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 the…

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. The…

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 Banquet…

Keith Kline, adjunct faculty in BESS, is in this year’s class of American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellows. He has an international reputation for his work on…

The following BESS staff and faculty were recognized at the August 15, 2023 Awards and Promotions Luncheon (from left to right): tenure at the rank of Full Professor, Dr. Joe…

BESS’ Drs. DeBruyn, Essington and Taylor teamed up the with the Center for Agricultural Synthetic Biology, the Forensic Anthropology Center and Civil and Environmental Engineering to study the elements released…

The US Precision Livestock Farming Conference (US-PLF) 2023 Conference, held in Knoxville, TN, was a great success. There were 219 total registered participants – 183 in-person and 36 virtual, and…

Dr. Sindhu Jagadamma won the 2023 Gamma Sigma Delta for Research. She directs a very active research program, which is centered on developing research-based solutions for mitigating soil and environmental…

BESS’ own, Dr. Lori Duncan, has been named 2023 Cotton Researcher of the Year.  She won the award for her continuous work in sustainability which include implementation of the Field…