UMass Amherst: Department of Plant, Soil, and Insect Sciences

Alumni & Friends of PSIS, welcome! Check the Alumni & Friends page to see what's new with us, and please register online to tell us how you've been.	Travel online to Bangladesh with the words and beautiful pictures of our PSIS Fulbright Scholars, Prasanta Bhowmik and Robert Wick. Click HERE to enter their online journals.	Teachers and Children's Group Leaders: Looking for fun, educational opportunities that involve insects and plants? Check us out!
Dr. Stephen Rich directs the UMass Genomics Resource Lab, offering a wide range of expertise and advanced equipment to the research community.	Dr. John Burand has been awarded a 3-year USDA grant for research on improving bee health in the Northeast. Read more about it HERE.	Dr Boshan Xing to co-direct the "International Conference on the Environmental Implications and Applications to Nanotechnology" at UMass Amherst on June 9-11, 2009.
Plant, Soil & Insect Sciences welcomes Dr. Daniel Fairbanks as our new Department Head. He is a noted artist, as well as a scientist. Read more about him HERE.	UMass Amherst PSIS Entomology Alum named as State Minister of Agriculture in Rwanda. Read all about Dr. Agnes Abera Kalibata HERE.	Dr. Om Parkash's research on plants that resist uptake of arsenic could help ease the global rice shortage. Read about Dr. Parkash's research and listen to his podcast.