Horace F. Quick

  • Professor Emeritus of Geography
  • Forestry, Game, and Land Management
  • Conservation Ecology
  • Natural Resource Policy and Management
  • Population Geography
  • Ph.D. from Univeristy of Michigan, 1956
Horace F Quick

Taught for the Geography Department from 1965 to 1981.

Notable Accomplishments:

  • Served as an instructor for the Army's 10th Mountain Division training group.
  • Assistant Director of the National Science Foundation Program at the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research in Nederland.
  • Won a Fulbright award to study elephants in Uganda 1959-1960.
  • Traveled more than 2,000 miles by dogsled with Indian trappers across northern British Columbia in the winter.
  • Nominated twice for the Teaching Recognition Awards (1974 and 1976).

Professor Emeritus Horace F. Quick passed on September 11, 2004 at the age of 89.