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4 November 2009
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Awards
2009
- The 2009 Scopus Colombia Award, granted by Elsevier with the
support of Colciencias, to Myriam Cristina Duque for the
number of research papers she has published in the areas of agriculture
and biological sciences over the last 5 years and the numerous
times these have been cited.
- Best Poster Award granted to Aracely Castro, on behalf
of CIAT and its partners, at the 2009
World Water Week, organized by the Stockholm International
Water Institute (SIWI),
for the presentation of the poster "Improving the efficiency
of rain water use on hillsides in the sub-humid tropics: agricultural
& environmental benefits of Quesungual system".
- CIAT-Outstanding Principal Staff Achievement Award (OPSA), granted
to Kathryn Laing.
- CIAT-Outstanding Young Scientist-of-the-Year Award (OYSYA),
granted to Natalia Moreno.
- CIAT-Outstanding Research Publication Award (ORPA), granted
to Andy Jarvis, Annie Lane, and Robert J. Hijmans.
- CIAT-Outstanding Employee-of-the-Year Award (OEYA), granted
to Juan Bosco Cuasquer.
- CIAT-Outstanding Support Staff Contribution Award (OSSCA), granted
to Eduardo Figueroa.
- CIAT-Outstanding Team-of-the-Year Award (OTYA), granted to Juan
Miguel Bueno, Gustavo Prado, Janneth Patricia Gutiérrez,
and Carlos Jara.
2008
- Second Prize at the poster competition
during the 2nd International Forum on Water and Food, Award granted
to CIAT and its partners for the poster on the Quesungual
slash and mulch agroforestry system.
- 2008 National Scientific Merit Award, granted by the Colombian
Association for the Advancement of Science (ACAC) to Hernán
Ceballos and his Cassava Improvement team, in recognition
of the research they have carried out to identify cassava varieties
with enhanced nutritional qualities and increased productivity
for Colombia's industrial sector.
- 2007 Distinguished Researcher Award,
granted by the World Association of Soil and Water Conservation
to Reinhardt Howeler, Watana Watananonta, and Tran Ngoc
Ngoan, for the development and adoption of effective soil conservation
practices in cassava fields in Asia.
- Best Undergraduate Thesis Award,
granted by the Universidad del Quindío (Colombia) to Luz
Adriana Mesa and Víctor Hugo Triviño
(undergraduate thesis supervised by Elizabeth Alvarez).
- Honorary Doctorate Award, granted
by the Faculty of Natural Resources and Agricultural Sciences
at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences to Andre
Bationo.
- The Aurelio Llano Posada Award, granted by the Aurelio Llano
Posada Foundation to Elizabeth Alvarez, for her
work in development of technological innovations for integrated
disease management in cassava.
- Award to the best scientific poster
in the People's Choice Category, presented during the 2008 Knowledge
Sharing Week, granted to Orlando Toro, César
H. Ocampo, and Daniel G. Debouck.
- CIAT-Outstanding Principal Staff Achievement Award (OPSA), granted
to Joe Tohme and Robin Buruchara.
- CIAT-Outstanding Young Scientist-of-the-Year Award (OYSYA),
granted to Fausto Rodríguez and Germán
Plata.
- CIAT-Outstanding Research Publication Award (ORPA), granted
to Tetsuya Sakurai, Germán Plata, Fausto Rodríguez,
Motoali Seki, Andrés Salcedo, Atsushi Toyoda, Atsushi Hiwata,
Joe Tohme, Yoshiyuki Sake, and Kazuo S. Manabu Ishitani.
- CIAT-Outstanding Employee-of-the-Year Award (OEYA), granted
to Sory Hernán Sánchez.
- CIAT-Outstanding Support Staff Contribution Award (OSSCA), granted
to Myriam Cristina Duque.
- CIAT-Outstanding Team-of-the-Year Award (OTYA), granted to the
Genetic Resources Unit.
- Certificate of Appreciation, granted by the Ethiopian Institute
of Agricultural Research (EIAR) to CIAT, for its work on
beans in that country.
- Plaque presented by the Department of Agricultural Extension
of Thailand to Reinhardt Howeler, for his active support
of cassava research and development in that country.
