Columns

Look out for those guys when hiring

January 22, 2014 By Matt Neff

In looking ahead to interviewing and hiring the seasonal staff for the coming season, I started thinking about the recurring characters that you run across every year. I don’t mean encountering the exact same individual every year; I’m talking about ...

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Leadership isn’t something you clone

January 22, 2014 By Karl Danneberger, Ph.D.

At the beginning of 1969, the University of Michigan hired Bo Schembechler as football coach. Previous to his hiring, Michigan was at best a mediocre team through the 1960s. Attendance at the football games averaged between 30,000 and 60,000 in ...

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Thatch collapse disease

January 22, 2014 By Clark Throssell, Ph.D.

John Kaminski, Ph.D., is an associate professor of turfgrass science at Penn State University. Thatch collapse is one of many turfgrass diseases he and his students study. Kaminski can be reached at kaminski@psu.edu. Q: Talk a little bit about the fungal ...

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Bacterial etiolation and decline of creeping bentgrass greens

December 11, 2013 By Clark Throssell, Ph.D.

Paul Giordano is a Ph.D. candidate in turfgrass pathology at Michigan State University and the topic of his dissertation research is bacterial etiolation and decline of creeping bentgrass greens. Paul can be reached at giorda13@msu.edu. Q:What is the correct name ...

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What happens to those green spaces?

December 11, 2013 By Karl Danneberger, Ph.D.

I grew up in one of those subdivisions that were built in the 1950s as part of the middle class movement to suburbia. We lived on a dead-end street that abutted what was initially a large farm field that rapidly developed ...

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The year-ender

December 11, 2013 By Matt Neff

As 2013 comes to a close, I’ve recently found myself reflecting on the year on both a personal and professional level. How about that for a completely stereotypical opening to a December column? They probably teach that on the first ...

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