2015

 

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Special Achievements

 

Collaborative Awards

Bailey Award for Outstanding Research Paper
Awarded to Rajagopalbabu Srinivasan, Scott Tubbs, Bob Kemerait, and Albert Culbreath at the American Peanut Research Education Society Annual Meeting, 2014.

The Distinguished Research Award
Granted from the Peanut Genomics Consortium for the International Peanut Genome Initiative. The citation on the award is: "For developing, maintaining and characterizing genetically structured populations to establish links between gene sequences and key traits in cultivated peanut." Recipients are: Corley Holbrook (ARS-Tifton), Charls Chen (Auburn University, previously ARS), Peggy Ozias-Akins (UGA), Mark Burow (TAMU), Baozhu Guo (ARS-Tifton), Noelle Barkely (ARS-Griffin), and Albert Culbreath (UGA). Those that were recognized but were not there: Tom Isleib (NCSU), Barry Tillman (Univ. of Florida), Tim Brenneman (UGA) and Ye (Juliet) Chu (UGA).

2015 Outstanding Education Grand Award
Awarded to The South Georgia Native Plant and Wildflower Symposium, a project of the Garden Club of Georgia, Inc. and the University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Tifton. This was awarded by the Georgia Urban Forest Council recognizing individuals and organizations for outstanding work in protecting and enhancing our community forests.

 

Crop and Soil Sciences Department

Timothy Grey - 2015 Young Cotton Physiologist of the Year. Agronomy and Physiology Conference, Beltwide Cotton Conferences.

Brian Schwartz - Named "Top 10 under 40" in the May/June Tifton Scene Magazine

Graduate Student Accomplishments:

Daryl Chastain (Ph.D. degree student with Timothy Grey)

• 1st Place - Cotton Agronomy and Physiology Conference PhD Student Poster Competition. Beltwide Cotton Conferences in New Orleans, LA.
• 1st Place - Crop Physiology and Metabolism Graduate Student Poster Competition. Crop Science Society of America annual meeting in Long Beach, CA.
• 2nd Place - Cotton Agronomy and Physiology Conference PhD Student Poster Competition. Beltwide Cotton Conferences in San Antonio, TX.
• 3rd Place - Cotton Agronomy and Physiology Conference Graduate Student Oral Competition. Beltwide Cotton Conferences in San Antonio, TX.

Seth Byrd (Ph.D. degree student with Wes Porter)

• 1st Place - Graduate Student Paper Competition, in the Cotton Agronomy and Physiology Conference. Beltwide Cotton Conferences.
• 3rd Place - Student Poster Competition, in the Cotton Agronomy and Physiology Conference. Beltwide Cotton Conferences.
• 2nd Place - PhD Student Paper Competition. Southern Weed Science Society Annual Meeting.

 

Entomology Department

James Dutcher - Received the 2015 Georgia Entomological Society Founder's Award, April 2015.

David Riley - Elected as 2015 President-Elect of the Southeastern Branch of the Entomological Society of America.

Michael Toews - Received the Oliver I. Snapp Award in recognition of the best research paper by a regular member during the 2015 Annual Meeting of the Georgia Entomological Society. 2015 recipient of the Award for Excellence in Integrated Pest Management, awarded by the Southeastern Branch of the Entomological Society of America.

Mark Abney - The International IPM Award for Recognition was awarded to StopBMSB Program, March 2015, in recognition of its sustaining coordinated efforts and multiplying expertise to control the brown marmorated stink bug.

Graduate Student Accomplishments:

Ian Knight (Ph.D. degree student with Michael Toews) - Received a $3000 cash award by the UGA Graduate School in fall 2014 to enhance recruitment of outstanding graduate students.

Joni Blount (visiting Ph.D. degree student with Michael Toews) - Received the Beckham Award for best Ph.D. paper at the 2015 Annual Meeting of the Georgia Entomological Society.

Anita Shrestha - (Ph.D. degree student with Rajagopalbabu Srinivasan) -Received a thrips and tospovirus education network award through a USDA funded grant 2015.

Pin-Chu Lai (MS degree student with Rajagopalbabu Srinivasan) - Received second place in student paper competition at Georgia Entomological Society Annual Meeting, 2015.

 

NESPAL

Peggy Ozias-Akins - Received the UGA Creative Research Medal in April.

 

Office of Marketing and Communications

Clint Thompson - Received the Mass Media Award presented at the Georgia Association of County Agricultural Agents meeting in Statesboro in November, 2014, in recognition of the extensive media presence that Clint has developed in his time with UGA Tifton.

 

Plant Pathology Department

Tim Brenneman - President of the American Peanut Research and Education Society. Outstanding Alumnus, Virginia Tech College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.

Albert Culbreath - Council for Agricultural Science and Technology, Certificate of Excellence-Educational Materials Award (with three other authors). In recognition of efforts in the CAST paper, "The Contributions of Pesticides to Pest Management in Meeting the Global Need for Food Production by 2050." Invited plenary speaker at the 2014 Student Organic Seed Symposium, Cornell University.

 

Stripling Irrigation Research Park

B.J. Washington (Ag Specialist at Stripling Park) - received his Associate of Arts Degree in Ag Education from Bainbridge State College.

 

USDA ARS - Crop Protection and Management Research Unit

Wiley C. Johnson, III - 2015 Fellow Award – Weed Science Society of America

Baozhu Guo - 2014 Peanut Research and Education Award presented in June 2014.

 

USDA ARS - Southeast Watershed Research Laboratory

Superior Paper Award from the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE) presented to authors: Dinku M. Endale, David D. Bosch, Thomas L. Potter, Timothy C. Strickland. The ASABE Superior Paper Awards are selected annually from papers of engineering merit published during the prior calendar year in ASABE publications of Applied Engineering in Agriculture, Transactions of the ASABE, Journal of Agricultural Safety and Health or Biological Engineering Transactions.

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