Recognition

Shoshanah Inwood has won the 2008 SARE (Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education) New Voices Contest SARE award. For more information, click here.

M. Susie Whittington received OSU's 2008 Outstanding Student Organization Advisor Award for her service to the Agricultural Education Society.

Patrick Nolan and Judith Poth, Agricultural Education majors, received OSU's 2008 Outstanding Senior Award.

M. Susie Whittington received the Josephine Failer Award from the OSU Alumni Association on November 9, 2007. The award is presented to alumni who have performed exemplary volunteer service to enhance the quality of life for students.

Bill Flinn received the FAES Pomerene Teaching Award on September 26, 2007. Dr. Flinn uses humor and story telling in his classes, but he also describes practical illustrations of the social concepts and theories that form the foundation of the Rural Sociology 105 course.

Linda Lobao received the FAES Price Advising Award on September 24, 2007, for outstanding service to her advisees and also for her perseverence and dedication in preparing graduate student fellowship applications that garnered nine university and OARDC fellowships for Rural Sociology graduate students this year.

M. Susie Whittington received the Distinguished Teaching Award at the North Central American Association for Agricultural Education meeting in September, 2007.

Debbie Brown was presented with the Graduate Teaching Associate Teaching Award by the dean of the Graduate School on April 11, 2007. Of the 2500 GTAs at Ohio State , 224 individuals were nominated for the award. Debbie was one of ten graduate teaching associates selected to receive it.

Dean Patrick Osmer and Debbie Brown.

Archibald Haller received an honorary doctorate degree at OSU's winter commencement on March 18, 2007. He was an OSU Distinguished Visiting Professor in 1982, and contributed greatly to the rural sociology program. He emphasized the need to focus more on social stratification as a key societal process and on quantitative research. He is a professor emeritus of rural sociology and sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Linda Lobao will be honored as a 2007 AAAS Fellow by the American Association for the Advancement of Science.  She was presented with a AAAS Fellow certificate and rosette at the February 2008 Annual Meeting of AAAS in Boston.

Larry Whiting (professor emeritus of Agricultural Communication) received the Academic Programs (SIG) Award of Excellence at the 2007 meeting of the Association for Communication Excellence (ACE) in Albuquerque, New Mexico this June.  The ACE Award of Excellence recognizes individuals who have demonstrated excellence in academic programs and for their leadership and involvement in ACE.