2007
- Outstanding Partnership Award, granted by CGIAR to CLAYUCA,
for its efforts to expand members' access to technologies for
improving cassava production, processing, and utilization in Latin
America and Africa.
- Achievement Award in Bean (Phaseolus) Improvement, granted
by the Bean Improvement Cooperative (BIC) to Matthew Blair.
- Second prize at the 10th Annual Meeting of Colombian Breeders,
Award granted to Matthew Blair.
- The Héctor Delgado Zambrano Award, granted to César
Martínez.
- Best Postgraduate Thesis Award, granted at the IX National Meeting
and II International Meeting of Researchers in Animal Sciences,
ENICIP 2007, to Laila Cristina Bernal (postgraduate thesis
supervised by Carlos Lascano and Patricia Ávila).
- Recognition for article in NOVON
16:105-111 of 2006, granted by the American Journal Experts to
the CIAT Genetic Resources Unit.
- Best Research Scientist in College of Agriculture and Veterinary
Sciences, Award granted by the University of Nairobi (Kenya) to
Paul Kimani.
- CIAT-Outstanding Principal Staff Achievement Award (OPSA), granted
to Segenet Kelemu.
- CIAT-Outstanding Young Scientist-of-the-Year Award (OYSYA),
granted to Marcela Quintero.
- CIAT-Outstanding Research Publication Award (ORPA), granted
to Elizabeth Balyejusa Kizito, Linley Chiwona-Karltun, Thomas
Egwang, Martin Fregene, and Anna Westerbergh.
- CIAT-Outstanding Employee-of-the-Year Award (OEYA), granted
to Girlena Aricapa.
- CIAT-Outstanding Support Staff Contribution Award (OSSCA), granted
to Paula Ximena Hurtado.
- CIAT-Outstanding Team-of-the-Year Award (OTYA), granted to the
Motor Pool Team.
- Award to the best scientific
poster in the Science for Environmental Benefit Category, presented
during the 2007 Knowledge Sharing Week, granted to the CIAT
Genetic Resources Unit.
2006
- Recognition for scientific contribution in rice, Award granted
by "General Saavedra" Municipal Council, Bolivia, to
the CIAT Rice Project (Lee Calvert and Marc Châtel).
- First Prize at the GFAR-2006 Poster Competition, Award granted
by the Global Forum on Agricultural Research (GFAR) to Jonas
Chianu, Peter Okoth, Omo Ohiokpehai, Kristina
Roing, Bernard Vanlauwe, Nteranya Sanginga,
Pat Naido, Akin Adesina, and Joyce Opondo.
- Third Innovation Marketplace Award, high-level recognition,
granted by the CGIAR at AGM 2006 to CIAT-FLAR.
- Humber Prize, granted by the University of Nottingham, UK,
to Jean-Claude Rubyogo.
- The CGIAR Science Award for Outstanding Partnership at AGM
2006, granted to the CGIAR Genebank Community.
- The CGIAR Science Award for Outstanding Scientific Support
Team at AGM 2006, granted to the CGIAR Information Managers/Librarians
Community.
- 2006 Semilleros ADN Prize for Best Agricultural Biotechnology
Research Project,
granted by Agro-Bio to Jesús Alonso Beltrán
(undergraduate thesis directed by
Paul Chavarriaga and supervised by Joe Tohme).
- 2006 Semilleros ADN Prize Third Place, granted by Agro-Bio
to Luz Elena Romero, Iván Lozano Potes, and
Natalia Villareal (undergraduate thesis supervised by
Lee Calvert).
- International Service in Agronomy Award, granted by the American
Society of
Agronomy (ASA) to the "Cassava Team" (Reinhardt Howeler,
Watana Watananonta, and Tran Ngoc Ngoan).
- Poster finalist, Kellogg's Latin American Award to Research
on Food and Human Nutrition, granted by the Latin American Nutritional
Society to Helena Pachón.
- The Order of the Seed, Gold Category, granted by INPROARROZ
Rice Industry to the CIAT Rice Project.
