The Soil Management Lab has received a USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) Organic Transitions Program grant of nearly $1 million to study double-cropping practices in organic grain…
USDA-NIFA Grant Awarded to Evaluate Double-Cropping in Organic Grain Systems
Dr. Jagadamma Receives UTIA AgResearch Dean’s Grantsmanship Award
Dr. Sindhu Jagadamma was honored with the Grantsmanship Award from the University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture. This award recognizes faculty who have secured the highest total dollar amount of…
Jagadamma Lab Presents at the 33rd Milan No-Till Field Day
The 33rd Milan No-Till Field Day, Tennessee’s largest and most popular biennial field event, brought together farmers, agricultural professionals, industry leaders, and the local community to explore innovations in no-till…
Success at the 2024 SWCS Conference
Masters student Cecilia Albert-Black and PhD students Binsiya Kallingal and Ravi Teja Neelipally attended the 2024 Soil and Water Conservation Society Annual Meeting. Here are a few highlights from their…
Amber Gunter graduates summa cum laude
Undergraduate research assistant Amber Gunter has graduated summa cum laude with her Bachelor of Science in Environmental and Soil Sciences with a concentration in Conservation Agriculture and Environmental Sustainability. In…
Dr. Jagadamma receives Professional Promise and Creative Achievement award
We are excited to announce that Dr. Jagadamma has received the 2024 Professional Promise in Research and Creative Achievement award at the UTK Academic Honors Banquet! She is grateful to…
Rounak Patra successfully defends dissertation
Congratulations to Rounak Patra, who successfully defended his PhD dissertation: “Deciphering the Role of Microbial Functional Traits in Agricultural Subsoil Organic Carbon Dynamics.” Rounak was co-advised by Dr. Sindhu Jagadamma…
Sequencing grant funding from UTIA
The University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture’s Genomics Center for the Advancement of Agriculture has awarded Drs. Wooliver, Jagadamma, and Stephanie Kivlin (EEB) a sequencing grant for their work on…
Dr. Jagadamma receives Mid-Career Research Excellence Award
Dr. Jagadamma received UTIA’s Mid-Career Research Excellence Award. This award is for faculty members who finish 7 to 15 years of service, and she earned it after just 7 years…
Dr. Avishesh Neupane now Soil Microbiology Post Doctorate at Bayer
Dr. Avishesh Neupane has been a postdoc in our laboratory since 2019. This past month, he joined Bayer as a post doctorate soil microbiologist. While in our lab, Avi’s research…