Schneider Wins 2014 Southern Soybean Disease Worker's (SSDW) Distinguished Service Award

M. Catherine Aime was selected as a 2012 Fellow of the Mycological Society of America (MSA). Aime is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Plant Pathology and Crop Physiology with an internationally recognized program in systematic mycology.

Michelle Warr, an undergraduate student conducting research with Dr. Raymond Schneider in the Department of Plant Pathology and Crop Physiology, won the American Phytopathological Society (APS) Raymond G. Grogan Student Traval Award.

Dr. Kenneth Damann of the Dept of Plant Pathology & Crop Physiology organized a session on biological control of aflatoxin at the "Corn Utilization and Technology Conference" of the National Corn Growers Association in Indianapolis, Indiana, June 4-6, 2012.

(Sept. 12, 2012) Deborah M. Xavier, a Master's candidate in the Department of Plant Pathology and Crop Physiology under the direction of Dr. Charles Overstreet, won second place in the Rod Rodríguez-Kábana student poster competition at the recent 44th Organization of Nematologists of Tropical America (ONTA) meeting held in Cancun, Mexico. She received this highly competitive international award for her poster entitled "Population development of Rotylenchulus reniformis in a field over a nine year period".

Mr. Addison Ray Plaisance, an M.S. student studying Nematology under the direction of Dr. Edward McGawley, Department of Plant Pathology and Crop Physiology, was selected as the 2013 Dr. Mary Grodner Scholarship Award recipient by the Louisiana Vegetation Management Association (LAVMA). On Wednesday, February 6th he will attend the annual LAVMA conference in Marksville, LA, to give a brief summary of his research and career goals, and to receive a plaque and monetary award.

During the recent Beltwide Cotton Conference held in San Antonio, Texas on January 7-10, 2013, two students in the Department of Plant Pathology and Crop Physiology won awards in the graduate student competition sponsored by the Cotton Disease Council.

'Plant Health Clinic' in association with 'Weeds of Louisiana' won the Education Excellence award at the New Orleans Spring Garden Show on April 6th, 2013. The team of specialist consisted of Dr. Raj (Nick) Singh (Plant Doctor), Dr. Ron Strahan (Weed Doctor), Dr. J. Bird (State Soil Specialist) and Ms. Kirandeep Kaur (Graduate Student PPCP). The award was presented by Dan Gill.