[1] Cole's research work focused on skin grafting, animal behavior, protein metabolism, and invertebrate blood.
[2] Between his MA and Ph.D., he served in the United States Army from 1917 to 1919, as a Sergeant first class, in the Sanitary Corps where he helped develop a typhoid vaccine.
[2] The remainder of his career was spent at Rutgers University, as a professor of physiology and biochemistry starting in 1928 until being made emeritus in 1959.
[2] Cole was extremely active with external organizations, including MDI Biological Laboratory where he was a trustee from 1931 to 1952 and the director from 1931 to 1940.
[2][1] From 1949 to 1951, he was the chairman of the Demarest Motion Picture Committee, an organization set up to support the creation and filming of a documentary on the president of Rutgers from 1906 to 1924, William H.S.
[2] William Harder Cole's research work focused on skin grafting, animal behavior, protein metabolism, and invertebrate blood.