Head and shoulders image of Dr. B.D. Owen, assistant professor, Department of Animal Husbandry (later Animal Science).

Bio/Historical Note: Dr. Bruce D. Owen was born 1 October 1927 in Edmonton. Following the completion of a BSc (Agriculture, 1950) and an MSc (Animal Nutrition, 1952) from the University of Alberta, he spent several years working at Lederle Laboratories in Pearl River, New York, and at the Canada Department of Agriculture Experimental Farm in Beaverlodge, Alberta. He completed a PhD (Animal Nutrition, 1961) at the University of Saskatchewan and immediately began an academic position there in the Faculty of Agricultural Science. In 1977 he accepted a professorship at UBC, where he remained until he retired in 1991. Bruce Owen died 2 May 2011 in Delta, British Columbia.