Summer 2025 closure

The D. H. Hill Jr. Library will be closed beginning on Monday, May 5, 2025, for planned electrical work. The Special Collections Research Center is located in Hill Library, and will be closed for all appointments during this period. Special Collections can only make appointment requests until April 25th and after August 3, 2025. During the closure, Special Collections staff will be available to answer questions about our collections, if they are accessible, and to support researchers using digital materials for their research. Please contact us!

Cook, Robert E.

Biographical Note:
Robert E. Cook received his B.S. and M.S. from West Virginia University and his Ph..D in poultry genetics from NC State. Later in his career, Cook left his position as Chairman of the Department of Poultry Science at Ohio State University to head the Department of Poultry Science at NC State in 1969.