Beltsville Area's ARS Award Recipients
Celebration of Excellence Awards
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- ARS Outstanding Senior Research Scientist of the Year
- Dr. Hyun S.Lillehoj,Animal Parasitic Diseases Laboratory,Animal and Natural Resources Institute
- for outstanding contributions to poultry science and biotechnology and demonstrated major impact on poultry industry relating to disease control of Coccidiosis and internationally recognized scientific leadership for young scientists.
- Beltsville Area Early Career Scientist of the Year
- Dr. Curtis P. Van Tassell,Animal Improvement Programs Laboratory,Animal and Natural Resources Institute
- for conducting outstanding research to improve national genetic evaluation systems for dairy cattle and to identify genome regions affecting economically important health and productivity traits.
- Beltsville Area Techonology Transfer Award
- Dr. Kenneth C. Gross,Produce Quality and Safety Laboratory,Plant Sciences Institute
- Mikal Saltveit,University of California,
- Dr. Chien Yi Wang,Produce Quality and Safety Laboratory,Plant Sciences Institute
- for creating a completely new and substantially improved Agriculture Handbook 66 entitled "The Commercial Storage of Fruits, Vegetables, and Florist and Nursery Crops."
- Dr. Douglass Miller,Systematic Entomology Laboratory,Plant Sciences Institute
- Dr. Gary L. Miller,Systematic Entomology Laboratory,Plant Sciences Institute
- for outstanding use of the worldwide web to transfer technology on scale insects to users around the world
- Beltsville Area Support Scientist of the Year
- Gary L. Miller,Systematic Entomology Laboratory,Plant Sciences Institute
- for outstanding support of the scale-insect research program, for providing diverse identification services and for leadership in the areas of internet development and public relations graphics.
- Beltsville Area Technician of the Year
- Deborah Van Hook,Immunology and Disease Resistance Laboratory,Animal and Natural Resources Institute
- for outstanding technical support for studies that define resistance to cattle parasites.
- Aimee M. Sheer,Systematic Botany and Mycology Laboratory,Plant Sciences Institute
- for providing superb technical expertise in support of the research programs on the molecular systematics of plant pathogenic fungi.
- Beltsville Area Equal Opportunity, Workplace Diversity, and Outreach Award
- Dr. V.R. Reddy,Alternate Crops and Systems Laboratory,Plant Sciences Institute
- for continued outstanding support of getting minority participation in ARS research programs.
- Facilities Management and Operations Division Employee of the Year
- Richard C. Walton,Safety Occupational Health And Environment Staff,Facilities Management and Operations Division
- for outstanding professionalism and ensuring a safe working environment for all BA employees.
- Beltsville Area Support/Service Person of the Year
- Erica Martin,Office of the Director,Beltsville Human Nutrition Research Center
- in recognition of excellent accounting support to BHNRC.
- Beltsville Area Preston Tisdale Safety Award
- Richard Finch,Engineering and Planning,Facilities Management and Operations Division
- for his contribution to the welfare of the environment and the safety and health of Beltsville Area employees
- Beltsville Area Secretarial/Clerical Employee of the Year
- Theresa Yerby,Systematic Botany and Mycology Laboratory,Plant Sciences Institute
- for providing superb service in support of the Systematic Botany and Mycology Laboratory.
- USDA Honor Awards
- Mary Ann Jarvis,Education and Visitor Services Unit,U. S. National Arboretum
- for creating a volunteer program for the U.S. National Arboretum that serves as a model for the Agricultural Research Service and that annually provides thousands of volunteer hours
- Rena Cutrufelli,Nutrient Data Laboratory,Beltsville Human Nutrition Research Center
- Vincent de Jesus,Nutrient Data Laboratory,Beltsville Human Nutrition Research Center
- David Haytowitz,Nutrient Data Laboratory,Beltsville Human Nutrition Research Center
- Joanne M. Holden, Nutrient Data Laboratory,Beltsville Human Nutrition Research Center
- Linda Lemar,Nutrient Data Laboratory,Beltsville Human Nutrition Research Center
- Robin Thomas,Nutrient Data Laboratory,Beltsville Human Nutrition Research Center
- for providing the American public with easy access to USDA's food composition data through personal digital assistants, personal computers, and web-based National Nutrient Database search applications. Group leader: Joanne M. Holden
- Outside Awards
- BARC
- received a Closing the Circle Award on June 10, 2003 for its use of biobased products from the White House Task Force on Recycling, Office of the Federal Environmental Executive. The award recognizes the most effective and innovative programs to implement environmental management systems at Federal facilities.
