Dr. Dickey is fortunate to have tremendous support from both faculty and stakeholders across Nebraska as he embarks on his exciting new assignment. Dickey is a professor of biological systems engineering. He joined the IANR faculty in 1978 with extension and research appointments in soil and water conservation. He was named assistant dean of extension in 1991 and became associate extension dean in 1998. Before joining NU, he was at the University of Illinois, where he earned bachelor's, master's and doctorate degrees in agricultural engineering.
Dickey is a nationally recognized leader in conservation tillage.
He earned the Great Plains Agricultural Council's Distinguished Service Award for conservation tillage. Other honors include receiving the 1996 Education and Research Person of the Year recognition from the Nebraska Fertilizer and Ag Chemical Institute and the Award for Agricultural Excellence from the Midlands chapter of the National Agri-Marketing Association. Dickey was a national co-leader of an extension initiative on managing change in agriculture. He has received the Nebraska Cooperative Extension Association's Distinguished Service Award. He twice has won the Excellence in Team Programming Award from NU Cooperative Extension.