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 Dr. Deb Saha. Her postdoctoral research project is focused on investigating the diverse impacts of long-term soil health practices, specifically no-tillage and cover crops, on soil nitrous oxide (N₂O) emissions in a continuous cotton system. The study spanned a two-year duration at the West Tennessee Research and Education Center in Jackson, TN. The findings demonstrated that plots integrating cover crop hairy vetch exhibited elevated N₂O emissions compared to those without hairy vetch, particularly under the application of 60 kg N ha⁻¹. Conversely, the adoption of no-tillage (NT) showed no significant influence on N₂O emissions when compared to conventional tillage (CT). This study highlights the potential of NT as a beneficial approach in mitigating N₂O emissions, attributed to its minimal impact on N₂O and the prospect of carbon sequestration in the soil. Dr. Kaur is aspiring to start an assistant professor position.