College of Natural Sciences, Forestry, and Agriculture Announces Excellence Awards
Contact: Barbara Harrity, 581- 3211
ORONO – The University of Maine College of Natural Sciences, Forestry, and Agriculture has made the following 2010 excellence awards to undergraduate, graduate and faculty members.
Anjelica Hodgson, a scholar-athlete from Ontario, Canada, graduated with a degree in biochemistry, was named the Outstanding International Student.
Robin Arnold of Orono, a nontraditional student in the Department of Earth Sciences who works full time as an administrative assistant at UMaine, received this year’s Wallace C. and Janet S. Dunham Prize.
Laura Wood, a graduating senior from Scarborough, Maine, an ecology and environmental sciences major and member of the Honors College, is this year’s winner of the Frank B. and Charles S. Bickford Prize.
Lauren Kolb, a Ph.D. student in ecology and environmental science, is the Norris Charles Clements Graduate Student Award winner.
Viorel Popescu, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Wildlife Ecology, is the 2010 recipient of the George F. Dow Graduate Scholarship Fund award.
Farrah Fatemi, a Ph.D. candidate in ecology and environmental science, is the Fred Griffee Memorial Award recipient.
Serena Gross, a master’s student in ecology and environmental science, received the Outstanding Master’s Degree Student Award.
Kristin Wilson, a Ph.D. candidate in ecology and environmental science, is the Outstanding Ph.D. Student Award recipient.
Jason Bolton, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Food Science & Human Nutrition, has received the Outstanding Service Award.
Nicolas Blouin, a Ph.D. candidate in marine biology, has received the Graduate Research Excellence Award.
Frank Drummond, professor of insect ecology and insect pest management in the School of Biology & Ecology, has received the Outstanding Research Award.
Sara Lindsay, a professor, School of Marine Sciences, received the Outstanding Teaching Award.
Mary Susan Erich, professor in the Department of Plant, Soil and Environmental Sciences, has received the Agriculture Award.
Jessica Leahy, professor of human dimensions and natural resources, School of Forest Resources, has received the G. Peirce and Florence Pitts-Webber Award for Outstanding Research in Forest Resources.
Robert Lilieholm, E.L. professor of forest policy, School of Forest Resources, has received the G. Peirce and Florence Pitts-Webber Award for Outstanding Forestry Teaching.