Researcher

Michael P. Doyle, Ph.D. Regents Professor and Director Center for Food Safety The University of Georgia Griffin, Georgia The Christopher Columbus Fellowship Foundation and the American Farm Bureau Federation are honored to have awarded the achievements of the 2013 $10,000 Distinguished Agriscience Scientist’s Award Columbus Scholar. Dr. Michael P. Doyle is a Regents Professor and Director, […]

Andrew Sharpley, Ph.D. Professor, Crop, Soil and Environmental Sciences Division of Agriculture The University of Arkansas Fayetteville, Arkansas The Christopher Columbus Fellowship Foundation and the American Farm Bureau Federation are honored to have awarded the achievements of the 2012 $10,000 Distinguished Agriscience Scientist’s Award Columbus Scholar. Andrew Sharpley is a Professor in the Department of Crop, […]

Daniel G. Colley, Ph.D. Professor of Microbiology and Director of the Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases University of Georgia Athens, Georgia Dr. Colley is a renowned scientist most notably in the area of tropical medicine and parasitology, with a main focus on the immunology of schistosomiasis, a debilitating, chronic worm disease that affects […]

Andrew H. Paterson, Ph.D. Distinguished Research Professor University of Georgia Athens, Georgia The Christopher Columbus Fellowship Foundation and the American Farm Bureau Federation are honored to have awarded the achievements of the 2011 $25,000 Distinguished Agriscience Scientist’s Award Columbus Scholar. Andrew H. Paterson, Ph.D. is a Distinguished Research Professor at the University of Georgia, jointly appointed […]

Randall Prather, Ph.D. Distinguished Professor of Reproductive Biotechnology Division of Animal Science The University of Missouri Columbia, Missouri The Christopher Columbus Fellowship Foundation and the American Farm Bureau Federation are honored to have awarded the achievements of the 2011 $25,000 Distinguished Agriscience Scientist’s Award Columbus Scholar. Since 1982, Dr. Prather’s research has focused on the early […]

Melissa Knothe Tate Professor of Biomedical Engineering Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, Ohio Dr. Melissa Knothe Tate is an internationally recognized leader in the fields of orthopaedic mechanobiology as well as the development and clinical translation of novel technologies and materials. Dr. Knothe Tate joined the nascent field of orthopaedic mechanobiology two decades ago, as […]

Michael Sossong, Ph.D. Director of Nuclear Technology Research Decision Sciences International Corporation Dr. Sossong has revolutionized the state of the art for passive nuclear threat detection using cosmic ray muon tomography (MT). He joined Decision Sciences International Corporation as Director of Nuclear Technology Research in April 2008, leading the development of the company’s Multi-Mode Passive […]

Milind Tambe, Ph.D. Professor of Computer Science and Industrial and Systems Engineering University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering Los Angeles, California Dr. Tambe’s research is focused on Artificial Intelligence, with an emphasis on agent-based and multi-agent systems. His research has resulted in significant advances in game theoretic algorithms that are essential to critical […]

Charles A. Gentile Head, Tritium Systems Group Princeton University – Plasma Physics Laboratory Princeton, New Jersey Mr. Gentile’s career spans over 30 continuous years in the field of nuclear research, fission power production, magnetic fusion energy (MFE) research, and inertial fusion energy (FE) research. He has worked in the commercial nuclear power sector in both […]

Bryon E. Petersen, Ph.D. Associate Professor University of Florida Gainesville, Florida Dr. Bryon Petersen has been recognized worldwide as a foremost authority in hepatic stem cells and their role in Liver Pathobiology. He is currently conducting research in stem cell biology and how it relates to the patho-physiology of the liver. Dr. Petersen’s seminal paper […]