Ozzie Abaye, the Thomas B. Hutcheson Jr. Professor of Agronomy at Virginia Tech, has received with the 2023 Excellence in College and University Teaching Award for Food and Agricultural Sciences. Dr. Abaye states, "Teaching is not what I do for a living, but what I do to live."
The study, funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and conducted by researchers at the Yale University School of Public Health, will involve 250 new low-income mothers in Connecticut.