The first chapter of Emmanuel Cooper’s MS thesis entitled “Evaluation of critical weed-free period for three sweetpotato (Ipomoea batatas) cultivars,” was recently accepted and published by Weed Science. The journal article is co-authored by HLA members Stephen Meyers, Ashley Adair, and Jeanine Arana as well as Katie Jennings from North Carolina State University and Kevin Gibson and Bill Johnson from the Purdue University Department of Botany and Plant Pathology. This research was funded by a USDA-NIFA-OREI grant. The full article is available here: https://doi.org/10.1017/wsc.2024.15.