The University of Tennessee (UT) Soil Judging Team, affectionately known as the “Soil Vols” spent October 6th – 10th in Lexington, KY as part of the 2024 Southeastern Regional Collegiate…
Soil Vols Return from Nationals!
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 under…
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 a…
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 napkins…
Jashan Kaur wins first place
Dr. Jashan Kaur won first place at UT’s Postdoctoral Research Symposium. Jashan obtained her Ph.D. from South Dakota State University in May 2021. She is now a Postdoctoral scientist under…
Women in Construction Student Club
Herbert’s Construction Science Management program started a Women in Construction (WIC) Student Club, which is working in conjunction with the Construction Science Student Club. WIC is in the process of…
Study Abroad Opportunity in Croatia
ESS 494/593 is a 3 credit hour summer mini-term study-abroad course open to both undergraduate and graduate students. The program take place over May 18 – June 7, 2024. Student…
Maddie Ginsberg was awarded 1st place at Beltwide
Maddie Ginsberg, Biosystems Engineering graduate student under Dr. Lori Duncan, won first place in the poster competition in the Sustainability Conference at the Beltwide Cotton Conferences. The title of her…
2023 CSM Career Job Fair and Reception
Once again the Construction Science Management (CSM) Job Fair and Employer and student reception was a success. The reception, held on October 18, 2023, at The Foundry in Knoxville, enabled…
Rounak Patra’s success at the Ecological Society of America Meeting
Rounak Patra, who is a Ph.D. Candidate co-mentored by Drs. Sindhu Jagadamma and Deb Saha, recently attended the Ecological Society of America (ESA) Annual Meeting in Portland, Oregon from August 6…