Nebraska Today highlighted Santosh Pitla's work with the USDA-NIFA grant to advance ag robot research. Santosh has been working to advance these robots, known as Unmanned Ground Vehicles, or UGVs, since he joined the Husker faculty in 2014. View the article here.
Cheryl Pflueger is one of 75 faculty, staff to receive the Family and Friends Recognition Award. The honor provides encouraging feedback to employees about their impact on students, while inspiring positive student and faculty relationships, giving recognition in an area often overlooked by formal rewards systems. View all recipients.
IANR News Staff Spotlight highlighted Tracy Zimmerman. Read the spotlight here.
Rick Stowell, Joe Luck, and Christopher Neale were mentioned in ORED's Top Sponsored Awards, February 2021. Rick is part of a $291,000 grant from USDA-NIFA for Enhancement of Agricultural Literacy through Inquiry-Based Professional Development. Joe and Christopher are part of a $890,835 grant from the University of Maryland for Improving Agricultural Water Use and Nutrient Management to Sustain Food and Energy Crops Production in the Corn Belt.
Ron Yoder and Daran Rudnick were mentioned on Ag Update. The article was on a new Water and Integrated Cropping Systems Hub.
Yufeng Ge was mentioned in Nebraska in the national news: March 2021. He appeared on a March 2 segment on RFD-TV. He discussed his research looking to better understand how a plant’s genetic makeup, or genome, affects its physical traits, or phenome.
Tami Brown-Brandl was mentioned in Nebraska in the national news: March 2021. She is part of a team of international researchers led by Michigan State University that received a five-year, $1 million grant from the USDA’s Data Science for Food and Agricultural Systems program to build a precision livestock farming network, Nebraska Farmer, National Hog Farmer and Western Livestock Journal reported.