He received his B.S. from Texas A&M University, then earned an M.S. (also at A&M) in Genetics under the tutelage of Rodney Honeycutt and Loren Skow. Andrew’s Ph.D. in Zoology is from Texas Tech University, where he worked with a preeminent mammalogist (Robert Baker). DeWoody then did a 3-yr postdoc stint with an obscure geneticist named John Avise at the University of Georgia (Department of Genetics) At Purdue, DeWoody’s graduate students have worked in the fields of molecular evolution (Deb Triant), conservation biology (Dave Glista, Jamie Nogle, Jamie Rudnick, Ben Reinhart), and immunogenetics (Sara Turner and Joe Busch). His research has been funded by a variety of organizations including NSF, USDA-NRI, the Great Lakes Fishery Trust, the National Geographic Society, and the Joint Transportation Research Program.