Agriculture and the Undergraduate (1992) / Chapter Skim
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A: Program Participants
A: Program Participants
Pages 259-278
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He is currently vice-president for the Institute of Agriculture, Forestry, and Home Economics and director of the Minnesota Agricultural Experiment Station. Allen has also been a faculty member at the University of Minnesota in two departments-animal science and food science and nutrition.
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Since 1973 he has also advised private-sector and governmental units and agricultural sciences societies and foundations in areas such as citizen participation, grants, staffing, executive development, and agriculture and rural policy analysis. From 1985 to 1986, Browne was a visiting scholar with the Farm and Rural Economy Branch of the Economic Research Service, U.S.
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, which assesses current problems in American schools, colleges, and universities and describes various promising efforts to institute reforms, and 50 Hours: A Core Curriculum for College Students (Washington, D.C.: National Endowment for the Humanities, 1989) , which urges U.S.
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He was formerly professor of agricultural economics and assistant director for planning, Agricultural Experiment Station, at Michigan State University. As assistant director for planning, Connor specified and developed priority research areas, expert teams, project proposals, and funding.
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Gordon began his professional career as a plant physiologist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service, North Central Forest Experiment Station.
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During 143 years at Minnesota, Hasselmo served as chair of the Scandinavian Department, associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts, and vicepresident for administration and planning. In 1983 Hasselmo left Minnesota to become senior vice-president for academic affairs and provost at the University of Arizona, where he was known as a skillful negotiator and innovative policymaker.
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degree in earth science at Harvard University. After a year of studies as a North Atlantic Treaty Organization postdoctoral fellow at Cambridge University in England, he joined the Carnegie Institutions mineral physics research effort.
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In 1988, he assumed the additional post of director of programs, Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources, of the California Agricultural Experiment Station and the Cooperative Extension Service. Hess has served on the National Science Board of the National Science Foundation and as cochairman of the Joint Council on Food and Agricultural Sciences.
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For over two decades he served as associate director and director of the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station and dean of agriculture. Currently in the departments of Animal Science and of Biochemistry and Biophysics, he teaches the undergraduate courses Principles of Animal Nutrition and Food and Humanity, the latter course being open to any major in the university.
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Lariviere has received numerous awards and honors, including the Tracor Scholar Award for Teaching Excellence, Travis County Engineering Society Outstanding Science Teacher Award, National Science Teachers Award for Innovations in Science Teaching, Texas Outstanding Biology Teacher Award, state finalist in the Presidential Awards for Excellence in Science Teaching, Tandy Technology Scholar, and a GTE GIFT program grant for implementation of innovative ideas in math and science teaching.
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McBreen also was an agricultural education specialist for the Africa Bureau of the U.S. Agency for International Development, assistant professor in the Department of Agricultural Education at Texas A&M University, and instructor in the Department of Home Economics at Southwest Texas State University.
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She has pursued a teaching and administrative career in Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Germany, Nebraska, Maryland, and Oklahoma. Her accomplishments at Kentucky include authoring over 50 journal articles, two books, and numerous national research presentations and major leadership roles in the American Home Economics Association, the Association of Administrators of Home Economics, the advisory board of the National Association of Extension Home Economists, the National Higher Education Committee, and the National Extension Committee.
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LAURENCE D MOORE is professor of plant pathology and head of the Department of Plant Pathology, Physiology, and Weed Science at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
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Neafville served as assistant professor of animal science and head of animal science at Prairie View ARM University from 1974 to 1978 and then as associate dean of applied science and technology at Lincoln University in Missouri from 1978 to 1983. He is also project manager of the Cameroon Root and Tuber Food Crops Research Project and associate director of the Maryland Agricultural Experiment Station.
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F Cooper Academic Innovation Award, and Gamma Sigma Delta Outstanding Young Researcher Award.
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Previously, he was dean of the College of Agriculture, director of the Agricultural Experiment Station, and director of the Cooperative Extension Service at the Pennsylvania State University. Smith has also been professor and head of the Department of Plant Pathology at the Pennsylvania State University and assistant professor of plant pathology at the University of California, Berkeley, where he had received B.S.
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Thompson's honors include president of the Food, Agriculture, and Human Values Society; participant in the summer seminars of the National Endowment for the Humanities; fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations and International Affairs; and resident fellow of the National Center for Food and Agricultural Policy, Resources for the Future. RAY THORNTON was elected to the U.S.
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CONRAD J WEISER is dean of the College of Agricultural Sciences at Oregon State University.
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In his current position at Oregon State, Weiser provides liaison with Oregon commodity commissions and other producer and processor organizations, and he established the 70member Industry Advisory Board that represents horticultural producers, processors, suppliers, and consumers in Oregon. He is adviser to the National Science Foundation's International Programs Division and external reviewer of research and educational programs at universities in 11 U.S.
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He later became dean of the College of Applied Sciences and Technology at Lincoln University in Missouri. At Lincoln he also was dean of cooperative extension, agricultural research, and international programs.
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