Ernest Bernard sitting in his lab beside a microscope.

Ernest Bernard Receives the UTIA Institute Professor Award

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                              The University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture recognized some of its top faculty, staff, researchers and Extension experts at UTIA’s annual awards and promotions luncheon on the UTIA campus in Knoxville on August 15, 2023. Many of the awards are gifts made possible by faculty, alumni and friends of the Institute. UT Institute of Agriculture Senior Vice Chancellor and Senior Vice President Keith Carver hosted the award winners and celebrated their work. “I’m excited to celebrate the amazing work of our UTIA faculty and staff,” says Carver. “These awards are well-deserved and represent our employees’ steadfast dedication to their work, the Institute and the people

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Denita Hadziabdic Guerry Receives the UT Smith Center for International Sustainable Agriculture Faculty Global Excellence Award

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                                  The University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture recognized some of its top faculty, staff, researchers and Extension experts at UTIA’s annual awards and promotions luncheon on the UTIA campus in Knoxville on August 15, 2023. Many of the awards are gifts made possible by faculty, alumni and friends of the Institute. UT Institute of Agriculture Senior Vice Chancellor and Senior Vice President Keith Carver hosted the award winners and celebrated their work. “I’m excited to celebrate the amazing work of our UTIA faculty and staff,” says Carver. “These awards are well-deserved and represent our employees’ steadfast dedication to their work, the Institute and

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Autumn McLaughlin Announced as Recipient of 2023 I.E. Melhus Graduate Student Symposium

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                                Autumn McLaughlin, a doctoral student with the Herbert College of Agriculture Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology at the University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture, was selected as a recipient of the I.E. Melhus Graduate Student Symposium at the American Phytopathological Society (APS) Annual Meeting, Plant Health 2023. The highly anticipated symposium, which centers around the theme of “Systems-based approaches, tools, and tactics to combat mycotoxins for a sustainable and safe food supply,” provides current and recent graduate students the opportunity to present their research during the acclaimed Melhus session. Recipients receive an honorarium of $500 to apply to the cost of attending the

Dawson Kerns accepting award from SIP.

Dawson Kerns Receives SIP Mauro E. Martignoni Award

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                            Dawson Kerns, a doctoral student conducting research on resistance mechanism to Vip3Aa in corn earworm, received the Mauro E. Martignoni award at the 2023 International Conference on Invertebrate Pathology and Microbial Control and 55th Annual Meeting of the Society for Invertebrate Pathology (SIP) held in College Park, Maryland. The Mauro E. Martignoni Award, the Society’s premier award for student research, recognizes Kerns’s scientific excellence and ability to communicate their science effectively in their application. SIP is a scientific society that brings together people from diverse backgrounds within the scientific community, fostering unity and collaboration. To learn more about SIP, visit siponline.org. For those interested in learning