Asheesh (Danny) Singh, associate professor in agronomy, received the Mid-Career Achievement in Research Award and the Raymond and Mary Baker Agronomic Excellence Award. Singh is an accomplished plant breeder and researcher who is a pioneer in combining cultivar development and plant breeding with engineering tools and machine learning-based data analytics. He serves as the Monsanto Chair in Soybean Breeding at Iowa State University and has developed 36 cultivars grown on more than 6 million acres annually.