Brian Kiepper

2023 D.W. Brooks Award for Excellence in Teaching

Brian Kiepper is an associate professor in the CAES Department of Poultry Science, where he teaches the highly popular course, “Effects of Global Agriculture on World Culture.” This core course in the UGA curriculum, the largest at CAES, exposes more than 350 undergraduate students each semester to the role agriculture plays in our everyday lives. To date, more than 5,000 UGA undergraduate students from across campus have completed the popular “Agriculture and Culture” course. 

In 2005, he accepted his first teaching assignment as co-instructor of Wastewater Treatment Unit Operations. Since that initial teaching assignment almost 20 years ago, UGA undergraduate students have earned more than 15,000 credit hours in his courses, including “Introductory Poultry Science,” “Poultry Processing,” and numerous First-Year Odyssey Seminars.