Awards and Honors

Department of German and Russian professor Wolfgang Meider received an honorary degree from the University of Athens on Dec. 16, 2014, in Athens, Greece. In a ceremony that lasted more than two hours, the university's president, dean and two professors spoke. Meider then delivered an address on proverbs in the modern age.

Publications and presentations

Extension faculty Lisa Chase and Vern Grubinger published Food, Farms, and Community: Exploring Food Systems (University of New Hampshire Press, 2014). From the publisher: "Food, Farms, and Community: Exploring Food Systems takes an in-depth look at critical issues, successful programs, and challenges for improving food systems spanning a few miles to a few thousand miles. Case studies that delve into the values that drive farmers, food advocates, and food entrepreneurs are interwoven with analysis supported by the latest research. Examples of entrepreneurial farms and organizations working together to build sustainable food systems are relevant to the entire country — and reveal results that are about much more than fresh food.”

Four Extension faculty contributed three chapters to the just published textbook, Bioenergy: Biomass to Biofuels (Academic Press/Elsevier, 2014), edited by instructor Anju Dahiya. Sid Bosworth contributed “Perennial Grass Biomass Production an Utilization,” Heather Darby and Chris Callahan, “On-farm Oil-based Biodiesel Production,” and Bob Parsons, “Economics of Ethanol and Biodiesel.” Learn more about the book.