Merle Evenson accepted a faculty position at UW-Madison in 1965, where he worked in Laboratory Medicine for over 35 years. In 1971, he became Director of the Analytical Toxicology Laboratory at the University Hospital. He was an advisor to multiple national institutes and associations, including the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, NIH, FDA, and NSF. For more than 30 years he wrote and revised instrumentation papers and chapters for major textbooks and published his research on metalloproteins and their changes in human health and disease. He mentored and served as major professor for more than 40 undergraduate, master’s degree, Ph.D., and post-doctoral students. Those who worked with him, remember him as easy to talk to, conscientious, and attuned to the needs of the technicians and more junior faculty. In retirement, he often spoke with great pride about the clinicians and laboratorians that he got to know and worked with professionally while at UW.
More about Merle’s life and accomplishments can be found HERE.
