Evangelina Villegas
Evangelina Villegas was the first woman to get the World Food Prize. Mexico’s National institute for Agriculture honored her. The National Polytech Institute titled Villegas as a Distinguished Former Student in 1972. The National Polytechnic Institute’s school of Biological Sciences also honored her six years later. Villegas was added to Alpha Delta Kappa’s List of International Women of Distinction. She received the Lazardo Cardenas medal in 2001.