George Abawi

George S. Abawi is a professor of Plant Pathology and International Agriculture at Cornell University. He received his MSc. And Ph.D. degrees from Cornell. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow in Plant Nematology at Cornell from 1970 to 1972, after which he was appointed as a faculty member in the Department of Plant Pathology at the NYS Agric. Expt. Station, Cornell - Geneva. The major area of his research responsibility deals with Vegetable Pathology, with emphasis on the biology and the integrated management of root diseases caused by pathogenic fungi and plant-parasitic nematodes. 

Special interests are in soil health issues and tropical pathology and international agriculture in general. 

Sabbatical leaves have been with the University of California at Davis, University of Illinois at Urbana, North Carolina State University at Raleigh, and the International Tropical Research Center (CIAT) in Cali, Colombia (SA).