Gary M. Hill, professor of animal science from UGA’s Tifton campus, recently received the Distinguished Service Award from the Southern section of the American Society of Animal Science. The organization includes livestock research, extension and teaching professionals from 12 Southern states. Hill is the current beef cattle coordinator for the 450-cow herd at the Tifton campus and conducts cow-calf grazing research, stocker grazing and by-product feeding research, and beef cattle digestibility and feedlot finishing experiments.