Igor Leonid Kosin was born in 1911 in Vladivostok, Russia. He and his Russian parents resided in Peking and Manchuria before immigrating to a poultry farm near Vancouver, British Columbia, in 1928.
In 1934, he received his Bachelor of Science in poultry science and went on to earn a Master of Science in genetics in 1936, both from the University of British Columbia. He further pursued his study of genetics at the University of Chicago and was awarded a doctorate in 1943. Dr. Kosin employed his research skills as a geneticist for the Canadian government on a research farm near Ottawa from 1939 until 1946.
Kosin moved to Pullman, Washington in 1946 to begin a thirty-year career of teaching and genetic research at Washington State University. His contributions to the poultry sciences brought him many awards from scientific groups and the poultry industry.
In 1959 he became a part-time instructor of Russian language in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures. Two years later he relinquished his poultry science teaching duties for a full time foreign language professorship, while maintaining his genetic research activities.
Throughout his tenure at W.S.U., Professor Kosin actively participated on faculty committees concerned with university organization and governance. He retired in 1977 after a long and distinguished career.
The papers of Professor Igor Kosin contain correspondence, committee materials, interdepartmental memoranda, professional data, poultry industry information, and general university circulars collected during his career at W.S.U.The papers,which date from 1946 through 1977, are grouped in four series: university committees, agriculture, foreign languages and literatures, and faculty memoranda. His committee papers reflect his interest in university governance, curriculum development in the humanities, and faculty issues. While the bulk of the animal sciences series is devoted to interdepartmental business, very few personal teaching materials are preserved. This series also includes much correspondence between Dr. Kosin and fellow animal scientists concerning agricultural research projects resulting from the Hope-Flannigan appropriations bill of 1946-1947. Paralleling his animal sciences papers is the foreign languages and literatures series that includes faculty conference materials and departmental proposals for alterations in the foreign language programs. The final series includes information and announcements from professional associations aimed at the general university faculty.
The papers are arranged in four series, each illustrating a facet of Professor Kosin's pedagogical career: university committees, agriculture, foreign languages and literatures, and faculty memoranda. Within each series, the chronological order of each subdivision has been retained. The subdivisions have been placed in alphabetical order within each series, and the original filing order in each folder has been retained.
This collection is open for research use.
[Item Description]. Cage 344, Igor L. Kosin Papers . Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries, Pullman, WA.
The Igor L. Kosin papers were donated to the Washington State University Library by Professor Kosin in June 1977 (UA 77-18).
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The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in the collection.
Committee minutes and reports, correspondence, clippings, and other papers.
Interdepartmental memoranda, notes, correspondence, published data, and other papers pertaining to the animal sciences and federal research appropriations (Hope-Flannigan Bill).
Correspondence, conference agendas, faculty memoranda, and language curriculum.
Administrative circulars of broad W.S.U. faculty interest, and professional association announcements.