Dr. Rangaswamy (Muni) Muniappan, Director of the Integrated Pest Management Lab and a Peanut & Mycotoxin Innovation Lab Collaborator, has been awarded the 2014 BIFAD Award for Scientific Excellence in the Researcher Category.
Muniappan received the BIFAD Award for Scientific Excellence today in Des Moines, Iowa. It is presented each year by the presidentially appointed body that governs U.S. foreign assistance in agriculture.
The purpose of the BIFAD Awards for Scientific Excellence is to recognize individual researchers and/or a team of researchers for significant achievements originating from work performed through USAID’s Feed the Future Innovation Labs. Two awards are given annually: one for an individual researcher or a team of researchers and one for a student researcher.
Muniappan works to save the papaya industry in southern India. He connects researchers in developing countries and he has discovered an invasive species in Senegal and Nepal.