Alumni and Friends

We hope to see you at the American Phytopathological Society Centennial Meeting

July 26-30, Minneapolis, MInnesota

View the APS Registration List "Who's Coming"

Follow The Bus Trip from Ohio State to Minnesota

College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences

Department of Plant Pathology Alumni Awards

2008 CFAES Distinguished Alumni Award

Pictured: Dr. James Starr (right), Professor of Plant Pathology at Texas A&M University, with former Department Chair Dr. Ira Deep (center) and his wife, Marie, at the CFAES Alumni Society Awards luncheon on March 1 in Columbus.  Dr. Starr is a renowned plant nematologist whose work has transformed disease management for peanut and cotton crops in Texas and worldwide.  A native of the Dayton area in Ohio, he earned his BS (1971) and MS (1972) in plant pathology from Ohio State, and PhD from Cornell University.  Dr. Starr is a Fellow of the Society of Nematology and the American Phytopathological Society, and has received several industry awards for his work on peanut diseases.  For his many accomplishments in research and teaching, and his professional service and leadership, we congratulate Dr. Starr as recipient of a CFAES Distinguished Alumni Award.

2007 CFAES International Alumni Award

Dr. Fikrettin Sahin is Chair of the Department of Genetics and Bioengineering and Director of the Institute of Biotechnology at Yeditepe University in Turkey, where he is an authority on vegetable diseases.  He received the 2007 CFAES International Alumni Award and was lauded for his key role in developing ties between CFAES and Turkish institutions.

Past Distinguished Alumni Awards, Plant Pathology

1994
Christine Taylor Stevens

1993
Carroll Vance

1989
Konrad T. Kmetz

1980
Donald D. Kaufman

1973
J. Harold Florea
Asa C. Sims, Jr.

1972
David W. Rosberg

1971
Harold Porter