- One of the Best Learning
Experiences of Africa Forum 2006 of Dual Epidemics of HIV and
Food Security, granted by the Project Concern International to
Omo Ohiokpehai, Jonas Chianu, Brenda Kingolla,
Nteranya Sanginga, and Bernard Vanlauwe.
- Friendship Award, granted by the State Administration of Foreign
Experts Affairs,
State Council of People's Republic of China to Segenet Kelemu.
- The Order of Australia for services to primary industry through
research and the development of sustainable tropical pasture technology
to increase food production, rural incomes, and scientific knowledge
in Asia, Central and Southern America, and Australia, granted
to Bert Grof (former CIAT scientist).
- Award to the best poster presented during the XXXIII Congress
at the Colombian Society of Entomology to Claudia Marcela Ospina,
Daniel C. Peck, and Jairo Rodríguez Chalarca.
- A Royal Decoration in the
"Third Class of the Most Exalted Order of the White Elephant",
granted by the Thai Government to Reinhardt Howeler.
- Poster Award granted by the Global Health Council to Helena
Pachón.
- Scholarship to undertake graduate studies, granted by the Universidad
Nacional de Colombia to Germán Alonso Plata.
2005
- CIAT-Outstanding Research Publication Award (ORPA), granted
to:
- María Isabel Chacón, S. Barbara Pickersgill,
and Daniel Debouck.
- Arturo Carabalí, Anthony Bellotti, James
Montoya, and María Elena Cuéllar.
- CIAT-Outstanding Principal Staff Achievement Award (OPSA), granted
to Hernán Ceballos.
- CIAT-Outstanding Support Staff Contribution Award (OSSCA), granted
to Vilia Escober.
- CIAT-Outstanding Employee-of-the-Year Award (OEYA), granted
to José Francisco Ortega.
- CIAT-Outstanding Team-of-the-Year Award (OTYA), granted to Procurement
and Maintenance Unit.
- CIAT-Outstanding Young Scientist-of-the-Year Award (OYSYA),
granted to Jairo Rodríguez Chalarcá.
- Award in the Professional category,
granted at the 9th Congress of the Colombian Plant Breeding and
Crop Production Association to Adriana P. Tofiño y César
Ocampo.
2004
- Innovation Marketplace Award
for Outstanding Partnership Program, granted by the CGIAR at AGM
2004 to Elizabeth Alvarez.
- CIAT-Outstanding Research Publication Award (ORPA), granted
to César Cardona, Paola Fory, Guillermo
Sotelo, Alejandro Pabón, Giovanna Díaz,
and John W. Miles.
- CIAT-Outstanding Principal Staff Achievement Award (OPSA), granted
to Andre Bationo.
- CIAT-Outstanding Support Staff Contribution Award (OSSCA), granted
to Guillermo Sotelo, and Luisa Fernanda Fory.
- CIAT-Outstanding Employee-of-the-Year Award (OEYA), granted
to Jairo Rosas Sanclemente.
- CIAT-Outstanding Team-of-the-Year Award (OTYA), granted to Biosafety
Research Team.
- Special Recognitions to CIAT Staff granted to:
- Adriana Bohórquez, Alba Lucía Chávez,
Gerardo Gallego, Fabio Escobar, Roosevelt Escobar,
Mauricio Soto, and Joe Tohme, from the CIAT Biotechnology
Unit. For the development of educational materials related
to biotechnology.
- Guillermo Castellanos. For the development of a bio-pesticide
extract from swinglea, which controls mildew without leaving spots
on the flowers.
- Third place in the
competition "Systematization of experiences and lessons learned
in rural agribusiness", granted by PRODAR, IICA, and FAO,
to Jhon Jairo Hurtado and Dora Patricia Arévalo.
2003
- Second Prize at the 3rd International Conference on Vetiver
Grass in Guangzhou, China, Award granted by the Vetiver Network
to Reinhardt Howeler, for his outstanding contribution
to the research and development of the Vetiver system in Asia.
- National Plant Pathology Award
"Rafael Obregón" Professional Category. Honorable
Mention granted for the paper presented at the XXIV Congress of
ASCOLFI, to Paula X. Hurtado, Elizabeth Alvarez, Martin
Fregene, and Germán A. Llano.
