Dr. Dave Goorahoo, professor, Department of Plant Science, has been honored by the Irrigation Association with its Excellence in Education Award for his teaching, research and outreach work tied to water management and conservation.

Combining his research with the campus Center for Irrigation Technology, he has also developed training materials and programs that have benefited the community and growers in the Central Valley and beyond.

In his 24 years on staff, he has taught courses related to irrigation, plant nutrition, organic production, soil health and vegetable crops. He has also been a strong supporter of the Irrigation Association’s workforce development initiatives and currently serves on its education advisory group.

Julie Renee Moore, special collections catalog librarian, Special Collections Research Center, was elected the vice president/president-elect of the recently-created Open Rules for Cataloging. This is in addition to her role on the rule writing committee.

The vision for the Open Rules for Cataloging is to “create free and open cataloging guidelines for the library community with practical examples and easily understood models created by catalogers to empower catalogers.”

“It is proposed to be a freely available alternative for those who desire a less abstract cataloging code. The premise is that it is possible to identify universal, time-honored cataloging concepts in preexisting cataloging rule sets which can be used as the base of a modern, ethical cataloging code.”