Award Year
2000
Graduation Year
1983
Department
Biological and Ecological Engineering
Biography
After completing his MS degree in Agricultural Engineering Herschel Weeks received his PhD from Iowa State in Agricultural & Extension Education. He worked for the International Agricultural Program at Iowa State and then OSU's Office of International Research and Development, holding an appointment in Agricultural Education.
In 1999 he spent four months overseeing the short-term relief phase of a project to increase farm production in Kosovo. The war in Kosovo had destroyed much of the farm based economy, infrastructure and ability to produce food. He directed the investment of $18 million in tractors, hand tools, seeds, water pumps, etc., to expand the food and fiber production of the rural residents.
Degrees
- MSAgE 1983 - BEE