People Section

Awards: Ruiqing Miao, Auburn University College of Agriculture, Dean’s Research Award; Wenying Li and Team Auburn Big Data, First place in Food for Thought: Using NLP and Machine Learning to Link Food and Nutrition Databases, the Coleridge Initiative and sponsored by ERS and Westat
Position Taken by Recent Graduate: Jingfang Zhang, PhD, Assistant Professor (tenure-track), School of Agriculture and Applied Sciences, Alcorn State University.
Visitor: Knar Khachatryan, Vice-Provost for Integration and Associate Professor, American University of Armenia, Fulbright Scholar, January - April 2023.

New Appointments: Liqing Li, Assistant Professor; Felipe Peguero, Assistant Professor; Marissa Lepper, Assistant Professor
Award: Michael R. Carter, UC Davis, Chancellor’s Award for International Engagement; Tiffany Lashmet, J.D., Greg Kaase, Ph.D., Emmy Kiphen and Lacrecia Garza, 2022 Vice Chancellor's Award in Excellence Team Collaborations Team Award for the Ranchers Leasing Workshop; Tiffany Lashmet, J.D. and Jason Johnson, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension 2022 Superior Service Award Team Award for Generation Next: Our Turn to Ranch; Bruce McCarl, Ph.D., Texas A&M University Graduate and Professional School Outstanding Graduate and Professional Student Mentoring Award for Faculty; Marco Palma, Ph.D. | 2022 Vice Chancellor's Award in Excellence for Research; Marco Palma, Ph.D., Named an AgriLife Research Faculty Fellow; John Robinson, Ph.D., Texas County Agricultural Agents Association 2022 State Specialist of the Year in Texas Agriculture

Awards: Andrew Barkley, Wallace Kidd Memorial Diversity Award. K-State MANRRS and Scoular, 2023; Logan Britton, Outstanding Advisor Award. National Blue Key Honor Society, 2023; Logan Britton, Outstanding Faculty Award. K-State Mortar Board, 2023; Coffey, Brian, Fulbright Specialist Program. Fullbright Program, 2023; Lonnie Hobbs, Jr., Ph.D. Candidate, Presidential Student Award for Distinguished Services in Enhancing Multiculturalism at Kansas State University, Commerce Bank, 2023

Positions Taken by Recent Graduates: Yunkyung (Julie) Lee, PhD, Assistant Professor, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Charalampos Mavroutsikos, PhD, Research Specialist, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Public Policy Center
Visitor: Leonardo Bornacki de Mattos, Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics, Federal University of Vicosa, Brazil, March 2023-March 2024.

New appointments: Thomas W. Hertel, Distinguished Fellow: Australasian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society, 2023; Nicole Olynk Widmar, Interim Assistant Dean of Agricultural Research and Graduate Education, Purdue University
Awards: Maria Marshall, 2022 Team Award, College of Agriculture, Purdue University; Michael Langemeier, 2022 Team Award, College of Agriculture, Purdue University