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News & Events 2008
Dr. William Vencill Receives Award at 2008 WSSA Annual Meeting (posted 02.15.08)
Dr. William Vencill has been named the 2008 Outstanding Reviewer by the Weed Science Society of America. This award was announced on February 4. 2008, at the WSSA Annual Meeting in Chicago, IL.
Chompunut Chayawat Wins 4th in Graduate Student Poster Competition (posted 02.15.08)
Chompunut Chayawat won 4th place in the student poster competition at the ASA Southern Branch Annual Meeting, held in Dallas, TX, February 3-5, 2008. Chompunut, who is jointly advised by Dr. Monique Leclerc at our Griffin campus and Dr. Chuckree Senthong of Chiang Mai University in Thailand, presented a poster entitled "Response of Soil CO2 Efflux to Rainfall Variability in Wheat and Peanut Fields." Her work, done in collaboration with Dr. John Beasley, has been funded by the Peanut Foundation and the Peanut Commission.
AMS Award Goes to Professor M. Y. Leclerc (posted 02.15.08)
At the American Meteorological Society's Annual Meeting in New Orleans, LA, January 2008, Dr. Monique Leclerc received the national award for Outstanding Achievement in Biometeorology. The American Meteorological Society Council voted to give Professor Leclerc this award for "pioneering research that has advanced our understanding of temporal and spatial patterns of local and regional carbon exchanges, and for global leadership in advancement of biometeorology."
CRSS Graduate Program Ranks in Top 10 Nationally (posted 01.31.08)
As reported by the Chronicle of Higher Education and the UGA Columns, the 3rd annual Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index, provided by Academic Analytics, has ranked the UGA Crop & Soil Doctoral program among the nation's Top 10 most productive graduate programs.
Dr. Andrew Paterson Receives 2007 Cotton Genetics Research Award (posted 01.15.08)
On Thursday, January 10, 2008, CRSS's own Dr. Andy Paterson was awarded the 2007 Cotton Genetics Research Award. Please click here to read the National Cotton Council of America press release.