People in the news

New Positions
Laurie V. Sullivan to garden center perennial sales supervisor, Weston Nurseries, Hopkinton, Mass.
 
Wensheng (Vincent) Li to senior buyer, McConkey Co., Sumner, Va.
 
Paul Koole to biological control specialist for British Columbia, Alberta and the western U.S., Biobest, Leamington, Ontario, Canada.
 
John Johnston to national sales manager for non-crop business, Valent Professional Products, Walnut Creek, Calif.
 
David Lumley to chief executive officer, Spectrum Brands, Atlanta.
 

Honors
Valerie Pence, director of plant research, Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden’s Center for Conservation and Research of Endangered Wildlife (CREW), received the Conservation Star Award by the Center for Plant Conservation for her work with imperiled plants of the United States.
 
SmartField, Lubbock, Texas, was awarded $250,000 by the Texas Emerging Technology Fund (TEFT) for completion and commercialization of its SmartCrop technology.
 
Walter Gardens, Zeeland, Mich., was awarded first place for its consumer website, www.perennialresource.com, by the National Agri-Marketing Association.
 
2010 Nature Hills Nursery Green America Award winners: Cleveland Botanical Garden, Cleveland, grand prize; SEEDS Program, Durham, N.C., first place; Gifford Park Community Garden, Omaha, Neb., second place.
 
Samantha Loehr received a $500 Dow AgroSciences Scholarship; Daniel Gjertson received a $1,000 scholarship from the Wisconsin Nursery Association, Greenfield, Wis.

Associations
Barbara Rosborough, Rosborough Partners, Libertyville, Ill., to president, Mid-Am, Wauconda, Ill.
 
Richard Clark, Clark Farms, Wakefield, R.I., to president; Robin Struck, D.R. Struck Landscape Nursery, Winthrop, Maine, to vice president/treasurer; Peter House, East Haven Landscape Products, East Haven, Conn.; Ed Bemis, Bemis Farms Nursery, Spencer, Mass.; Carol Huntington, Huntington View Gardens, Loudon, N.H., to board of directors, New England Nursery Association.