Michael L. Thonney earned graduate degrees at the University of Minnesota and first joined the faculty in Animal Science at Cornell University in 1975. He was promoted to Professor in 1988. He has taught courses in introductory animal science, beef cattle, sheep, and the biology of growth. Resear...
Michael L. Thonney earned graduate degrees at the University of Minnesota and first joined the faculty in Animal Science at Cornell University in 1975. He was promoted to Professor in 1988. He has taught courses in introductory animal science, beef cattle, sheep, and the biology of growth. Research interests have ranged from the relationship of mature size to body composition and growth of cattle and sheep to vaccination of sheep. He has taken sabbatical leaves at the Animal Breeding Research Organisation (Edinburgh, Scotland, 1984), University of California (Davis, 1993), Massey University (New Zealand, 2003), and Washington State University (2012).