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Contributing Institution:
Special Collections and Archives, University of California, Irvine Libraries
Title: Grover C. Stephens papers
Creator:
Stephens, Grover C.
Identifier/Call Number: MS.F.018
Physical Description:
3.6 Linear Feet
(5 boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1950-2003
Abstract: Collection comprises the extant professional papers of University of California, Irvine biologist and founding faculty member
Grover C. Stephens. His research focused on small marine invertebrates. A nearly complete set of his publications is included,
as well as some of his correspondence, research files, course materials, biographical items and slides.
Language of Material:
English
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Collection is open for research.
Property rights reside with the University of California. For publications, literary rights are retained by the creators of
the publications and their heirs. For permissions to reproduce or to publish, please contact the University Archivist.
Grover C. Stephens papers. MS-F018. 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 Ann Doyle Stephens, 2004.
Processed by Andre Ambrus, 2005. Finding aid revised by Cyndi Shein, 2007.
Grover C. Stephens was a founding faculty member in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of California Irvine.
He was the first chair of the Department of Organismic Biology, later named the Department of Developmental and Cell Biology.
He also served as Dean of Biological Sciences in the mid-1980s. He was a comparative physiologist whose research focused on
small marine invertebrates.
Stephens was born in 1925 in Oak Park, Illinois and later received his Ph.D. from Northwestern University. His first academic
appointment was at Brooklyn College, followed by a professorship at the University of Minnesota prior to moving to the new
UC Irvine campus in 1964.
Professor Stephens died on June 17, 2003. He was survived by his wife, Ann Doyle Stephens, and his sons Peter W. Stephens
and John D. Stephens.
| 1925 | Born, Oak Park, Illinois. |
| 1948 | B.A. Mathematics, Northwestern University. |
| 1949 | M.A. Philosophy, Northwestern University. |
| 1952 | Ph.D. Biology, Northwestern University. |
| 1952-1953 | Instructor, Biology, Brooklyn College. |
| 1953-1957 | Summer Instructor, Invertebrate Zoology, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts. |
| 1953-1964 | Instructor and Professor, Zoology Department, University of Minnesota. |
| 1964-1969 | Professor of Biological Sciences and Chairman, Department of Organismic Biology, UCI. |
| 1974 | Biology |
| 1969-1991 | Professor of Biological Sciences, Department of Developmental and Cell Biology, UCI. |
| 1982-1986 | Dean of School of Biological Sciences, UCI. |
| 1989-1991 | Professor of Biological Sciences, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, UCI. |
| 1991 | Professor Emeritus, UCI. |
| 2003 | Died on June 17th. |
Collection Scope and Content Summary
Collection comprises the extant professional papers of University of California, Irvine comparative physiologist and founding
faculty member Grover C. Stephens. His research focused on small marine invertebrates. A nearly complete set of his publications
is included, as well as some of his correspondence, research files, course materials, biographical items and slides.
The collection is arranged in 4 series:
- Series 1. Publications, 1950-1989. 0.6 linear feet.
- Series 2. Administrative and biographical files, 1952-2003. 0.6 linear feet
- Series 3. Course materials, 1978-1990. 0.6 linear feet
- Series 4. Grants and research materials, 1957-1994. 1.7 linear feet
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Physiology, Comparative -- Study and teaching (Higher)
Biology -- History -- Sources
Marine invertebrates
Biology -- Study and teaching (Higher)
Curricula -- 20th century.
Letters -- 20th century.
Lectures -- 20th century.
Grant proposals -- 20th century.
Research notes -- 20th century.
Lecture notes -- 20th century.
Slides -- 20th century.
Reprints -- 20th century.
Professors.
Biologists.
Autobiographies -- 21st century.
DVDs -- 21st century.
Physiology, Comparative
University of California, Irvine -- Faculty -- Archives
Stephens, Grover C. -- Archives