Samuel Aggrey

2023 D.W. Brooks Award for Excellence in Diversity

Samuel Aggrey is a Richard B. Russell Chair and Professor in the Department of Poultry Science at CAES. He joined the UGA faculty in 1999 and has been a faculty member in the UGA Institute of Bioinformatics since 2006. His research includes developing models for genomic selection, nutrigenomics, molecular and cellular bases of stressors (heat and coccidia infections), and poultry breeding.

Aggrey is a three-time D.W. Brooks Awards of Excellence winner, having been honored with the 2013 D.W. Brooks Award for Excellence in Research and the 2022 D.W. Brooks Award for Excellence for International Agriculture and the Environment. Aggrey mentors a diverse group of students and staff from different ethnicities, religions, cultures, native languages and genders, providing learning experiences that harness the power of diversity for a common purpose.