PPCP January 2017 Newsletter is online!

Raymond Schneider and Lawrence Datnoff were elected Fellows of the American Phytopathological Society (APS).

Kindergarteners visit Department of Plant Pathology and Crop Physiology

Silva Takes Top Honors at 2016 APS-SD Meeting

Ferguson and Madrid win LACA scholarships

The PPCP January 2016 newsletter is now online!

Mary Helen Ferguson, Ph. D. candidate, in the Department of Plant Pathology & Crop Physiology at Louisiana State University and the LSU AgCenter, recently won the prestigious C. W. Edgerton Award.

Sanjay Pokhrel recently received the Monsanto Graduate Student Scholarship. He is pursuing his M.S. degree in plant pathology with Dr. Clayton Hollier as his advisor.

For the second year in a row, the LSU PPCP graduate students organized the Summer Technical Sharing Sessions. This year demonstrations/lectures were presented by 11 students.

The PPCP graduate students were pleased to host Dr. Jan E. Leach as their invited seminar speaker, 15 April 15!

The graduate students, led by Josielle Rezende, Ally Lunos and Rebecca Sweany, from the Department of Plant Pathology & Crop Physiology (PPCP) were awarded the first Departmental Plant Pathology Experiential Award by the Office of Private Sector Relations from the American Phytopathological Society (APS).

Jingyu Peng and Churamani Khanal received the LSU PPCP GSA scholarships. The scholarships defrayed the cost of their attendance to professional conferences.

Ben NcInnes was honored at the LSU College of Agriculture Alumni Spring Awards Ceremony for receiving the DuPont Crop Protection Assistantship.

At the annual American Phytopathological Society (APS)-Southern Division meeting in Atlanta (1-2 February), several students from LSU gave oral and poster presentations on their research.

Dr. Raghuwinder 'Raj' Singh, assistant professor in the Department of Plant Pathology and Crop Physiology, received the Louisiana County Agricultural Agents Association Achievement Award at their 69th Annual meeting in Monroe, LA on June 2, 2015.

The graduate students, led by Josielle Rezende, Ally Lunos and Rebecca Sweany, from the Department of Plant Pathology & Crop Physiology (PPCP) have been awarded the first Departmental Plant Pathology Experiential Award by the Office of Private Sector Relations from the American Phytopathological Society (APS).

Dr. Raymond W. Schneider, Professor in the Department of Plant Pathology and Crop Physiology, received the American Phytopathological Society's Southern Division Outstanding Plant Pathologist Award at their annual meeting in Atlanta, Ga., 1-2 February 2015.

Rebecca A. Melanson, Ph. D. candidate, in the Department of Plant Pathology & Crop Physiology at Louisiana State University and the LSU AgCenter, recently won the prestigious C. W. Edgerton Award.

Dr. Raymond W. Schneider, Professor in the Department of Plant Pathology & Crop Physiology, LSU, received the Doyle Chambers Research Award from the LSU AgCenter 15 December 2014. This meritorious award is made annually to the scientist who, during his/her career at the Louisiana Agricultural Experiment Station, has made the most outstanding contributions to agriculture in the state of Louisiana.

Singh Wins Prestigious LSU AgCenter's Floyd S. Edmiston Extension Award