The U.S. Dept. of Agriculture recently announced the recipients of this year’s Excellence in College and University Teaching Awards for Food and Agricultural Sciences and National Teaching and Student Engagement awards.
Anna Dilger of University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and Nick Fuhrman of the University of Georgia were accorded the Excellence in College and University Teaching Awards for Food and Agricultural Sciences, a USDA issued press release said. The National Teaching and Student Engagement awardees were James C. Anderson II of the University of Georgia and Erica Irlbeck of Texas Tech University.
The four public university faculty members were recognized by the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) for exhibiting excellence in agricultural sciences teaching and student engagement.
“We applaud this year’s winners of the Excellence in College and University Teaching Awards for Food and Agricultural Sciences,” Doug Steele, Vice President of Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources at APLU, said in the release. “The high bar they’ve set stands as a powerful example not only to their students, but to other faculty striving to better serve their students.”
Eight other educators were bestowed the 2021 Excellence in College and University Teaching Awards for Food and Agricultural Sciences, the release said.
Linda Yarrow of Kansas State University, Sanjeev Anand of South Dakota State University, Pete Bettinger of the University of Georgia, Jon Ramsey of Oklahoma State University, Kathrin Dunlap of Texas A&M University, and Dean Winward of Southern Utah University were the six regional winners. Jamie Loizzo of the University of Florida and Beatrix Haggard of Oklahoma State University were the early-career awardees, the release said.
The APLU is an advocacy organization “dedicated to strengthening and advancing the work of public universities in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico,” according to their website. The awards were officially presented at the APLU Annual Meeting.
