Duffy chosen for Western Nursery and Landscape Association Student Advisory Committee Wednesday, December 14, 2016
University of Nebraska–Lincoln horticulture major Nathan Duffy has been selected for the Western Nursery and Landscape Association’s Student Advisory Committee. Duffy is one of ten top horticulture students in the Midwest to be invited to join the committee.Read Duffy chosen for Western Nursery and Landscape Association Student Advisory Committee
Study: Maximizing grain yields won't meet future African needs Tuesday, December 13, 2016
Maximizing cereal crop yields in sub-Saharan Africa would still fail to meet the region’s skyrocketing grain demand by 2050, according to a new study from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln including researchers Kenneth Cassman and Patricio Grassini, Wageningen University and multiple African institutions.Urrea receives Omtvedt Innovation Award Thursday, December 8, 2016
Carlos Urrea, University of Nebraska–Lincoln associate professor of agronomy and horticulture was awarded the Omtvedt Innovation Award at the Nebraska East Union on Dec. 1. He is a dry bean breeding specialist located at the Panhandle Research and Extension Center in Scottsbluff, Nebraska.Read Urrea receives Omtvedt Innovation Award
Foster and Wacker awarded 2016 Western Seed Association scholarships Tuesday, December 6, 2016
Kelsey Foster and Paige Wacker, University of Nebraska–Lincoln horticulture and agronomy majors respectively, were awarded 2016 Western Seed Association scholarships at the WSA Banquet in Kansas City on Nov. 7. The WSA scholarships are awarded based on scholarship and an interest in the seed industry.Read Foster and Wacker awarded 2016 Western Seed Association scholarships
USDA Borlaug Fellows begin Nebraska stay Tuesday, December 6, 2016
United States Department of Agriculture Foreign Ag Service Borlaug Fellows, Keziah Ndungu, of Kenya, and Prudence Lugendo, of Tanzania, arrived in September to begin their fellowship at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Their mentors are Professor Charles Wortmann, Department of Agronomy and Horticulture and Tsegaye Tadesse, research associate professor and climatologist in the School of Natural Resources with the National Drought Mitigation Center, respectively.Full story at IANR Global Engagement News
Graduate students take top honors at annual meetings Thursday, December 1, 2016
Leonardo Bastos, Madhav Bhatta, Joel Crowther, Manbir Kaur Rakkar and Michael Sindelar took top honors at the 2016 ASA, CSSA and SSSA International Annual Meeting competitions held Nov. 6–9 in Phoenix, Arizona. Bastos also took top honors at the 46th Annual North Central Extension Industry Soil Fertility Conference in Des Moines, Iowa on Nov. 2.Read Graduate students take top honors at annual meetings
Watch how a Nebraska team created a drone to fight wildfires: BTN LiveBIG Thursday, December 1, 2016
As drones become more commonplace for photography, researchers at Nebraska are looking at how this same technology can make it possible to save lives in the field of wildland firefighting. Through a collaboration with Nebraska’s NIMBUS Lab and its Department of Agronomy and Horticulture (as well as the U.S. Geological Survey), the team created a precision drone that removes humans from the dangerous work of prescribed burns used to control the type of vegetation most likely to fuel dangerous wildfires.Cassman among nation's most highly cited researchers Monday, November 28, 2016
Ken Cassman, emeriti professor of agronomy, was one of four University of Nebraska–Lincoln faculty named to the “Highly Cited Researchers 2016” list. Researchers on the list have generated papers that are in the top one percent of most cited works in their subject area and year of publication.
Nebraska professor instrumental in improving agroecology teaching methods Tuesday, November 22, 2016
In 1998, Charles Francis, University of Nebraska–Lincoln professor of agronomy and horticulture, went on sabbatical leave to the Norwegian University of Life Sciences in Aas, Norway, to begin nearly two decades of working with the Agroecology Teaching Program in the Plant Sciences Department.Read Nebraska professor instrumental in improving agroecology teaching methods