A special summer job
For many high school and college students, having a summer job helped pay for school, a car or just a night out. Unfortunately, most students who had a job this past summer had little beyond pay to add to one’s ...Read More
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What should an internship pay?
If you are like many of us in this business, an internship opened the doors to your current career. Were you well paid? Or were you paid in experience and contacts? According to a recent lawsuit, the latter is not ...Read More
Turf toughie: Soil pH versus buffer pH
Sometimes, a soils professor gets the same question tossed his way time and again. That’s when you know you have a true “turf toughie.” Joseph R. Heckman, Ph.D., extension specialist in soil fertility in the Department of Plant Biology and ...Read More
The 17-year cicadas are overrated
So what happened to all those 17-year cicadas that were supposed to emerge from the dirt, blotting out the sun with their sheer numbers? And, more important, what did they do on golf courses? Brood II of the cicadas started ...Read More
Trinexapac-ethyl applications and growing degree days
Doug Soldat, Ph.D., is an associate professor of turfgrass science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research has focused on turfgrass and soil problems. He can be reached at djsoldat@wisc.edu. Question: How did you become interested in investigating the timing ...Read More
Can’t see the forest for the trees
I was heading to work and noticed the neighborhood kids waiting on the street corner for the school bus, as I had a thousand times before. Except this morning I was struck by the number of kids waiting. Where did ...Read More