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CORVALLIS - An innovative Oregon State University professor will receive the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food and Agriculture Sciences Teaching Award.

Dan Edge, a wildlife ecologist and head of the university's Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, is one of two educators from USDA's western region - and one of eight educators nationally - who will receive the award Sunday, Nov. 10, in Chicago at the annual meeting of the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges (NASULGC).

The OSU professor teaches high school, undergraduate and graduate courses in wildlife conservation and management, wildlife in agricultural ecosystems, resource selection, planning for careers in fisheries and wildlife, and group problem solving.

He is known nationally for innovative efforts in developing distance education courses, and in promoting distance education, including publishing numerous articles about his experiences with distance education courses.

Edge will deliver brief remarks and receive a plaque and a $2,000 stipend at the awards ceremony, sponsored by the national Board on Agriculture. The board is made up of agriculture leaders in administration, teaching, research, extension, forestry, international programs, human sciences and veterinary medicine from NASULGC member institutions.