Melissa Mitchum named 2025 APS Fellow
https://www.apsnet.org/members/give-awards/awards/Fellows/Pages/MelissaMitchum.aspx
Jeff Bennetzen named 2025 ASPB Fellow
Congratulations to ASPB’s 2025 Award Recipients
Robin Buell elected to National Academy of Science
https://research.uga.edu/news/buell-perez-elected-to-national-academy-of-sciences/
Anne Frances Jarrell wins 1st Place at the NAPB 2023 Poster Competition!
Anne Frances Jarrell from the 2021 Cohort won first place for the PhD Poster Competition at the 2023 National Association of Plant Breeders meeting! In Spring 2022, Anne Frances officially joined the Robin Buell lab as a Graduate Research Assistant. She is interested in using advances in genomics to improve crop breeding, specifically to increase …
Dr. Donglin Zhang recently named a 2024 Plant Biotechnology Fellow by the American Society for Horticultural Sciences!
Congratulations to Dr. Donglin Zhang for recently being named a 2024 Plant Biotechnology Fellow by the American Society for Horticultural Sciences! Fellows of the Society are recognized for outstanding contributions to horticulture in one or more of the following areas: research, teaching, administration, or extension on a state, national, and/or international level; exhibition of leadership …
Incoming IPS Graduate Student Information
August 14 2023 10:00 AM – IPS welcome at CAGT 12:00 PM – Welcome luncheon at CAGT 2:00 PM – Graduate School Welcome Fair at The Classic Center (300 N Thomas Street, Athens, GA 30601)
Research team receives $15.8M to modify poplar for bioproducts
A multidisciplinary team of researchers at the University of Georgia and two partner institutions have been awarded a $15.8 million grant over five years from the U.S. Department of Energy to reengineer poplar trees (Populus sp. and hybrids) to be used as a sustainable energy source.
Nine Students from the University of Georgia Received the NSF’s Graduate Research Fellowship
The University of Georgia has nine new Graduate Research Fellows this fall. Including two from the Integrated Plant Sciences department, Kelly Goode, Cohort 2019, and Summer Blanco, cohort 2021. The students received the prestigious awards from the National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program, (GRFP), which recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported science, …
FFAR Announces 26 Awardees of FFAR Fellows Program naming Shreena Pradhan
WASHINGTON (August 11, 2021) – Climate change, a growing population and evolving pests and pathogens threaten the security of our global food supply. Employers need trained scientists to conduct research that helps farms and food systems adapt to these challenges. The Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research (FFAR) and North Carolina State University are excited to announce the …