Albert F. Woods

(1866-1948) lived in Lincoln. Botanist, administrator, served as president of the University of Maryland from 1917 to 1926 where he combined institutions into a state university, student enrollment increased from 500 to 8,000, and accreditation of the new university occurred; previously was a pioneer in plant virus research with early entities of U.S. Department of Agriculture, and dean of University of Minnesota College of Agriculture, where he was appointed acting president during absences of the regular university president; recipient of several honors, including naming of Woods Hall on campus in 1914. Consult obituaries in New York Times, April 13, 1948, p. 27 and Journal of The Washington Academy of Sciences, Vol 39 (September 15, 1949) 313-315 and National Cyclopedia of American Biographies, Vol 46 (1963) 457-458 and UNL Nebraska Alumnus, Fall 2002, p. 18.

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