Jones wins college Faculty Research Excellence award
Stephen S. Jones
Congratulations to Dr. Stephen S. Jones, professor and winter wheat breeder, who was selected to receive the 2009 CAHNRS Faculty Research Excellence award.
All are welcome to attend the award presentation on April 4, 2009 during the CAHNRS Awards banquet. The event begins at 4pm in the Ensminger Pavilion on the WSU campus.
Tickets are available in Clark 116, Daggy 330, FSHN 166, Johnson Hall 345, Johnson Tower 501, Kruegel 51, and Hulbert 423. Tickets to the banquet cost $20 through March 20; the ticket price increases to $25 on March 23.
Jones’ groundbreaking research has been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Audubon, and Gourmet Magazine.
Hired in 1995, he has released six wheat varieties in 12 years. His variety ‘Bauermeister’ is the most widely grown hard red wheat in the PNW. Likewise, his variety ‘Bruehl’ is the predominant club wheat in the region. His latest variety ‘Xerpha’ has been the highest yielding wheat in all rainfall zones of Washington for the past three years in WSU’s variety testing trials.
In 2008, he was the only U.S. scientist to be included in a $9 million EU grant to improve the nutrient use efficiency in crops.
His work on perennial wheat and determining how plants decide to live or die has attracted over $1 million in funding. His research group leads the world in the elucidation of this complex trait.
Dr. Jones has trained 14 graduate students, many of whom have gone on to faculty positions at universities around the country.
In August 2008 Jones was selected as the new director of WSU’s Northwestern Washington Research and Extension Center at Mount Vernon. He will assume his new position full-time in June.
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