Jeremy Greene from the Edisto Research & Education Center received the Distinguished Achievement Award in Extension from the Southeastern Branch of the Entomological Society of America.
Additionally, Francis Reay-Jones from the Pee Dee Research & Education Center received the Southeastern Branch Award for Excellence in Integrated Pest Management.
Congratulations to Jeremy and Francis!
Distinguished Achievement Award in Extension: Jeremy Greene
Jeremy Greene earned his undergraduate degree in Biology in 1991 and his MS and PhD degrees in Entomology in 1995 and 1998, respectively. After a brief postdoctoral researcher role at the University of Georgia, he accepted a faculty position as an Extension Entomologist with the University of Arkansas in 2001.
Since joining Clemson University in 2006, he has held appointments in Research, Extension, and Administration and currently serves as Professor of Entomology and Associate Department Chair for the Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences. Dr. Greene has advised 24 graduate students and 2 post-doctoral associates, authored/co-authored 119 peer-reviewed publications, brought in nearly $8 million in career grants (~70% his share), and for the last 18+ years, he has written hundreds of non- refereed publications, including newsletters, conference proceedings, Extension reports, fact sheets, handbook chapters, bulletins, and more, and has given hundreds of presentations at professional society and Extension meetings and trainings.
Annually, Greene writes and distributes an award-winning newsletter subscribed by hundreds of Extension clientele and redirected to many hundreds more each week of the summer, with Volume 18 of his newsletter completed in 2023, totaling more than 300 issues to date. Furthermore, he records a voice message of weekly news regarding insect management in cotton and soybeans that is distributed via text messaging to a broad list of subscribers.
Greene created two mobile applications (Calibrate My Sprayer and Mix My Sprayer) that have been downloaded nearly 70,000 times globally (over 160 countries), and he has organized or participated in over 140 Extension trainings in his career, with many held as in-field, hands-on training sessions for producers, consultants, county Extension agents, and other Extension clientele.
Award for Excellence in Integrated Pest Management: Francis Reay-Jones
Francis Reay-Jones is a Professor of Entomology and IPM Coordinator at Clemson University in the Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, and is located at the Pee Dee Research and Education Center in Florence, SC. He earned a B.S. in Biology in 1999 and a graduate-level degree in Population and Ecosystem Biology in 2000, both from the University of Bordeaux in France.
He received an M.S. in Plant Technology from the University of Angers in France in 2001. Research for his M.S. thesis was conducted at a CIRAD sugarcane entomology laboratory in Réunion Island in the Indian Ocean on a biological control program of an insect pest of sugarcane. He then enrolled in a Ph.D. program in sugarcane entomology at Louisiana State University in 2002, earning his degree in 2005 with a major in entomology and a minor in applied statistics.
He held postdoctoral research positions at LSU and Texas A&M University prior to coming to Clemson in 2006. His research and extension appointment focuses on integrated pest management of insects in field crop systems, including corn, cotton, and sorghum.
Reay-Jones has published more than a hundred peer-reviewed articles. He has given over 170 extension presentations and has authored more than 100 extension publications. His program has secured more than $7.3 million in competitive grant funding and industry support. He serves as editor for the international journal Crop Protection and subject editor for Environmental Entomology.
