On Feb. 12, 2002, Pioneer Hi-Bred International made a gift to endow a faculty chair in maize breeding in the College of Agriculture at Iowa State University.

In 1959, Arnel Hallauer became director of ISU’s maize breeding program. Hallauer was part of a team of USDA and Iowa State scientists who developed the B73 line of hybrid corn, one of six lines that are the basis for much of the seed-parent lines of corn used in the U.S. and in temperate regions worldwide.