Sept. 22, 2004

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COLLEGE STATION - Two faculty members of the Texas A&M University department of animal science received awards from the American Society of Animal Science in July at St. Louis, Mo.

Dr. Gary Williams received the Physiology and Endocrinology Award. Williams is a Texas Agricultural Experiment Station faculty fellow, professor and research leader at the animal reproduction laboratory in Beeville.

Williams is internationally recognized for his work on the factors that regulate reproduction in beef cattle. He has been advisor to 19 master's and doctorate students, seven postdoctoral trainees, and 19 undergraduate interns, student technicians and honors students.

He earned a bachelor of science degree and a master of science degree in animal science from New Mexico State University, and he earned a doctorate in animal physiology from the University of Arizona.

Dr. Guoyao Wu, Texas A&M professor, received the Nonruminant Nutrition Research Award.

Wu, university faculty fellow and Texas Agricultural Experiment Station faculty fellow, holds appointments with the graduate faculty of nutrition, the departments of medical physiology and veterinary anatomy and public health. He teaches graduate courses in protein metabolism and nutritional biochemistry.

Wu developed a research program in swine amino acid nutrition with applications to human nutrition. According to the American Dairy Science Association, "His work exemplifies the power of basic research in solving practical problems in the swine industry."

He earned a bachelor of science degree in animal science from South China Agricultural University in Guangzhou, and a master of science degree and a doctorate in animal biochemistry and nutrition from the University of Alberta in Canada. His postdoctoral training in biochemistry and nutrition was a McGill University Medical School in Montreal, Canada, and the Memorial University of Newfoundland Medical School in St. John's, Canada.