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STARKVILLE, Miss.--A Mississippi State graduate student from Greenville is among four awarded $5,000 postgraduate grants from the Golf Course Superintendents Association of America.
Hunter Perry is a 2005 magna cum laude gradate of the university now pursuing a master's degree in entomology and plant pathology. He is the son of Harry and Denecia Perry.
Also sharing the association's 2007 James R. Watson Fellowships are students from North Carolina State University and the universities of Arkansas and Minnesota-St. Paul. All four also will receive all-expense paid trips later this month to the GCSAA Education Conference and Golf Industry Show, which are being held concurrently in Anaheim, Calif.
The winners are master's- or doctoral-degree candidates who have been identified as promising future teachers and researchers in the field of golf course management.
Perry is specializing in turfgrass pathology under the supervision of Maria Tomaso-Peterson, an assistant research professor in the department of entomology and plant pathology.
Watson Fellowships are funded by a partnership between the Toro Co. and the Environmental Institute for Golf. They are named for the retired vice president for customer relations and chief agronomist at Toro, the Minnesota-based international turf maintenance equipment and services company.
The Environmental Institute for Golf is the philanthropic organization of the Golf Course Superintendents Association of America, which is based in Lawrence, Kan.
NEWS EDITORS/DIRECTORS: For additional information, contact Dr. Tomaso-Peterson at 662-325-2593 or mariat@pss.msstate.edu.
For more information about Mississippi State University, see http://www.msstate.edu/.