VIRGINIA TECH PROFESSOR
RECEIVES PRESTIGIOUS AWARD FROM
AMERICA FISHERIES SOCIETY
BLACKSBURG,
Jan. 22, 2004 -- John Ney of
Blacksburg, Va., professor of
fisheries and wildlife science
in the College of Natural Resources
at Virginia Tech, received the
Meritorious Service Award from
American Fisheries Society (AFS).
The award recognizes his career-long
contributions to the society,
which represents more than 10,000
fisheries professionals in North
America.
Ney
has served as the principal
book review editor for American
Fisheries Society journals for
24 years, as president of the
AFS Education Section, and on
numerous American Fisheries
Society committees.
At
Virginia Tech, Ney conducts
research on applied ecology
of fishes, trophic dynamics,
reservoir management, and impact
assessment, and teaches courses
on fish ecology; advanced ecology
of fishes and fisheries techniques.
He is a Fellow of the American
Institute of Fishery Research
Biologists and was president
of the Environmental Sciences
Section of the Virginia Academy
of Sciences. He received his
bachelor’s degree from the University
of Wisconsin and Ph.D. from
the University of Minnesota.
The
College of Natural Resources
at Virginia Tech consistently
ranks among the top five programs
of its kind in the nation. Faculty
members stress both the technical
and human elements of natural
resources and instill in students
a sense of stewardship and land-use
ethics. Areas of studies include
environmental resource management,
fisheries and wildlife sciences,
forestry, geospatial and environmental
analysis, natural resource recreation,
urban forestry, wood science
and forest products, geography,
and international development.
Founded
in 1872 as a land-grant college,
Virginia Tech has grown to become
the largest university in the
Commonwealth of Virginia. Today,
Virginia Tech's eight colleges
are dedicated to putting knowledge
to work through teaching, research,
and outreach activities and
to fulfilling its vision to
be among the top 30 research
universities in the nation.
At its 2,600-acre main campus
located in Blacksburg and other
campus centers in Northern Virginia,
Southwest Virginia, Hampton
Roads, Richmond, and Roanoke,
Virginia Tech enrolls more than
28,000 full- and part-time undergraduate
and graduate students from all
50 states and more than 100
countries in 170 academic degree
programs.
