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Roger Breeze was selected as the associate administrator for special research programs in the Agricultural Research Service. This is a newly-created position in ARS to develop interagency research programs across the federal government to counter terrorist threats against U.S. agriculture and the U.S. food supply system. The position also manages non-proliferation research programs with scientists in Kazakhstan and Russia who were formerly engaged in biological weapons research, as these programs involve agriculture and food safety-related research beneficial to the U.S. and the cooperating country.

From 1996 until his selection, Breeze served as the director of ARS’s South Atlantic Area, based in Athens, Ga. The February 1997 issue of the USDA News carried his complete biographical sketch, following his selection to that position.