Complex sentence: He was the baccalaureate speaker at the 2013 Rhodes College commencement ceremonies and received the 2015 William L. Brown Award for Excellence in Genetic Resource Conservation from the Missouri Botanical Garden.
Split into simpler sentences: He was the baccalaureate speaker at the 2013 Rhodes College commencement ceremonies. In 2015 he received the William L. Brown Award for Excellence in Genetic Resource Conservation from the Missouri Botanical Garden.