The University of Tennessee Turfgrass Team is on the cutting edge of the field. For their worldwide impact and innovations that are expanding the industry, the six UT Institute of Agriculture faculty members have been recognized with the national Excellence in Extension Team Award.

The award was among three national honors presented November 10 by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA), Cooperative Extension and the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU). 

The study applies an Adaptive Sustainable Livelihood Framework, introduced by Natarajan et al. in 2022, which offers an open, flexible, and interdisciplinary approach to analyze the dynamic processes shaping livelihood shifts.

An international research team led by the universities of Göttingen and Hohenheim in Germany has gained new insights into how the interaction of birds, bees and bats significantly increases the quantity and quality of macadamia nuts. Furthermore, the effectiveness of their ecosystem services – pollination and biological pest control – depends on the altitude of the area and whether it provides natural habitats. The University of the Free State and the University of Venda in South Africa were also involved in this research. The results were published in Ecological Applications.

Osaka Metropolitan University researchers have discovered that the combination of green algae and yeast enhances the efficiency of wastewater treatment.