Press Release from December 23, 2003 From the Auksuciai Foundation.
FRIEND OF LITHUANIA HONORED BY THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIAAt the University of California, Davis campus, on Nov. 14, 2003 the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences presented its annual prestigious Award of Distinction to Prof. Dr. Calvin O. Qualset, the world-renowned scientist and founder of the University's Genetic Resources Conservation Program.Former two-time Fulbright Fellow, the President of the American Society of Agronomy and the Crop Science Society of America, during his extended teaching career at the UCD, trained 26 Ph.D. and 24 M.S. students, hosted 37 postdoctoral and visiting scientists from 33 countries. His primary research emphasized genetics and breeding of cereal crops, most notably wheat, triticale and oat. His team released nearly 20 new crop varieties to California and world agriculture. This work contributed to doubling per acre yields - representing added farmgate value of about $100-million to California's agricultural economy each year. He has published with students and colleagues, more than 350 articles and reports. Dr. Qualset travels continuously, serving on boards and committees for agricultural development organizations and lecturing world-wide. He is one of the founders of the not-for-profit Auksuciai Foundation (USA) and the Auksuciai Farm and Forestry Center (Lithuania), which are assisting in the development of a new agricultural research and demonstration farm in Lithuania. He serves as the Vice President & Director of International Programs for the Foundation. Dr. Qualset has visited Lithuania, its teaching and research institutions, and the Auksuciai Project several times. Dr. Qualset and other members of the Auksuciai Foundation team are organizing an international workshop at the farm site in Lithuania to develop new strategies about how to develop new enterprises for the farmers for improving their economic status. Engaging farmers and Lithuanian scientists in agricultural development is a key philosophy of the Auksuciai Foundation. In early November of this year Dr. Qualset was a speaker at the annual American Society of Agronomy Conference in Denver, Colorado; his subject - "A New Paradigm in Agriculture Development- the Auksuciai Farm Project in Lithuania". He made contact with Cecelia Lankutis of the Colorado Lithuanian-American organization. The Auksuciai Foundation is indeed fortunate having Professor Qualset voluntarily helping the small-scale farmers of Lithuania. We congratulate him on receiving this prestigious academic recognition award.
Released 12/23/2003 by:
The Auksuciai Foundation (USA),
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