Dear SIPS Community,

We are fortunate to have lots to celebrate this month!

Congratulations to our 2019 graduates!  The five graduate fields had a total of 30 PhD, 4 MS and 2 MPS students graduate this spring! There were also 26 Plant Sciences and 32 Agricultural Sciences students graduate. Thanks to the many faculty, staff and students that participated in the recognition ceremonies. More information here

Congratulations Matt Ryan who was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure!

Congratulations Mike Gore who was promoted to Full Professor!

Congratulations Susan Brown who was named a Fellow in the American Society of Horticultural Science.

Congratulations SIPS grad students that were awarded USDA NIFA predoctoral fellowships; Jenny Wilson, Dustin Wilkerson, Jenna Hershberger, Daniel Evanich, Zoe Dubrow, Taylor Cyle, Chase Crowell, Taylor Anderson. More information here

Active Learning Update. We are interviewing candidates for the two active learning postdocs now and hope to bring folks on board over the summer.

Faculty search updates:

• Assistant Professor: Grape Disease Ecology & Epidemiology. Katie Gold has accepted our offer and will start as an Assistant Professor Feb 2020
• Assistant/Associate Professor: Specialty Crop Systems. Lynn Sosnoskie has accepted our offer and will start as an Assistant Professor September 2019
• Assistant/Associate Professor: Digital Agriculture: Agronomy. On-campus interviews of the top candidates will be interviewing in the next month.
• Assistant/Associate Professor: Breeding for Sustainable Forage Cropping Systems. There will be a new search for this position.

Congratulations to the following people who were recognized with a SIPS Kudos in the last month! Thanks for your effort and passion in support of SIPS.

• Leslie Larsen (going above and beyond)
• Cindy Twardokus (going above and beyond)
• Tatyana Dokuchayeva (inspirational leadership)
• Craig Cramer (going above and beyond)
• Andrea Gilbert (going above and beyond)
• Cheryl Wunder (going above and beyond)
• Chris Smart (inspirational leadership)
• Jenn Thomas-Murphy (going above and beyond)
• Eric Fabio (going above and beyond)
• Isabel Gareau (building mastery and skill)
• Kari Richards (going above and beyond)
• Leah Cook (going above and beyond)
• Mandy Kafka (going above and beyond)
• Tara Reed (going above and beyond)
• Alicia Caswell (going above and beyond)

PLEASE remember to recognize people in our SIPS community that have gone out of their way to enhance our School. All you have to do is complete the brief form here

All the best,

Chris