhaus to become Dean of the School of Biological
Sciences at the new campus in April 1963. Steinhaus accepted the appointment, becoming the first dean and faculty member at
UCI. At UCI Steinhaus was responsible for the creation of a new, integrated curriculum espousing a "levels" approach to biology
from molecules to the biosphere, which differed from traditional divisions between bacteriology, botany, and zoology. He was
also responsible for developing the Psychobiology Department within the School of Biological Sciences. He taught courses in
biological sciences and public policy, the latter of which eventually served as a model for the University Studies Program
at UCI, in which senior professors taught courses for a non-major audience in areas of particular personal interest.
While on sabbatical in 1967, Steinhaus resigned as Dean and began to create plans for a UCI Center for Pathobiology. The Center
was approved by campus administration in February 1969. It was intended to promote wide-ranging research in diseases in all
living organisms; store pathological specimens; and serve as a repository for rare books, manuscripts, and other items relating
to pathobiology. Steinhaus was appointed Head, a position in which he served until his death in October 1969.
For further biographical information, see
Vision, Courage, Accomplishment: the Life of Edward A. Steinhaus (Irvine: UCI Center for Pathobiology, 1970). A biographical article on Steinhaus is also available online through "University
of California: In Memoriam."
| 1914 | Born on November 7 in Max, North Dakota. |
| 1936 | B.S. Bacteriology, North Dakota Agricultural College (now North Dakota State University). |
| 1939 | Ph.D. Bacteriology, Ohio State University. |
| 1939 | Sigma Xi. |
| 1939 | Post-doctorate Scholarship (Muellhaupt Scholar) at Ohio State University. |
| 1940 | Marries Mabry Clark. |
| 1940-1941 | Assistant Bacteriologist, US Public Health Service, Rocky Mountain Laboratory, Hamilton, Montana (RML). |
| 1941-1944 | Associate Bacteriologist, RML. |
| 1943-1944 | Member, US Army Bullis Fever Commission. |
| 1944-1946 | Assistant Professor of Bacteriology, University of California, Berkeley (UCB). |
| 1946-1960 | Director of the Laboratory of Insect Pathology, UCB. |
| 1946-1948 | Assistant Professor of Insect Pathology, Experiment Station, UCB. |
| 1946-1948 | Assistant Insect Pathologist, Experiment Station, UCB. |
| 1948-1954 | Associate Professor of Insect Pathology, Experiment Station, UCB. |
| 1948-1954 | Associate Insect Pathologist, Experiment Station, UCB. |
| 1948-1957 | Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology |
| 1951 | Invertebrates Consultants Committee for the Pacific. |
| 1951 | Consultant, Special Conference on Insect Resistance, National Academy of Sciences (NAS). |
| 1951-1952 | Journal of Entomology |
| 1951-1952 | Fulbright Fellowship offer. |
| 1951-1953 | Consultant, Pacific Science Board, NAS. |
| 1952-1954 | Journal of Economic Entomology |
| 1952-1963 | Member, International Committee on Bacterial Nomenclature, International Insect Virus Subcommittee. |
| 1954 | Fellow, Entomological Society of America (ESA). |
| 1954-1963 | Professor of Insect Pathology, Experiment Station, UCB. |
| 1954-1963 | Insect Pathologist, Experiment Station, UCB. |
| 1955-1957 | Virology |
| 1955-1963 | Annual Review of Entomology |
| 1956-1963 | Consultant, US Public Health Service, Tropical Medicine and Parasitology Study Section. |
| 1957-1958 | Vice-Chairman, Department of Biological Control, UCB. |
| 1958-1962 | Governing Board, ESA. |
| 1959 | Grace H. Griswold Lecturer of Entomology, Cornell University. |
| 1959 | Bioferm Award, ESA. |
| 1959-1963 | Chairman, International Insect Virus Subcommittee, International Committee on Bacterial Nomenclature. |
| 1959-1969 | Journal of Insect Pathology (later Journal of Invertebrate Pathology) |
| 1960 | Special Lecturer, National Taiwan University, Taipei. |
| 1960-1961 | John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellow. |
| 1960-1963 | Chairman, Department of Insect Pathology, UCB. |
| 1961 | Knapp Professor, University of Wisconsin, Madison. |
| 1961 | Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science. |
| 1962 | Consultant, The President's Office of Science and Technology. |
| 1962 | Doctorate of Science, North Dakota State University. |
| 1962-1963 | President, ESA. |
| 1962-1963 | Consultant, World Health Organization. |
