Sandra G. Solaiman, PhD, PAS is a Professor Emeritus and Adjunct Professor of Animal and Poultry Sciences at Tuskegee University (1984-Present). She received her B.S. (1974) from the University of Urmia (Iran), M.S. (1978) from Oklahoma State University, and Ph.D. (1984) from University of Missouri—Columbia. She is a class 10 graduate (2001) of the USDA—ACOP/ESCOP Leadership Program and a member of the American Society of Animal Sciences and the American Registry of Professional Animal Scientists (PAS). She serves on the USDA—National Animal Nutrition Program, Feed Composition Committee (2020-Present). She served on the National Research Council’s Small Ruminant Committee to revise the Nutrient Requirements of Goats, NRC (2007). She served as the Director of Small Ruminant Research and as an Advisor to the Meat Goat and Sheep commodity of the Alabama Farmers' Federation. She has taught for the last 40 years, advising and mentoring undergraduate and graduate students, and has published numerous refereed and non-refereed journal articles. Her research contributions include goat nutrition, the kinetics of digestion and passage, trace minerals, alternative feeds, and sustainable goat production systems. Her major contribution to goat nutrition is her study on copper and establishing the requirements and toxicity. She is the Editor of the book “Goat Science and Production” (2010). She has worked in international agriculture development, USAID, in Mali, Burkina Faso, and India.
Kyla A. Beguesse received a B.S. in Biology with a minor in Animal Science from Sam Houston State University-Huntsville, Texas, and an M.S. in Animal Science and DVM from Tuskegee University (TU)-Tuskegee, Alabama. She completed Anatomic Pathology training as an Intern at TU, a Resident at University of Pennsylvania-Philadelphia, and a Zoological Pathology Fellow at University of Wisconsin–Madison and Milwaukee County Zoo. She is a diplomate and active member of the American College of Veterinary Pathologists (ACVP). While currently working as a Pathologist, she is also pursuing research interests in archosaurian osteology and pathology, and clumped isotope thermometry as a Zoology Doctoral Candidate at North Carolina State University (NCSU, Biological Sciences Department) and North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences (NCMNS, Paleontology Research Lab). She has served as a Teaching Assistant for advanced biology courses at NCSU, Research Assistant for NCMNS, and Adjunct Professor for the 2nd year student’s Musculoskeletal Pathology section at TU and NCSU College of Veterinary Medicine. She has presented pathology cases at veterinary and paleontology conferences across the USA and internationally, co-authored manuscripts on pathology, geology and paleontology, and reviewed book chapters on bone/paleopathology. With her strong interest in exotic animal, bone and paleopathology, she established CZOPP, a Comparative Zoological Osteological and Paleontological Pathology, LLC.
