Awards and Honors
We are a group of dedicated scientists, economists and teachers who go above and beyond expectations everyday. And we take time every year to recognize and honor our team for their effort and commitment to creating solutions that will benefit agriculture and our future.
Career Award
Dawn Thilmany
Named AAEA Fellow – Dr. Dawn Thilmany announced as a 2023 Fellow of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association. This recognition acknowledges the highest quality work for professional advancement in, and dissemination of, knowledge about agricultural, development, environmental, food and consumer, natural resource, regional, rural, and associated areas of applied economics and business. Dawn has provided significant, positive impacts in all of these areas across the pillars of the land-grant mission. She is so deserving of the AAEA’s most prestigious honor.
Research Award
Jude Bayham
CSU Office of the Vice President for Research 2022 Interdisciplinary Scholarship Individual Award. This honor recognizes Dr. Bayham’s interdisciplinary scholarship that demonstrates the relevance, impact, and breadth of work related to wildfire management and economic epidemiology of COVID-19. Dr. Bayham’s fire relate work has been used to set U.S. Forest Service fire response policy and his COVID work helped the Colorado Governor’s office and the CSU President’s office implement safety practices during the pandemic.
Engagement Award
Kellie Enns
The College of Agricultural Sciences recognized Kellie Enns with the 2022 Distinguished Community Engagement Scholarship award based on her long-term record and sustained impact in elevating the role of agricultural education in Colorado. As part of her engagement portfolio, Dr. Enns partnered with the Colorado FFA, the Community College of Colorado System, CSU Extension, and others to build the CoBank Center for Agricultural Education at CSU, to develop 4-H programming, and Cam’s academy that provides agricultural education to K-12 students at Spur, state fairs, rural classrooms, and beyond.
Student Awards
2023 Farm Foundation Awards Recipients
Sam Ayoub
Sam will participate in the year-long Scholars Program where she will engage with students across the country on agricultural issues.
Tais de Menezes
Tais was selected as part of the Cultivators program where she will participate in a Round Table meeting. Both will travel to Savannah Georgia for the Farm Foundation Round Table Meetings.
DARE Hall of Fame
In recognition of those individuals with a strong connection to DARE who have made outstanding contributions in their fields. It is the highest honor given by the department and represents the convergence of accomplishment in the lives of our honorees who have:
- Attained prominence through their efforts in agricultural and food economics, natural resources, agricultural education and Extension, agribusiness, ag, food or natural resource policy or other related areas of science, business, education or government and public service.
- A record of impressive accomplishments which indicate significant achievements and contributions at the state, national and/or international level.
- Continued interactions with DARE and the College of Agriculture in student development, community and industry engagement and scholarly programs
Hall of Fame –Lifetime Achievement 2024
Tony Miller
Kent & Colleen Peppler
Leann Saunders
Hall of Fame-Early Career 2024
Clay Miller
Jacob Walter
Hall of Fame-Impacts through Partnership 2024
2022 Award Recipients Class of 2022
Lifetime Achievement Award
Tomas Miller | Jennie Hughes Popp | Frank Ward | Susanne Scheierling
Early Career Award
Betty Kibaara
Impacts through Partnership Award
Patricia Champ | Jordan Levi
2023 Award Recipients Class of 2023
Early Career Award
Brittany Ogg
Impacts through Partnership Award
Tom Brown | Jim Ehrlich | Julie Moore
Awards and Honors
DARE Faculty, Affiliates, and Students
Research
2022 – Jude Bayham – CSU VPR Interdisciplinary Scholarship Individual Award
2022 – Jesse Burkhardt – CSU SoGES Global Challenges Research Team Project
Teaching
2022 – Alessandro Bonanno – CAS Faculty Teaching Award for those with less than 10 Years Teaching Experience at CSU
2020 – Amanda Countryman – AAEA Distinguished Teaching Awards – Less than ten years’ teaching experience
2019 Amanda Countryman – Western Ag Economics Association, Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award, less than 10 years
Extension and Engagement
2022 – Kellie Enns – CAS Distinguished Community Engagement Scholarship Award
2020 – Becca Jablonski – AAEA Distinguished Extension/Outreach Awards – Less than ten years’ experience
2020 – Becca Jablonski, Dawn Thilmany, Gregory Graff – CSU Empowering Community Engagement Scholarship Award
2019 – Dawn Thilmany and Allie Bauman – AAEA George Goldman Award for Excellence in Regional Economic Development
Career
2023 – Dawn Thilmany – AAEA Fellow
2022 – Hayley Chouinard – WAEA Fellow
2021 – Dawn Thilmany – CAS Nutrien Distinguished Scholar of Agricultural Sciences
2018 – Dawn Thilmany -WAEA Fellow
2014 – John Loomis – AAEA Fellow
2009 – Dana Hoag – WAEA Fellow
2004 – John Loomis – WAEA Fellow
Graduate Students
2022 – Hailey Edmondson – Food Distribution Research Society Richardson-Applebaum Outstanding Graduate Award for Best M.S. Thesis
2022 – Siddharth Kishore – CSU International Programs Global Impact Award
2021 – Justine Schoenbacher – CAS Charles N. Shepardson Graduate Student Teaching Award
2021 – Gal Koss – John Loomis Outstanding Thesis Award
2021 – Salvador Lurbe – John Loomis Outstanding Dissertation Award
2020 – Jenny Bennett – College of Agricultural Sciences MS Teaching Award
2020 – Partyoosh Kashyap – CSU Graduate Student Council Visual Arts Top Scholar
2019 – Chad Christenson – The Charles M. Tiebout Prize in Regional Science, Graduate MS paper
2019 – Pratyoosh Kashyap – CSU VPR Distinction in Creativity
Undergraduate Students
2019 Haley Dallas – CAS Charles N. Shepardson Student Leadership Award