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Soil Judging Team brings home gold Tuesday, September 25, 2018
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln Soil Judging Team dug right into the Region 5 Soil Judging Competition from Sept. 17 to 21 in Manhattan, Kansas, walking out covered in grit and quite a bit of glory, having beaten seven other teams for a first-place overall win, three individual awards and a third-place team finish.

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Applications being accepted for the Baltzell Student Innovation Award Thursday, September 6, 2018
Applications are now being accepted for the Robert and Karla Baltzell Student Innovation Award. The fund aims to provide research support to undergraduate and graduate students studying critical questions at the intersection of water and livestock, animal feed and/or crops.

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Blessington attends 2018 U.S. Borlaug Summer Institute on Global Food Security Wednesday, September 5, 2018
Brooke Blessington with Dr. Gebisa Ejeta, 2009 World Food Prize Laureate, at the 2018 U.S. Borlaug Summer Institute on Global Food Security.
Brooke Blessington, a University of Nebraska–Lincoln graduate student in the Department of Agronomy and Horticulture distance program, was selected to attend the 2018 U.S. Borlaug Summer Institute on Global Food Security, June 3-16 at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana.

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PSEP’s Ogg, Hygnstrom earn national awards Thursday, August 30, 2018
Clyde Ogg, PSEP coordinator, received the AAPSE Fellow Award and Jan Hygnstrom, PSEP project manager, received the AAPSE Professional Recognition Award on Aug. 21 during the 2018 National Pesticide Applicator Certification and Safety Education Workshop in San Antonio.

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Martha Mamo named head of Agronomy and Horticulture Department Tuesday, August 28, 2018
Martha Mamo
Martha Mamo has been named head of the Agronomy and Horticulture Department at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, effective Jan. 1, 2019. Mamo currently serves as interim associate department head and Weaver Professor of Agronomy and Horticulture.

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Nebraska professors honored as part of multistate research committee Thursday, August 23, 2018
Ellen Paparozzi
University of Nebraska–Lincoln Professors Ellen Paparozzi, agronomy and horticulture, and George Meyer, biological systems engineering, received the 2018 Award for Excellence in Multistate Research as part of the Technical Committee of NE1335, Resource Management in Commercial Greenhouse Production.

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Happ attends 2018 U.S. Borlaug Summer Institute on Global Food Security Thursday, August 16, 2018
Mary Happ, a University of Nebraska–Lincoln agronomy doctoral student specializing in plant breeding and genetics, was one of 40 selected to attend the 2018 U.S. Borlaug Summer Institute on Global Food Security, June 3-16 at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana.

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Teaching Impacts in Agronomy and Horticulture Tuesday, August 14, 2018
Teaching Impacts in Agronomy and Horticulture is a series this summer, highlighting teaching faculty and learning approaches in the Department of Agronomy and Horticulture, College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources.

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180 Attend 2018 Glyphosate-Resistant Palmer amaranth Management Field Day Tuesday, August 7, 2018
The Glyphosate-resistant Palmer amaranth Management Field Day, organized and led by Amit Jhala, agronomy and horticulture associate professor and extension weed management specialist, was held July 11 near Carleton, Nebraska. A total of 180 attended the field day, including growers, crop consultants, extension educators, graduate students, industry representatives and other clientele.

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Read chosen as chair-elect to national viticulture society Friday, July 27, 2018
Paul Read
Professor Paul Read, professor of agronomy and horticulture and viticulturist, was selected as chair-elect of the American Society for Enology and Viticulture – Eastern Section July 9 at the society’s 43rd Annual Conference held in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania.

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