Awards and Promotions - 2005

Gamma Sigma Delta
Institute of Agriculture Team Award

(Pictured at Left: Buddy Mitchell, Steve Oliver, Neal Schrick, Lannett Edwards, Sarel Van Amstel, Dr. Klindt, Fred Hopkins)

Award Description

This award will be given annually to each member of a team of two or more faculty who have made an outstanding contribution to research, teaching and/or Extension, either directly or indirectly, related to agriculture and related disciplines. Gamma Sigma Delta members are responsible for the promotion, evaluation and selection of the award. A monetary supplement is provided by the Institute of Agriculture and is divided equally among the members. Membership in Gamma Sigma Delta is not required for nomination. This year’s winning team is the UT Cloning Team.

Citation

This award was presented to a group that comprises UT’s Cloning Team. Its members are Lannett Edwards, Fred Hopkins, Steve Oliver, Neal Schrick, and Sarel Van Amstel.

This well-organized and dedicated team has brought tremendous recognition to the Ag Institute on a local, national and international scale. For these team members, their remarkable achievements in this cutting-edge research benefits dairy producers worldwide. In particular, this group’s work with clones expands scientific knowledge about the disease mastitis – and genetic factors that cause this problem – which is a two billion dollar a year loss to agriculture nationally.

This group works with cloned animals not just for the sake of cloning, but as a means to address real-world problems facing agriculture, and to improve the lives of consumers. Teamwork is often an over-stated term, but in this case – each member of this group makes a valuable contribution to UT’s amazing cloning effort.