- Emy Pfeil,Environmental Quality Laboratory,Animal and Natural Resources Institute
- received the 2002 ARS IR-4 Meritorious Service Award for outstanding and sustained contributions to the IR-4 Program presented by the IR-4 Project Management Committee and received a Special Thanks Award for efforts to rescue IR-4 residue samples following the tornado at Beltsville presented by the Office of Minor Use Pesticides.
- Louis Gasbarre,Bovine Functional Genomics Laboratory,Animal and Natural Resources Institute
- received the 2003 Distinguished Veterinary Parasitologist Award from the American Association of Veterinary Parasitologists.
- Curtis Van Tassel,Bovine Functional Genomics Laboratory,Animal and Natural Resources Institute
- Curtis Van Tassel,Animal Improvement Programs Laboratory,Animal and Natural Resources Institute
- received the 2003 Young Scientist/Research Award of the Northeast American Dairy Science Association/American Society of Animal Science.
- David Kuykendall,Molecular Plant Pathology Laboratory,Plant Sciences Institute
- received the Federal Laboratories Consortium Award for Excellence in Technology Transfer for the development of a superior soybean inoculant and wide adoption by farmers.
- Raymond E.Hunt,Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory,Animal and Natural Resources Institute
- received the Imagine Excellence Award 2002 (for outstanding and dedicated leadership).
- Robert A. Owens,Molecular Plant Pathology Laboratory,Plant Sciences Institute
- received the J. Merrill and Adeline Wallace Award from the International Organization of Citrus Virologists (IOCV) for the best full-length manuscript submitted for publication of the triennial meeting of the IOCV.
- Douglass R. Miller,Systematic Entomology Laboratory,Plant Sciences Institute
- received the L.O. Howard Award, sponsored by the Eastern Branch of the Entomological Society of America, for distinguished achievement in the field of entomology.
- Thomas J. Jackson,Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory,Animal and Natural Resources Institute
- received the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Group Achievement Award for Outstanding Teamwork of the Aqua Mission Team.
- Bob Wall,Biotechnology and Germplasm Laboratory,Animal and Natural Resources Institute
- was appointed member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Cooperative Research Centre for Innovative Dairy Products, Melbourne, Australia, and was appointed Adjunct Professor, Department of Animal and Avian Science, University of Maryland.
- Kurt Zuelke,Biotechnology and Germplasm Laboratory,Animal and Natural Resources Institute dd>was appointed Program Co-Chairman for the 2004 Annual Conference of the International Embryo Transfer Association to be held in Portland, Oregon.
- Murray Bakst,Biotechnology and Germplasm Laboratory,Animal and Natural Resources Institute
- was appointed to Executive Board, Federation of Animal Science Societies (FASS) and was re-Appointed Adjunct Professor, Department of Animal and Avian Science, University of Maryland.
- Le Ann Blomberg,Biotechnology and Germplasm Laboratory,Animal and Natural Resources Institute
- was awarded an American Physiological Society/NIDDK Minority Travel Fellowship to present her research on serial analysis of gene expression (SAGE) durng elongation of pre-implantation swine embryos at the Experimental Biology Meeting in San Diego, CA on April 11-15, 2003
- Robert E. Davis,Molecular Plant Pathology Laboratory,Plant Sciences Institute
- was awarded the Medal of the Order of the Knight's Cross by the Office of the President of the Republic of Lithuania for helping to establish a Laboratory of Microbial Molecular Biology at the Institute of Botany in Vilnius, Lithuania.
- William P. Kustas,Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory,Animal and Natural Resources Institute
- was elected an American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fellow.
- Wayne Wolf,Food Composition Laboratory,Beltsville Human Nutrition Research Center
- was elected Fellow of AOAC (Association of Official Analytical Chemists International) which recognizes the dedication and commitment of those who serve the Association.
- Yakov Pachepsky,Environmental Microbial Safety Laboratory,Animal and Natural Resources Institute
- was elected Fellow of the American Society of Agronomy and the Fellow of the Soil Science Society of America.
- Joe Urban,Nutrient Requirements and Functions Laboratory,Beltsville Human Nutrition Research Center
- was elected President of the American Association of Veterinary Parasitology and appointed editor of the journal Infection and Immunity.
- Julie Long,Growth Biology Laboratory,Animal and Natural Resources Institute
- was invited to present an overview of ARS and Biotechnology and Germplasm Laboratory poultry reproduction research at the 2003 Leadership Conference of the National Turkey Federation held in Washington DC.
