Joan Curry recieved this year's David E. Cox Teaching Award. Curry was born and raised near St. Louis. She graduated in the third class that included women at the US Naval Academy in 1982, served as a Naval Officer for 6 years and then went to graduate school at UC Davis, earning a PhD in Chemistry in 1992. After a postdoctoral appointment at Purdue and the Australian National University she joined the CALS faculty in Soil, Water and Environmental Science.