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Congratulations to Matt Ruark (Professor, Dept. of Soil Science) on recently being named the Wisconsin Potato and Vegetable Grower BCS Chair by the Wis. Potato and Vegetable Growers Assoc. (WPVGA).…

The Soil Science Society of America (SSSA) has announced that Jingyi Huang (assistant professor in the Dept. of Soil Science) will receive the 2023 SSSA Early Career Award.  The award…

Congratulations to Inna Popova, assistant professor in the UW–Madison Department of Soil Science. Inna has been selected to receive the inaugural Leo M. Walsh Faculty Fellow Award. The appointment started…

Dr Yakun Zhang (Scientist in the F.D. Hole Research Lab, Department of Soil Science) has been selected as the 2023 recipient of the SSSA Pedology Division Award. The Award Committee…

Franklin Hiram King was born on June 8 in 1848 on a farm near Whitewater, Wisconsin. He became the first professor of soil science at the Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison and…

The department welcomes Dr. Inna Popova as an Assistant Professor. Dr. Popova came to UW-Madison from the University of Idaho-Moscow and began with the department on October 24. She received…

4th June to 8th June 2023 University of Wisconsin-Madison Sandy soils cover approximately 900 million ha worldwide particularly in arid or semi-arid regions. There are extensive areas of sandy soils…

Congratulations to Francisco Arriaga, Geoff Siemering, Doug Soldat, and Zac Freedman for being one of the grant recipients of the inaugural Minority Serving Institution (MSI) Partnership Program. The Graduate School…

At the 2020 Council Meeting of the International Union of Soil Sciences (IUSS), Alfred Hartemink, professor and chair of soil science, was elected an Honorary Member. The honor is in…