Inaugural Distinguished Professor of Plant Pathology
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Tue Dec 20 2011 13:00:00 GMT+1300 (New Zealand Daylight Time)
Inaugural Distinguished Professor of Plant Pathology
Tuesday, 20 December 2011, 2:53 pm
Press Release: Lincoln University
20 December 2011
Inaugural Distinguished Professor of Plant Pathology
Professor Alison Stewart has been named Lincoln University’s inaugural Distinguished Professor of Plant Pathology.
Announcing the new title Lincoln University Vice-Chancellor, Professor Roger Field, thanked Professor Stewart for her excellent and focused leadership as the founding Director of the Bio-Protection Research Centre. The Centre is the South Island’s only national Centre of Research Excellence.
“Alison has led the Centre through eight years of growth and success, securing national and international recognition for high quality research and postgraduate education. She will complete her Director’s tenure at the end of December, and from January 2012 she will be Lincoln University’s inaugural Distinguished Professor of Plant Pathology. This is a new Professorial title which acknowledges outstanding achievement and contributions to both her discipline and to Lincoln University.”
Professor Stewart is a plant biologist who has focused on plant disease management, biological control and microbial ecology. Originally from Scotland she has a PhD in Plant Pathology from the University of Stirling and arrived in New Zealand to teach at the University of Auckland in 1984. She came to Lincoln University in 1994, was made the University’s first female Professor in 1998 and became the Director of the Bio-Protection Research Centre on its formation in 2003.
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Professor Stewart has published more than 300 refereed journal articles, books and conference papers and contributed to many professional societies, committees and advisory panels in the areas of biosecurity, biodiversity and bioprotection.
Professor Stewart is a Fellow of the NZ Institute for Agricultural and Horticultural Science and of the Australasian Plant Pathology Society, she won the MAFBNZ Biosecurity Award for Excellence in 2008 and in 2009 was appointed a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit (CNZM) in recognition of her services to biology, in particular plant pathology.
Although she is stepping down as Director, Professor Stewart is not leaving the Bio-Protection Research Centre. She will remain at Lincoln University as a Centre researcher and project leader of the Trichoderma biological control group, focusing on product development and commercialisation.
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