Pothuraju Judson

P. Judson is an Indian entomologist, who researched much on Dysdercus cingulatus in the 1970s. In the successive decades, at Osmania University, Secunderabad, a State-run University u/s 2 (f) of the University Grants Commission Act, 1956. He contributed much to the discipline of Entomology

Judson was Lecturer, Reader, then Professor and Chairperson of Board of Studies of Department of Zoology at Osmania University, Secunderabad. Earlier in 1997, he became Principal of the University College of Science, Saifabad. During his tenure, a full-fledged vocational course in Dryland farming leading to B. Sc. (Dryland farming)

Much like an Old Testament Scholar contributing to the German academic journal Zeitschrift für die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft (ZAW), Judson and others, contributed a research article in 1978

Few co-authored Writings Dysdercus cingulatus of Pyrrhocoridae family on which Judson researched much in the 1970s. Judson's articles co-authored with others appeared in major scientific journals. One of Judson's research articles published in 1978

He was much active among the academic fraternity in Hyderabad, India. In 2007, he co-organized a National Conference on Biodiversity Conversation and Human Wellbeing, which was conducted jointly by the Department of Zoology (OU) and Sálim Ali Centre for Ornithology and Natural History. In 2008, he co-edited a compendium titled Biodiversity Conservation and Human Well-Being. In 2009, with Training in Evangelism Needs and Technology (TENT), a brain child of the Geologist, B. E. Vijayam, who set up such facility to promote means of livelihood with the inspiration being attributed and Community development. He was on the Council of the Henry Martyn Institute, Shivarampally for over a decade. Judson was on the Committee and later on the Council, which was led by Theologians comprising C. L. Furtado, P. Surya Prakash and others. Judson came up on the Committee, especially at a crucial juncture, when the institute relocated to its new campus in Shivarampally from its earlier locality in Abids.

Community development Judson is also on the Advisory Board of Genesis Urban and Rural Development under whose aegis a National Conference on emerging challenges and opportunities in Agriculture, Social, Plant, Environment, Cooperatives and Technology was held in 2016.

Efforts by the members of the STBC-Baptist Church, Lallaguda resulted in creation of a social action initiative which was named Burden and Love for Economically and Socially Suppressed (BLESS) in which Judson has been active and presently holds the position of Secretary. food security among those marginalized in a few in which he was a Field Staff of European Baptist Mission International overseeing social action programmes together with 16 partners in the country.