McDonald, Kim, Ross Receive Bumpers College Gamma Sigma Delta Faculty Awards

Micayla Blair

Jae Kyeom Kim (left) in human nutrition and dietetics was named outstanding researcher; Garry McDonald (right) in horticulture outstanding teacher and Jeremy Ross in crop, soil and environmental sciences outstanding extension specialist by U of A's Gamma Sigma Delta.

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Faculty members Garry McDonald and Jae Kyeom Kim, and extension agronomist Jeremy Ross were recently recognized with awards by the University of Arkansas Chapter of Gamma Sigma Delta, the Agricultural Research Honor Society.

McDonald received the Outstanding Teaching Award, Kim the Outstanding Researcher Award and Ross the Outstanding Extension Award.

McDonald is clinical assistant professor in the Department of Horticulture with specialization in landscape and urban horticulture, and sustainable systems. He was also recently honored with the J. Creighton Miller Jr. Distinguished Educator Award at the Southern Region American Society for Horticulture Science annual meeting. 

Kim is assistant professor of human nutrition and dietetics in the School of Human Environmental Sciences, and also part of the college's childhood obesity initiative. His research areas include prevention of obesity and cancers via diets rich in fruits and vegetables, metabolism of carcinogens and its modulation through diets, toxicological aspects of foods and food toxicants, metabolomics and epigenomics approaches to nutritional sciences, and in vitro, in vivo and human intervention study models.

Ross is an extension agronomist with a specialization in soybeans with the Cooperative Extension Service, the U of A System Division of Agriculture and the Department of Crop, Soil and Environmental Sciences. Ross is part of the dicamba group that recently earned the John W. White Outstanding Team Award from the U of A System Division of Agriculture and Bumpers College at the Arkansas Agriculture Awards ceremony.

About the Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences: Bumpers College provides life-changing opportunities to position and prepare graduates who will be leaders in the businesses associated with foods, family, the environment, agriculture, sustainability and human quality of life; and who will be first-choice candidates of employers looking for leaders, innovators, policy makers and entrepreneurs. The college is named for Dale Bumpers, former Arkansas governor and longtime U.S. senator who made the state prominent in national and international agriculture. For more information about Bumpers College, visit our website, and follow us on Twitter at @BumpersCollege and Instagram at BumpersCollege.

About the University of Arkansas: The University of Arkansas provides an internationally competitive education for undergraduate and graduate students in more than 200 academic programs. The university contributes new knowledge, economic development, basic and applied research, and creative activity while also providing service to academic and professional disciplines. The Carnegie Foundation classifies the University of Arkansas among only 2.7 percent of universities in America that have the highest level of research activity. U.S. News & World Report ranks the University of Arkansas among its top American public research universities. Founded in 1871, the University of Arkansas comprises 10 colleges and schools and maintains a low student-to-faculty ratio that promotes personal attention and close mentoring.