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Dr. James Edward Legates has been named Dean of Agriculture and Life Sciences at North Carolina State University. Dr. Legates, 48, came to North Carolina State University in 1949. He has served in the department of animal science as assistant professor (1949-51), associate professor (1951-54), professor (1954), and William Neal Reynolds Professor since 1958. From 1955 to 1958 he was acting head of the dairy husbandry Section, and since 1958 has been head of the animal breeding section. His research has dealt primarily with the improvement of dairy cattle through selection. He has led investigations dealing with the heritability of nonfat solids, protein, mastitis and reproductive efficiency. He initiated a system of young sire sampling and evaluation which is in use nationally and contributed to the development of herdmate comparison in sire evaluation. Dr. Legates was born in Milford, Delaware and grew up on a dairy farm in southern Delaware.