Michael T. Clegg
Michael Tran Clegg (born August 1, 1941) is an American plant geneticist. He is professor emeritus of ecology and evolutionary biology in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of California, Irvine (UC Irvine). Early life and education Clegg was born on August 1, 1941, in Pasadena, California. His father and grandfather were biologists, and his great-grandfather was a doctor. Despite his family's scientific background, Clegg originally worked for a crop duster, served in the 101st Airborne Division of the US Army from 1960 to 63 and later worked in the sugar industry, before entering college. He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of California, Davis in 1972. Academic career Clegg served on the faculty of Brown University from 1972 until 1976 when he assumed a faculty appointment as associate professor at the University of Georgia. In 1984, he joined the faculty of the University of California, Riverside as Professor of Genetics, and subsequently served as Dean of the College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences from 1994 to 2000. In 2004 he left UC Riverside to join the faculty of UC Irvine where he was the Donald Bren Professor of Biological Sciences until he retired in 2014. Since then,