Awards
Musser Turfgrass Award Winner Takes All
Ph.D. graduate student Cameron Stephens received the prestigious 2021 Musser Foundation Award of Excellence for his commitment to turfgrass science and his research on the golf course disease take-all root rot.
A Celebration of Innovation
10,091,963 was a number of prime importance in 2018. It was the second patent number issued jointly to Drs. Ralph Dewey and Ramsey Lewis last year.
Congratulations to Dr Castillo
Congratulations to Dr. Miguel Castillo for receiving tenure and being promoted to associate professor. Dr. Castillo is the forage extension specialist.
Dr. Patterson awarded the 2019 Jackson Rigney International Service Award
Congratulations to Dr. Bob Patterson for being awarded the 2019 Jackson Rigney International Service Award
Paul Murphy receives Award for Distinguished Service to Oat Improvement
Paul Murphy receives Award for Distinguished Service to Oat Improvement 2018 at the American Oat Workers Conference
Professor Emeritus and Philanthropist William Collins Awarded Prestigious Watauga Medal
“In addition to all the good things he has done for tobacco farmers and for rural North Carolina, his legacy is going to be in the people he helped along the way. He takes just as much joy in the success of others than he does in his own success – and probably more.”
Susana Milla-Lewis Named University Faculty Scholar
Dr. Susana Milla-Lewis was recently selected as a 2017-18 University Faculty Scholar.
Weed Science Society of North Carolina Annual Meeting Awards
We are pleased to announce the following award winners at the 36th Annual Meeting of the Weed Science Society of North Carolina. Congratulations to all!
Jim Dunphy Wins the First Ever American Soybean Association Pinnacle Award
“Recognizing the highest level of contribution and long-term leadership within the soybean family and industry.”
Abby Haselton Awarded First Place in Poster Competition at IECA Annual Conference
MS student Abby Haselton’s poster, “Wildflower Growth Response to Construction Site Soil Conditions” won first prize in the poster competition at the International Erosion Control Association’s Annual Conference in Long Beach in February.