Becky Young
Assistant Professor of Practice Agronomy & Horticulture University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Contact
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PLSH 362G
Lincoln NE 68583-0915 - Phone
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402-472-1583 On-campus 2-1583
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ryoung@unl.edu
Area of Expertise: Soil and Water Sciences
Area of Focus: Soil Science
Education
B.S., Geography, University of Wisconsin – Platteville, 2009
M.S., Natural Resource Science, University of Nebraska – Lincoln, 2011
Ph.D., Natural Resource Science (specialization in Soil Science), University of Nebraska – Lincoln, 2015
Research/Teaching Interests
- Teaching methods
- Developing learning tools
- Soils and geomorphology, landscape changes
Honors and Awards
The Charles E. Bessey Award for Natural Science, Great Plains Research, 2013
Holling Family Early Achievement Faculty Award, University of Nebraska–Lincoln CASNR, 2022
Courses Taught
- Soil Resources, PLAS/SOIL 153
- Soil Evaluation, PLAS/NRES/SOIL 279
- Advanced Soil Evaluation, PLAS/NRES/SOIL 379
- Geography Field Tour, GEOG 497/897
- AGRI 310 (Study Tours in International Agriculture)