ASHS Announces 2026 Professional Achievement Awards

The ASHS Esmaeil and Bahar Fallahi Award for Integrity and Professionalism

This award recognizes professional horticulturists of any discipline and form of employment (academic, research, teaching, consulting, outreach, and extension, administrative, and commercial/industrial) who have demonstrated the highest level of a horticulturist in service to others.

Shawn Mehlenbacher

Oregon State

ASHS Outstanding Undergraduate Mentor

The ASHS Outstanding Undergraduate Mentor Award recognizes and rewards excellence, innovation, and effectiveness in formal faculty mentoring/advising of undergraduate students. This award is meant to recognize work with a broader population of students and less self-selected than students enrolled in the nominee's classes. Examples include but are not limited to service as undergraduate or experiential learning coordinator in a department; service as a club or student organization advisor; mentor for undergraduate research; or mentoring/coaching of an undergraduate team competing at the state, regional, or national level.

Chad Miller

Colorado State

Outstanding Peer Reviewer Award

This award is given for exhibiting thorough, timely, and rigorous peer review for manuscripts published in the Journal of ASHS, HortScience, and HortTechnology during the prior year the award is presented. Established in 2020.

For Journal of ASHS

Ryan Warner

(Michigan State University)

For HortScience

James Altland

(USDA/ARS MWA ATRU Wooster, Ohio)

For HortTechnology

Israel Joukhadar

(New Mexico State University)

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