LAURELS: Catching Up With the Department of Plant Sciences

Belated recognition for faculty of the Department of Plant Sciences, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences:

• Fredrick Bliss (emeritus), Lifetime Achievement Award, National Association of Plant Breeders, 2020
• Paul Gepts, International Crop Science Award, Crop Science Society of America, 2020
• Patrick H. Brown, Dennis R. Hoagland and Leo M. Walsh Soil Fertility Distinguished Lectureship, Soil Science Society of America, 2021; and Norman Borlaug Plant Nutrition Award, International Fertilizer Association, 2022

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  Jennifer Funk, inaugural Barbara D. Webster Scholar Award, Department of Plant Sciences (the award is named after the first woman to join the faculty of the Department of Agronomy, now part of the Department of Plant Sciences), 2021
• Troy Magney, Early Career Award, American Society of Plant Biologists, 2021
• E. Charles Brummer, Honorary Membership, North American Alfalfa Improvement Conference, 2022
• Louise Ferguson, Barbara D. Webster Scholar Award, Department of Plant Sciences, 2022
• Paul Smith (emeritus), honored as “the recognized authority on the taxonomy and genetics of peppers,” International Pepper Conference, 2022
• Jorge Dubcovsky and lab, Frank N. Meyer Medal for Plant Genetic Resources, Crop Science Society of America, 2023

... and one for the Conservation Agriculture Systems Innovation (CASI) Center, recipient of the Conservation Innovation Award from the Soil and Water Conservation Society, 2022.

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