Poultry Science professor celebrates 50 years at NC State

RALEIGH, N.C. — Professor Frank Edens often gets to work at North Carolina State University between 5 and 6 in the morning. But when we say he’s up with the chickens, we mean something else: As a poultry physiology and immunology expert, Edens has spent 58 years keeping up with what science has to say about poultry — and contributing in a major way to advancing that science.

Thanks to his work, the U.S. poultry industry has more research-based knowledge to protect their flocks from stressors that cause a host of health conditions — which might be surprising, given. . .