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- 5. McLaughlin Receives Award for Arid Land Crops Research
- Steven P. McLaughlin, curator of the UA Herbarium and professor of Arid Lands Resource Sciences in the Office of Arid Lands Studies recently received the Anson Ellis Thompson Career Service Award 2004 by the Association for the Advancement of Industrial Crops (AAIC). The award was presented at the AAIC/New Uses Council meeting on “Industrial Crops & Uses to Diversify Agriculture” in Minneapolis in mid-September.
“Steve was recognized for his significant contributions to research in arid land new crops,” said Bill Schloman, AAIC president. The AAIC recognizes the special contributions of researchers, students, and others involved in the development of industrial crops.
“This award is a great personal honor primarily because of my tremendous respect for the late Anson (Tommy) Thompson. Besides being a superior researcher and agricultural visionary, Tommy was clearly the best mentor in this field I ever had the privilege to know,” McLaughlin says. “He helped and encouraged me a great deal early in my career. He was instrumental in the training and mentoring of many of the most productive researchers in the field of new crops.”
McLaughlin is researching hesperaloe as a potential new fiber crop for arid regions (funded by USDA/CREES; establishing a basis for carbon management policy at the state level and carbon dynamics at site, landscape, and regional scales (funding by Arizona State Lands); completing and coordinating databases of Arizona vascular plants at ASU, ARIZ, and ASC (funded by the National Science Foundation); and working toward the discovery and development of anticancer agents from plants (funding by the Josephine Ford Cancer Center).
The AAIC is an international, nonprofit educational and scientific organization established to encourage and promote the activities of those involved in the production, processing, development, and commercialization of industrial crops and products derived from industrial crops.
Contact: Steve McLaughlin, 520-621-8577, spmcl@ag.arizona.edu
http://ag.arizona.edu/~spmcl/mclaughlin.html
- Updated: October 15, 2004
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