K-State agronomy students win national honors

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Thursday, December 7, 2006

K-STATE AGRONOMY STUDENTS WIN NATIONAL HONORS

MANHATTAN -- Two Kansas State University students received honors at the 2006 annual meetings of the American Society of Agronomy, Nov. 10-15, in Indianapolis, Ind.

Lauren Smith, senior in agronomy, Lenexa, received the prestigious J. Fielding Reed Scholarship. The scholarship honors an outstanding senior who is pursuing a career in soil or plant sciences. The scholarship is supported by the Agronomic Science Foundation and is administered by the American Society of Agronomy.

Smith also took third place nationally in the society's Oral Research Symposium.

Also earning honors was Miranda Brown, senior in agronomy, Republic, who placed sixth nationally in the society's Speech Contest.

Several K-State students were selected to serve as national officers or committee chairs at the meetings. Along with Smith and Brown, students who attended the meeting include:

Joyce Meyer, senior in agronomy, Bern; Matt Becker, junior in agronomy, Centralia; Cammie Feldt, senior in agronomy, Dodge City; Paul Hartley, junior in agronomy, Emporia, who will serve as 2007 Soil Judging Committee chair; Matt Wyckoff, freshman in agronomy, Gardner; Jeremy Kootz, sophomore in animal sciences and industry, Geneseo; Nathan Rose, senior in agronomy, Great Bend; Rick Ehrlich, freshman in agronomy, Hays; Lindsey Voet, senior in agronomy, Home; Bryan Ross, senior in agronomy, Leavenworth; Holly Weber, junior in agronomy, Milan, who will serve as 2007 national corresponding secretary; Andrew McGowan, sophomore in agronomy, Prairie Village; Leah Ferdinand, junior in agronomy, Reading; Nick Ward, senior in agronomy, Wamego; and Michael Macek, sophomore in animal sciences and industry, Wilson.

From out-of-state: Derek Thoms, junior in agronomy, Clyde, N.Y., who wills serve as 2007 Research Symposium co-chair.

K-State agronomy faculty advising the club at the meetings included Kevin Donnelly, assistant dean of the College of Agriculture, and Dana Minihan, assistant academic coordinator for the department of agronomy.