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David Byrne Receives National 2013 Carroll R. Miller Award for Peach Research
COLLEGE STATION — Dr. David Byrne, Texas A&M AgriLife Research scientist in College Station, has received the Carroll R. Miller Award from the National Peach Council. The award was established in memory of Miller of Martinsburg, W.V., a founding member and first president of the peach council, according to the group’s website. The award is given “to encourage and recognize noteworthy research relating to improved marketing and utilization of peaches and/or peach products.” Byrne, who researches stone fruit and roses, was cited for his recent introduction of…
Aggie From Brazil Named Outstanding International Alumnus
Dr. José Geraldo Eugênio de França was a post-doc researcher at the VFIC in 1997. We are proud of his accomplishments and congratulate him for receiving this prestigious award! Dr. José Geraldo Eugênio de França, Class of 1990, has been named the recipient of Texas A&M University’s 2013 Outstanding International Alumnus Award. Director of Research and Graduate Studies at the Technological Institute of Pernambuco, in Recife, Brazil, Eugênio, was presented the award Tuesday (April 9) by Texas A&M President R. Bowen Loftin and The Association of Former Students’ President and CEO Porter…