- CIAT-Outstanding Research Publication Award (ORPA), granted
to Peter Wenzl, Alba Lucía Chávez,
Gloria M. Patiño, Jorge E. Mayer, and Idupulapati
M. Rao.
- CIAT-Outstanding Principal Staff Achievement Award (OPSA), granted
to Daniel G. Debouck.
- CIAT-Outstanding Support Staff Contribution Award (OSSCA), granted
to Luis Horacio Franco.
- CIAT-Outstanding Employee-of-the-Year Award (OEYA), granted
to Nidia Reyes Brand.
- CIAT-Outstanding Team-of-the-Year Award (OTYA), granted to Food
& Housing Unit.
2002
- CIAT-Outstanding Research Publication Award (ORPA), granted
to George S. Mahuku, María Antonia Henriquez,
Jaime Muñoz, and Robin Buruchara.
- CIAT-Outstanding Principal Staff Achievement Award (OPSA), granted
to John Miles.
- CIAT-Outstanding Support Staff Contribution Award (OSSCA), granted
to Jorge Alonso Beltrán.
- CIAT-Outstanding Employee-of-the-Year Award (OEYA), granted
to Alvaro Azcárate.
- CIAT-Outstanding Team-of-the-Year Award (OTYA), granted to Information
Systems Unit.
2001
- CIAT-Outstanding Research Publication Award (ORPA), granted
to Veronique Jorge, Martin A. Fregene, Myriam
C. Duque, Merideth Bonierbale, Joe Tohme, and
Valerie Verdier.
- CIAT-Outstanding Principal Staff Achievement Award (OPSA), granted
to Anthony Bellotti.
- CIAT-Outstanding Support Staff Contribution Award (OSSCA), granted
to Roosevelt Escobar.
- CIAT-Outstanding Employee-of-the-Year Award (OEYA), granted
to Alcibíades Ortega.
- CIAT-Outstanding Team-of-the-Year Award (OTYA), granted to the
Team of the Bean Golden Mosaic Virus Marker Assisted Selection
Methodology.
2000
- CIAT-Outstanding Research Publication Award (ORPA), granted
to Francisco Morales, Elaine Ward, Mauricio Castaño,
José A. Arroyave, Iván Lozano, and
Michael J. Adams.
- CIAT-Outstanding Principal Staff Achievement Award (OPSA), granted
to Idupulapati Rao.
- CIAT-Outstanding Support Staff Contribution Award (OSSCA), granted
to Ramiro Narváez.
- CIAT-Outstanding Employee-of-the-Year Award (OEYA), granted
to Wilson Gaitán.
- CIAT-Outstanding Team-of-the-Year Award (OTYA), granted to Spittlebug
Biocecology and IPM Team.
Scholarships
2009
- Monsanto Beachell-Borlaug International Scholars Program, granted
by Monsanto to Maribel Cruz to pursue a PhD at the National
University of Colombia on "Cold tolerance in rice: Validation
of methodologies for phenotypic selection, characterization of
the CIAT-FLAR germplasm and introgression of this trait".
- Monsanto Beachell-Borlaug International Scholars Program, granted
by Monsanto to Laura Moreno to pursue a PhD at the University
of Melbourne on "Making gains inside the grain: Development
of bio-fortified rice varieties to combat iron deficiency in Latin
America".
- Vavilov-Frankel Fellowship, granted by Bioversity International
to Danilo Eduardo Moreta to carry out a study entitled
"A novel strategy to enhance nitrogen use efficiency in crops
by exploiting the diversity for biological nitrification inhibition
in the rice germplasm".
Grants
2009
- 2009 IFAR Professional Development Grant, awarded to Jeremiah
Mosioma Okeyo to further his research on understanding the
effect of long-term conservation tillage (i.e., reduced or no
tillage) on soil physical properties under experimental conditions
in the subhumid tropics.
- 2009 IFAR Professional Development Grant, awarded to Marie-Chantal
Niyuhire to further her research on documentation of dissemination
and adoption of improved bean varieties on the basis of rural
household and market surveys.
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