APG alum to receive U's Outstanding Achievement Award
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.
APG Seminar: Alex Harkess
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.
A fond farewell to APG Professors Craig Sheaffer and Roger Becker
Longtime APG professors and researchers Craig Sheaffer and Roger Becker hung up their professorial hats at the end of the year.
APG expands online learning offerings
The Department of Agronomy and Plant Genetics is expanding its online learning offerings this year through the University of Minnesota’s partnership with Coursera. Professor Jacob Jungers and Teaching Specialist Hannah Stoll will launch the first two courses this spring.
Bringing a 'growth mindset' into the classroom
Active learning. Discipline-based best practices. Innovation.
That’s just a small list of tasks Katy Guthrie brings into her classrooms as an assistant teaching professor in the Department of Agronomy and Plant Genetics. Her most important effort, however, may be meeting the students where they are.
Inside APG: Researchers share their work
Three APG researchers—Anibal Cerrudo, Craig See, and Charlotte Brault—will give talks about their work at the next APG Seminar Thursday, January 30, at 2:30 p.m. in 306 Borlaug Hall. A reception will follow in 302 Borlaug.
Calling all CFANS travelers!
Healthier. Here, There, and Everywhere.
Read U of M System stories about using AI to detect cancer, tapping the power of Lake Superior's waves, addressing food insecurity, disrupting the cycle of Native health disparities, and exploring the miracle of mare's milk.
MISA report makes case for reintegrating ruminant grazing among row crops
Adding cover crops, perennial foraging and grazing to row crop and small-grain operations in Minnesota could bring less soil erosion and nitrate pollution of waterways and lower greenhouse gas emissions, according to a new report from the Minnesota Institute for Sustainable Agriculture (MISA) at the University of Minnesota.
You gave to the max, and then some!
APG and its supporters stepped up on Give to the Max Day, November 21!
We blew past our initial goal of $6,000 for the Dr. Don Wyse Fund by late afternoon and raised the goal to $11,000. We hit that goal by midnight.
You can still donate.