Add to ORKGDr. Jay Lush, Distinguished Professor, Iowa State University, died May 2, 1982. He was named a Distinguished Fellow of the Iowa Academy of Science in 1975. He was born January 3, 1896 in Page County, Iowa. On December 20, 1923, he married Adaline Lincoln. He received a B.S. (1916) and M.S. (1918) from Kansas State University and a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin (1922). He taught high school in Kansas, 1916-19, with time out for U.S. Army Air Service in 1918. He became a research animal husbandman at the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station in 1921, and joined Iowa State University\u27s faculty in 1930