Become part of the team! 2012 PLANET Student Career Days are March 22^nd-25^th. Find out more information by visiting www.hfrr.ksu.edu/2012PLANET.

Register to become a PLANET Volunteer!

The second Tuesday Talk for the semester is February 14, from 12:15 - 12:45 pm, at the Insect Zoo next to the Quinlan Visitor Center. Speakers are Richard Marteney, Beekeeper and Kiffnie Holt, Insect Zoo Coordinator. Richard and Kiffnie will present information on what you can do to help protect honeybees in your garden. Additional information will be available to anyone wanting to set up a hive on their property.  RSVP to Judy Unruh, gfriends@ksu.edu.  See flyer for more information and future Talk dates.

Dale Bremer, faculty member in Turfgrass Science, has been awarded the Outstanding Associate Editor Award from the editorial board of the journal Crop Science. Congratulations!
 

The Pecan Experiment Field, in Chetopa, Kansas will be celebrating its 50th Anniversary, with a Field Day, in September 2012.   

Graduate student Matt Wilson earned first place in the Ph.D. Student Competition at the Southern Nurseryman's Association annual research conference held in conjunction with the Gulf States Horticultural Expo in Mobile, Alabama, on January 18, 2012.  The title of his presentation was 'Feeding Preference of Southern Pine Sawyer Beetle on Four Species of Pine.'

A total of 21 degrees were awarded to graduates of the HFRR department at the end of the Fall 2011 semester. Fifteen Horticulture and 6 Park Management & Conservation graduates were awarded B.S. degrees. We welcome our new Alumni!  See complete list of our graduates here.

Sid Stevenson was highlighted in the December issue of Park and Recreation Magazine for his efforts in compiling the statewide park and recreation geodatabase and then converting that dataset to the NRPA GIS model; making Kansas the first state with comprehensive coverage.
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Raymond Cloyd, professor of entomology and horticultural entomology extension specialist, and colleague Ricard Cowles of the Connecticut Agricultural Research Station, received the Outstanding Leaflet Award from the American Society of Horticultural Science for the publication "Resistance management: Resistance, mode of action, and pesticide rotation."

Ted Cable along with Dr. Mary Hale Tolar received a 2011 Academic Excellence Award for $10,000 to bring faculty from Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology in Kenya to Kansas State University. These awards were highly competitive as the Provost received 34 proposals requesting almost $300,000, three times the amount available for this program. Ted will host these Kenyan faculty members during spring semester 2012. While they are on campus they will be meeting with researchers, speaking to classes and giving seminars.