1935
Born in Mercedes, Texas to Harry Woods and Evelyn Irene Espey.
1958
Receives a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Texas at Austin.
1961
Receives a Master of Arts from the University of Texas at Austin.
1964
Receives a Doctor of Philosophy from Florida State University.
1964
Becomes a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Michigan Medical School.
1966
Becomes a professor at Trinity University.
1966
Receives the Best Oral Presentation Award from GenHunter Corporation.
1977
Becomes a Fulbright-Hays research professor at the Nicolae Balcescu Agronomic Institute in Bucharest, Romania.
1978
Marries Doina Ionescu.
1979
Becomes a Rockefeller Foundation fellow in the Department of Obstetrics-Gynecology at UT Health San Antonio.
1983
Serves as guest research scholar in the Department of Obstetrics-Gynecology at Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine in Japan.
1993
Serves as a visiting professor in the Department of Cell Biology at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas.
1995
Receives an award from the Japan Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology.
1996
Becomes an honorary professor in the Department of Obstetrics-Gynecology at the School of Medicine of Shinshu University in Japan.
2007
Retires and becomes Professor Emeritus at Trinity University.
2017
Receives the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award from Marquis Who’s Who.