After being wiped out by blight, the American chestnut tree is making a comeback at the Davis College of Agriculture and Natural Resources thanks to restoration efforts led by former professor Mark Double and research assistant Amy Metheny.
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Professor Charles Harman’s strategic communications capstone students were enlisted by Goals House to cut through Gen Z’s compassion fatigue for global water issues, with one group winning for their proposed strategy to make peers care.
Radhica Ganapathy will serve as the director of the School of Theatre and Dance, and Michael Vercelli will lead the School of Music.
Demonstrating speed, precision, and adaptability in autonomous vehicle technology, a team of students from the Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources placed third overall at the 28th RoboRacer Autonomous Racing Competition, held during the 2026 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium in Detroit, Michigan.
The College of Applied Human Sciences Master of Arts in Literacy Education program is being recognized as a Board of Governors Program of Excellence, a designation which reflects achievement of the highest academic standards.
The Carlson Senior Mine Design Competition pushes mining engineering students to take everything they’ve learned in the classroom and apply it to a full-scale, real-world mine planning project.