COLLEGE STATION – Twenty-one individuals and three teams were honored Jan. 8 with the Vice Chancellor’s Award in Excellence during the Texas A&M University Agriculture Program annual conference.
The Vice Chancellor’s Award is the highest honor given to faculty and employees of the Agriculture Program. The awards were presented by Dr. Ed Hiler, Texas A&M vice chancellor for agriculture and life sciences.
Award categories and winners were:
TEACHING
Undergraduate: Lee A. Fitzgerald, College Station, associate professor, department of wildlife and fisheries science.
Graduate: Kirk O. Winemiller, College Station, professor, department of wildlife and fisheries science.
Student counseling: Shawn Ramsey, College Station, associate professor, department of animal science.
Graduate student: Jennifer Hadley, College Station, graduate research assistant, department of forest science.
RESEARCH
On-Campus: John R. Gold, College Station, professor, department of wildlife and fisheries science.
Off-Campus: Tzachi Samocha, Corpus Christi, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi Mariculture Program and Texas A&M University Agricultural Research and Extension Center.
Research team (Supplementation of Beef Cattle): W.C. Ellis, College Station, professor, department of animal science; J.E. Huston, San Angelo, professor emeritus, departments of rangeland ecology and animal science; T.D.A. Forbes, Uvalde, associate professor, department of rangeland ecology and management and Texas A&M Agricultural Research and Extension Center; Hagen Lippke, Uvalde, associate professor, department of animal science and Texas A&M Agricultural Research and Extension Center; and F.M. Rouquette Jr., Overton, professor, department of soil and crop sciences and Texas A&M Agricultural Research and Extension Center.
Graduate student: Glenn A. Proudfoot, College Station, graduate research assistant, department of wildlife and fisheries science.
TEXAS COOPERATIVE EXTENSION EDUCATION AND SERVICE
County agent, agriculture and natural resources: Stanley M. Young, Lubbock, Lubbock County Extension agent.
County agent, family and consumer sciences: Lynda Fogerson, Abilene, Taylor County Extension agent.
County agent, 4-H and youth: Leesa Wood Calvi, Canyon, Randall County Extension agent.
Extension specialist: Michael G. Haby, Corpus Christi, professor and Extension economist-seafood, Texas A&M Agricultural Research and Extension Center.
Extension team (Agriculture and Food Policy Center Farm Bill Team): Dr. Joe Outlaw, associate professor and Extension economist; Dr. James W. Richardson, professor and Texas Agricultural Experiment Station Faculty Fellow; Dr. David P. Anderson, associate professor and Extension economist; and Dr. Steven L. Klose, assistant professor and Extension economist, all of College Station and the department of agricultural economics.
SUPPORT PERSONNEL
Clerical, On-Campus: Charlene Boggus, College Station, senior secretary, department of agricultural education.
Administration, On-Campus: Cindy Engelmann, College Station, business coordinator, agricultural communications.
Clerical/Administrative, Off-Campus: Patty Waits Beasley, Port Aransas, technical secretary, TAES Shrimp Mariculture Research Project.
Research, Off Campus: Don Neuendorff, Overton, research associate, Texas A&M Agricultural Research and Extension Center.
Technical, On-Campus: Paul Greer, College Station, systems analyst, department of horticultural sciences.
Technical, Off-Campus: Debra Owings, Bushland, research associate, Texas A&M Agricultural Research Station.
PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
Special Services: David K. Lunt, McGregor, research scientist and superintendent, Texas A&M Agricultural Research Station.
INDUSTRY/AGENCY ASSOCIATION PARTNERSHIP
CREET Administrative Council (Cooperative Research, Education and Extension Triangle): James R. Clark, professor and dean, Division of Agriculture, West Texas A&M University; John M. Sweeten, resident director, Texas A&M University Agricultural Research and Extension Center-Amarillo; Robert G. (Bob) Robinson, district Extension director, Texas A&M University Agricultural Research and Extension Center-Amarillo; Donna C. Brauchi, district Extension director, Texas A&M University Agricultural Research and Extension Center-Amarillo; Robert W. Sprawls, DVM, associate director, Texas Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory, Amarillo; Donald R. Topliff, professor and department head, Division of Agriculture, West Texas A&M University; R. Nolan Clark, laboratory director, USDA-ARS, Bushland.
DIVERSITY
Marilyn S. May, county Extension agent-family and consumer sciences, Lampasas County (District 7)
INTERNATIONAL INVOLVEMENT
Ronald D. Randel, professor, Texas A&M University Agricultural Research and Extension Center-Overton.
ADMINISTRATION
Donald L. Robinson, professor and resident director, Texas A&M University Agricultural Research and Extension Center-Vernon.
2002 FACULTY FELLOWS-Texas Agricultural Experiment Station
Thomas W. Boutton, professor, department of rangeland ecology and management
Steven W. Fuller, professor, department of agricultural economics
L. Wayne Greene, professor, Texas A&M University Agricultural Research and Extension Center-Amarillo
Steven C. Ricke, associate professor, department of poultry science.
The Texas A&M Agriculture Program is a statewide organization of agricultural agencies, divisions and colleges of agriculture, life sciences, natural resources, human sciences and veterinary medicine with the Texas A&M University System.