http://www.pss.okstate.edu/news.xmlNews about Plant and Soil Sciences Department, Oklahoma State University.Englishvickie.brake@okstate.eduwebmaster@mail.pss.okstate.eduMon, 31 Mar 2008 15:09:39 GMTTue, 13 May 2008 14:42:42 GMTDr. Chad Penn just received an award of $9,852 from the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food, and Forestry for a Basic and Applied Research Grant to look at poultry litter utilization.{e61d4792-b298-3761-2b9c-55f34dc4711a}Tue, 13 May 2008 14:42:15 GMTDr. Hailin Zhang was named a Fellow of the American Society of Agronomy!{8453999-80f4-a067-8e7c-c8e3b78570d4}Tue, 13 May 2008 14:41:50 GMTThe Cowboys vs. Cancer team and the Sherrer Squad would like to thank everyone for their great support in the recent American Cancer Society fund raising drive in honor of Gary Sherrer. Thanks to your generosity we passed our goal of $1,000 donated to the American Cancer Society. This money will go a long way in the ongoing teaching, research, and extension work needed to battle cancer.{6ea51b8e-fa0d-aa17-219b-dd766220d733}Tue, 13 May 2008 14:42:42 GMThttp://www.pss.okstate.edu/news/2008/04/24.htmSTILLWATER, Okla. – Morris native Daniel Edmonds was named Oklahoma State University’s Outstanding Master’s Student at the university’s 26th Annual Phoenix Awards ceremonies. The Phoenix Award recognizes exemplary achievement in leadership, scholarship, professional involvement and university and community service.{2306c361-9b1a-15f6-d2ec-540a5d09ff9f}Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:17:06 GMThttp://pss.okstate.edu/news/2008/04/23.htmDaniel Edmonds and Shirley Vincent were recently honored at the 26th Annual Phoenix Awards with the highest awards given to graduate students by Oklahoma State University’s Graduate and Professional Student Government Association and the Graduate College.{f124ea80-c5ce-cdf1-2217-90d8793594}Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:48:59 GMThttp://pss.okstate.edu/news/2008/04/18.htmYesterday, the OSU Student Employee of the Year was announced in a very nice reception opened by Dr. Marlene Strathe and Mr. Gary Clark. Plant and Soil Sciences student employee Katy Brookman was one of six finalists for the award.{aa6731d2-2f11-ea92-af62-30c52f5dc29a}Fri, 18 Apr 2008 16:04:30 GMThttp://pss.okstate.edu/news/2008/04/16b.htmDaniel Edmonds received the outstanding M.S. student award (Phoenix Award) for all of OSU. He is the first Plant and Soil Sciences student to ever receive the award, and only the third from DASNR since the 1980’s.Student{d1ba4263-563b-72c1-d859-63f03c508500}Thu, 17 Apr 2008 22:04:37 GMThttp://www.pss.okstate.edu/news/2008/04/16.htmSTILLWATER, Okla. – The continuing education of Oklahoma State University agriculture students was made a little easier on April 4, when $434,100 in scholarships and awards were presented by the College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources.Student{3f947f14-5175-8e65-4706-eb0a9bf9f35e}Thu, 17 Apr 2008 14:30:09 GMThttp://www2.dasnr.okstate.edu/Members/donald.stotts-40okstate.edu/osu-agriculture-regional-experience-a-2018huge-success2019STILLWATER, Okla. – Agronomy, soils and environmental sciences students from across the region came to Stillwater, had fun while learning a lot and went away impressed, thanks in large part to Oklahoma State University’s Agronomy Club. Student{b2c07e20-c89a-27c7-87a8-6fa2467b77a}Wed, 16 Apr 2008 15:06:13 GMThttp://pss.okstate.edu/news/2008/04/09.htmSavannah is the sixth OSU student ever to receive this scholarship. Although Savannah is majoring in Environmental Science, we in Plant and Soil Sciences consider her one of our own. She is currently working in Dr. Chad Penn’s environmental soil chemistry lab and is planning to continue with her Masters degree in PaSS.Student{558549d0-7bd8-8bc-72e1-5004cc78f067}Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:48:42 GMThttp://pss.okstate.edu/news/2008/04/07.htmSASES is an undergraduate student organization of the American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America and Soil Science Society of America. It is composed of chapters located at colleges and universities...Student{abeab958-8d53-b8e-f34e-de8576d992bf}Mon, 07 Apr 2008 16:42:47 GMThttp://pss.okstate.edu/news/2008/04/04.htmJack Holt, Oklahoma A&M Agronomy class of ’59, donates a photo of Pistol Pete and cheerleaders standing on the north side of the football field in the fall of 1958. Jack is standing just to the right of the police officer on the left side of the photo (wearing gray coat).Alumni{9991fd2c-26fa-ceb6-f864-88451c40a47a}Mon, 07 Apr 2008 16:42:56 GMThttp://pss.okstate.edu/news/2008/04/02.htmThis $2,500 scholarship from Annie’s Homegrown is part of a total of $50,000 in scholarship assistance awarded each year to some very deserving students.Graduate Student{19b53513-adb2-ed6e-8cec-822b6293f4c6}Wed, 02 Apr 2008 21:06:00 GMThttp://pss.okstate.edu/news/2008/03/26d.htmMs. Katy Brookman, student employee in PaSS, has just been named a finalist for the 2007-2008 OSU Student Employee of the Year! Katy is one of six students campus-wide who made it to the finals. The winner will be announced at a ceremony on Thursday, April 17 {5190e79c-7528-5618-7003-8ca0167d724b}Wed, 26 Mar 2008 20:35:47 GMThttp://www.pass.okstate.edu/news/2008/03/26c.htmThe Sun Grant Initiative is working with the Department of Energy - Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Office of Biomass Program to develop and implement a Regional Biomass Partnership to address barriers associated with the development of a sustainable and predictable supply of biomass feedstocks. As part of the partnership, OSU will perform replicated field trials for the next five years on Oklahoma CRP land to gather biomass production potential and sustainability data of native grasses for assessing potential of Oklahoma CRP land as a bioenergy feedstock resource.Faculty{a93e33cc-d666-fab7-a127-b8464196852}Wed, 26 Mar 2008 20:37:39 GMThttp://pss.okstate.edu/news/2008/03/26b.htmHighlighted are Biofuels, Dr. Yanqi Wu; Small Grains, Dr. Jeff Edwards; and Dr. Chad Godsey, Oklahoma's first statewide No-Till ConferenceFaculty{96809f5-2293-b0c1-d5cd-5e22f88ed9ae}Wed, 26 Mar 2008 21:03:31 GMThttp://www.pass.okstate.edu/news/2008/03/26a.htmJared Crain was just selected to receive a Wentz Research Project for the 2008-2009 academic year! The Lew Wentz Foundation and OSU provide support for the nationally recognized Wentz Research Project awards. This is a one-year research project award ($4,500) given to undergraduate student scholars to conduct independent research with the guidance of a faculty mentor. Jared will be working with Drs. Hattey and Redfearn on a project to compare and contrast the quantity of soil carbon at sites with conventional tillage (or those converted to reduced tillage) to sites with native vegetation, in an effort to determine the potential for Oklahoma soils to store or release CO2 into the atmosphere.Student{69ceaac0-332e-806-fdb6-1452cf2afae1}Wed, 26 Mar 2008 20:39:00 GMThttp://pss.okstate.edu/news/extra/cmichaelfrenchalumnus.pdf Dr. C. Michael French, associate director-programs for the University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture’s Cooperative Extension Service, was honored Friday for his educational achievements with induction into the Arkansas Agriculture Hall of Fame. Dr. French is an alumnus of Oklahoma State University, where he earned his master’s in 1975 and his Ph.D. in agronomy-weed science in 1978 from the Department of Agronomy. Alumni{52a14631-b8ed-a72d-6a1d-6d51821978a0}Fri, 14 Mar 2008 15:24:03 GMThttp://www.hpj.com/archives/2008/feb08/feb25/Statewideno-tillmeetingisah.cfmThe first statewide no-till meeting in Oklahoma was a huge success. Over 200 very interested producers attended the two-day conference in Oklahoma City Feb. 11 and 12. {902dbeee-19cb-4c3e-f596-7e9c363e5a1e}Thu, 28 Feb 2008 16:45:45 GMT