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| Dawn Mellion-Patin, Vice Chancellor for Extension and Outreach at the Southern University Ag Center, has been named the recipient of the 2018 George Washington Carver Distinguished Service Award by Iowa State University's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. |
Baton Rouge, La. – Southern University Agricultural
Research and Extension Center’s Vice Chancellor for Extension and Outreach, Dawn
Mellion-Patin, Ph.D., has been named the recipient of the 2018 George
Washington Carver Distinguished Service Award by Iowa State University’s College
of Agriculture and Life Sciences.
Patin has dedicated her career to
educating and improving the lives of small farmers. In 2005, she developed the Southern
University Ag Center’s Small Farmer Agricultural Leadership Training Institute,
an intensive leadership development program that guides small, minority,
socially-disadvantaged and limited-resource farmers through the process of
becoming competitive agricultural entrepreneurs.
Her work in the field of agriculture has
also provided her with the opportunity to serve as a panel manager for United
States Department of Agriculture (USDA); chair of the Southern Region-
Agricultural and Natural Resources Program Leaders Committee; grant committee
member for the USDA’s National Institute
of Food and Agriculture (NIFA); 1890 representative on the National Extension
Disaster Education Network Executive Committee and historian for the National
Society of Minorities in Agricultural, Natural Resources and Related Sciences (MANRRS)
organization.
She has received the SU Ag Center’s Outstanding
Specialist Award, Tuskegee University’s Distinguished Service Award, the
Association of Extension Administrators Excellence in Extension Award and USDA
NIFA Cooperative Extension System Outstanding Leadership Award.
Patin earned a bachelor’s degree in Plant
and Soil Sciences and a master’s degree in Educational Agriculture, both from
Southern University, and a doctoral degree in Agricultural and Life Sciences Education
from Iowa State University.
The George Washington Carver Distinguished
Service Award was established in 2005. The award honors distinguished College
of Agriculture and Life Sciences alumni who have demonstrated outstanding
achievement or leadership by making significant, influential, or innovative
contributions to society.
Patin received the award during the
annual Honors and Awards Ceremony on October 26.
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