Dr. MT Morgan Inducted into the Tennessee Environmental Hall of Fame

Dr. Monroe T. Morgan was inducted into the Tennessee Environmental Hall of Fame on Wednesday, September 9, 2015.  Dr. Morgan became the founding Professor and Chair of the Department of Environmental Health in 1963, and retired from ETSU in 1998.  He was a true pioneer in environmental health education, having developed the first BSEH and MSEH curriculum in Environmental Health to be accredited by the National Environmental Health Science & Protection Accreditation Council (EHAC). 

He served as the chair the first Earth Day Forum in 1970; received the Governors Outstanding Tennessean award in 1974, and, in 1975, became the first Tennessean to serve as President of the National Environmental Health Association.  He was deeply committed to assuring that all students, including many international students, received an education in Environmental Health. 

Among his many outstanding accomplishments, Dr. Morgan received an Award for Outstanding Leadership to the Environmental Health Profession from the National Environmental Health Association, the East Tennessee State Outstanding Faculty Award, served as a Consultant to the National Academy of Science, the American Medical Association, World Health Organization, the United States Agency for International Development and started an International Committee of the National Environmental Health Association.  He published the influential textbook Environmental Health in 1993, which was followed by a second edition in 1996 and a third edition in 2002. 

Dr. Morgan received his doctoral degree from Tulane University.  The Tennessee Environmental Hall of Fame was created in 2009 to recognize meritorious service in the field of environmental health and the Tennessee Environmental Health Association.  It is on display in Lamb Hall on the campus of East Tennessee State University which is also the home of the oldest EHAC accredited environmental health program in the nation.