Plant and Soil Sciences
Favorable outlook for a career in Plant and Soil Sciences
LEXINGTON, Ky., (030812) According to the Department of Labor (“Occupational Outlook Handbook 2010-11 Edition”“) Job growth among agricultural and food scientists should be faster than average for all occupations. Opportunities are expected to be good over the next decade… in agronomy.” “Job growth will stem primarily from efforts to increase the quantity and quality of food....” Read more.
Plant Biochemistry Faculty Leads International Research Consortium
LEXINGTON, Ky., (12152011) Professor Joe Chappell leads the NIH funded and internationally staffed Medicinal Plant Consortium (MPC) whose task is "to study how the genes of plants contribute to production of various chemical compounds, some of which are medicinally important."
PSS Soil Biochemist Elected Chair of National Advisory Board
LEXINGTON, Ky., (12082011) Paul Bertsch, professor in soil biochemistry and director of UK’s Tracy Farmer Institute for Sustainability and the Environment, was elected chair of the Council of Scientific Society Presidents at its recent semi-annual meeting in Washington, D.C. ... Continued here.
Wheat Professor Honored as Fellow by CSSA and ASA
LEXINGTON, Ky., (09152011)
David Van Sanford has been selected a Fellow of the Crop Science Society of America and the American Society of Agronomy.
Fellows are nominated by colleagues to receive these honors. Only 0.3 percent of the members in each society receive this recognition. He will be recognized along with other honorees during the national societies’ annual meetings Oct. 16-19 in San Antonio....
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2011 Distinguished Alumni
By Todd Pfeiffer. LEXINGTON, Ky., (03172011) We are pleased to announce that this year’s recipient of the Department of Plant and Soil Sciences graduate programs Distinguished Alumni Award is Dr. Dale Blevins. In 1972 Dr. Blevins received his PhD in Plant Physiology from the University of Kentucky for his dissertation “The influence of nitrate metabolism on iron uptake and ionic balance in barley seedlings” under the guidance of Dr. A.J. Hiatt. . Read the complete news item here.
Department faculty members participate in the Interdisciplinary Plant and Soil Sciences graduate program along with four undergraduate programs: Agricultural Biotechnology; Horticulture, Plant and Soil Sciences; Natural Resources and Environmental Science; Sustainable Agriculture. In addition, there are numerous extension and research programs in the department.