Soil-Plant Nutrient Cycling and Environmental Quality

 

Department of Plant and Soil Sciences

 

Oklahoma State University

SOIL 5813

 

 

 

W.R. Raun, G.V. Johnson,
R.W. Mullen, K.W. Freeman,
and R.L. Westerman

 

044 N. Ag Hall

Tel: (405) 744-6418

FAX: (405) 744-5269

 

wrr@mail.pss.okstate.edu

gvj@mail.pss.okstate.edu
rwm@okstate.edu
fkyle@okstate.edu

rlw@mail.pss.okstate.edu



"In recent years the 'human rights' issue has generated much interest and debate around the world.  It is a utopian issue and a noble goal to work toward.  Nevertheless, in the real world, the attainment of human rights in the fullest sense can not be achieved so long as hundreds of millions of poverty stricken people lack the basic necessities for life.  The right to dissent does not mean much to a person with an empty stomach, a shirtless back, a roofless dwelling, the frustrations and fear of unemployment and poverty, the lack of education and opportunity, and the pain, misery and loneliness of sickness without medical care.  It is my belief that all who are born into the world have the moral right to the basic ingredients for a decent, human life." 

 

Norman E. Borlaug

1970 Nobel Peace Prize

 

 

"Learning science and thinking about science or reading a paper is not about learning what a person did.  You have to do that, but to really absorb it, you have to turn it around and cast it in a form as if you invented it yourself.  You have to look and be able to see things that other people looked at and didn't see before.  How do you do that?  There's two ways.  Either you make a new instrument, and it gives you better eyes, like Galileo's telescope.  And that's a great way to do it, make such a nice instrument that you don't have to be so smart, you just look and there it is.  Or you try to internalize it in such a way that it really becomes intuitive.  Working on the right problem is only part of what it takes to succeed.  Perseverance is another essential ingredient."

 

Steven Chu

1997 Nobel Prize, Physics

 

intuition: immediate apprehension or cognition; without evident rational thought and inference; quick and ready insight

Soil-Plant Nutrient Cycling and Environmental Quality

 

Students, 1992- 2002

 

 

Spring 1992                     Spring 1994                     Spring 1996                   Spring 1998                     Spring 2000

Mohd Akbar                     Jeri L. Anderson             Justin Carpenter            Erna Lukina                     Elbek Arslanov

John V. Altom                  Jeffrey B. Ball                 Chad Dow