Meet Bridget Baker, the 2009 winner of the National Agricultural Sales Proficiency Award. Baker is a sophomore from Morrowville, Kan., majoring in Horticulture with a specialization in Greenhouse Management. She works part-time in the KSU Gardens.
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At the Fall 2009 banquet of Gamma Sigma Delta, the Honor Society of Agriculture, Jesse K. Brown was presented with one of only 20 First-year Performance Awards and Dane E. Johnson was inducted into the society as a member.

Kim Williams recently received the North Central Region Award for Excellence in College and University Teaching in the Food and Agricultural Sciences from the Higher Education Programs of the United States Department of Agriculture.  Read more...

Pruning, digging, planting and weeding. These may not sound like normal classroom activities, but for students in Cathie Lavis’s Landscape Maintenance Lab, it was all in a day’s work.

“We always are outdoors doing some sort of hands-on activity,” Lavis said. “That’s the only way to learn landscape maintenance.”   Read more....

Bringing flowers and plants to the sick is more than just a sympathy gesture. A series of publications by Seong-Hyun Park and Richard Mattson at Kansas State University backs up existing data that show a positive relationship between plants and pain management and recovery in hospital settings.
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Aaron Yoder, K-State senior majoring in horticulture with a specialization in fruit and vegetable production, is currently conducting an undergraduate research project funded by a USDA/SARE (Sustainable Ag Research and Education) grant.  Read more...

QiuXia Chen, a K-State Senior majoring in Horticultural Therapy and Modern Languages (Spanish-Hispanic Studies), has been named the recipient of the Ann Lane Mavromatis Scholarship awarded each year to the top Horticultural Therapy student in the nation by the American Horticultural Therapy Association. 
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Undergraduate student research projects, including mushroom and irrigation production, are on-going at Willow Lake Student Farm. Locally produced, organic vegetables are sold every Tuesday on K-State's campus.  Learn More...

Jack Fry, professor of turfgrass science, has been appointed editor of the on-line journal Applied Turfgrass Science. 

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Lisa Stork, recent graduate of K-State's Parks Management and Conservation program, has been awarded the Distinguished Seasonal Interpreter Award from the Association of Missouri Interpreters.
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Congratulations to Charlie Barden and collaborators who make up the Heartland Regional Water Coordination Initiative Team for receiving the 2009 K-State Research and Extension Team Award.  The Team consists of Charlie Barden, Joel DeRouchey, Daniel Devlin, Hilary Kaizer and Amanda Schielke. The award will be presented at the K-State Research and Extension Annual Conference Awards Luncheon, Oct. 20, 2009. 
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The HFRR Research & Extension Center in Olathe is one of only 25 sites across the U.S. that serves as a location for landscaping skills certification.  Read more...

An 11-day horticultural study tour from March 11-21, 2010, will be led by Cathie Lavis.  The tour will introduce students to the growing, harvesting, and processing of local food products and traditions of the Tuscany region. Application Deadline: September 25, 2009.  Link to Flyer & Brochure (pdf)