The HistoryMakers video oral history with Sheila Grimes.

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Imprint:Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Description:1 online resource (4 video files (1 hr., 40 min., 56 sec.)) : sound, color.
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Video Streaming Video
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11336761
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Varying Form of Title:History Makers video oral history with Sheila Grimes
Sheila Grimes
Other authors / contributors:Grimes, Sheila, 1958- interviewee.
Williams, Regennia N., interviewer.
Hickey, Matthew, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
Sound characteristics:digital
Digital file characteristics:video file
Notes:Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
Regennia Williams, interviewer.
Recorded Reynoldsburg, Ohio 2005 March 16.
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Summary:Veterinarian Sheila D. Grimes was born on February 24, 1958 in Tuskegee, Alabama. She received her B.S. and D.V.M. degrees in veterinary medicine at Tuskegee University in 1980. She earned her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Michigan State University in 1984 and 1988, respectively. She taught at Michigan State for seven years before moving to Ohio and serving as a section head for the Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory at Ohio Department of Agriculture where she worked and lectured at Ohio State University. Grimes spearheaded the Ohio Department of Agriculture's deer-testing program, designed to detect disease in white-tailed deer herds and guard against the kinds of threats to human health posed by outbreaks of disease among cattle and poultry in other countries and the West Nile virus in the United States. Grimes had her work and research published in a number of scholarly journals. She also served as a youth mentor.