Congratulations to Dr. Jia W. Tan who was awarded the Integrated Plant and Soil Sciences Outstanding Continuing PhD student (2nd place) award. Also, Jia recently successfully defended her PhD thesis. Photo: Dr Jia Tan (center) the day of her PhD Thesis Defense with her committee (From left, Dr. Jeremiah Smith, Dr. Carlos Rodriguez Lopez, Dr. Carol Baskin, Dr. Robert Geneve, and Dr. Arthur Hunt).