Agronomy and Plant Genetics

APG alum Mohammed Sadiki, PhD, the Moroccan minister of agriculture, fisheries, rural development, and water and forests, will receive the University of Minnesota's Outstanding Achievement Award at a ceremony Wednesday, April 9, at 3 p.m. in 395 Borlaug Hall. A reception will follow the ceremony.

The Outstanding Achievement Award is the highest nondegree award conferred upon distinguished alumni by the University. 

Alex Harkess from the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology will present "A Thousand Ways to Evolve a Sex Chromosome" on Thursday, March 27, at 2:30 p.m. in 306 Borlaug Hall. A reception will follow in 302 Borlaug.

Longtime APG professors and researchers Craig Sheaffer and Roger Becker hung up their professorial hats at the end of the year.