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Dr. Robert Fogel
Professor of Biology/Curator of Fungi
Bob Fogel grew up in Roseburg,
Oregon - "the timber capital of the Nation." He received his Ph.D.
degree from Oregon State University in 1975 and was hired by the University of
Michigan in 1978. He was the recipient of the Class of 1923 Undergraduate
Teaching Award in 1982 and the Mycological Society of America Alexopoulos Prize
for Research in 1984. He has taught General Biology, Mushrooms and Molds:
Biology and Use, Soil Biology, and Injecting Creativity into Science.
He is intrigued by the biology and ecology of
truffles and false truffles. He finds it particularly interesting that so many
different groups of fungi produce closed, animal dispersed, subterranean
sporocarps and that all of these fungi are ectomycorrhizal symbionts dependent
on trees for carbohydrates.
When not collecting truffles, he enjoys
gardening, building computers, and reading science fiction, biographies and
mysteries. He has been married since 1968 to Mikal, a Research Assistant in the
Herbarium. They have two daughters. Their cat, Truffle, collects moths and the
occcasional butterfly.
Patricia Rogers
Fungus Collection Coordinator and Editor of Fun Facts
Patricia Rogers received her B.A. in
Literature from Wayne State University in 1978. She has been working in the
Herbarium since 1990.
She grew up on the southwest side of Detroit,
where wildlife was scarce and the appearance of anything besides squirrels,
English sparrows or robins was unusual. People would come out of their houses
to look if a blue jay or a cardinal appeared. Summer visits to her
grandfather's cottage at Duck Lake and the books of Herbert Zim gave her the
gift of an appreciation of nature. She has published articles in the
Michigan Natural Resources Magazine on prickly pear cacti and
black-crowned night herons.
She enjoys reading, going for long walks with her
dog, baking and watching movies, especially old ones.
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Last Updated: 5 June 2001. Photograph of Robert Fogel courtesy of David
Bay, University of Michigan.