Congratulations CFANS 2022-2023 alumni award recipients
June 1, 2023
Please join CFANS in celebrating our outstanding alumni!
CFANS departments bestow a variety of awards to alumni each academic year. Please join us in congratulating these 2022-2023 alumni award recipients!
Agricultural Education, Communication and Marketing
Spirit Award — Lee Thompson, BS '79 agricultural education
Agronomy and Plant Genetics
Distinguished Alumni Award — Donn Cummings, PhD '77 plant breeding and genetics
Animal Science
Golden Graduate Alumni Award, Achievement in Academia — Terry Etherton, PhD '78 animal science
Golden Graduate Alumni Award, Achievement in Industry — Barry Visser, BS '94 animal science, MS '03 dairy cattle nutrition
Applied Economics
Outstanding Alumni Award — Gretta Hanson, BS '04 applied economics
Outstanding Alumni Award — Taro Nagashima, MS '03 applied economics
Outstanding Alumni Award — Michael Swanson, MS '91 and PhD '98, agricultural and applied economics
Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering
Distinguished Alumni Award — Leo Holm, BS '70, agricultural engineering
Early Career Alumni Award — Sarah Whiteside, BS '21 sustainable systems management
Entomology
Hodson Graduate Alumni Award — Robert Suranyi, '97 MS and '00 PhD entomology
Horticultural Science
Distinguished Alumni Award — Phil Forsline, BS, '70 horticulture
