Frontiers in Agricultural Research Food, Health, Environment, and Communities (2003) / Chapter Skim
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About the Authors
Pages 217-224
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Dr. Loew's previous positions include: professor and dean of veterinary medicine at Cornell University; dean of veterinary medicine and chairman of the Department of Environmental Studies at Tufts University; director of the Division of Comparative Medicine at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; and professor of physiology, director of the Research Programs in Toxicology, and director of the Animal Resources Centre 217
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Beachy is president of the Donald Danforth Plant Sciences Center in St. Louis, MO.
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In 1993, Dr. Brooks served on the National Research Council Panel for Review of Agricultural Sciences Research Proposals Under the US Agency for International Development's Research Grants Program for historically black colleges and universities; and in 1995, she was appointed site review coordinator of the National Research Council Committee on Undergraduate Science Education.
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Curtiss Distinguished Professor of Agriculture and professor of economics and agricultural economics at Iowa State University, Ames, and a fellow of the American Association of Agricultural Economics. His research focuses on R&D management and policy, human capital for agriculture, agricultural productivity and technical change analysis, adoption of technology, agricultural household models, and migration and immigration.
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In 1998, he was a member of the National Research Council Committee on Ensuring Safe Food from Production to Consumption. He serves as president of the American Association of Veterinary Medicine Colleges, cochair of the National Alliance for Food Safety, cochair of the National Commission on Veterinary Economic Issues, and lead dean at Michigan State University for food safety with responsibility for the National Food Safety and Toxicology Center.
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Mr. Lyon has undertaken many professional activities in cooperatives, dairy industry, government, universities, and the local community in many capacities, including president of the Wisconsin Federation of Cooperatives, board chairman of the National Cooperative Business Association, member of the National Rural Development Task Force & Co-op 2000 Committee, president of the National Association of Animal Breeders, member of four Wisconsin gubernatorial commissions, member of the Executive Committee of the National Agricultural, Research, Extension, Education, and Economics Advisory Board, and president of the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System.
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He received many professional honors and awards, including the Crop Science Award from the Crop Science Society of America, the Charles F Kettering Award for excellence in photosynthesis research from the American Society of Plant Biologists, the US Department of Agriculture Superior Service Award, and the Alexander von Humboldt Medal for contributions to American agriculture; he is a fellow of the American Society of Agronomy and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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He also has broad experience in research-program administration and outreach activities. He has held positions at the US Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service including associate administrator, director of the Pacific West Area, and research leader of the Phoenix, AZ, Soil-Plant-Atmosphere Research Unit.
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