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Alabama A&M University, Normal, AL.

2010 Certificate of Appreciation, Office of Advocacy and Outreach, United States Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C.

2010 Outstanding Research Faculty Award, School of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Alabama A&M University, Normal, AL

2010 Honorable Mention for Selected Poster competition at Rural Sociological Society Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia.

2009 Second Prize on the Poster Competition, Southern Agricultural Economics Association (SAEA), 2009 Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA.

2002-2007 Graduate Research Assistantship, Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, Alabama A&M University.

2006 Second Prize on the Oral Paper Competition, Association of Research Directors Symposium, Atlanta, GA.

2006 Outstanding Graduate Student, School of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Alabama A&M University.

2000-2002 Graduate Research Assistantship, Department of Agribusiness, Alabama A&M University.

1999 Research Assistantship, Map & Aerial Photo Library, Clark University, Worcester MA.

1994 USAID Scholarship for Graduate Course, Clark University, Worcester, MA.

1988-1991 Merit Scholarship for B.Sc. Ag., Tribhuvan University, Nepal.

January 2012- Assistant professor, Division of Environmental Studies and Sustainable Systems, Kentucky State University, Frankfort, Kentucky; teach graduate and undergraduate courses in GIS, Remote sensing climate change, Spatial Statistics; conduct scientific research and publish scholarly papers on land use land cover change, human-environment relationship, farmland value change, farm productivity and sustainability, climate change adaptation and mitigation; Advise and mentor graduate and undergraduate students; advise graduate and undergraduate students; develop competitive grants; collaborate with high schools for students recruitments, collaborate with other 1862 and 1890s land-grant institutions for grants, teaching and research quality and capacity enhancement, provide professional service to university and community.

Aug 2008-Jan Research Assistant Professor, Department of Agribusiness, Alabama A&M University. 2012 Conducted research on Agricultural Productivity, Economics of Farm Size, Water Scarcity, Income Convergence, Changing Agricultural Markets, and Spatial Heterogeneity and Land Fragmentation, Urban and Rural Sprawl, ecological function and process, agroforestry system, coupled dynamics of human and natural resources funded by USDA and NSF.