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Published on 05/02/02

Tyson to Head Georgia Extension Service

ATHENS, Ga. - Bobby L. Tyson has been named Associate Dean for Extension in the University of Georgia's College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, effective July 1. Tyson has been serving as interim associate dean since July 2001.

As associate dean, Tyson will oversee the statewide programs of the Cooperative Extension Service. In addition to the educational outreach of the Extension Service, he will be part of a team of CAES leaders who administer research and teaching programs. Tyson succeeds William Lambert, who retired in 2001.

"Dr. Tyson has had a long and distinguished career in the Cooperative Extension Service," said CAES Dean and Director Gale Buchanan. "He has demonstrated his ability to lead a dynamic educational organization that reaches into every county in Georgia and has the potential to impact every Georgian."

Broadening Audience

Buchanan said Tyson will help lead an effort to find innovative ways to deliver more and more information to a broader audience.

"Extension will always have a major responsibility to serve agriculture and rural Georgia," Buchanan said, "but we must find ways to serve more urban audiences as well."

The Cooperative Extension Service has offices in all but one of Georgia's 159 counties, maintaining strong programs statewide in agriculture and natural resources, family and consumer sciences and 4-H and youth development.

County Delivery System

"I am a strong believer in the county delivery system, whereby the Extension Service strives to provide unbiased research information to Georgia citizens," Tyson said. "Both the University of Georgia and the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences cannot afford to lose touch with people at the local level."

Tyson is an agricultural engineer. He has worked for the Extension Service since 1980. He also has worked for the CAES Coastal Plain Experiment Station and the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Richard Russell Agricultural Research Center and Southern Piedmont Conservation Research Center.

Tyson earned a doctorate in engineering from Clemson in 1979, a master's degree in agricultural engineering from UGA in 1969 and a bachelor's degree in agricultural engineering from UGA in 1965.

A native of Tift County, Tyson and his wife Catharine have two children and four grandchildren.

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