Tifton Campus: Points of Pride: Annual Awards & Recognitions
USDA/ARS FY2008
| Name | Unit | Achievement |
| Bill Anderson Wayne Hanna Ron Gates |
Crop Genetics & Breeding | Released ‘Tifquik”, a bahiagrass cultivar with faster germination and field establishment. |
C. Corley Holbrook Craig Kvien |
Crop Genetics & Breeding | Released ‘Tifguard’, the first peanut cultivar that has resistance to both the peanut root-knot nematode and tomato spotted wilt virus. |
| Joe Lewis (Retired) | Crop Protection & Management | One of three Recipients of the 2008 Wolf Foundation Prize in Agriculture for their remarkable discoveries of mechanisms governing plant-insect and plant-plant interactions. |
| Richard Lowrance | SE Watershed | Served on the EPA's Federal Advisory Committee - Science Advisory Board on Hypoxia in the Gulf of Mexico. |
| Dana Sullivan | SE Watershed | Promoted to grade GS-13. |
| Clint Truman | SE Watershed | Promoted to grade GS-15. |
| Don Wauchope (Retired) | SE Watershed | Recently named as the recipient of the International Research Award which is presented by the Agrochemicals Division, American Chemical Society. |