I have received several honors and awards for my work on the genetic and environmental factors affecting variation for quantitative traits, including the Genetics Society of America Medal; the O. Max Gardner Award from the University of North Carolina; the North Carolina Award for Science; the Alexander Quarles Holladay Medal for Excellence from North Carolina State University; the Alumni Outstanding Research Award from the College of Sciences, North Carolina State University; the Wolf Prize for Agriculture and the Dawson Prize in Genetics from Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. I am a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Academy of Arts and Science, the Royal Society of London and the US National Academy of Sciences.