Colorado State honored one of the nation’s pioneers in equine reproductive science in a ceremony Dec. 1, at the dedication of the Equine Center as the B.W. Pickett Equine Center.

Pickett, who first came to Colorado State in 1967 as director of the Equine Reproduction Laboratory, was named director of the Animal Reproduction Laboratory in 1971. He has overseen some of the monumental breakthroughs in animal reproductive science, including the first set of cloned twin calves in 1982 and the country’s first “man-made” identical twin foals from one split embryo in 1984.

In 1982, Pickett became director of Equine Sciences and was the guiding force behind the creation of Colorado State’s Equine Teaching and Research Center, one of the nation’s first. Today, the lab is the largest and most productive equine teaching, research and service program in theworld.

The same year, Pickett helped create the first equine science major by combining all horse programs across all colleges, making Colorado State the first university in the nation to offer such a program