Congrats to the Northeast Extension professionals honored with community development awards!

July 10, 2025

In June, several members of the National Association for Community Development Extension Professionals (NACDEP) were recognized with awards. The awards were presented at the 2025 NACDEP meeting, which took place in Charleston, WV, and was hosted by West Virginia State University Extension. Among this year’s awardees were several Northeast NACDEP members – please join us in congratulating them on the well-deserved honor!

Congratulations to Claudia Schmidt, recipient of Northeast “Excellence in Extension” award!

November 19, 2024

Claudia Schmidt, assistant professor of marketing and local/regional food systems in Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences and NERCRD Faculty Affiliate, received this year’s Northeast Region Excellence in Extension Award for an Individual, presented by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture and the Cooperative Extension System’s Extension Committee on Organization and […]

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Northeast Extension teams honored with national, regional awards!

August 19, 2024

In June, several members of the National Association for Community Development Extension Professionals (NACDEP) were recognized with awards. The awards were presented at the 2024 NACDEP meeting, which took place in Houston, TX, and was hosted by Prairie View University. Among this year’s awardees were several Northeast NACDEP members – please join us in congratulating […]

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Agritourism Research and Extension Collaborative honored with USDA NIFA National Partnership Award

May 22, 2024

Congratulations to members of the Agritourism Research and Extension Collaborative, who were recognized with a 2023 USDA NIFA Partnership Award for their multi-state work advancing agritourism! The award honors the collective efforts of a network of individuals that spans more than a dozen states at 11 Land-Grant Universities, and two community partner organizations who collaborated on several projects to advance agritourism nationally.

NERCRD researchers honored with two awards for research on nutrition and food security

November 21, 2023

Zheng Tian, Claudia Schmidt, and Stephan Goetz were honored with two distinct awards for their paper titled “The Role of Community Food Services in Reducing U.S. Food Insufficiency in the COVID-19 Pandemic,” which was published in the Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics (JARE) in 2022.

Schmidt recognized with Emerging Leader Award from National Extension Tourism Network

November 21, 2023

Congratulations to NERCRD Faculty Affiliate Claudia Schmidt, who was recognized with the 2023 National Extension Tourism (NET) Emerging Leader Award for her impressive body of agritourism research and outreach programming!

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NERCRD honored with National Extension Tourism Partner Award

November 21, 2023

The award, given by the National Extension Tourism (NET) Design Team at its biennial conference in September, recognized the NERCRD for its contributions that have made a significant positive impact on the NET organization, including support of a strategic planning process and partnership on a project-accelerator grant.

Schmidt receives Roy C. Buck Award for paper on women farmers in the United States

November 16, 2022

Claudia Schmidt, assistant professor of marketing and local/regional food systems Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences and NERCRD faculty affiliate, is the recipient of the college’s 2022 Roy C. Buck Faculty Award, which recognizes the best article accepted or published by a refereed scholarly journal in the social sciences within the past two years.

Congratulations to regional NACDEP 2020 award winners

May 28, 2020

At this year’s virtual NACDEP conference, several regional partners were recognized with awards. Members of the Farm Fresh Food Boxes team, the University of New Hampshire Nature Economy team, and the LEAD New York program were among this year’s award recipients.

Two Center-related research papers recognized with awards

November 3, 2019

Stephan Goetz and his co-authors recently received awards for their published research from the National Extension Association of Family and Consumer Sciences and from Emerald Publishing.

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