The dean of Kansas State University's College of Agriculture and two faculty members from K-State's department of agronomy are recipients of national honors from the American Society of Agronomy.
The awards were presented at the society's annual meetings in Pittsburgh, Pa., Nov. 2-5.
The K-State honorees include:
Rice recently received the Irvin Youngberg Award for Applied Sciences from the University of Kansas, and was named one of five team leaders for a $20 million Kansas NSF EPSCoR project researching global climate change and renewable energy research. Rice came to K-State in 1988, was promoted to full professor in 1998 and earned the university's highest academic rank of university distinguished professor in 2009. He is the 2010 president-elect of the Soil Science Society of America, served as associate editor of the Soil Science Society of America Journal and is Fellow of American Society of Agronomy, Soil Science Society of America and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.