Awards and Honors

The Prestage Department of Poultry Science faculty, staff and students are award-winning innovators in research, teaching, service and Extension outreach. They are recognized by CALS, NC State and national and international organizations and institutions.

Faculty and Staff Awards

2021

Dr. Lynn Worley-Davis was awarded a 2020-2021 CALS Teaching Award of Merit.
Rhea Hebert was awarded an Accessibility Champion award for Fall 2020 from the NC State Office of Information Technology.

2020

Vickie Hedgpeth was recognized with the PDPS Outstanding Employee Award.
Natasha Dillon won a Pride of the Wolfpack Award.
Lynn Strother won a Pride of the Wolfpack Award.
Dellila Hodgson won a Pride of the Wolfpack Award.
Ondulla Toomer was awarded the U.S. Soybean Board Grant with co-PIs Edgar Oviedo and Michael Joseph.
Ken Anderson won the Evonik Award for Achievement in Poultry Science from the Poultry Science Association (PSA).
Ken Anderson was elected as Poultry Science Association Fellow by the Poultry Science Association (PSA); this is the highest award given by PSA.
Ondulla Toomer won the 12th ARS Innovation Award in Research for “Value-Added Utilization of Peanuts, Peanut By-Products and Sweet Potato Waste By-Products as Aquaculture Feedstock for the Enrichment of the Meat Produced.”
Ondulla Toomer won the 10th ARS Innovation Award in Research, with co-PI Ken Anderson, for “Value-Added Utilization of Agricultural Waste By-Products as Poultry Feedstock for the Enrichment of Commercially Produced Eggs.”
Vickie Hedgpeth was recognized by NC State University and Eastman Chemical Company with an award for leadership in safety.
Elaine Bohórquez was a finalist winner of the Most Innovative Educator Award at Top Hat’s Engage 2020.

2019

Richard Goforth won the Lois G. Britt Outstanding Extension Agent Award.
Peter Ferket won the PSA 2019 American Feed Industry Association Poultry Nutrition Research Award.
Edgar Oviedo was inducted into the Academy of Excellence in Global Engagement by the Office of Global Engagement at NC State.
Richard Goforth won the Lois G. Britt Outstanding Extension Agent Award from the North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service.
Margaret Ross was a regional winner in North Carolina in the Feature Story category of the National Association of County Agricultural Agents awards.
Margaret Ross was the state winner for North Carolina in the Program Promotional Package category of the National Association of County Agricultural Agents awards.
Dan Campeau was the state winner for North Carolina in the Search for Excellence in Young, Beginning, or Small Farmers/Ranchers category of the National Association of County Agricultural Agents awards.
Dan Campeau was a National Finalist in the Learning Module category of the National Association of County Agricultural Agents awards.
Christina Sigmon won an Excellence in Safety Award from CALS at NC State.
Ken Anderson won the 2019 Charles Beard Research Excellence Award from the U.S. Poultry & Egg Association (US Poultry).

2018

Becca Wysocky won the Tyson Foods Inc. Support Personnel Award from the Poultry Science Association.
Elaine Bohórquez was named the 2017-2018 CALS Outstanding Graduate Instructor by CALS at NC State.

2017

Peter Ferket won a National Turkey Federation Research Award from the National Turkey Federation.
Matthew Livingston won the Student Research Award – Physiology from the Southern Poultry Science Society.
Edgar Oviedo won the Outstanding Global Engagement Award from the Office of Global Engagement at NC State.
Lynn Worley-Davis won the Outstanding Contributions to Teaching and Advising award from CALS at NC State.
Lynn Worley-Davis was awarded an Honorary State FFA Degree from the North Carolina FFA Association.
Lynn Worley-Davis won a NACTA Award of Merit from NC State.

Student Awards

2021

The Poultry Science Club won Club of the Year at the 2021 IPPE. This is the third year in a row the club has placed first!
Alex Blanchard won third place for Student of the Year at the 2021 IPPE.
Je’Juan Bryant and Maddie Kuwanda (both dual majors in Poultry Science and Animal Science) were named Food Animal Scholars.

2020

Andrea Rubio received the first John Thomas Brake Memorial Poultry Science Graduate Endowment Award.
Katherine Cupo was awarded the Embrex Award for Excellence for 2020-21.
Katherine Cupo won the SPSS Student Award in Pathology at the 2020 IPPE.
Brittany Wall received a Certificate of Excellence at the 2020 IPPE.
The Poultry Science Club won Club of the Year at the 2020 IPPE.

2019

Andrea Rubio won the 2019 Two-Minute NCALS Research Competition.
Brooke Bartz was awarded a PSA 2019 Student Research Paper Certificate of Excellence.
Elle Chadwick was awarded a PSA 2019 Student Research Paper Certificate of Excellence.
Karlinton Flores was awarded a PSA 2019 Student Research Paper Certificate of Excellence.
Brittany Wall received a PSA 2019 Student Research Certificate of Participation.
Hernan Alejandro Cordova won first place for his poster presented at Innovations in Agriculture.
Matthew Warren won a NACTA Graduate Student Teaching Award from the North American Colleges and Teachers of Agriculture (NACTA).

2018

Krista Eberle-Krish won the Maurice Stein Fellowship Award from the Poultry Science Association.
Olivia Wedegaertner received recognition for her Poultry Science Association research poster.
Katherine Cupo received recognition for her Poultry Science Association Genomics Area research presentation.
Ben Alig, class of 2018, won the CALS Outstanding Senior Award from CALS at NC State.
Ben Alig won third place Student of the Year at the 2018 IPPE.
Susan Jones, class of 2018, won Student of the Year at the 2018 IPPE.

2017

Dinabandhu Joardar won a Student Research Award – Nutrition from the Southern Poultry Science Society.
Jeffrey “J.T.” Pope won a Student Research Award – Nutrition from the Southern Poultry Science Society.
Grayson Walker won a Student Research Award – Nutrition from the Southern Poultry Science Society.