Marion Richards Myles
Marion Richards Myles was an African American student at Iowa State College.
Life and Education
Ph.D. Botany, 1945
Dissertation: “Relations of hormones to correlation in maize”
HBCU Contributions
Professor at Tennessee State, Fort Valley State, and Alcorn State
Legacy
First African American faculty member at the University of Mississippi Medical School (Assistant Professor of Pharmacology and Research - 1965)