- 33rd Annual Shields Memorial Golf Tournament held May 11, 2012
The 33rd Annual Shields Memorial will be held at the Glenn Dale Golf Club on May 11, 2012. Proceeds will be placed in endowment scholarship fund. Click here to learn more.
- IAA Logo Scholarship Contest!
Open to UMD students only! Click here to for more details.
- IAA May 1, 2012 Open House
Save the Date: Tuesday, May 1, 2012, for our IAA Open House. Come and learn about IAA programs, tour the University of Maryland campus and meet our faculty. RSVP today via phone: (301) 405-4686 or via email to dvelasqu@umd.edu. We are still accepting applications for the Fall 2012! Click here to learn more.
- Join the fun on Maryland Day!
University of Maryland will be hosting the Maryland Day on Saturday, April 28th from 10:00am-4:00pm. See you there! Click here to learn more.
- IAA $250 Scholarship Logo Contest!
Help us get a new look and earn a scholarship doing it! Deadline is May 11, 2012! All UMD students are invited to submit logo. Click here to learn more.
- IAA April Institute Items Newsletter is now available!
Want to know what's happening at IAA? Read our electronic Institute Items Newsletter today. Click here to read.
- IAA UMD Teams take 3rd and 7th place at 2012 Turf Bowl!
Great news from Vegas, NV! Our students have placed 3rd and 7th place at the 18th Annual GCSAA Turf Bowl Competition!
- Sports Turf Team takes 2nd at Sports Turf Competition in Long Beach, CA!
The Sports Turf Managers Association (STMA) hosted the 2012 Student Challenge held in conjunction with its winter conference in Long Beach, CA, January 10-14. A record-setting 37 teams competed this year, and the Terps team of Drew Wolcott (IAA), Travis Biggs (IAA), Tommy Hutson (PSLA), and Pat Moynihan (PSLA) took 2nd place in the 4-Year team competition with a total score of 130.5 points and just 1.5 points behind the winning team from Purdue.
- IAA Student earns 2nd place at the North East Student Affiliate (NESA) Block and Bridle Animal Science Competition!
Congratulations Deedra Suchting! She placed 2nd overall among 250 students competing in livestock judging category.
- IAA March 30, 2012 Open House
Save the Date: Friday, March 30, 2012, for our IAA Open House. Come and learn about IAA programs, tour the University of Maryland campus and meet our faculty. RSVP today via phone: (301) 405-4585 or via email to cdingess@umd.edu. We are still accepting applications for the Fall 2012! Click here to learn more.
Check out /INAG News/!
Wanna know what the IAA is up to? Look for the Summer 2011 /INAG News/ newsletter, coming out soon. Until then, check out the Winter 2011 or Summer 2010 editions.
- Great Kids Farm, IAA Create Insect Collection
This summer, students and staff at the IAA collaborated with Great Kids Farm in Catonsville, Md., to create an insect collection for Baltimore City school students. Read about the project here.
- Another Great Year of AgDiscovery!
IAA Instructor Ken Ingram served as an AGNR100 instructor for AgDiscovery, a three-week educational program that introduces high school students to a variety of agricultural careers and opportunities. Click here to learn more!
- PGMS earns grant from CHS Foundation
The Professional Grounds Management Society at the University of Maryland, College Park was recently awarded a $1000 grant from the CHS Foundation. The grant will support the chapter’s fundraising efforts to attend the GIE+Expo in Louisville, Kentucky this October.
The UMD PGMS was established in 2010 and is the society’s first student chapter. The CHS Foundation, a giving entity of CHS Inc., supports agricultural enterprises and education.
The GIE+Expo is a national trade association meeting where participants can see demos, test new technology, and learn about grounds management.
The IAA congratulates the UMD PGMS on this outstanding achievement.
- The Bees and the Trees and the IAA!
The university’s Apiary building has been refurbished and reopened as the Arboretum Outreach Center, newly designed to educate the community about the university’s tree inventory and botanical offerings. IAA alumna Carin Celebuski serves as the Coordinator of Volunteers for the arboretum and is involved in the center’s Tree Walks and Talks. In 2010, Carin, a general ornamental horticulture student, was recognized as the IAA’s Outstanding Student.
Carin is featured in a Diamondback article about the new center. Check out the story here
- Public Health Garden, IAA student featured on Maryland Newsline
IAA Sustainable Ag student Deb Dramby is interning as the Farm Manager at the University's new teaching garden. Deb was recently featured on Maryland Newsline Summer, a news program produced by Philip Merrill College of Journalism students for UMTV. Many crops being harvested this summer sprouted in the University Greenhouse after IAA students in Ken Ingram's Greenhouse and Production Management course planted them. Check out the video here!
