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Apr. 11, 2005 Volume 29, Issue 31 |
Barnes, Chambers win coveted Powe award
Two internationally recognized Mississippi State scholars—one in forest products and the other in environmental health sciences—are co-winners of the university’s 2005 Ralph E. Powe Research Excellence Award.
Forestry products professor H. Michael Barnes and environmental health sciences professor Janice E. Chambers share this year’s honor, which recognizes faculty researchers making significant contributions to the economic welfare or cultural growth of the university, state and nation.
“We had such outstanding nominations for the award this year, it was almost impossible to pick one as the best,” MSU President Charles Lee said in announcing the selections at the annual research awards banquet. “Two stood out from the rest, so this year we have two Powe award winners.”
Given each spring semester, the Powe award is a memorial to Mississippi State’s research vice president who died in 1996.
Current research vice president Colin Scanes and Dr. Vance Watson, vice president for agriculture, forestry and veterinary medicine, presided over the presentation of more than 30 other awards to faculty, staff and students during the Hunter Henry Center event.
A member of the MSU faculty since 1971, Barnes is a professor in the Forest Products Laboratory, Forest and Wildlife Research Center, and College of Forest Resources’ forestry department. He holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Louisiana State University, and a doctorate from the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry.
An MSU faculty member since 1980, Chambers is the William L. Giles Distinguished Professor and director of the Center for Environmental Health Sciences in the College of Veterinary Medicine’s basic sciences department. The Oakland, Calif., native holds a bachelor’s degree in biology from the University of San Francisco and a doctorate in animal physiology from Mississippi State.
A recipient of numerous local, regional and national awards, Chambers later this year will be the first woman ever awarded the American Chemical Society International Award for Research in Agrochemicals, Ainsworth said.
Other 2005 faculty and staff and research awards included:
Bagley College of Engineering
Associate professor Iona Baniscescu, computer science and engineering, and staff assistant Brenda H. Collins.
Centers and Institutes
Professor Robert J. Moorhead II, electrical and computer engineering and georesources, and extension associate Mary Love Tagert.
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and Mississippi Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station
Associate professor Peter L. Ryan, animal and dairy sciences, and facilities manager Anna Chromiak.
College of Architecture, Art and Design
Associate professor David C. Lewis and visiting assistant professor Leah Faulk.
College of Arts and Sciences
Assistant professor Kevin P. Knudson, mathematics and statistics.
College of Business and Industry
Professor James J. Chrisman, management and information systems.
College of Education
Assistant professor Richard A. Doggett, counseling, educational psychology and special education; and business manager Mary A. Kelly.
College of Forest Resources
Professor R. Daniel Seale, forest products, and research associate Michael G. Sanders.
College of Veterinary Medicine
Associate professor Lora R. Ballweber and laboratory manager Edward Meek.
Life Sciences Entrepreneurship Award
Assistant professor David R. Ermer, physics and astronomy.
Office of Research
Associate professor Gregory T. Pharr, College of Veterinary Medicine’s Basic Sciences Department; and compliance director Tracy S. Arwood.