Alumni News

Happy Holidays from the Dept. of Tropical Plant and Soil Sciences! The TPSS Graduate Student Organization (GSO), together with Assistant Researcher Orville Baldos and his TPSS 364 Horticulture students, have decided they won’t let the pandemic ruin Christmas.

Growing up in Northern Virginia, Monica Esquivel didn't have many opportunities to enjoy Filipino food. So her mom made it a point to have Filipino food at their holiday celebrations every year. "Since we didn't have Filipino food very often, it became something of a tradition to look forward to – and a way to feel connected to our family in the Philippines.”

What do you get the CTAHR alum who has everything?

How about a cool new T-shirt? Proceeds from sales of the shirts will go to the CTAHR Alumni Association & Friends to help support CTAHR students and programs.

Christmas will be here in three weeks! So get your American Apparel USA-Made Tri-Blend Track T-shirt today!

As CTSA executive director Cheng-Sheng Lee wraps up his semi-annual project updates with PIs, reviewers, committee members, and volunteers, it’s also a time to reflect on a very unusual year and be thankful for what we have, and got done – especially the successful leveraging of CTSA funding.

Exquisite, delicate and full of positive vibrations! You can still get some really pretty plants for your holiday dining table – and support our budding scientists (graduate students) – at the Dept. of Plant and Environmental Protection Sciences’ Christmas Plant Sale.