Cristian Salinas joined the Ayllu Agtech Bootcamp at FAO for Latin America and the Caribbean in Santiago (Chile). As part of a FAO bootcamp to train rural youth professionals in Ag innovation and sustainability for Latin America, Cristian Salinas, PhD student at Hoagland’s Lab, was one of the 15 selected over almost 10.000 applicants to…Read more about Cristian Salinas Participated in Ayllu Agtech Bootcamp[Read More]
Dr. Cary Mitchell will be in Arlington, Virginia November 13-16 to serve on a Human Systems grant proposal peer-review panel for the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program. NIAC strives to identify and develop novel system-of-systems architectures that can enable entirely new space missions or greatly enhance existing ones, with potential ground-based spinoff or Earth…Read more about Dr. Cary Mitchell to Serve on NASA Grant Proposal Peer-Review Panel[Read More]
Thanks to student gardeners Madeline Terrones (Junior, HLA/Public Horticulture), Eleanor Hicks (Junior, HLA/Public Horticulture), and Rebekah Brettschneider (Sophomore, BTNY/Plant Science) with HLA graduate student volunteer Ishraq Awashri, who have been working through the fall semester in the Jules Janick Horticulture Garden. They are currently cleaning up the garden and preparing for spring bulb planting.
Henrique Feiler, Kathleen Zapf, and Lily Berry attended the 2023 ASA-CSSA-SSSA International Annual Meeting in St. Louis, Missouri October 29-November 1. They attended several lectures on topics related to the soil microbiome and heavy metal bioavailability, phenotyping technologies, and crop science updates. Henrique and Kathleen presented posters on their research. The group also visited the…Read more about HLA Graduate Students Attended ASA-CSSA-SSSA Meeting[Read More]
Widhalm lab undergraduate research students Shoshana Keim and Lauryn Rhodes each received CATE Undergraduate Research Funding awards from the College of Agriculture. Shoshana and Lauryn are working on separate projects to investigate juglone metabolism alongside their graduate student mentor, George Meyer.