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2025 Award Recipients

EXCELLENCE IN MULTISTATE RESEARCH
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NORTHEAST REGION (National Winner)

Genetic Bases for Resistance and Immunity to Avian Diseases (NE2334)

NORTH CENTRAL REGION

Ecology and Management of Arthropods in Corn (NC246) 

SOUTHERN REGION

NextGen Watershed Management Synergies (S1089)

EXCELLENCE IN LEADERSHIP
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ASSOCIATION OF 1890 RESEARCH DIRECTORS

Vernon Jones

Langston University

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NORTHEAST REGION

Rick Rhodes

agInnovation Northeast

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NORTH CENTRAL REGION

Germán Bollero

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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SOUTHERN REGION

Hongwei Xin

University of Tennessee

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WESTERN REGION

Scot Hulbert

Washington State University

EXCELLENCE IN AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH INNOVATION 
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NORTH CENTRAL REGION
(National Winner)

Kaiyu Guan

Levenick ACES Professor


Blue Waters Professor for Supercomputing


Founding Director of Agroecosystem Sustainability Center


University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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ASSOCIATION OF 1890 RESEARCH DIRECTORS

Ali Fares

TAMUS-Regents Professor

Chair of Water Security and Water-Energy-Food Nexus

College of Agriculture & Human Sciences


Prairie View A&M University

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SOUTHERN REGION

Yang Zhao

Associate Professor of Animal Science

 

UT AgResearch Guthrie Endowed Professor of Precision Livestock Farming

 

University of Tennessee

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NORTHEAST REGION

Heather Darby

Extension Professor

University of Vermont Extension

University of Vermont

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