| 2008 |
Certificate of recognition for 20 years of service in the Government of the USA |
| 2008 |
USDA-ARS Achievement Award |
| 2007 |
Selected by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) for HighlyCited.com because of “exceptional citation count in the field of Agricultural Science.” |
| 2007 |
Top 50 cited papers award, Carbohydrate Research 339(11), 2009-2017 |
| 2006 |
Selected as a visiting scientist for 2 months at Dept. of Chemistry, Umeå U., Sweden.To develop chemometrics methods on 2D NMR data (in Prof. Björn Sundberg’s group). |
| 2006 |
USDA-ARS Achievement Award for “Superior leadership, planning and demonstrated research to enhance the science of lignin composition in plants.” |
| 2005 |
Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) |
| 2005 |
USDA-ARS Achievement Award for “Excelling in every facet of a dynamic research effort which results in the world’s leading plant chemistry group.” |
| 2004 |
USDA-ARS Achievement Award |
| 2003 |
USDA-ARS Achievement Award for “His aggressive, productive research effort, which discovers lignin synthesis in plant cell walls.” |
| 2002 |
USDA-ARS Achievement Award “For outstanding research accomplishments leading to discoveries in the chemistry of lignin biosynthesis in cell walls.” |
| 2001 |
USDA-ARS Achievement Award “For outstanding research accomplishments leading to discoveries in the chemistry of lignin biosynthesis in cell walls.” |
| 2000 |
Elected as a Fellow of the International Academy of Wood Science. |
| 2000 |
Awarded Institut Universitaire de France Fellowship for sojourn in France, 1 month, to lecture at 5 Universities, and work in Alain Boudet’s Lab in Toulouse . |
| 2000 |
USDA-ARS Achievement Award "For outstanding research accomplishments leading to discoveries in the chemistry of lignin biosynthesis in cell walls.” |
| 2000 |
Y2K award for “substantial effort and contributions to the ARS Y2K effort.” |
| 1999 |
USDA-ARS Achievement Award for “Exceptionally productive research and development in the area of chemical structure of plant cell walls.” |
| 1998 |
USDA-ARS Achievement Award “In recognition for exceptional productivity in research and program development in the area of chemical structure of plant cell walls.” |
| 1997 |
USDA-ARS Achievement Award “For exceptionally productive research into the chemical structure of plant cell walls.” |
| 1996 |
USDA-ARS Achievement Award “In recognition of exceptional productivity and progress in developing and understanding the chemical architecture of cell walls.” |
| 1995 |
USDA-ARS Achievement Award “For outstanding cooperative efforts in developing the USDFRC’s cell wall research program.” |
| 1994 |
USDA-ARS Achievement Award “In recognition for outstanding achievement in assembling the NMR database of lignin model compounds and making it available on the internet.” |
| 1993 |
USDA-ARS Achievement Award “In recognition for outstanding contributions to cell wall chemistry.” |
| 1992 |
USDA-ARS Achievement Award “In recognition for outstanding productivity and stimulating impact on forage cell wall research at the USDFRC.” |
| 1991 |
Scientific Computing and Automation, Top 5 Software Products Award for “Scientific Reference System II” bibliographic management software. |
| 1991 |
USDA-ARS Achievement Award “In recognition for stimulating contributions to team research that have opened up new horizons for team members in the area of plant cell wall chemistry.” |
| 1990 |
USDA-ARS Achievement Award “In recognition for contributions to team research in the area of cell wall chemistry and the outstanding effort given to the acquisition of an NMR instrument.” |
| 1980 |
Honor Society of Agriculture |
| 1978 |
National Research Advisory Council Fellowship |
| 1976 |
Haydon Prize in Chemistry |
| 1976 |
University Senior Scholarship |
| 1976 |
U. Grants Committee Scholarship (declined) |
| 1975 |
New Zealand Institute of Chemistry Prize |
| 1972 |
University Junior Scholarship |
Professional Services
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| 2007 - |
Editorial Board, BioEnergy Research |
| 2006 - |
Editorial Board, J. Wood Chemistry and Technology |
| 2003 - |
Editorial Board, Holzforschung |
| 2000 - |
Editorial Board, J. Science of Food and Agriculture |