- Scholarships Galore!
The IAA Scholarships page has been recently updated. Take advantage of this opportunity to fund your education! Click here to see the list.
- Turf & 'tute
Maryland was the center of the golf universe in June with two professional tournaments. Both events had record breaking performances by the champions. As usual, IAA faculty, students and alumni were heavily involved and a big part of the success of each event.
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On June 2-5 the Melwood Prince George's County Open returned to the University of Maryland golf course. Superintendent George Long and current IAA student Allen Turner had the course in great shape despite the season's first heat wave. Several IAA alumni volunteered during the week. The event was won by Steve Wheatcroft with a record score of 66-60-65-64 totaling 255, 29 strokes under par, the lowest four-round total in the 20-year history of the Nationwide Tour.
(Above) IAA alumni and faculty at the US Open. L to R: Justin Bishop, Ken Ingram, Chappy Chapman, Kevin Mathias, Mike Owens, Tom Turi, Ricardo Quijada, Lucas Black.
June 16-19 Congressional Country Club in Bethesda, MD, hosted the US Open. Again, IAA alumni and faculty were among the 120 volunteers from around the world. Two IAA alumni, Tom Turi and Ricardo Quijada are on the staff at Congressional. Two recent IAA/Congressional interns Mike Owens and Adam Schilpp returned to volunteer. Kevin Mathias, Ken Ingram, Lucas Black, Justin Bishop, and Ryland Chapman all worked the 4-8 a.m. and 4-8 p.m. shifts. Several other IAA alumni with Turf Equipment and Supply Co. were involved: Doug Ballew, Doug Fleming , Bill Neus, Brian Pardoe, and Andy Donelson. Some of the week's highlights included a visit from the GCSAA Board of Directors on Wednesday morning and photo opportunities with the US Open trophy (before its trip to Ireland) Wednesday afternoon, a surprise visit from the 1964 US Open champion Ken Venturi Thursday afternoon, and a visit and thank you from USGA Executive Director Mike Davis on Friday.
- New Pastures for Equine Advisor Erin Pittman
After nearly 10 years with the IAA, Equine Advisor Erin Pittman has decided to leave the University of Maryland to spend more time with her twin boys, help on the farm and pursue new equine interests. Read more here.
- Students Dig into New Campus Garden
The Institute of Applied Agriculture's "hands-on" teaching mission encourages students to get their hands dirty, and what better way to accomplish that than digging into a garden. Thanks to a $15,000 grant from the University Sustainability Fund, campus is getting a teaching garden. Read more here.
- IAA's Outstanding Student for 2011
 Matthew Zipper, a December Turfgrass Management graduate of the Institute of Applied Agriculture, will be honored as the IAA's 2011 Outstanding Student on April 20, 2011 at the AGNR Alumni Dinner. Matt completed his undergraduate degree in Agricultural Economics from the University of Maryland in May 2009 and continued his education at the IAA soon after.
His name landed on the Dean's list every semester he attended the IAA and he was awarded scholarships from both the Shields Memorial Endowment and the Dr. Ronald J. Seibel Scholarship.
During his semesters at the IAA, Matt completed his internship at the Robert Trent Jones Golf Club in Gainesville, VA. He also participated in countless extracurricular events including the Mid-Atlantic Challenge Cup, volunteer hours at the Constellation Energy Senior Players Championship at Avenel and the 2011 Turf Bowl competition in Orlando, Florida.
Matt, now an Assistant Superintendent at Lakewood C.C. in Rockville, MD, is an exemplary student who took advantage of the many opportunities here at the IAA and of whom we are all very proud and honored to congratulate.
- IAA Student's Blog Receives Award
 Sustainable Agriculture student, Deborah Lakowicz-Dramby, won the 2010 Maryland Outstanding Blog Award in the Health & Wellness category by BaltimoreSun.com.
Deborah started the blog, www.justsayingjs.blogspot.com, in 2008 as a place for the eco-curious to gather and sort through the latest green news, learn the history and future of food and agriculture, strive for sustainability, reflect on fun encounters in life and nature, and work to reduce every one’s impact on the earth beneath us and the world around us.
This fall, Deborah enrolled in the IAA’s Agricultural Business Management Program with the goal of combining her writing skills with an agriculture education to pursue a new career in sustainable agriculture.
Deborah’s prize is a promotion ad campaign for the blog, valued at $500, on The Baltimore Sun’s website.
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