Researcher Honored as OSU Agriculture Champion

Arlan Richardson, Ph.D.

OU College of Medicine geroscience researcher and faculty member Arlan Richardson, Ph.D., was honored by Oklahoma State University as a 2021 OSU Agriculture Champion.

Richardson is Professor of Research in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, director of the Oklahoma Nathan Shock Center on Aging, and a senior research career scientist at the VA Medical Center in Oklahoma City.

The OSU Agriculture Champion Award recognizes individuals who are not graduates of the Ferguson College of Agriculture at OSU, but who have brought distinction to OSU Agriculture and have demonstrated a continuing interest and commitment in agricultural sciences and natural resources.

Richardson earned his bachelor’s degree from Peru State College in Nebraska and his doctoral degree in chemistry at OSU. He is an adjunct professor for OSU’s Center for Veterinary Health Sciences.

John Gustafson, department head for OSU’s Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, nominated Richardson and emphasized his strong connection to the department by the establishment and continued funding of the Dr. Arlan Richardson Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Undergraduate and Graduate Research Scholars Endowment fund.

“Professor Richardson has become a quintessential example of an OSU science graduate program success,” Gustafson wrote in the nomination packet. “He is richly deserving of recognition as a Champion, as he has consistently brought accolades back to our department and Division and actively supports our department’s multiple missions.”