LAURELS: Catching Up With the Department of Plant Sciences
by Dateline Staff
Belated recognition for faculty of the Department of Plant Sciences, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences:
Fredrick Bliss (emeritus), , National Association of Plant Breeders, 2020
Paul Gepts,, Crop Science Society of America, 2020
Patrick H. Brown, , Soil Science Society of America, 2021; and , International Fertilizer Association, 2022
Jennifer FunkJennifer Funk,, 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,, American Society of Plant Biologists, 2021
E. Charles Brummer,, North American Alfalfa Improvement Conference, 2022
Louise Ferguson, , Department of Plant Sciences, 2022
Paul Smith (emeritus), International Pepper Conference, 2022
Jorge Dubcovsky and lab,, Crop Science Society of America, 2023
Jeffrey P. Mitchell, professor of Cooperative Extension, leads and helped start the CASI Center, which promotes conservation tillage practices in California.
... and one for the Conservation Agriculture Systems Innovation (CASI) Center, recipient of the from the Soil and Water Conservation Society, 2022.
Dateline UC Davis welcomes news of faculty and staff awards, for publication in Laurels. Send information to dateline@ucdavis.edu.
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Dateline Staff: Dave Jones, editor, 530-752-6556, dateline@ucdavis.edu; Cody Kitaura, News and Media Relations specialist, 530-752-1932, kitaura@ucdavis.edu.
