Achievements of the National Plant Genome Initiative and New Horizons in Plant Biology (2008) / Chapter Skim
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Sanders Award for Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching/Service from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, the Prize for Young Researchers from the State of Nord-Rhein-Westfalen in Germany in 1991, and a Plant Molecular Biology PostDoctoral Fellowship from the National Science Foundation in 1986–1989. He chaired the National Research Council (NRC)
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and is currently serving as its director for academic plant research. He was the recipient of the American Soybean Association Soybean Production Research Award, American Society of Agronomy Agronomic Achievement Award, Illinois State University Alumni Achievement Award, National Council of Commercial Plant Breeders Genetics and Plant Breeding Award, Crop Science of America Research Award, and Southern Soybean Disease Workers Distinguished Service Award.
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She is the recipient of the Initiatives in Research Award, the Charles Albert Schull Award, the Kumho Award in Plant Molecular Biology, and Scientific American's 2003 Research Leader in Agriculture. She was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1999.
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Her collaborative research with Kenyatta University in Nairobi aims at improving maize resistance to the parasitic weed Striga hermonthica. She is the recipient of the Kath erine Esau Junior Faculty Fellowship and the Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research Mentorship.
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He was a recipient of the Burroughs Wellcome Scholar Award, the Pew Scholar Award, the Helen Hay Whitney Postdoctoral Fellowship, and the NIH Predoctoral Training Fellowship. He was a member of the NRC HHMI Predoctoral Fellowships Panel on Cell Biology and Immunology.
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Dr. Ward began his career in 1988 with Ciba-Geigy as a postdoctoral associate, during which time he pioneered methods for the cloning of large DNA fragments from plants.
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