Spring, 2008

Four in CELS receive excellence awards
Excellence awards for teaching, research, staff and outreach efforts were extended at a recent CELS faculty meeting.

Faculty Senate delegates elected
Three members of the CELS faculty have been elected to the Faculty Senate for three-year terms.

URI Botanical Garden Composting Facility project is under way
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AVS students win big in annual NESA agricultural competition
URI students majoring in Animal & Veterinary Science (AVS) won big in the annual North East Student Affiliation (NESA) agricultural competition held recently at the Delaware Valley College.

Conservation Stewardship Collaborative (CSC) plans to start on a stewardship program for preserved and protected lands
A group called the "Conservation Stewardship Collaborative (CSC)" has been formed with a considerable amount of involvement by the College of the Environment and Life Sciences.

Cumberland High seniors take a working field trip to the GIS Lab to work on Environmental Science class projects
A large group of high school students from Cumberland took a field trip to URI recently but unlike most field trips it was not a break from studying-they actually ended up working.

For Bethany Jenkins, it's the tiny creatures that count in her two new projects
Jenkins, an assistant professor in CELS’ Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, wants to understand how microbes participate in important chemical reactions, such as fixing carbon and nitrogen.

Wanted: hemlocks that resist attacks of the tiny adelgid
Graduate Student Laura Ingwell is involved in the search for hemlock trees that may be resistant to hemlock wooly adelgids. In front of her in a URI greenhouse are cuttings from a possible resistant tree. Thousands of other cuttings are being raised at East Farm.