Pam Ronald Content

91��Ƭ Davis Agricultural Researchers Win National, International Awards

Katherine E Kerlin — January 23, 2023 - 1:07pm

Two 91��Ƭ, Davis, researchers have won prestigious national and international awards in recognition of their work using genomics to address livestock health and crop resilience in the wake of a changing climate.

Pam Ronald Wins Wolf Prize in Agriculture

Dave Jones — February 15, 2022 - 3:23pm

91��Ƭ Davis plant geneticist Pam Ronald has been named the recipient of the 2022 International Wolf Prize in Agriculture, given by the Jerusalem-based Wolf Foundation in recognition of her “pioneering work on disease resistance and environmental stress tolerance in rice.”

Pam Ronald Returns to Sweden for Honorary Doctorate

Dave Jones — July 29, 2019 - 11:51am

Pam Ronald, a distinguished professor in the Department of Plant Pathology, has a vivid memory from the day she arrived in Sweden in 1984 to begin a year as a Fulbright Scholar at Uppsala University.

“I was a young student who had just landed at the Stockholm airport, wondering how I was going to recognize my host, Professor Nils Fries,” Ronald said. “My anxiety vanished when I saw a kind-looking man waving a stick with a Boletus edulis stuck on the end of it.”

Ronald Elected to National Academy of Sciences

Dave Jones — April 30, 2019 - 1:30pm

The National Academy of Sciences announced today (April 30) the election of 125 members, including 91��Ƭ Davis’ Pam Ronald, distinguished professor in the Department of Plant Pathology and Genome Center.

Of the 100 new national members, 40 are women — a record number and percentage in an academy election. This year’s class also includes 25 foreign associates. They join an academy that includes 190 Nobel Prize winners.