2004

Tifton campus folks celebrated their own May 10, 2004 at the annual University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences Tifton Campus Awards Ceremony. 

Awards and Recognitions presented for FY2004
(Beginning July 1, 2003 — Ending June 30, 2004)

• Awards for Excellence
• Certificates of Service
• Recent Retirees
• Student Accomplishments
• Sigma Xi Awards
  
• Special Achievements

Awards for Excellence

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Special Achievements

John Beasley, Crop and Soil Sciences - Fellow of the American Society of Agronomy; Certificate of Excellence (as co-author) from the American Society of Agronomy for the publication, "Minimizing Spotted Wilt of Peanut;" and Nominated for the Bailey Award for the best paper presented in Production Technology Session in the American Peanut Research and Education Award

John Bernard, Animal and Dairy Science - President, Southern Branch of the American Dairy Science Association; and Conference Chair, The Eighth National Dairy Calf and Heifer Conference, Roanoke, VA, March 31-April 3, 2004

Kaine Bondari, Experimental Statistics - Served as one of the coordinators of the "Statistics and Data Analysis" section - Monday AM Session of the 11th Annual Conference of the South East SAS Users Group (SESUG 2003), Sept. 22-24, 2003, St. Pete Beach, FL

George Boyhan, Horticulture - Promoted to Associate Professor effective 7/1/04; and Named Associate Editor of HortTechnology - 2004

W.C. Branch, Crop and Soil Sciences - 2003 - Registration of 'Georgia-02-C' Peanut. Crop Science 43: 1883-1884

Tim Brenneman, Plant Pathology - Received the Excellence in Research Award from the Southeastern Pecan Growers Association; and Elected Vice-President (President-elect) of the Southern Division of the American Phytopathological Society

Patrick J. Conner, Horticulture - Promoted to Associate Professor effective 7/1/04

Alex Csinos, Plant Pathology - 2003 Extension Service Award from the Georgia Tobacco Growers Association

James Dutcher, Entomology - Elected Secretary for Regional Research Project S-293 for 2003-04; and Editor of a major pecan reference: Dutcher, J.D., M.K. Harris, A. Dean (eds). 2003. Integration of Chemical and Biological Insect Control in Native, Seedling, and Improved Pecan Production. Southwestern Entomologist Suppl. No. 27, 142 pp.

Gary Hawkins, Biological and Agricultural Engineering - Elected: Pres-Elect of GA Chapter Soil and Water Conservation Society (SWCS); and Pres-Elect of GA Chapter Association of Natural Resource Extension Professionals (ANREP) Secretary of the GA Section of ASAE

Rodney Hill, Biological and Agricultural Engineering - Reclassification to Senior Agricultural Specialist

Carol Ireland, Entomology - 2004 Sigma Xi Outstanding Service Award to Research

Gerard Krewer, Horticulture - Dr. Krewer along with USDA and University of Florida collaborators involved in the Peach Breeding Project at the Attapulgus Station received a Plant Patent for two new peach varieties - 'GulfKing' and 'GulfCrest'

Dewey Lee, Crop and Soil Sciences - Promotion to Professor

Duncan McClusky, Library - Promoted to Librarian IV; and Received Environmentalist Citation from Woodmen of the World

Robert McPherson, Entomology - Elected President-Elect 2004-05, Georgia Entomological Society of America

Peggy Ozias-Akins, Horticulture - Received 2004 Sigma Xi Tifton Chapter Distinguished Service Award

David Riley, Entomology - Appointed 2004 Chair of the Membership Committee of the Entomological Society of America, which is a national level appointment; and Received a joint extension publication award from the American Society of Horticultural Science for the "Georgia Vegetable Extension - Research Report," 2004

Neal Roberson, Entomology - 2004 Sigma Xi Outstanding Technical Support Award

John Ruberson, Entomology - Program Chair for the Southeastern Branch of the Entomological Society of America in 2004; Subject editor for the journal Environmental Entomology; and Serves on the Editorial Board of the journal Biological Control

John M. Ruter, Horticulture - 4/03 - State Winner, Special Award for Outstanding Commercial or Industrial Design awarded to the Coastal Plain Research Arboretum, Landscape Design Consultants Council of Georgia, Garden Clubs of Georgia

Don Shurley, Agricultural and Applied Economics - UGA D.W. Brooks Award for Excellence in Extension; and Chairman, Economics and Marketing Conference, Beltwide Cotton Conferences

Nathan Smith, Agricultural and Applied Economics - Outstanding Achievement in Public Issues Education Farm Foundation; and Administrators Award Farm Service Agency

Del Taylor, Entomology - 2004 Sigma Xi Outstanding Technical Support Award

George Vellidis, Biological and Agricultural Engineering - Promotion to Professor

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Biological and Agricultural Engineering: George Gay and Paige Gay - Refereed journal article received ASAE Honorable Mention Award for 2003. Approximately 360 papers were approved for publication in ASAE journals during 2002. Of these, eight received superior paper awards and seven were selected for Honorable Mention. [Vellidis, G.R. Lowrance, P. Gay, and R.D. Wauchope. 2002. Herbicide transport in a restored riparian forest buffer system. Transactions of the ASAE 45 (1):89-97.]

Biological and Agricultural Engineering: George Vellidis, Richard Lowrance, Paige Gay, Rodney Hill and Andy Knowlton - Research on riparian buffers highlighted (cover story) in Agricultural Research - the USDA-Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS) monthly scientific magazine. Story titled, "Designing the Best Possible Conservation Buffers," Vol. 51 (12)

Crop and Soil Sciences: Phil Jost and the Cotton Team - Communications / Web Page Award from the Georgia Association of County Agricultural Agents and Regional Award from the National Association of County Agricultural Agents

Crop and Soil Sciences: L.O. May, R.F. Davis and S.H. Baker - 2004. Registration of G96-211 Upland Cotton Germplasm Line. Crop Science 44: 700

Plant Pathology: Albert Culbreath, Jim Todd and Steve Brown - Invited to write a review on "Epidemiology and Management of Tomato Spotted Wilt of Peanut" for the Annual Review of Phytopathology, Vol. 41:53-75

Plant Pathology: Jeff Wilson, Wayne Hanna and Patricia Timper - Release of Tifgrain 102 Pearl Millet

USDA-ARS

Joe Lewis, Crop Protection and Management Research Unit - Received the 2003 Jean-Marie Delwart Foundation Award (including a $10,000 prize) on December 13, 2003 in Brussels Belgium in recognition of outstanding work in the area of chemical ecology, particularly as related to plants, insects, and parasitoids (beneficial parasitic insects) and their hosts

Tom Maze, Administration - Purchasing Agent, received the distinguished honor of Administrative Employee of the Year (2003) for the South Atlantic Area on Feb. 11, 2004

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