The University of Tennessee (UT) Soil Judging Team, affectionately known as the āSoil Volsā spent October 6th ā 10th in Lexington, KY as part of the 2024 Southeastern Regional Collegiateā¦
Soil Vols Return from Nationals!
Jagadamma AgResearch Grantmanship Award
Dr. Sindhu Jagadamma won the 2024 AgResearch Grantmanship Award (Associate Professor category). She has established an internationally recognized research program on sustainable agriculture with emphasis on evaluating and assessing theā¦
Lori Duncan Receives ASABE Award
Dr. Lori Duncan received the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE) Larry W. Turner Young Extension Professional Award at the annual meeting in Anaheim in July 2024. Theā¦
Senior Design place 2nd in National Competition
BESS Biosystems Engineering senior design team placed second in the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE) Ā Gunlogson Environmental Design competition, in Anaheim, CA on July 31, 2024. Theā¦
Dr. Patra!
Rounak Patra defended his Ph.D. dissertation centered on how microbial functional traits control subsoil organic carbon dynamics in Tennessee’s hot and humid low-biomass cropping systems. His Ph.D. work was underā¦
UTK Award
Dr. Sindhu Jagadamma, associate professor in the department of Biosystems Engineering and Soil Science (BESS), was awarded the Professional Promise in Research and Creative Achievement Award at the Honors Banquetā¦
Keith Kline elected AAAS Fellow
Keith Kline, adjunct faculty in BESS, is in this yearās class of American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellows. He has an international reputation for his work onā¦
2024 Herbert Awards Banquet
The Armistead Award is awarded to the student with the highest-grade point average after five semesters at the University of Tennessee. The recipient of the Armistead Award must be aā¦
2024 Distinguished Alumnus
The University of Tennessee Biosystems Engineering and Soil Science (BESS) Awards Committee selected Dr. Carmen Agouridis as the 2024 Distinguished Alumnus. Carmen was recognized at the BESS Awards Banquet onā¦
2024 Annual Awards Banquet
The 2024 Biosystems Engineering and Soil Science was held on April 10, 2024. All efforts were made to have a zero-landfill event, with compostable plates, cutlery and cups, cloth napkinsā¦