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Darshan Brar, senior scientist, PBGB

Received the 2007 Koshihikari International Rice Prize, Fukui Prefecture, Japan, October.

• Received the CGIAR 2007 Outstanding Scientist Award, Annual General Meeting, December.

Roland Buresh, senior scientist, CESD

• Received the 2007 International Soil Science Award from the Soil Science Society of America for his leadership in formulating and disseminating improved practices of site-specific nutrient management through partnerships with national research and extension organizations and the private sector in Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, Myanmar, the Philippines, and Vietnam, November.

Ronald Cantrell and M.S. Swaminathan, former directors general

• Received the Royal Government of Cambodia’s Sahametrei Medal for the revival of rice research and development in the country, January.

Gelia Castillo, consultant

• Named Most Distinguished University of the Philippines Alumna, June.

Eugene C. Castro, Jr., associate scientist, Training Center

• Named 2007 Most Outstanding Agricultural Engineer by the Philippine Society of Agricultural Engineers, April.

Achim Dobermann, program leader, CESD

• Received the Werner L. Nelson Award for Diagnosis of Yield-limiting Factors from the American Society of Agronomy, November.

Ralph Anthony Fischer, BOT member

• Named member of the Order of Australia, June.
• Received the 2007 Farrer Memorial Medal, CSIRO Discovery Centre, Canberra, Australia, August.

Gisella Cruz García, PhD student, Wageningen University

• Received the L’Oréal-UNESCO Women in Science award for 2007; her field of work on the biodiversity of paddy rice ecosystems will be carried out in cooperation with IRRI, February.

K.L. Heong, senior scientist, CESD

• Received the TWAS Prize for Agriculture from the Academy of Science for the Developing World for his pioneering work in ecology and integrating biological and social sciences to promote integrated pest management, Trieste, Italy, November.

• Received the CGIAR COM+ award for communicating science for people and the planet, 2007 CGIAR Annual General Meeting, December.

Gene Hettel, head, CPS

• Received the 2007 International Award of Excellence from the US-based Association for Communication Excellence in Agriculture, Natural Resources and Life and Human Sciences, June.

Mahabub Hossain, head, SSD

• Received a plaque of recognition from the Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) for his contribution to capacity enhancement in social science research, March.

IRRI

• Awarded a Plaque of Appreciation by the Central Luzon State University as an international organization that contributed significantly to its growth and development, Science City of Muñoz, Nueva Ecija, Philippines, April.

• Received the 6th Iue Asia Pacific Culture Prize during the Asia-Pacific Forum of the Awaji Conference, Kobe, Japan, October.

Gary Jahn, Greater Mekong Subregion coordinator

• Received the International Plant Protection Award of Distinction from the International Association for the Plant Protection Sciences for his major contributions to the promotion of global plant protection, Scotland, October

Ariel Javellana, officer-photography, CPS

• Won three awards in the 2007 Friends of the Earth International (FOEI) Photo Competition, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, August.

Ariel Javellana and Raymond Panaligan, officers-photography, CPS

• Won two silver awards for their photographic skills in the 2007 Critique and Awards competition of the US-based Association for Communication Excellence in Agriculture, Natural Resources and Life and Human Sciences, June.

Gurdev Khush, former plant breeder

• Received the Doctor of Science degree (honoris causa) from the Faculty of Life Sciences, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, India, March.

Gurdev Khush and Susan McCouch, former IRRI researchers

• Received the Golden Sickle Award for significant accomplishments and contributions in rice research, BioAsia 2007, Bangkok, November.

David Mackill, head, PBGB

• Elected Fellow of the American Society of Agronomy for 2007, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, November.

David Mackill, K. Xu, X. Xia, T. Fukao, P. Canlas, R. Maghirang-Rodriguez, S. Heuer, A. Ismail, J. Bailey-Serres, and P.C. Ronald

• Received the 2007 CGIAR Outstanding Scientific Award for the winning paper, published in Nature, Sub1A is an ethylene response factor-like gene that confers submergence tolerance to rice, December.

Ronald L. Phillips, former BOT member

• Shared the 2006-07 Wolf Prize for Agriculture with Michel A.J. Georges for “groundbreaking discoveries in genetics and genomics, laying the foundations for improvements in crop and livestock breeding, and sparking important advances in plant and animal sciences,” January.

Grant Singleton, Abdelbagi Ismail, Darshan Brar, Robert Zeigler, Il-Ryong Choi, and T.P. Tuong

• Awarded medals of recognition from the Cuu Long Delta Rice Research Institute in recognition of their contributions to rice research in Vietnam, September.

M.S. Swaminathan, former director general

• Nominated to the Upper House (Rajva Sabha) of the Indian parliament, April.

Ren Wang, deputy director general for research

• Awarded by the Ministry of Agricultural and Rural Development of Vietnam for overseeing and championing the development of relevant plans and strategies that moved the Vietnam-IRRI relationship into a new era of rice research and technology delivery, among others, May.

• Named honorary professor by the Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China, June.

• Received a Plaque of Appreciation from PhilRice for helping strengthen the IRRI-PhilRice partnership toward a responsive and dynamic rice R&D agenda, July.

Robert Zeigler, director general

• Received a Doctor of Science degree (honoris causa) from Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel University of Agriculture and Technology, Modipuram, Uttar Pradesh, India, for outstanding contribution to rice research and help in improving the livelihood of millions of rice farmers across the globe, February.

• Named Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science for distinguished contributions in plant pathology, plant breeding, and microbial biology covering a range of food crops and microorganisms, and for leadership in international agriculture, October.