Military Decorations: Distinguished Flying Cross, Bronze Star, Air Medal with 16 Oak Leaf Clusters, Army Commendation Medal with "V" Device, Purple Heart, Certificate of Merit.Outstanding Session Paper Awards, Division C-5 (Turfgrass), Crop Science Society of America, 1976 and 1977.
Outstanding Achievement Award, Researcher/Educator Category, Weeds, Trees and Turf Magazine, 1977.
Testimonial, Golf Course Superintendents' Association of America, 1977.
Incomplete List of Excellent Teachers, University of Illinois, 1978 and 1979.
Administrative Staff Award, Tru Green Corporation, 1984.
Elected to Fellow, Crop Science Society of America, 1988.
Distinguished Service Award, Illinois Turfgrass Foundation, 1988.
Elected to Fellow, American Society of Agronomy, 1989.
Presidential Award, Nebraska Turfgrass Foundation, 1992.
USDA Excellence in Teaching Award Nominee, 1994, 1996, and 1998.
Certificate of Excellence for Computer Software, American Society of Agronomy, 1996.
Outstanding Leadership Award, Agricultural Distance Education Consortium , 1997.
Teaching Award, Northeast Branch of the American Society of Agronomy and Soil Science Society of America, 1998.
National American Distance Education Consortium Award for Excellence in Distance Education, 2000.
Exemplary WebCT Course Award, 2000.
Fred V. Grau Turfgrass Science Award, Crop Science Society of America, 2002.
Outstanding Teaching Award, Penn State World Campus, 2002.
ADEC Distance Education Award for Outstanding Educational Program, 2004.
Selected as one of the top ten contributors to turfgrass science in the past 50 years by members of the Turfgrass Science (C-5) Division of the Crop Science Society of America in 2005 (Shearman, R.C. 2006. Fifty years of splendor in the grass. Crop Science 46:2218-2229).
Most Outstanding Online Teaching & Learning Program, Excellence in Online Teaching & Learning Awards Program, Sloan Consortium, 2006.
Harbaugh Scholar, College of Agricultural Sciences, Penn State University, 2006 and 2007.