-Magdalen Lindeberg

Congratulations to Aleah Butler-Jones and Uriel Menalled for awards received at the 2024 Northeastern Weed Science Society meeting held January 7 – 11 in Boston. Aleah Butler-Jones is a MS/PhD students in the Field of Horticulture, working in the program of Lynn Sosnoskie. She won the 2024 Northeastern Weed Science Society’s graduate student paper contest for her research to describe glyphosate resistance in NY Palmer amaranth populations, determine their mechanism of resistance, and describe their control with alternate herbicides. She also presented a poster describing her preliminary research results with electrical weeding.

Uriel Menalled, currently a postdoc in Matt Ryan’s Sustainable Cropping Systems Lab, received the 2024 Robert D. Sweet Outstanding PhD Graduate Student Award. Dr. Robert Sweet was a long-time vegetable weed scientist in what is now the section of Horticulture. Uriel accepted the award from NEWSS President, Dr. Wesley Everman.