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Department of Agricultural Sciences faculty continue to be honored as the best among the best “The faculty in the Department of Agricultural Sciences continue to excel each year and are the best of the best. I am proud to have such hardworking, deserving faculty serving our students,” said Dean Hawkins, head of the Department of Agricultural Sciences. This past semester, three faculty have been recogonized for their achievements both in and out of the classroom.
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on Topliff, dean of the College of Agriculture, Science and Engineering, has been elected president-elect of the Non-Land-Grant Agriculture and Renewable Resources Universities Association.
Don Topliff has been elected presidentelect of the Non-Land-Grant Agriculture and Renewable Resources Universities Association.
“It is an honor to be chosen to represent NARRU as presidentelect, and I look forward to working with our member universities to represent our
needs at the nation’s Capital,” Topliff said. Topliff has been a member of the organization for 16 years and has served on the board of directors for the past five years. The association represents 13 universities across the United States that have agriculture and renewable resources programs. Eleven of those universities are in the state of Texas and represent 65 percent of the graduates with agriculture and renewable resources degrees. The organization is associated with the academic programs section of the Association of Public and Land Grant Universities in Washington, D.C.
T
y Lawrence, associate professor of animal science, has been named to Vance Publishing Corporation’s inaugural 40 Under 40 in Agriculture Awards. Lawrence joins a list of top 40 winners representing all aspects of agriculture from animal and crop production, biotechnology and