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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