NDSU beefs up its sports turf/plant sciences staff
21 Feb, 2009 Athletic Turf NewsFARGO, ND — Alan Zuk, a graduate of Kansas State University, is the newest member of the Sports and Urban Turfgrass Management team as an assistant professor. Zuk managed the turfgrass research farm for the Department of Horticulture at KSU for 10 years while working on a doctorate in turfgrass science. Prior to coming to NDSU, he chaired the horticulture department at Nebraska College of Technical Agriculture.
Also joining the NDSU Weed Science program are:
— Greta Gramig, assistant professor in weed biology and ecology. She graduated from Montana State University and also the University of Wisconsin where she focused on the ecophysiology of crop-weed competition for light.Before coming to NDSU, she was a postdoctoral scientist at the United States Department of Agriculture Research Service North Central Soil Conservation Research Lab in Morris, MN.
— Kevin McPhee ca,e to NDSU from the United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service Grain Legume Genetics and Physiology Research Unit in Pullman, WA, where he spent 10 years as a research geneticist. He graduated from the University of Wyoming and the University of Idaho.
— Penny Kianian, an assistant professor of plant science, graduated from the University of Minnesota and Purdue University. She worked for several years as a research scientist at NDSU before returning to graduate school at the University of Minnesota. She was later employed at Minnesota State University Moorhead as a genetics instructor.
Source: INFORUM, The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead
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