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2013-14 Distinguished Service Award winners announced

Dear Colleagues,

I am pleased to announce the 2013-14 recipients of the ANR Distinguished Service Awards, which are given biennially for outstanding contributions to the teaching, research and public service mission of the Division.

Awards were given in six areas:

• Outstanding Extension – Eric Mussen, UC Cooperative Extension specialist in the Department of Entomology and Nematology at UC Davis for bees.
• Outstanding Research – Mark Battany, UC Cooperative Extension advisor in San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara countiesfor viticulture.
• Outstanding New Academic – David Doll, UC Cooperative Extension advisor in Merced County for nut crops
• Outstanding Team – Ken Tate, UC Cooperative Extension specialist in the Department of Plant Sciences at UC Davis, and Rob Atwill, director of Veterinary Medicine Extension at UC Davis, are the recipients of the Outstanding Team Award. Since 1994, Tate and Atwill have collaborated on a series of projects assessing the potential risk to rangeland surface-water quality and human health from livestock associated pollutants. 
• Outstanding Leader – Pamela Geisel, former director of the statewide UC Master Gardener Program. Although Pam retired recently, since this nomination package was very strong, I believe it's appropriate and important to give Pam this much-deserved award. 
• Outstanding Staff – Michael Yang, UCCE agricultural assistant in Fresno County for small farms.

Each of the recipients will receive $2,000 and a certificate, except for the team award recipients, who will receive individual certificates and share $5,000.

The DSA nominations were reviewed by the Academic Assembly Council Program Committee, which gave me its recommendations. The committee was chaired by Joe Grant and included Rachel Surls, Becky Westerdahl, Scott Oneto and Jennifer Heguy.

On behalf of ANR, I thank the DSA recipients for providing excellent service to the people of California. I hope you will join me in congratulating them on this well-deserved recognition.

Barbara Allen-Diaz
Vice President

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Distinguished Service Award winners named

Dear Colleagues,

I am pleased to announce the 2011 recipients of the ANR Distinguished Service Awards, which are given biennially for outstanding contributions to the teaching, research and public service mission of the Division.

Awards were given in six areas:

• Outstanding Extension – Walt Bentley, area IPM advisor based at Kearney Agricultural Research and Extension Center
• Outstanding Research – Steve Koike, plant pathology farm advisor for Monterey and Santa Cruz counties
• Outstanding New Academic – Jim Bethke, floriculture and nursery advisor for San Diego and Riverside counties
• Outstanding Team – Money Talks. The Money Talks team is composed of Charles Go, workgroup chair and 4-H youth development advisor for Alameda County; Margaret Johns, nutrition, family & consumer sciences advisor for Kern County; Keith Nathaniel,  4-H youth development advisor for Los Angeles County;  Shirley Peterson, nutrition, family & consumer sciences advisor emeritus; Brenda Roche, nutrition, family & consumer sciences advisor for Los Angeles County; Karen Varcoe, consumer economics specialist based at UC Riverside; Patti Wooten-Swanson, nutrition, family & consumer sciences advisor for San Diego County
• Outstanding Leader – Richard Enfield, county director for San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara counties
• Outstanding Staff – Connie Costello, program representative for consumer economics

Each of the recipients will receive $2,000 and a certificate, except for the team award recipients, who will receive individual certificates and share $5,000.

The 2011 Academic Assembly Council Distinguished Service Award committee was chaired by Rachel Surls and included Jim Bethke, Joe Grant, Scott Oneto and Becky Westerdahl. Although Bethke was on the committee making these awards, he did not participate in any part of the decision-making on the Outstanding New Academic award.

On behalf of ANR, I thank the DSA recipients for providing excellent service to the people of California and congratulate them on this well-deserved recognition.

Barbara Allen-Diaz
Vice President, Agriculture and Natural Resources

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Reminder: Deadline for Distinguished Service Awards for UCCE academics and staff

ANR and the Academic Assembly Council are seeking nominations for the Distinguished Service Awards (DSA). The awards are meant to recognize and reward extraordinary accomplishments made by UCCE academics and staff. These are monetary awards.

To nominate someone or to read more information on the timeline and nomination process, please visit http://ucanr.org/sites/UCAAC/. Nominations are due by August 1, 2011 at 5:00pm. If you have questions, contact Jim Bethke at (760) 752-4715 or jabethke@ucdavis.edu.

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