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CAES-led research team receives $15.8M to modify poplar for bioproducts
A multidisciplinary team of researchers at the University of Georgia and two partner institutions have been awarded a $15.8 million grant over five years from the U.S. Department of Energy to reengineer poplar trees to be used as a sustainable energy source. The researchers will use biotechnology approaches to breed the trees as a multipurpose crop that can be used for bioenergy, biomaterial and bioproduct alternatives to petroleum-based materials.
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CAES produces Ph.D. plant breeders ready for top green industry jobs
Recent data shows that the University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences produced the third-most plant-breeding Ph.D. graduates between 2015 and 2020. With over 80% of alumni employed at public or private institutions, the plant breeding, genetics and genomics Ph.D. program also ranked highly for its graduate employment rate.
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Extension Excellence
Knox Receives 2022 D.W. Brooks Award

Pam Knox, an agricultural climatologist with University of Georgia Cooperative Extension and CRSS faculty member specializing in weather and climate variability impacts on agriculture, was awarded the 2022 D.W. Brooks Faculty Award for Excellence in Extension.

Knox is the director of the UGA Weather Network, managing a group of 88 automated weather stations across the state that provide weather and climate data to farmers, utilities, Extension agents and private citizens. The network also helps support the National Weather Service by providing real-time weather information in hazardous weather outbreaks to support public safety initiatives.

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Student Achievement


 

The Crop and Soil Sciences' Student Spotlight

We're proud of our students and want to show them off.

Next up: Mary Logan Tostenson!

 

Student Spotlight 2022

 

Students Triumph at 2022 ASA-CSSA-SSSA International Annual Meeting held in Baltimore, MD

Precision Ag Systems MS Oral Competition

  • 1st: Amrit Pokhrel (co-advisors: Dr. Virk and Dr. Snider)
  • 2nd: Matt Tucker (advisor: Dr. Virk)
  • 3rd: Madan Sapkota (advisor: Dr. Virk)

Precision Ag Systems MS Poster Competition

  • 1st: Madan Sapkota (advisor: Dr. Virk)
  • 2nd: Michael Goodnight (advisor: Dr. Virk)
  • 3rd: Matt Tucker (advisor: Dr. Virk)

C05 Turfgrass Science Division, Turfgrass Pest Management Graduate Student Oral Competition

  • 1st: Erick Begitschke (PhD with Dr. Henry)

C5 Turfgrass Science Division in Turfgrass Management and Ecology Poster

  • 2nd: Julie Wang  (PhD with Dr. Henry)

Global Change Community of the Agronomy Society of America Graduate Student Competition

  • 3rd: Navneet Kaur (advisor: Dr. Snider)

Cover Crop Management Oral Presentations I

  • 1st: Maria Teresa Tancredi (PhD with Dr. Jenn Thompson)

C1 (Crop Breeding & Genetics) Division Poster Competition

  • 1st: Shreena Pradhan (advised by Dr. Devos)

C7 (Genomics, Molecular Genetics & Biotechnology) Division Poster Competition

  • 1st: Hallie Wright (advised by Dr. Devos)
ASA Soil Health Community Oral Presentation
  • 2nd: Chandler Gruener (PhD with Matt Levi)

 

Dirt Dawgs Place 3rd in 2022 Regional Competition

The UGA collegiate soil judging team - the Dirt Dawgs - took 3rd place at the annual Southeastern Region Collegiate Soil Judging contest hosted by Clemson University from Oct. 17-20, 2022. Two UGA students were in the top ten (Christine Melley – 7th and Therese Thompson – 10th). Other top finishers included Austin Wiggins and Skyler Ellis.

The top six teams (out of 12) included:

  1. Auburn University
  2. Virginia Tech
  3. University of Georgia
  4. University of Tennessee
  5. Western Kentucky University
  6. North Carolina State University

The team now qualifies for the national collegiate soil judging contest to be hosted by Oklahoma State University in the March of 2023. Way to go Dirt Dawgs!

Above Photo, left to right: Dr. Matt Levi, Austin Wiggins, Therese Thompson (10th place individual), Christine Melley (7th place individual), Skyler Ellis, and Shea Hoffman (Warnell graduate student and assistant coach).

College of AG Events

The Preventive Controls Rule requires that each facility have Preventive Control Qualified Individuals for the development and implementation of Hazard Analysis and Risk-based Preventive Controls for Human Foods. This course provides the required training. The curriculum is designed for food industry professionals with responsibility for the development and implementation of a food safety plan. Attendees who complete the course will be recognized as Preventive Controls Qualified Individuals (PCQI). This two-and-a-half-day course was developed by the Food Safety Preventive Controls Alliance, a broad-based public-private alliance created by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Illinois Institute of Technology’s Institute for Food Safety and Health (IFSH) in cooperation with the Association of Food and Drug Officials. This training will take place in Athens, Georgia on November 29th - Dec. 1st.   Registration closes on 11/22 at 4:00 pm. 
Nov 29
11/29 8:00AM - 12/01 12:00PM Preventative Controls Qualified Individuals Workshop Food Science, ATHENS, GA
Private event.
Nov 30
11/30 7:00AM - 12/02 5:00PM GA Milestones EOC Assessments UGA Tifton Campus Conference Center, Tifton, GA
Photovoltaic Solar Panels and Greenhouse Crop ProductionParker Persons, MS research proposalpresenting from the Athens campus Wednesday, November 303:00pm – 3:30pmThree available in-person meeting locations. 1205 Miller Plant Sciences (Athens), 111 Student, Learning Center (Griffin), and the Conference Room-Horticulture building (Tifton) Email mariatwedt@uga.edu for zoom link which is only provided to UGA personnel, students and colleagues.
Nov 30
3:00PM - 4:00PM Horticulture Graduate Seminar: Photovoltaic Solar Panels and Greenhouse Crop Production Miller Plant Science, ATHENS, GA
Ways to view: Athens: CAGT Room 128 - Attend seminar in person Athens: Miller Plant Sciences 3113 - Watch the Zoom feed Griffin: 102 SLC - Join your colleagues and watch the Zoom feed Tifton: 125 NESPAL - Join your colleagues and watch the Zoom feed  Click to Join the Zoom Meeting Meeting ID: 986 4585 7572 Passcode: 875206 Note: Users must login through their UGA Zoom accounts before joining the meeting.
Dec 01
4:00PM - 5:00PM PBGG Seminar: CRISPRing: Gene Editing to Accelerate Plant Breeding by Vinavi Lakshman Center For Applied Genetic Technologies, ATHENS, GA
Join us for the annual UGArden Holiday Herb Market
Dec 03
10:00AM - 2:00PM UGArden Annual Holiday Herb Market UGArden Student Farm, Athens, GA
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