Six CALS faculty members will be honored at the Gamma Sigma Delta banquet Monday, April 24 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison”s Memorial Union. Banquet tickets are $20. For more information, please call CALS Outreach Services, (608) 263-1672.

Chris Boerboom — Pound Extension Award
As Wisconsin’s farmers try to get the greatest profit from each acre of land, they rely on specialists like Chris Boerboom, UW-Madison agronomist and Extension weed scientist, to give them a competitive edge – over weeds.

Tommy Crenshaw — WALSAA Excellence in Advising Award
Providing a personal touch on a sometimes-impersonal campus is all in a day’s work for Tommy Crenshaw, winner of the WALSAA Excellence in Advising Award for 2000.

Chuck Kaspar — Pound Research Award
Whether he’s collecting samples in a dairy barn or conducting sophisticated experiments in his lab, food microbiologist Charles Kaspar’s goal is to learn enough about E. coli O157:H7 to bring today’s most notorious food-safety threat under control.

Jack Kloppenburg — Spitzer Excellence in Teaching Award
An inspiring teacher and advocate for students’ interests, Jack Kloppenburg has been selected to receive the 2000 Spitzer Excellence in Teaching Award from the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences.

Douglas Maxwell — Spitze Land Grant Award for Excellence
Douglas Maxwell has welcomed one new challenge after another during his 32-year career as an award-winning teacher, an innovative plant pathologist and an effective administrator.

Glen Stanosz — Jung Excellence in Teaching Award
In course evaluations, more than 98 percent of Glen Stanosz’s students said that his course expanded the ways they think about tree diseases. That should please this year’s winner of the Jung Excellence in Teaching Award, who once stated his teaching philosophy as “If a student captures a glimpse of what is beyond course material, is stimulated to seek further, and is armed with the tools to critically begin their own inquiry, then progress is made.”