Gamma Sigma Delta Announces Award Recipients
and Inductees for Fall 2003

The UT Chapter of Gamma Sigma Delta, the international honor society for agriculture, announced the 2003 award recipients on November 11 at their annual fall initiation and awards banquet.

Louis Buck, an agricultural engineering graduate, was the speaker and recipient of the Alumni and Professional Award of Merit Citation.

Clyde D. Lane, Jr., professor of Animal Science, received the Extension Award of Merit for his long and distinguished career with the UT Agricultural Extension Service.

The Team Award of Merit went to the Forage Mineral Survey Team. Members are Aaron Fisher, instructor, Warren Gill, professor, Clyde D. Lane, Jr., professor, James B. Neel, professor (all in the Department of Animal Science), and Deborah K. Joines, Extension assistant with the Soil Testing Lab.

Gamma Sigma Delta is a faculty-governed society that selects its members from junior and senior students, graduate students, faculty, and alumni for the promotion and recognition of high achievement. While Gamma Sigma Delta is an honor society of agriculture, it may elect members from related fields such as biology, botany, chemistry, economics, entomology, forestry, home economics, plant pathology, sociology, statistics, veterinary medicine, or zoology when the work of the individuals is related to agriculture. Officers, committee chairpersons, and other leading the chapter are faculty or alumni.

Faculty and staff inducted into Gamma Sigma Delta were as follows:

Charles M. Denney, Ag Marketing and Communications
Douglas E. Edlund, Ag Marketing and Communications
Emily C. Gray, CASNR
Kelli R. Moore, Cumberland County Extension Service
Emily L. Tipton, Animal Science

Undergraduate students inducted into Gamma Sigma Delta were as follows:

Tiffany Anderson Catherine Dailey Jennifer Janowitz Alee Lynch Emily Martin

Sheena McNeil Kirk Morris Brian Ross Aaron Wheeler Elizabeth Willis

Graduate students inducted into Gamma Sigma Delta were as follows:

Omaima Ahmed Jennifer Allen Shari Baxter Howard Black Kellie Burris Nathan Caldwell Alejandro Dellachiesa Sharon Greene Mary Ruth Griffin Patrick Hamilton Amy Kovach Qinghe Li Michael Mancusi

Lori Jean Mantooth Amy Mathis Rissa Mitchell Lilia Milagros Santiago Harwood Schaffer Gustavo Schuenemann Katie Simmons Susanna Sutherland Hiroyuki Takeshima Jeffrey Webb Chunxia Wu Manlu Yu Yu Zhang

College of Veterinary Medicine students inducted into Gamma Sigma Delta were as follows: