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AGSA Calendar of Events, Spring 2007
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| MARCH | ||
| TUESDAY March 27 |
AGSA Coffee Hour For all Faculty, Staff, and Graduate Students, contact: Vinod Jakkula |
8:30 to 9:30 AM CRSS Conference Room Miller 3113 |
| APRIL | ||
| WEDNESDAY April 4 |
Departmental Research Forum and Student Poster Contest. Contact: David Butler | 4:30 to 5:30 PM Miller Plant Sciences Bldg. 3rd floor hallway |
| THURSDAY April 5 |
AGSA Happy Hour Join us to see Box Devils (with our own Deb Chasteen) Contact: Jay Haider |
Time: TBA Flicker Bar and Theatre on West Washington, downtown Athens |
| FRIDAY April 6 |
Seminar: Alix Rice of Generation Green (young members division of the Georgia Conservancy), contact: David Butler | 3:30 PM Warnell Auditorium |
| WEDNESDAY April 18 |
AGSA Coffee Hour For all Faculty, Staff, and Graduate Students, contact: Catie Young |
8:30 to 9:30 AM CRSS Conference Room Miller 3113 |
| WED & THURS April 25 & 26 |
AGSA Plant Sale Contact: Zack Shearin |
Miller Plant Sciences Bldg Lawn |
| MAY | ||
| TUESDAY May 1 |
AGSA Coffee Hour For all Faculty, Staff, and Graduate Students, contact: Jay Haider |
8:30 to 9:30 AM CRSS Conference Room Miller 3113 |
| TBA | AGSA Final meeting of semester Contact: David Butler |
Plant Sciences Amphitheater |
| THURSDAY, TBA | AGSA Happy Hour Contact: Jay Haider |
Athens Downtown, TBA |
Also, check out the Weekly Calendar of Events from the UGA Institute of Ecology, listing seminars and events from numerous related departments around campus.
Selected Previous AGSA events:
-Crop & Soil Sciences T-shirt, polo, and hat sale (Fall '06 & Spring '07):
We still have Crop & Soil Sciences t-shirts, polos, and hats available. See an AGSA officer to purchase.
We have both white and charcoal gray t-shirts ($10.00), gray hats with either a green & brown logo or a red logo ($15.00), and black polos with either a green & brown logo or a red logo ($25.00). Click on the images below for more detail on the t-shirts (at left) or the polos and hats (at right).
-Fair Trade Seminar (Spring '06)
Tripp Pomeroy of Café Campesino presented a seminar on the ethics and practices of fair trade in agriculture, specifically coffee, and brought some excellent coffee for us to sample. Café Campesino is located in Americus, GA and is Georgia's only 100% fair-trade, organic, shade-grown coffee roaster.
-AGSA Research Forum and Poster Contest (Spring '06)
The 2006 Department of Crop and Soil Sciences Research Forum and Poster Contest was a resounding success. For a copy of the program/abstracts please click below. We had 13 posters from undergraduate and graduate students in our department. Dr. Bill Miller and Dr. David Knauft judged the poster competition and selected the top three posters. Congratulations!!
1st Place: David Butler, "Phosphorus Export from Aerated Grasslands"
2nd Place: Rob Millings, "A Comparison in Cotton of Mepiquat Chloride Activity with and without Cyclanilide Addition"
3rd Place: Greg Pillar, "Interaction of 2,4,6-Trinitrotoluene with Clay Minerals and Humic-Clay Complexes"
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