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"Farm housing in short supply", Burlington Free Press - July 1, 2009
Dr.s Sarah Lovell and Don Ross featured in January '09 edition of Reflections on Water newsletter (pdf)
Ph.D. student Dan Erikson helps with "MillionTreesNYC" campaign - December 3, 2008
PSS seniors Claire Garner and Ben Crockett plan for 2009 'Veggie CSA' - November 20, 2008
Deb Neher studies the impact of climate change on biological soil crust - September 22, 2008
Construction scheduled to begin on the new Plant Sciences building - Spring 2008
Great marketing for PSS 028 - A Bug's Life, November 2007
Jeanne Fossani passes away, October 24, 2007
The Tiller - PSS Newsletter, Volume 2, Issue 1 , Fall 2007 (pdf)
Dr. Scott Costa discusses biological control innovation - patent
pending
(video 5 min.)
(download pdf)
AGM06 - Innovation Marketplace Award
The Tiller - PSS Newsletter, Volume 1, Issue 1 , Fall 2006 (pdf)
Flowers are judged at the 2006 Champlain Valley Fair
Reopening of the Horticulture Club Educational Gardens - August 28, 2006
UVM-trained master gardeners are helping communities statewide - The View, August 24, 2006
PSS in the news on WCAX "Crop Classroom" - August 14, 2006
Ecological Agriculture Seminar Series, Fall 2005 (pdf)
PSS in the News, 11/27/04 - "Watch Out For Tree Killer" (pdf)
Plant and Soil Science Welcomes New Department Chair
People's Choice Award : University of Vermont and the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) for A Decade of Cooperation on Sunn Pest Management. The Sunn Pest refers to a group of insects that inject saliva into wheat, causing an extensive breakdown of the gluten and greatly reducing the baking quality of flour made from damaged wheat. Sunn Pest is prevalent in parts of North Africa, throughout West Asia and in many states of Central Asia. This partnership developed insect-killing fungi for biological control as well as novel screening methods to identify resistance in wheat.
Pictured left to right: Bruce Parker (University of Vermont), Mustafa
Bohssini (ICARDA), Franklin Moore (USAID), Margaret Skinner (University of
Vermont), Kathy Sierra and Ruth Haug.
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Professors Mark Starrett and Leonard Perry judge flowers at the 2006
Champlain Valley Fair.
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Ribbon cutting at the grand reopening of the Horticulture Club Educational
Gardens. Pictured left to right: Jonathan Mejia, Deb Neher, Rosemarie Leland,
David Heleba, Josie Davis, Mark Starrett and Sarah White.
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Deborah Neher started with the department of Plant and Soil Science
on September 1, 2004. Her area of interest is soil ecology.
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Pictured with truck is (left) John Hoogenboom, President of the
Friends of the Horticulture Farm. Mark Starrett is receiving keys to the truck which The
Friends donated in May to PSS specifically for use by Common Ground Student Farm and the
UVM Horticulture Club.
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