Professor Marney Pascoli Cereda, ISTRC Councillor for South America,

has been awarded a Medal of Scentifical and Technological Honor from Sao Paulo State Government. The medal was given by the Governor of the Sao Paulo State at a special ceremony which took place in the Noble Living Room of the Superior School of Agriculture "Luiz of Queiroz", ESALQ/USP, on the second of June 2001. Marney has described this as a "high point of my career". The Society also extends its congratulations.