Claudia Elkins, an MS student in the Department of Horticulture was recently featured in SouthScapes, the quarterly magazine of the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences. She has had an unusual journey and has been a wonderful student in our department and lab. Claudia says that “UGA has wonderful resources…
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The D.W. Brooks Faculty Award for Excellence in Research was established in 1983 to honor University of Georgia alumnus D.W. Brooks who devoted his professional life to improving the quality of society through continued service and support of agriculture, agribusiness, and the environment. Mr. Brooks was a graduate and faculty member of…
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Geoff Weaver, PhD student in the crop physiology lab just published a paper titled ‘A photochemistry-based method for optimising greenhouse supplemental light intensity’ in BioSystems Engineering. The paper focuses on optimization of supplemental lighting in greenhouses using physiological concepts. Highlights • Electricity use of greenhouse lights can be reduced using…
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The Entrepreneur of the Year Award recognizes a faculty member who has started a company based on research originated at UGA. Marc van Iersel was named the 2019 winner of this prestigious award. Marc van Iersel is the Vincent J. Dooley Professor of Horticulture in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences…
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Dr. Marc van Iersel, Dooley Professor of Horticulture, was named a Fellow of the American Society for Horticultural Science at the 2018 annual conference in Washington, DC. Election as a Fellow of the society is the highest honor that ASHS can bestow on its members, in recognition of truly outstanding contributions to…
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Marc van Iersel visited Utah State University and Apogee Instruments in Logan, UT. He was invited by the Department of Plants, Soils, and Climate to give a seminar about his research on the efficiency of lighting in controlled environment agriculture. The seminar was sponsored by Campbell Scientific and Apogee Instruments….
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Candidus Inc., a company co-founded by Drs. Marc van Iersel and Erico Mattos was featured in UGA’s columns newspaper and on-line. The story discusses the role of UGA’s Innovation Gateway in helping to get Candidus, Inc. off the ground. Innovation Gateway focuses on transferring technologies developed at UGA into the…
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