University of Georgia

President George W. Bush this week announced his intention to
nominate Gale A. Buchanan to be Under Secretary of Agriculture
for Research, Education and Economics. Buchanan is dean and
director emeritus of the University of Georgia College of
Agricultural and Environmental Sciences.

Buchanan served as UGA CAES dean and director of Cooperative
Extension, Agricultural Experiment Stations and Academic Affairs
from March 1995 until December 2004, when he returned to the
classroom to teach until his retirement in April 2005.

Before that, Buchanan was associate director of the Georgia
Agricultural Experiment Stations and resident director of the
CAES Coastal Plain Experiment Station in Tifton, Ga. He spent 21
years with Auburn University in the department of agronomy and
soils, with primary teaching and research responsibilities in
weed science.

He served as dean and director of the Alabama Agricultural
Experiment Station from October 1980 to September 1985.

Buchanan served in the Alabama Army National Guard for more than
25 years, reaching the rank of colonel.

He received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the
University of Florida and his Ph.D. from Iowa State University.