BLACKSBURG, Va – After more than six decades of teaching and research, the impact of this Virginia Tech professor can be seen worldwide. “I’m a chicken guy who happens to be a geneticist,” Professor Dr. Paul Siegel said. 63 years ago in 1957, Siegel joined the faculty at Virginia Tech and has been working on the same experiment ever since. “As a geneticist, I did not want to develop a better chicken, I wanted to figure out their relationships and why things work,” Siegel said. He says there are a few good rules to follow to become one of the longest working professors at Virginia tech.