Recent Awards and Acknowledgements for Department Members
August 9, 2011
The annual UTIA Awards and Promotion Luncheon was held on Friday, August 5th and our department was well represented.
Dr. Dayton Lambert was promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure
Dr. Lambert's areas of interest are Rural Economic Development, Regional Economics, Location Theory and Spatial Econometrics.
Dr. Jim Larson and Dr. Steven Yen were promoted to Professor.
Dr. Larson's areas of interest are Production Economics, Farm Management and Risk Analysis.
Dr. Yen's areas of interest are Food Safety and Nutrition, consumer Economics, Health Economic, and Applied Microeconometrics.
David Bilderback was promoted to Extension Area Specialist II.
David's is a Specialist in Farm Management. He serves the counties of Anderson, Campbell, Carter, Claiborne, Cocke, Greene, Hamblen, Hancock, Hawkins, Johnson, Roane, Scott, Sullivan, Unicoi, Union and Washington.
Dr. Christopher Clark, Alan Galloway, Alice Rhea, Jane Starnes and Dr. Michael Wilcox were given the Lewis H. Dickson Extension Award for Innovative Programming.
This award recognizes the contributions for Extension professionals and is established to honor the contributions of an outstanding Extension educator. Dr. Lewis H. Dickson was employed by the University of Tennessee from 1946 to 1688, when he retired as professor in Agricultural and Extension Education. This award was established by his son, Lewis H. Dickson Jr., in October 2003.
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