| Name | Year | Honor | Awarded by |
| Dario J. Chavez | 2023 | Ernie Christ Lecture Award, Mid-Atlantic Fruit and Vegetable Convention | New Jersey State Horticultural Society |
| Srijana Thapa-Magar | 2022 | Marie Fort Garden Club Scholarship | Marie Fort Garden Fund – Griffin, GA |
| Srijana Thapa-Magar | 2022 | 2nd place Student Poster Competition – Cleantech Symposium “Can Tech Save the World?” | Consulate General of Switzerland and the Swiss Business Hub partner with University of Georgia |
| Srijana Thapa-Magar | 2022 | Fonseca Scholarship | University of Georgia |
| Dario J. Chavez | 2022 | Blue Ribbon Extension Publication Award, SR-ASHS (author). | Southern Region American Society of Horticultural Sciences |
| Dario J. Chavez | 2022 | Blue Ribbon Extension Publication Award, SR-ASHS (co-author). | Southern Region American Society of Horticultural Sciences |
| Jordan Knapp-Wilson | 2021 | Honorable Mention – NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) | National Science Foundation |
| Deanna Biggio | 2021 | 5th place Graduate Student Oral Competition | Southeastern Professional Fruit Workers |
| Srijana Thapa-Magar | 2021 | 3rd place Graduate Student Oral Competition | Southeastern Professional Fruit Workers |
| Jordan Knapp-Wilson | 2021 | 4th place in the Poster Competition – Annual Phenomics and Plant Robotics Center Meeting at UGA | UGA Phenomics and Plant Robotics Center |
| Jordan Knapp-Wilson | 2021 | 3rd place in the PhD Poster Competition | National Association of Plant Breeders Annual Meeting |
| Jordan Knapp-Wilson | 2021 | John Ingle Innovation in Plant Breeding Award | University of Georgia Research Foundation |
| Dario J. Chavez | 2021 | 2nd Top Ranking Presentation at the 2021 SE Regional Conference | American Fruit Grower magazine |
| Srijana Thapa-Magar | 2021 | 1st place in the PhD- 3 Minute Thesis Competition | Southern Fruit Workers – Southern Region American Society of Horticultural Sciences |
| Dario J. Chavez | 2020 | Fruit + Vegetable 40 Under 40 Class of 2020 | Fruit Grower News |
| Dario J. Chavez | 2020 | Blue Ribbon Extension Publication Award, SR-ASHS (author). | Southern Region American Society of Horticultural Sciences |
| Bruno Casamali | 2019 | ASHS Industry Division Student Travel Grant, ASHS Annual Meeting | ASHS Industry Division |
| Jun Liu | 2017 | Best Student Presentation, IX International Peach Symposium | Workgroup Peach Culture – International Society of Horticultural Sciences |
| Jun Liu | 2017 | 1st Place Oral Competition, IX International Peach Symposium | International Society of Horticultural Sciences |
| Mary Sutton | 2017 | 3rd Place Oral Competition, J.P. Edmund Undergraduate Paper Award | Southern Region American Society of Horticultural Science |
| Catherine Belisle | 2017 | 2nd Place Oral Competition, Norman Childers M.S. Graduate Student Paper Award | Southern Region American Society of Horticultural Science |
| Bruno Casamali | 2017 | Childers Outstanding Graduate Student Award, SR-ASHS | Southern Region American Society of Horticultural Science |
| Dario J. Chavez | 2017 | Blue Ribbon Extension Publication Award, SR-ASHS (co-author). | Southern Region American Society of Horticultural Sciences |
| Catherine Belisle | 2015 | NSF Travel Grant | National Science Foundation |
| Sydney Wagner | 2015 | 2nd Place in the UGA Young Scholars Poster Competition in Griffin Campus | College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences – University of Georgia |
| Dario J. Chavez | 2015 | NC-140 Project, Improving economic and environmental sustainability in tree-fruit production through changes in rootstock use – National Award of the Experiment Station Section Excellence in Multistate Research Award (state representative member) | Experiment Station Committee on Organization and Policy |