Background
Fuller, Melvin Stuart was born on May 5, 1931 in Livermore Falls, Maine, United States. Son of George Raymond and Hilda Gordon (Pike) Fuller.
Fuller, Melvin Stuart was born on May 5, 1931 in Livermore Falls, Maine, United States. Son of George Raymond and Hilda Gordon (Pike) Fuller.
Bachelor of Science, University Maine, 1953. Master of Science, University Nebraska, 1955. Doctor of Philosophy, University California, 1959.
Master's ad eundum, Brown University, 1963.
Instructor, Brown U., 1959;
assistant professor, Brown U., 1960-1963;
associate professor, Brown U., 1963-1964;
assistant professor, University of California, 1964-1965;
associate professor, University of California, 1965-1968;
professor botany, U. Georgia, since 1968;
head Department, University Georgia, 1968-1973, 86-89;
university professor, U. Georgia, since 1990;
visiting agricultural research biologist, Sandoz Ltd., Basel, Switzerland, 1983;
visiting research professor, U. Uppsala, Sweden, 1985, 86;
Adjunct Professor botany, U. Maine, since 1992;
emeritus university professor and emeritus professor botany, U. Georgia, since 1995. Member editorial board for publications in biology McGraw Hill. Secretary 2d International Mycological Congress.
Organizer Fifth International Fungus Spore Meeting, 1991.
Board directors DaPonte String Quartet, 2002—2006. Fellow British Mycological Society. Member Botanical Society of America, Mycological Society of America (counselor 1966-1968, 70-72, president 1975, Distinguished Mycologist Award, 1992), Society Study of Growth and Development, American Phythopath.
Society, Gulf of Maine Foundation (president 1997-1999).
Married Barbara Paul Newman, April 2, 1955. Children: Erica Ann, Scott Eliot, Amy Elizabeth.