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Faculty Honors
Snider honored with the D.W. Brooks Award for Excellence in Research

Dr. John Snider is a crop physiologist and professor in the Department of Crop and Soil Sciences at the UGA Tifton campus. After working as a postdoctoral researcher with the USDA Agricultural Research Service, he joined CAES in 2012 as an assistant professor and was promoted to full professor in 2023.

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Faculty Excellence
Digital Ag Team Honored with UGA-Tifton Campus Awards for Excellence
  • Junior Scientist Award of Excellence: Simerjeet Virk
  • Technical Support – Senior Award of Excellence: John Paulk
    Mr. Paulk is a shop manager for the Precision Agriculture Shop and provides valuable support to the Precision Ag Faculty on UGA Tifton Campus including Dr. Virk and the Digital Ag Program.
  • Graduate Student, M.S. Award of Excellence: Coleman Byers
Faculty Innovation
Growing Gas
As the world grapples with how to reduce its carbon footprint, it’s clear there’s no silver bullet solution for climate change. It will take a multifaceted approach to scale back fossil fuel usage and find more sustainable alternatives. Several UGA researchers are working on promising pathways like bioenergy and bioproducts, forms of renewable energy and materials that could curb carbon emissions.
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Student Achievement


Student Honors
Parkash Receives Graduate Student Award

Ved Parkash is the recipient of the prestigious Crop Science Graduate Student Award from Crop Science Society of America (CSSA).

The award was presented at the 2023 ASA, CSSA, SSSA International Annual Meeting in St. Louis, Missouri.

Parkash is advised by Dr. John Snider.

Student Spotlight
Point to Pixel
Nathan Tesfayi’s story is about resilience and big ambitions. Born in State College, Pennsylvania, to Ethiopian parents, his life journey has taken him from living in Ethiopia to studies at the University of Georgia, research with NASA and more. Tesfayi’s interest in the environment was sparked during his AP environmental sciences class at Shiloh High School in Gwinnett County.
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Student Awards
2023 ASA, CSSA, SSSA International Annual Meeting

Check out the awards and honors our outstanding graduate students walked away with at the 2023 ASA, CSSA, SSSA International Annual Meeting! Congratulations to all!

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