| 1962-1967 | Member, Executive Committee of the International Colloquium of Insect Pathology. |
| 1962-1969 | Biological Abstracts |
| 1963 | Chairman, Division of Invertebrate Pathology, UCB. |
| 1963 | Honorary Member, Society of Science and Technology, India. |
| 1963-1967 | Dean of the School of Biological Sciences, University of California, Irvine (UCI). |
| 1963-1968 | Life Sciences |
| 1963-1968 | Professor of Biological Sciences, UCI. |
| 1963-1969 | Member, US Section of the International Committee on Comparative Pathology. |
| 1963-1969 | Member, Subcommittee on Comparative Pathology, Division of Medical Sciences, NAS. |
| 1964-1967 | Vice Chairman, US Section of the International Committee on Comparative Pathology. |
| 1964-1967 | Vice Chairman of the Subcommittee on Comparative Pathology, Division of Medical Sciences, NAS. |
| 1965 | Honorary Fellow, L'Oranisation International de lutte Biologique Contre les Animaux et Plants Nuisibles. |
| 1966 | President, Section V, International Colloquium of Insect Pathology, Wageningen, The Netherlands. |
| 1966 | Consultant, Lunar Sample Receiving Laboratory, Manned Spacecraft Center, NASA, Houston. |
| 1966-1967 | Governing Board, American Institute of Biological Sciences. |
| 1967-1968 | President and Co-Founder, Society for Invertebrate Pathology. |
| 1968 | Nominee, National Medal of Science by ESA. |
| 1968 | Honorary Member, All-Union Entomological Society of USSR.Member, NAS. |
| 1968-1969 | Director of the Center for Pathobiology, UCI. |
| 1968-1969 | Member, Executive Committee, Division of Biology and Agriculture, NAS. |
| 1969 | Member, Speaker Monagan's Advisory Committee for the Formation of the California Assembly Science and Technology Council. |
| 1969 | Chairman, Committee for the International Congress of Entomology for 1976. |
| 1969 | Nominee, Director of the National Science Foundation. |
| 1969 | Dies in October. |
| 1970 | UCI Biological Sciences Building renamed Steinhaus Hall in memory of Steinhaus. |
Collection Scope and Content Summary
This collection comprises the personal and professional papers of entomologist and academic Edward A. Steinhaus. The bulk
of this collection comprises materials documenting Steinhaus' career at the University of California, Berkeley (UCB) and Irvine
(UCI), including the establishment of the Laboratory of Insect Pathology at UCB and his appointment as the first Dean of the
School of Biological Sciences at UCI. Other UCI files contain materials relating to the founding of the School of Biological
Sciences and Center for Pathobiology, in addition to the planning and opening of the UCI campus. This collection also contains
files documenting Steinhaus' research in insect pathology, insecticides, and microbial control; his professional activities,
particularly with the Entomological Society of America, Society for Invertebrate Pathology, and National Academy of Sciences;
and his extensive work with scientific journals such as the
Journal of Insect Pathology and
Annual Review of Entomology. Materials include correspondence, research files, and published and unpublished writings, in addition to some photographs,
slides, and audio recordings.
The original order of the files was maintained for some parts of this collection. Some original folders contained handwritten
notes by Mabry C. Steinhaus, wife of Edward Steinhaus, providing information about the contents of the folders. These notes
were transcribed onto archival quality folders during refolding of materials for preservation purposes.
This collection is organized into 3 series:
- Series 1. Early academic and professional career files, 1936-1970. 16 linear ft.
- Series 2. University of California, Irvine files, 1963-1970. 6 linear ft.
- Series 3. Writings, 1938-1975. 3 linear ft.
The transcript of a 1974 oral history interview with Mabry C. Steinhaus, which includes biographical information about Edward
A. Steinhaus, can be found in the Samuel McCulloch Papers (AS-033), Special Collections and Archives, The UC Irvine Libraries.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Insects -- Diseases
Photographic prints
Insecticides
Pathology
Sound recordings.
Insects -- Microbiology
Slides
Entomologists.
University of California, Irvine -- Faculty -- Archives
University of California, Irvine. School of Biological Sciences -- Archives
Steinhaus, Edward A. (Edward Arthur) -- Archives