Carus’ presentation, “Bioterrorism, Homeland Security and the
Food Supply,” will be at 11 a.m. in the Georgia Center for
Continuing Education’s Mahler Auditorium on the University of
Georgia campus.
The lecture will precede the announcement of the annual D.W.
Brooks Faculty Awards for Excellence, presented to UGA College of
Agricultural and Environmental Sciences employees who excel in
teaching, research and extension.
The teaching award was established in 1981 to recognize faculty
members who make outstanding contributions and maintain
excellence in the teaching program of the college. In 1983, the
program expanded to include awards for research, extension and
county
extension programs. An award for international agriculture was
added in 1988.
The Brooks awards include a framed certificate and $5,000
cash.
The lecture is named for the late D.W. Brooks, founder and
chairman emeritus of Gold Kist, Inc. Brooks was an advisor to
seven U.S. presidents on agriculture and trade issues. He started
Cotton States Mutual Insurance Companies in 1941 to provide
farmers insurance.
His many honors for contributions to worldwide agriculture
included being the first inductee into the UGA Agricultural Hall
of Fame. He received the Distinguished Agribusiness Award from
the Georgia Agribusiness Council and was named Progressive Farmer
magazine’s “Man of the Year in Agriculture in the South.”
The CAES sponsors the annual lecture series in his memory.
