Division of Agriculture, Forestry and Veterinary Medicine employees honored at MSU
Contact: Sarah Buckleitner
STARKVILLE, Miss.鈥擣or outstanding service and achievements during the 2015-16 school year, Mississippi State鈥檚 Division of Agriculture, Forestry and Veterinary Medicine is honoring more than two dozen employees.
During a recent university ceremony sponsored by Regions Bank, the latest Regions-DAFVM Superior Faculty Awards winners went to:
鈥擱ichard Harkess, for teaching. He is a plant and soil sciences professor in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and Mississippi Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station;
鈥擠onald Grebner, for research. He is a forestry professor in the College of Forest Resources and Forest and Wildlife Research Center;
鈥擝ronson Strickland, for outreach. He is an associate professor of wildlife, fisheries and aquaculture with 绿巨人视频Extension;
鈥擬ichael Barnes, for service. He is a sustainable bioproducts professor in the College of Forest Resources and Forest and Wildlife Research Center;
鈥擱aja Reddy, for international service. He is a plant and soil sciences research professor with the Mississippi Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station.
Additionally, the division presented inaugural Stellar Staff Awards to Jesse Morrison and Charlsie Halford. Morrison, a research associate in the plant and soil sciences department, was honored in the professional category; Halford, a College of Forest Resources administrative assistant, in the support staff category.
Other recognitions at the campus event were presented to:
鈥擬arie Jeffries, who received the Doris and Louis Wise Support Staff Award in the professional/non-faculty category. She is the business manager in biochemistry, molecular biology, entomology and plant pathology department;
鈥擠onna Morgan, receiving the Wise Award in the technical/paraprofessional category. She is a poultry science research technician;
鈥擩honda Sowers, receiving the Wise Award in the secretarial/clerical category. She is an accounting assistant in the forestry department.
Members of the planning team for the division鈥檚 annual row-crops short course garnered the Rosalind and Rodney Foil Teamwork Award. They included Angus Catchot, Darrin Dodds, Trenton Irby, Kathy Johnson and Erick Larson.
More DAFVM faculty members were selections for new William M. White Special Project funding. They included:
鈥擟asey Barickman and Stephen Meyers of the plant and soil sciences department at the North Mississippi Research and Experiment Center in Verona, for an investigation of sweet potato plant bed fertilization;
鈥擲ylvia Byrd and Terezie Mosby of the food science, nutrition and health promotion department, for support of a dietetic internship program;
鈥擲tephen Dicke and Jason Gordon of the forestry department, for urban tree-hazard strike team training;
鈥擫ori Elmore-Staton and Julie Parker of the School of Human Sciences, to study effects of a therapeutic riding program on children with autism;
鈥擲usan Seal, also of human sciences, for support of a specialized youth development curriculum; and
鈥擯aul Tseng of plant and soil sciences, for development of molecular markers in a soybean breeding project.
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