| Summary: | Cell biologist and academic administrator George Langford was born on August 26, 1944 in Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina. He earned his B.S. degree in 1966 from Fayetteville State University. Langford received his M.S. degree and his Ph.D. degree, both in cell biology, from the Illinois Institute of Technology. Langford was on faculty at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, Howard University and the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He also conducted research at Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory. Langford joined the faculty of Dartmouth College in 1991 as the Ernest Everett Just Professor of Natural Sciences. Between 2005 and 2008, Langford was dean of the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. In 2014, he resigned as dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Syracuse University after serving six years, to return to teaching. He served on the National Science Board from 1998 to 2004.
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