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Horn receives award at conferenceOklahoma Gerald Horn received the American Society of Animal Science Fellow Award recently at the ASAS meeting that took place in Indianapolis, Ind. Horn, Oklahoma State University Cooperative Extension beef cattle nutrition and management specialist, has been a member of ASAS since 1971 and served on the Editorial Board, as chairman of Pastures and Forages, Ruminant Nutrition, Graduate Student Awards Competition and the Distinguished Service Award committees of the Southern Section ASAS. He began working at OSU in 1975 and prior to this was a member of the faculty at the University of Georgia for four years. "Gerald has provided vision, leadership and initiative that led to extramural funding for a greatly expanded, multidisciplinary research and education program in the winter wheat grain and stocker/feeder cattle area," said Clint Krehbiel, OSU animal science associate professor in ruminant nutrition. "The central theme of his research has been to enhance fundamental understanding of the system, to increase profitability and growth of the industry, and, thereby, improve the economies of rural communities in the southern Great Plains." Horn has authored or co-authored 87 refereed journal articles, 151 abstracts of papers presented at scientific meetings, 188 research reports of the Oklahoma Agriculture Experiment Station and 82 papers in conference proceedings. Krehbiel said recently Horn and his colleagues have sought to characterize the physiological bases for differences in finishing performance of feeder cattle from different growing systems. While at UG he taught biochemistry and animal nutrition courses to veterinary students. While at OSU he taught an animal nutrition course and Clinical Nutrition Conference to senior veterinary students, and presently teaches a senior-level course, Stocker and Feedlot Cattle Management and an Advanced Ruminant Nutrition course for graduate students. During the summer of 2005 he taught the Advanced Ruminant Nutrition course at the Universidad Autonoma de Chihuahua in Mexico. Horn received the Elmo Baumann Distinguished Professorship Award in 1992 and the ASAS Animal Management Award in 1998. He is a graduate of the 1995-1996 ESCOP Leadership Development Program. He and his wife, Chris, have two grown daughters, Chaney and Amanda. The purpose of the ASAS Fellow Award is to recognize distinguished service to animal science and the livestock industry over a long period of time. To be eligible for nomination persons should have rendered very distinguished service to the animal industry and/or the ASAS, had continuous membership in the Society for a minimum of 25 years and be in good standing in the Society. 8/4/08 Date: 7/31/08
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