Lisa Beirn is one of three recipients of a $5,000 postgraduate grant by the Golf Course Superintendents Association of America, as part of the Watson Fellowship Program. Beirn, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Plant Biology and Pathology, also recently won a 2013 Gerald O. Mott Scholarship for Meritorious Graduate Students in Crop Science, […]
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Rutgers Ph. D. Candidate Lisa Beirn Wins Crop Science Award
Lisa Beirn, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Plant Biology and Pathology, won a 2013 Gerald O. Mott Scholarship for Meritorious Graduate Students in Crop Science, awarded by the Crop Science Society of America (CSSA) and the Agronomic Science Foundation. This award recognizes top students pursuing advanced degrees in crop science disciplines, with selection […]
Bruce Clarke, Extension Specialist in Turfgrass Pathology, Retires from Rutgers After a Long and Distinguished Career
Bruce Clarke, extension specialist in turfgrass pathology in the Department of Plant Biology, retired on January 1, 2022, after close to 40 years of dedicated service to Rutgers University and the turfgrass industry. Clarke (CC ’77, GSNB ’82) started his education at Rutgers in 1973 as an undergraduate in the first matriculating class of Cook […]
SEBS Doctoral Student Earns Second Place in American Phytopathological Society Competition
Lisa Beirn, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Plant Biology and Pathology, won second place in the graduate student competition for her talk entitled ‘Putting to rest a 75-year-old controversy: The true taxonomic placement of the dollar spot pathogens of turfgrass’ at the Potomac Division Meeting of the American Phytopathological Society on April 4, […]
