March 17, 2022
Travis Russell, a doctoral candidate in Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences, left, and Devon Carroll, a graduate of the college, are co-honorees of the Musser Award of Excellence.
January 26, 2022
Maureen Kahiu defended her research on the impact of DMIs on dollar spot.
November 22, 2021
Travis Russell, Ph.D. Candidate in Plant Science, discusses his research on the identification of Pythium species causing a new disease of annual bluegrass putting greens.
October 29, 2021
Master of Science student, Maureen Kahiu, discusses her research on the variation in pathogen suppression in vitro from 9 commercially available DMI fungicides and also the variation in phytotoxicity that exists among fungicides and between turfgrass species.
June 3, 2021
Devon Carroll, B.S. Turfgrass Science and M.S. Agronomy, was interviewed by Rick Woelfel from the Superintendent Network Radio
February 24, 2021
The Musser International Turfgrass Foundation has selected Cameron M. Stephens as the 2021 Award of Excellence recipient. The award is given to outstanding Ph.D. candidates who, in the final phase of their graduate studies, demonstrated overall excellence throughout their doctoral program in turfgrass research.
March 25, 2020
Meet the lab's most recent crop of undergraduate research assistants.
February 1, 2020
Maureen Kahiu recently joined the Turfgrass Management lab where she will complete her M.S. degree on dollar spot resistance to DMI fungicides.
January 21, 2020
GCSAA ANNOUNCES WATSON FELLOWSHIP GRANT WINNERS
November 13, 2019
Travis Russell Wins Stiegler Travel Award for CSSA Annual Meeting in San Antonio, TX
November 13, 2019
Travis Russell Places 3rd in Student Research Competition at CSSA Annual Meeting in San Antonio, TX
September 15, 2019
Kaminski joins as co-author in the latest edition of the Turfgrass Management textbook.
August 1, 2019
Kaiyuan Tang recently joined the Turfgrass Management lab where he will complete his Ph.D. on annual bluegrass resistance and management.
November 8, 2018
Second year Master of Science student Devon Carroll placed second in her division of the graduate student poser competition at the Crop Science Society of American meetings in Baltimore.
November 3, 2018
Devon Carroll, Master of Science student in Agronomy, was recently selected as a Stiegler Travel Award Recipient.
October 26, 2018
Master of Science student Devon Carroll is a recipient of the 2018 Penn State Agricultural Sciences International Travel Tag Along Fund award.
August 1, 2018
Travis Russell recently joined the Turfgrass Management Lab where he will complete his Ph.D. on disease management.
June 1, 2018
Smith, D.L., J.P. Kerns, N.R. Walker, A.F. Payne, B. Horvath, J.C. Inguagiato, J.E. Kaminski, M. Tomaso-Peterson, P.L. Koch. 2018. Development and validation of a weather-based warning system to advise fungicide applications to control dollar spot on turfgrass. PLoS ONE 13(3):e0194216.
February 1, 2018
Devon Carroll becomes the first ever recipient of the scholarship.
December 15, 2017
Devon Carroll, MS in Agronomy, was one of three recipients from across the country to be named as a 2017 Watson Fellow.
December 9, 2017
Cameron Stephens reflects on successfully passing his MS defense and graduating from Penn State.
December 8, 2017
Devon Carroll, MS student in Agronomy, receives the Western Seed Association's President's Award.
November 3, 2017
Cameron Stephens, MS in Agronomy, was one of eight graduate students to receive the Steigler Travel Fellowship
July 10, 2017
Han, K.M. J.E. Kaminski, and T.T. Lulis. 2017. Influence of nitrogen, plant growth regulators, and iron sulfate on annual bluegrass (Poa annua L.) populations on a golf green. Int. Turfgrass Res. Soc. J. 13:661-669.
July 10, 2017
Baetsen-Young, A.M., J.E. Kaminski, and M. Tien. 2017. Lignocellulos degrading capabilities of Sphaerobolus stellatus in creeping bentgrass. Int. Turfgrass Res. Soc. J. 13:145-152.
June 5, 2017
This year the Kaminski Lab has four outstanding undergraduate research assistants. Learn more about them here.
January 2, 2017
Devon Carroll spent a year as an undergraduate research assistant, but is making the leap to graduate school in the Turfgrass Management Lab.
