Pamela Ronald, University of California, Davis, has been named a 2020 World Agriculture Prize Laureate by the Global Confederation of Higher Education Associations for Agricultural and Life Sciences. This award recognizes exceptional lifetime achievement in agriculture. She is the first woman whose work is recognized by the award. Read more about this announcement in ASPB News.

Barbara Kunkel, Washington University, has been selected to begome a Fellow of the AAAS in recognition of her distinguished discoveries related to Pseudomonas syringae. She will be inducted at the 2021 AAAS Meeting in February. Learn more about this Fellowship here.