ATLANTA — USPOULTRY and the USPOULTRY Foundation has recognized Dr. Darrin Karcher as the recipient of the annual Dr. Charles Beard Research Excellence Award. Karcher is an associate professor of animal sciences at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind., and an adjunct associate professor of animal sciences at Michigan State University in East Lansing, Mich. The award is named in honor of Dr. Charles Beard, former director of the Southeast Poultry Research Laboratory and former vice president of research at USPOULTRY.
The USPOULTRY Foundation Research Advisory Committee selected Karcher for this award due to his exceptional research focused on nutrition, management. . .