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ACES Recognizes Faculty, Staff and Grad Students
Illinois Ag Connection - 04/24/2019
Each spring the College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences recognizes faculty, staff, and graduate students who have demonstrated outstanding achievements or exceptional service to the college. Recipients are honored at the annual Paul A.
Funk Recognition Awards Banquet. This year, the banquet was held at Pear Tree Estate in rural Champaign.
The awards program was established in 1970 by the Paul A. Funk Foundation of Bloomington, as a memorial to the late Paul A. Funk, who attended the college as a member of the class of 1929 and devoted his life to agriculture.
The 2019 recipients include:
PAUL A. FUNK RECOGNITION AWARD
- Barbara Fiese, Human Development and Family Studies
- Gary Schnitkey, Agricultural and Consumer Economics
- Patrick Tranel, Crop Sciences
SPITZE LAND-GRANT PROFESSORIAL CAREER EXCELLENCE AWARD
- Roderick Mackie, Animal Sciences
RUNGE FACULTY DISTINGUISHED ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
- DoKyoung Lee, Crop Sciences
FACULTY AWARD FOR GLOBAL IMPACT
- Peter Goldsmith, Agricultural and Consumer Economics
TEAM AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE
- Turner Hall Renovation Team:
- Germán Bollero, Office of Research
- Jeff Brawn, Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences
- Meg Cline, University of Illinois Foundation
- Barry Dickerson, Gies College of Business Advancement
- Darren L. Gentzler, ACES Facilities Planning and Management
- Bob Hauser, Agricultural and Consumer Economics
- Nichole Isaac, Office of Research
- Marise Robbins-Forbes, ACES Advancement
- Amber Ruedi, Crop Sciences
- Kelly Sullan, Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences
- Roger VanHoy, Office of Corporate Relations
- Doug Wolters, ACES Facilities Planning and Management
FACULTY AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING
- Robin L. Jarrett, Human Development and Family Studies
- Brian Ogolsky, Human Development and Family Studies
FACULTY AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN RESEARCH
- Craig Gundersen, Agricultural and Consumer Economics
- Zeynep Madak Erdogan, Food Science and Human Nutrition
FACULTY AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN EXTENSION
- Hans Stein, Animal Sciences
KARL E. GARDNER OUTSTANDING UNDERGRADUATE ADVISER AWARD
- Dan Shike, Animal Sciences
JOHN CLYDE AND HENRIETTA DOWNEY SPITLER TEACHING AWARD
- Phil Cardoso, Animal Sciences
SPECIALIZED FACULTY TEACHING AWARD
- Jon H. Scholl, Agricultural and Consumer Economics
PROFESSIONAL STAFF AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE
- Innovation and Creativity - Brian Jacobson, Food Science and Human Nutrition
- Sustained Excellence--Administrative/Management or Technical Contributions - Joseph G. LaTessa, Office of Research
- Sustained Excellence--Research- Mei Wang, Food Science and Human Nutrition
MARCELLA M. NANCE STAFF AWARD
- Denise Dalton, ACES Advancement
SERVICE RECOGNITION AWARD
- Carl Bernacchi, Crop Sciences
GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH AWARD
- Brent Murphy, Crop Sciences
- Mario Vailati-Riboni, Animal Sciences
- Cassandra Nikolaus, Food Science and Human Nutrition
LOUIS V. LOGEMAN GRADUATE STUDENT TEACHING AWARD
- Brianna Anderson, Human Development and Family Studies
- Brendan Kuhns, Agricultural and Biological Engineering
ACES ALUMNI ASSOCIATION AWARD OF MERIT
- Carl Burkybile, B.S. '69 Ag Education, M.S. '75 Vocational Education, Urbana, Director of Agriculture, Healing Hands International
- Doyle Karr, B.S. '86 Agricultural Communications, Des Moines, Iowa, Director of Consumer Insights and Social License, Corteva AgriScience
- Becky Ropp, B.S. '95 Agricultural Communications, Normal, , Director, Communications Division, Growmark
- Rida Shibli, Ph.D. '90 Horticulture of Irbid, Jordan, Professor of Plant Biotechnology and Biodiversity, University of Amman, Department of Horticulture and Crop Sciences
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