Awards & Recognitions

Recipient - Dr. Dharmendra Saraswat

2018

Seed for Success Award, Purdue University (for obtaining external sponsored award of $1 million or more in a calendar year).

Standards Award (for EP621: Guidelines for Calibrating, Validating, and Evaluating Hydrologic and Water Quality Models), American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE).

PRF International Travel Grant, Purdue Research Foundation.

2017

ASABE, Educational Aids Blue Ribbon Award, American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE). (SWAT Tools)

PRF International Travel Grant, Purdue Research Foundation.

2016

ASHS 2016 Outstanding App Award, The American Society for Horticultural Science (ASHS) Extension Division. (Hort Plants)

Blue Ribbon Extension Communication Award, Southern Region- American Society for Horticultural Sciences (SR-ASHS).

PRF International Travel Grant, Purdue Research Foundation.

2015

ANRC NPS Award, Arkansas Natural Resources Commission (ANRC) and Public Policy Center of University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture.

ASABE, Educational Aids Blue Ribbon Award, American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE). (FTTCloud)

2014

ISAE Fellow, Indian Society of Agricultural Engineers (ISAE), New Delhi.

The John W. White Outstanding Extension State Faculty Award, University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture.

2013

Excellence in Remote Sensing and Precision Agriculture Award (State), National Association of County Agricultural Agents (NACAA).

ASABE, Educational Aids Blue Ribbon Award, American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE). (Corn Advisor)

Extension Faculty Award of Excellence, Gamma Sigma Delta, Arkansas Chapter.

2012

ASABE Superior Paper Award, American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE).

Blue Ribbon Extension Communication Award, Southern Region-American Society of Horticultural Science (SR-ASHS).

2011

Early Career Award, University of Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service.

Innovation Award, University of Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service.

2004

CG Ray Travel Grant, The Ohio State University.

2002

Inducted, into the Alpha Epsilon Honor Society.

1990-91

IARI Senior Fellowship, Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI).

1988-90

IARI Junior Fellowship, Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI).

1988

Third rank in a class of 42 students.

Recipient - Graduate Students

Aaron Etienne

2018-19

Indiana Corn Marketing Council Graduate Fellowship

2017-18

Ross Fellowship, Graduate School, Purdue University

Tae-Sup Lee

2018-19

Ross Fellowship, Graduate School, Purdue University

Naresh Pai

2013

University Council on Water Resources (UCWOR) Ph.D. Dissertation “Honorable Mention” Award.

2012

ASPRS Presidential Citation Award for serving on the National Website committee (www.asprs.org).

2011

Love of Learning award, Phi Kappa Phi National Honor Society (4.4% success rate, 80 students, nation-wide, out of 1800 applicants were selected for this award), $500.

Second place award for Poster competition, Annual meeting of Arkansas section of ASABE, Little Rock, October 7.

2010

Francis E. “Gene” Lortz Memorial Scholarship Award by the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) Central Region.

Second place award for Poster competition, Annual meeting of Arkansas section of ASABE, Little Rock, October 1.

First place award for Poster competition in large scale data analysis and modeling category, respectively, Cyberinfrastructure Days Event at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, May 16-17.

2009

Outstanding Ph.D. student, Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, Univ. of Arkansas.

GeoEye Foundation Imagery Grant in-kind ($ 24,150)for project titled “Application of IKONOS-2 and Landsat satellite imagery to assess water quality of Beaver Lake, Arkansas”.

2007

First place award for Poster competition, Annual meeting of Arkansas section of ASABE, Little Rock, October 5.

Gurdeep Singh

2013

First place award for Poster competition, Annual meeting of Arkansas Chapter of ASABE, October 2.

Third place, Boyd-Scott Graduate Student Research Award M.S. Category, American Society for Agricultural and Biological Engineers.

2012

Second place award for poster competition, 5th Annual Graduate Research Poster Competition, University of Arkansas, February 10.

Ivanhoe Foundation Award, Graduate International Fellowship to recognize water related work, $5,000