Martin Spalding, Associate Dean, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and Professor, Genetics, Development and Cell Biology, is a recipient of the LAS Outstanding Career Achievement in Research Award. This award recognizes faculty members who have a national or international reputation for contributions in research and/or artistic creativity, and who have influenced the research activities of students.

Dr. Spalding began his career at ISU as an Assistant Professor in the former Botany Department in 1984. The Botany Department merged with the Zoology and Genetics Departments to become the Genetics, Development, and Cell Biology Department in 2003, with Dr. Spalding as Professor and Chair of the newly formed department. Since 2011, Dr. Spalding has served as a Dean in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and continues his research in GDCB. He currently leads the ISU Crop Bioengineering Consortium (CBC). The CBC formed in 2013 to address the urgent challenge to provide sufficient food, feed, biofuels and biorenewable chemicals for the world’s burgeoning population through basic and applied research to enable the bioengineering of valuable traits in a variety of crops.

The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences will formally recognize the 40 faculty and staff members who have received college awards this year at the LAS Faculty/Staff Convocation on Sept. 11, 2014.