Jacqueline Rowarth
Professor Jacqueline Rowarth, of Palmerston North, received the Insignia of a Companion of the NZ Order of Merit at an investiture ceremony on 26 September 2008 for servcies to agricultural science. She was appointed to the foundation chair in pastoral agriculture at Massey University in 2007, and is a member of the Advisory Committee for Bright Futures Scholarships, the Foundation for Research, Science & Technology, the Advisory Board for Education Review, and the Royal Society of NZ Council. She was also a member of the Ministerial Advisory Committee for Science and Technology Promotion. Professor Rowarth received the NZ Science and Technology Medal in 1997, was made a Companion of the Royal Society of NZ in 2001, and an Honorary Fellow of the NZ Institute of Agricultural Science in 2003.