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| Dr. Yadong Qi with her Morrison-Evans Outstanding Scientist Award. |
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| Standing from left (front row) are Brittany Benjamin, Asia Rubin, and Patrice Lazard. Standing from left on the second row are student mentors Drs. Zhu Ning, Renita Marshall, Patricia Meyinsse and Chancellor-Dean Bobby R. Phills. |
BATON ROUGE, La. – Yadong Qi, Ph.D., received the
distinguished Morrison-Evans
Outstanding Scientist Award for 2017 from the Association of 1890
Research Directors’ (ARD) at its biennial symposium in Atlanta, Georgia, April
1 – 4. Qi is Interim Department Chair
and Director of the Urban Forestry Graduate Program, a professor of Urban Forestry with the Southern University
College of Agricultural, Family and Consumer Sciences and a research scientist
in the SU Ag Center.
What makes this even
more impressive is that she is only the second Southern University scientist to
ever receive the award! The first Southern University recipient was
in 1989. Nominees were submitted for selection from the 1890 Institutions and
Qi emerged the sole winner of the prestigious award.
The ARD biennial symposium honors one outstanding scientist
from the 19 intuitions based on established criteria. The theme of this year’s
symposium was “1890 Research: Meeting the 21st Century Challenges Through
Innovation.”
“I feel extremely honored to receive this prestigious award,
it is like a dream coming true,” said Qi. “This honor belonging to not only me
but the entire Southern University System and The Land-Grant Campus.”
Qi went on to express her appreciation to Dr. Bobby R. Phills,
Chancellor-Dean of the Land-Grant Campus, for nominating her for the award and for
his visionary leadership to establish the nation’s first urban forestry BS
degree program at Southern University 25 years ago.
She also thanked all of her administrators, colleagues, postdoctoral
students, visiting scholars, undergraduate and graduate students; long-time collaborators
from the USDA Forest Service, the USDA UV-B Monitoring and Research Program at Colorado
State University, Louisiana State University, Rutgers University, the University
of Wyoming, the University of Maryland, College Park and international partners
and the many funding agencies that have supported her research throughout her
tenure at Southern University.
Undergraduate and graduate student oral and poster presentation
competitions were also held during the symposium. Land-Grant Campus students Brittany
Benjamin, Patrice Lazard and Asia Rubin placed in the oral competition. Benjamin,
an Urban Forestry graduate student from New Orleans, La., won third in the
graduate student category of Renewable
Energy, Natural Resources, and Environment; Lazard, an Agricultural Economics
undergraduate student from Lawtell, La. won first place in the undergraduate student
category of Family, Youth, Community and Economic Development; and Asia Rubin, an
Animal Science undergraduate student from Lafayette, La., won third place in
the undergraduate student category of Animal Health and Production and Animal
Products.
About the
Morrison-Evans Outstanding Scientist Award
The Morrison-Evans Outstanding Scientist Award is named in
honor of Dr. Richard D. Morrison, President Emeritus, of Alabama A&M
University and Congressman Frank E. Evans of Colorado. Dr. Morrison and Mr.
Evans provided leadership in seeking research and extension funds for the 1890
Institutions under the Second Morrill Act of 1890.
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