Brad Howe, design director of SCAPE, delivered Olinger Lecture on Thursday evening, 02/09. The two projects featured, Living Breakwaters (Staten Islands, NY) and Tom Lee Park (Memphis, TN), are great examples of SCAPE’s cutting-edge landscape architecture projects that enhance ecological resilience and build up social cohesion within the context.


New paper from the Hoagland Lab led by former graduate student Narda Trivino, titled ‘Carrot genotypes differentially alter soil bacterial communities and decomposition of plant residue in soil’, was published in the journal Plant and Soil (https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-023-05892-0). The long-term goal of this research described in this paper is to develop new carrot cultivars with better…Read more about Hoagland Lab Published New Paper[Read More]


Liz Maynard is co-PI on a newly funded AgSEED project led by Dan Quinn (AGRY) titled “improving Crop Establishment in Cover Crops Systems through Examination of Modern Planter Technologies.” This project will continue work on no-till planting of sweet corn into killed winter rye cover crop.







Dr. Linda Prokopy will be joining Dr. Christian Krupke (ENTM) and Dr. Thomas Hertel (AGEC) for this month’s Coffee and Conversation, presented by Agricultural Research and Graduate Education on February 20, 10:30-11:30 in Pfendler Hall, Leopold’s Landing.  The topic this month will be Sustainability in Agriculture.



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