Texas Tech University recognized 38 outstanding faculty and staff members with the College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources today (Mar. 27) with recognition of their length of service to the university community. The awards ceremony was held at Tech's International Cultural Center Hall of Nations.

The recipients, who were presented service award pins, are:

Office of the Dean

• Lybby Brown, 20 years
• Zachary Pena, 5 years

Department of Agricultural & Applied Economics

• Emmett Elam, 25 years
• Eduardo Segarra, 25 years
• Tom Knight, 10 years
• Bing Liu, 5 years
• Chenggang Wang, 5 years

Department of Agricultural Education & Communications

• Meredith Couts, 5 years
• Rudy Ritz, 5 years

Department of Animal & Food Sciences

• Mindy Brashears, 15 years
• Kim Cannon, 15 years
• Chris Guay, 15 years
• Tiffanie Brooks, 10 years
• Alejandro Echeverry, 10 years
• Michael Ballou, 5 years
• Holly Bills, 5 years
• Collin Corbin, 5 years
• Sara Gragg, 5 years
• Tangi Irwin , 5 years
• Rebecca McCarthy, 5 years

Department of Landscape Architecture

• Charles Klein, 10 years

Department of Natural Resources Management

• Gad Perry, 10 years
• Anthon Giordano, 5 years
• Johnathan Malone, 5 years
• Jon McRoberts, 5 years
• Krista Mougey, 5 years
• Grant Sorensen, 5 years

Department of Plant & Soil Science

• Landry Lockett, 15 years
• Christy Barbee, 10 years
• Robert Wright, 10 years
• Nicholas Sanford, 5 years
• Brent Trela, 5 years
• Kirk Williams, 5 years
• Xing Qi, 5 years

Fiber & Biopolymer Research Institute

• Eric Hequet, 15 years
• Kathy Martin, 10 years

Texas Cooperative Fish & Wildlife Research Unit

• Rita Jones, 30 years

Ag and Farm Operations

• Michael Smith, 15 years

Written by Norman Martin

CONTACT: Michael Galyean, Dean, College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, Texas Tech University at (806) 742-2808 or michael.galyean@ttu.edu

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