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Duane E. Jeffery papers, 1814-2011

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Jeffery, Duane E.
Title
Duane E. Jeffery papers
Dates
1814-2011 (inclusive)
Quantity
105.5 linear feet
Collection Number
ACCN 1372
Summary
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.
Repository
University of Utah Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library
University of Utah
295 South 1500 East
Salt Lake City, UT
84112-0860

Telephone: 8015818863
special@library.utah.edu
Access Restrictions

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.

Languages
English
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Historical Note

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.)

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Content Description

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.

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Use of the Collection

Restrictions on 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.

Preferred Citation

Collection Name, Collection Number, Box Number, Folder Number. Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, The University of Utah.

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Administrative Information

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.

Acquisition Information

Box 1 was donated by Duane E. Jeffery in 1993.

Boxes 2-225 were donated by Duane E. Jeffery in 2012.

Processing Note

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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Detailed Description of the Collection

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Subject Terms

Personal Names

Form or Genre Terms

Titles within the Collection

  • Book of Mormon--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Finding aid created by Manuscripts Division staff and Betsey Welland.
1990 (last modified: 2013 and 2019)

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