14 graduate students earn fellowships and awards Wednesday, November 8, 2023
![Fourteen Department of Agronomy and Horticulture graduate students were honored with awards and fellowships.](https://agronomy.unl.edu/styles/large/public/images/news/ARD-CASNR-awards-2023-NEWS.jpg?itok=0yZMbnbX)
Fourteen Department of Agronomy and Horticulture graduate students were honored with awards and fellowships from the Agricultural Research Division, College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, Office of Graduate Studies, Water for Food, and the North Central Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education.
Shohei Oguro received the Hardin Distinguished Graduate Fellowship. This fellowship is awarded to outstanding graduate students and supports research in plant physiology with particular emphasis on genetic mechanisms influencing plant responses to stress conditions.
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Uden researching and teaching on spatial tools to equip land managers Thursday, November 2, 2023
![Dan Uden, on right, helps Trace Stauble, a graduate student in agronomy, use GPS technology to collect grassland data.](https://agronomy.unl.edu/styles/large/public/images/news/Dan_Uden_Trace_Stauble1.jpg?itok=oEugjK7P)
Growing Together Multi-State Collaborative, featuring Nebraska Extension, earns National Excellence in Extension Team Award Wednesday, November 1, 2023
![The Growing Together Multi-State Collaborative, a regional food and nutrition program whose partners include Nebraska Extension, has received a national award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. USDA's National Institute of Food and Agriculture saluted the initiative with the National Extension Excellence Team Award.](https://agronomy.unl.edu/styles/large/public/images/news/4Award.png?itok=a96rkgWP)
Nebraska researcher receives inaugural Heroes Award Tuesday, October 31, 2023
![Katherine Frels](https://agronomy.unl.edu/styles/large/public/images/news/PortraitBackground-Frels_0.png?itok=A4ETPDuC)
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Meredith striving to depolarize STEM research for impact Tuesday, October 24, 2023
![Gwendŵr Meredith](https://agronomy.unl.edu/styles/large/public/images/news/Gwendwr_Meredith_9.jpg?itok=w4dLrGeW)
From Seed to Seed, A Pictorial Story Showing How a Bean Plant Grows Friday, October 20, 2023
![Red kidney bean.](https://agronomy.unl.edu/styles/large/public/images/news/bean-plant-16x9.jpg?itok=gI5mnniL)
Have you ever seen how a bean grows up?
“From Seed to Seed, A Pictorial Story Showing How a Bean Plant Grows” is the newest publication from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s Plant and Soil Sciences eLibrary. It is an online picture book showing the day-by-day story of how a red kidney bean grows up, flowers and produces one of the staples in the diet of many peoples in many countries.
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Xu continues in department researching maize genetics and genomics Thursday, October 19, 2023
![Gen Xu](https://agronomy.unl.edu/styles/large/public/images/news/XuGen_4303-edited_2000px.jpg?itok=A23cRzi0)
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Schnable selected as Nebraska Corn Checkoff Presidential Chair Thursday, October 19, 2023
![James Schnable](https://agronomy.unl.edu/styles/large/public/images/news/Schnable_Corn.jpg?itok=eisQExr4)
Nebraska students win 2023 Regional Collegiate Soil Judging Contest Tuesday, October 17, 2023
![Nebraska students win 2023 Regional Collegiate Soil Judging Contest.](https://agronomy.unl.edu/styles/large/public/images/news/IMG_6097-16x9.jpg?itok=V6CVMuv9)
For the second year in a row the University of Nebraska–Lincoln Soil Judging Team won first-place overall at the Region 5 Collegiate Soil Judging Contest Oct. 1 to 6. South Dakota State University hosted the contest, which was held in the northern Black Hills near Sturgis, South Dakota.
Students and teams earn awards for the individual portion and as a team overall. Scores from both individual and team portions are used to determine overall team rankings.
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Lincoln to host North American conference on invasive species management Wednesday, October 11, 2023
![The 2023 North American Invasive Species Management Association annual conference will be held Oct. 16-19 in Lincoln.](https://agronomy.unl.edu/styles/large/public/images/news/NAISMA.jpg?itok=JJXEeZAu)
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