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Harley W. Moon, ’60 DVM, ’65 PhD, Danville, Penn., died October 7 at age 82. After completing his PhD, Moon worked at the Brookhaven National Laboratory and then at the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon. In 1968, he joined the National Animal Disease Center (NADC) in Ames, Iowa. In 1995 he became the director of Plum Island Animal Disease Center. He returned to Iowa and was named to the Ramsey Chair in Veterinary Medicine at Iowa State University in 1996. His honors and awards include induction to the United States Department of Agriculture’s Science Hall of Fame in 2000, fellowship in the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2003, two honorary doctorates, and numerous memberships, fellowships, medals, diplomacies, citations, and awards from the US, Canada, Belgium, Hungary, and Switzerland. He served on expert panels with the World Health Organization, the National Institutes of Health, and the National Academy of Science, among others. He testified to the US Senate about antibiotics in livestock feed and discussed threats to agriculture on the network evening news as chair of the National Research Council's Committee on Agricultural Bioterrorism. Moon was predeceased by his wife, Irene, and survived by 4 children and 4 grandchildren.