Message from Gary Pierzynski, Department Head
To no one’s surprise, perhaps, Agronomy remains a popular major for undergraduates at K-State. Fall enrollment numbers have held about steady for the past three years. They have more than doubled since 2007!
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Erin Bush, K-State junior in agronomy, joined with three other students from around the country to lead Team USA to a first place finish overall at the International Soil Judging Contest. The contest took place in Gödöllő, Hungary on September 1-5, 2015. The contest, now in its second year, was one of the highlighted activities in 2015 to celebrate the International Year of Soils.
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Twenty-eight students — 22 undergraduate and six graduate students – along with five K-State faculty members boarded a plane on January 4, 2015 in Kansas City and flew into Porto Alegre, Brazil for a 13-day adventure to tour Brazil on the “Food and Bio-energy Production in Tropical Environments” faculty-led study tour.
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New Faculty
Dr. Ray Asebedo
Dr. Ray Asebedo is the new assistant professor of precision agriculture, as of May 2015. Asebedo is a native of Kansas, home grown in the Flint Hills. He received his B.S. degree in Agronomy from Kansas State University. He completed his Ph.D. in Agronomy from Kansas State University in 2015, where his research focused on developing nitrogen recommendation algorithms utilizing remote sensing technologies for winter wheat, corn, and grain sorghum. Continue reading “Faculty Changes: New hires and retirements”
Oliver Russ
Oliver George Russ, weed scientist and professor emeritus of agronomy, died at the age of 94 on February 25, 2015 at Life Care Center of Seneca.
He was born August 10, 1920, on a farm southwest of Kelly, Kansas, the son of George C. and Pauline Wilhelm Russ. He first attended Sunny Knoll School near his home. Later the family moved to the Corning, KS, area where he attended several rural schools before graduating from Corning Rural High School in 1938. After a year of Normal Training, he taught in a rural school south of Sabetha for two years and at Pleasant Ridge School north of Baileyville, Kansas. Continue reading “In memorium: Oliver Russ”