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College of Ag, AAES Recognize Top Faculty, Staff
AUBURN, Ala.—Two veteran Auburn University College of Agriculture faculty members received the college’s top honors for teaching and advising and two Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station scientists in the Department of Fisheries and Allied Aquacultures were cited for their excellence in research during the college/AAES’ 2010 faculty and staff awards ceremony in mid-November.
Department of Animal Sciences associate professor Dale Coleman was presented the 2010 Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence, bringing to five the number of exceptional-teaching awards that Coleman has received in recent years from alumni and student organizations. The 2010 Dean’s Award for Advising Excellence went to Department of Agronomy and Soils professor David Weaver, who not only serves as adviser to a dozen undergraduate agronomy students at any one time but also coordinates the department’s faculty advising program.
On the research front, the AAES Director’s 2010 Senior Research Award winner was fisheries and allied aquaculture professor Alan Davis, an international authority on aquatic animal nutrition and recipient of $3.9-plus million in grants and contracts since coming to Auburn in 1999. Alan Wilson, who has a joint appointment as assistant professor of fisheries and biological sciences at Auburn, took home the AAES Director’s Junior Research Award for 2010, largely in recognition of the $1.87 million in contracts and grants he has received over the course of his first three years on the Auburn faculty.
Wilson also was among the five College of Ag faculty researchers to merit the Dean’s 2010 Grantsmanship Award, which recognizes faculty who have landed at least $250,000 in extramural research grants and contracts during the previous fiscal year. Joining Wilson were David Held from the Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, Puneet Srivastava from the Department of Biosystems Engineering and LaDon Swann and Eric Peatman, both from the fisheries department. Collectively, the researchers brought in more than $1.6 million in funding for fiscal year 2009-10.
Richard Guthrie, newly retired College of Ag dean/AAES director, wrapped up the faculty recognitions by presenting the 2010 Guthrie Award for Achievement in International Agriculture to biosystems engineering associate professor Yifen Wang.
In other presentations, student services coordinator Deborah Solie received the college’s first-ever Diversity Award and also was one of five college/AAES staff members to be awarded 2010 Employee of the Year honors. The four other outstanding employees included Scott Parsons, assistant director of the College of Ag/AAES business office; Anita Robinson, accountant in the Department of Ag Economics and Rural Sociology; Kathy Glass, natural resources program adviser in the Department of Agronomy and Soils and coordinator of the Alabama Variety Trial Testing Program for row and forage crops; and Kay Holloway, lead clerical administrative associate in agronomy and soils.
All faculty and staff award winners received plaques and cash awards.
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