Dean announces 2014 faculty and staff awards

AUBURN, Ala.— Dr. Bill Batchelor, Dean of the College of Agriculture and Director of the Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, announced recipients of the 2014 college and experiment station faculty and staff awards during a reception Tuesday, December 2 at the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Art. The following individuals were honored with the college’s and experiment station’s highest awards.

2014 Teaching Excellence Award 
Norbert Wilson, Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology

2014 Advising Excellence Award
Russell Muntifering, Department of Animal Sciences

2014 Director’s Research Award
Dennis DeVries, School of Fisheries, Aquaculture and Aquatic Sciences
Michelle Worosz, Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology

2014 High Impact Paper Award
Rex Dunham, School of Fisheries, Aquaculture and Aquatic Sciences

2014 Dean’s Grantsmanship Award
Joe Molnar, Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology
Christy Bratcher, Department of Animal Sciences
Patricia Curtis, Auburn University Food Systems Institute
Steve Taylor, Department of Biosystems Engineering
Sushil Adhikari, Department of Biosystems Engineering
Eve Brantley, Department of Crop, Soil and Environmental Sciences
Austin Hagan, Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology
Ed Sikora, Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology
Henry Fadamiro, Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology
Joe Kloepper, Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology
Rodrigo Rodriguez-Kabana, Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology
LaDon Swann, School of Fisheries, Aquaculture and Aquatic Sciences
Dennis DeVries, School of Fisheries, Aquaculture and Aquatic Sciences
Matthew Catalano, School of Fisheries, Aquaculture and Aquatic Sciences
Rex Dunham, School of Fisheries, Aquaculture and Aquatic Sciences
Steven Sammons, School of Fisheries, Aquaculture and Aquatic Sciences
Terry Hanson, School of Fisheries, Aquaculture and Aquatic Sciences
Zhanjiang Liu, School of Fisheries, Aquaculture and Aquatic Sciences

2014 Project Team Award
Center for Bioenergy and Bioproducts: Steve Taylor, Sushil Adhikari, Oladiran Fasina, Christian Brodbeck, James Johnson and Dawayne Flynn of the Department of Biosystems Engineering

2014 Excellence in Extension and Outreach Award
Elina Coneva, Department of Horticulture
Ed Sikora, Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology

2014 Guthrie Award for Achievement in International Agriculture
Curtis Jolly, Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology

2014 Employee of the Year Award
Grant Bond, Agricultural Land and Resource Management
Nicholas Stockdale, E.V. Smith Research Center
Ann Gulatte, Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology
Christian Brodbeck, Department of Biosystems Engineering

Read more about the faculty and staff awards program.

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