For more information about the individual award recipients, click on his or her name.
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Alison Bentley
May 2023 Program Director CIMMYT Global Wheat Program |
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Martin Wiedmann
May 2022 Gellert Family Professor in Food Safety, Food Science |
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Sarah Evanega
May 2021 Research Professor, Department of Global Development with a joint appointment in the School of Integrative Plant Sciences |
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Alexa Lamm
May 2020 Associate Professor of Science Communication, |
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Frank Mitloehner
April 2019 Professor and Air Quality Specialist in Cooperative Extension, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, University of California, Davis |
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Marty Matlock
April 2018 Executive Director, UA Resiliency Center and Professor, Biological and Agricultural Engineering Department, University of Arkansas |
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Jayson Lusk
April 2017 Distinguished Professor and Head of the Department of Agricultural Economics at Purdue University |
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Kevin Folta
April 2016 Chair of the Horticultural Sciences Department at the University of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences |
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Channapatna Prakash
April 2015 Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Tuskegee University |
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Alison Van Eenennaam
April 2014 Animal Genomics and Biotechnology Cooperative Extension Specialist |
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Jeff Simmons
May 2013 President, Elanco Animal Health |
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Carl Winter
May 2012 Cooperative Extension Specialist Emeritus |
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Catherine Bertini
May 2011 Professor, Public Administration and International Affairs |
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Akin Adesina
July 2010 President of the African Development Bank |
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