Rebecca J Theller

Agricultural Communication Service

Manager of Design and Editorial Services
Manager of The Education Store

Phone

765.494.0461

Fax

765.496.1117

Office

AGAD Room 206

goetz@purdue.edu

Rebecca Theller is the coordinator for the Publishing Unit and Education Store. She also consults with and edits material for Purdue Agriculture's Office of Academic Programs and the Office of Multicultural Programs. Theller joined the Agricultural Communication Department in 1991 as a science writer and editor of a quarterly tabloid. In 2001, she moved from the writing to the editing staff. She became coordinator of Publishing in 2009 and coordinator for The Education Store in 2011. From 1986 to 1991 she was a preveterinary medicine student counselor and outreach coordinator for science teachers for the Office of Academic Programs. She also has been a writer and illustrator in the Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, an admissions counselor for Heidelberg College in Tiffin, Ohio, and a high school general science teacher. Theller earned a bachelor's degree in biology and education from Heidelberg University and a master of agriculture degree from Purdue in horticulture and journalism.

Awards & Honors

(2009) Accolade Award of Merit, "Live Television Events". Accolade, www.accoladecompetition.org.

(2008) Silver Award, Direct Mail. Association for Communication Excellence in Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Life and Human Sciences (ACE).

(2007) Gold Award, Critique and Awards Program, Print: Advertisement 2007. Association for Communication Excellence in Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Life and Human Sciences (ACE).

(2007) Silver Award, Critique and Awards Program, Direct Mail 2007. Association for Communication Excellence in Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Life and Human Sciences (ACE).

(2006) ANREP Bronze Award, Video/DVD/CD, 2006 -- 50 Trees of Indiana. Association of Natural Resource Extension Professionals.

(2005) Bronze Award - Overall Production 2005. Garden Writer's Association.

(2005) Gold Award 2005. Association for Communication Excellence in Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Life and Human Sciences (ACE).

(2005) Gold Award, Non-credit Eductional Project 2005. Association for Communication Excellence in Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Life and Human Sciences.

(2005) Outstanding Extension Educational Materials Award 2005. American Society for Horticultural Science.

(2004) Gold Award, Critique and Awards Program, External Communications Programs 2004. Association for Communication Excellence in Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Life and Human Sciences.