2025 Rice Technical Working Group (RTWG) Award Nominations

The Distinguished Rice Research and Education Award may be presented to one individual and to one team at each RTWG meeting in recognition of a recent achievement and distinction in one or more of the following areas:

• Significant and original basic and/or applied research,
• Creative reasoning and skill in obtaining significant advances in education programs, public relations, or administrative skills which advance the science, motivate progress, and promise technical advances in the rice industry.

The Distinguished Service Award may be made to designated individuals who have given distinguished long-term service to the rice industry in areas of research, education, international agriculture, administration, and industry rice technology.

Those making nominations for the awards shall be responsible for supplying evidence to support the nomination. The nomination packets should include:

1. Three recommendation letters,
2. Pertinent biographies of each nominee, and,
3. A concise but complete explanation of the accomplishments.

Electronic submissions of the nominations are preferred. Submissions should be sent as a single PDF file with the exception of a one-page summary of accomplishments that should be provided at the same time as an MS Word file. Hard copies can be submitted, in which case fifteen (15) complete copies of each nomination must be submitted as well as a one-page summary of accomplishments included with each nomination. This summary will be published in the RTWG Proceedings if the award is granted.

The deadline for receipt of nominations is December 6, 2024.

Completed nomination packets can be emailed to Kurt Guidry at kmguidry@agcenter.lsu.edu or can be uploaded using the following link: