Dear SIPS community,

It’s hard to believe the spring semester is coming to a close and I’m gearing up for field season. Time flies when we’re having fun.

Congratulations:

• Madeleine Dumas, graduate student with Clare Casteel has been awarded the Thressa & Earl Stadtman Fellowship
• Spring 2022 Schmittau-Novak Small Grants Program recipients: Seren Villwock, Morgan Irons, Mariana Devault, Maylin Murdock, Tian Qiu, Shivranjani Baruah, Anna Hermanns, Hongrui Wang, Ilexis Chu-Jacoby
• Manage Weeds on Your Farm (Mohler, Toni DiTommaso) and Building Soils for Better Crops (van Es) awarded in the Technical Publication category from the Association for Communication Excellence
• Plant Breeding grad student George Stack and Plant Sciences Major Stephen Stresow honored by the American Society for Horticultural Science
• Emeritus Wayne Wilcox receives Merit Award from American Society for Enology and Viticulture
• Juliana González-Tobón receives People’s choice award in 3-Minute Thesis competition

Plant Sciences Senior Symposium will be Friday May 13 starting at 9:00 in room 404 Plant Science and on zoom. Join in and hear great presentations from our graduating seniors (they are an impressive bunch).  Zoom link

Faculty Search update:

• Sustainable weed management – the search committee has selected four candidates for in person interviews – the interviews have not yet been scheduled. We will post information in Magdalen’s weekly newsletter when it is available.
• CALS cohort hire – Offers have been made to two of the cohort candidates, and we hope to recruit both to SIPS
• SIPS Director – Feedback from last weeks interview (with Joss Rose) is due today. If you did not receive the Qualtrics survey, please contact Cindy (ct259).

Renovation update:

The first moves from Plant Science Phase 1 (the West side of the building) are complete. The next set of moves (other labs/offices in phase 1) will happen in June. Actual construction (or deconstruction) is set to begin September 2022.

Commencement: May 2022 commencement weekend (May 27-29) will be here before you know it. Stay up to date on all things commencement here

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.

• Creativity and Ideas: Leslie Larsen (recognized TWICE in this category), Tracy Chapman, Magdalen Lindeberg
• Going Above and Beyond: Elizabeth Maloney, John Owens, Jim Meyer, Michael Munroe, Garee Chincoine, Hannah Thomas, Cheryl Wunder, Tom Silva, Anna Levina, Katie Guthrie, Chase Mayers, Jamie Crawford, Jesse Chavez, Jason Schiller, Robert Martin, Ewa Wdzieczak
• Inspirational Leadership: Tami Payne
• Building Mastery and Skill: Tara Reed (recognized TWICE in this category)

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

Take care,

Chris