Please join us in congratulating our faculty and staff on their recent awards and appointments.
Doug Steele named sole finalist for AgriLife Extension director
Doug Steele
Dr. Doug Steele was named sole finalist for the Texas AgriLife Extension Service director position at the Texas A&M University System board of regents meeting August 3, 2012. Steele currently is vice president for external relations and director of Extension at Montana State University. As AgriLife Extension director, he will be returning to lead the agency where he started his career in 1981 as an assistant agent for agriculture and natural resources in Potter County.
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Lineberger becomes head of Texas A&M horticulture department – again
Dan Lineberger
Dr. Dan Lineberger, who was Texas A&M University head of horticultural sciences from 1990-94, has returned to that position effective Aug. 1, 2012. After serving as the department’s head in the early 1990s, Lineberger returned to the faculty as a professor of horticulture. In 2008, he became associate head for undergraduate programs. Prior to his career with Texas A&M, Linberger was head of the horticulture department at Clemson University from 1987-90. He was an assistant and associate professor at The Ohio State University from 1977-87.
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Rosson named head of Texas A&M University department of agricultural economics
Parr Rosson
Dr. Parr Rosson has been named head of the department of agricultural economics at Texas A&M University. Rosson assumes the department’s top leadership position after the retirement of Dr. John Nichols. Rosson has served as director of the Center for North American Studies at Texas A&M and as an economist with the Texas AgriLife Extension Service since 1989, specializing in international trade and marketing.
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Texas A&M department head and scientist makes history
Jack Elliot
For only the second time in the history of the profession, Dr. Jack Elliot, a senior scientist at the Norman Borlaug Institute for International Agriculture and department head for Agricultural Leadership, Education and Communications, has been named Senior Faculty Fellow by both national and international agricultural education organizations. He was first honored as a Senior Fellow of the American Association of Agricultural Education, followed a few days later by being named a Senior Fellow of the Association for International Agricultural and Extension Education.
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McCarl, Gatlin, Mohanty and Shippen named Senior Texas AgriLife Research Faculty Fellows
Dr. Bruce McCarl, a distinguished professor of agricultural economics, Dr. Delbert M. Gatlin III, a professor in the wildlife and fisheries sciences department, Dr. Binayak Mohanty, professor of biological and agricultural engineering, and Dr. Dorothy Shippen, professor of biochemistry and biophysics, have been named Texas AgriLife Research Senior Faculty Fellows. The faculty fellows program, created in 1998, recognizes people who “have contributed to the scholarly creation and dissemination of new knowledge through exceptional research leadership and grantsmanship.” Professors and associate professors in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Texas A&M University, who hold a joint appointment with AgriLife Research, are eligible for the honor and $5,000 award.
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Davies heads to Indonesia on Fulbright Fellowship
Fred Davies
Dr. Fred Davies has received a Senior Fulbright Fellowship to Indonesia, where he will be teaching at Bogor Agricultural University. Davies is a Regents Professor and Texas AgriLife Research Faculty Fellow in the horticultural sciences department. He was selected by the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board, which is appointed by the U.S. president to administer grants funded by congressional appropriations, partner country contributions and the private sector.
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