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News article: Haley Kruest Receives 2025 HCS Outstanding Senior Award

Each year, the Department of Horticulture and Crop Science (HCS) hosts a Spring Soiree to recognize the remarkable achievements of our students, staff, faculty, alumni, and friends. 
News article: The Results Are In - See the Winners from the 2025 Graduate Research Symposium
Media mention: Radin Sadre + Jess Cooperstone are "cultivating the future of food"

Ohio Farm Bureau
Media mention: Cultivating a Cure Event Exceeds Fundraising Records

CFAES News
News article: Lydia Wins 3rd Place at the GRS in the PhD Research Category

Congratulations to Lydia Balogh for taking home 3rd place in the PhD Research Category at the Graduate Research Symposium. The Graduate Research Symposium is an annual event hosted by the HCS Graduate Student Association that provides HCS students and faculty from both our Wooster and Columbus campuses to come together to share their research!
Media mention: USDA-ARS scientists have been working with HCS faculty to improve the health benefits of tomatoes

USDA-ARS
Media mention: Dr. Jessica Cooperstone + her lab are leveraging OSC resources to uncover the nutritional benefits of fruits and vegetables

Ohio Supercomputer Center
Media mention: Dr. Jessica Cooperstone selected for the second Growing Research Opportunities Academy cohort

OSU Enterprise for Research, Innovation and Knowledge
Media mention: Drs. Cooperstone & Francis are tracing tomatoes’ health benefits to gut microbes

Ohio State News
Media mention: Dr. Cooperstone, with donor support, aims to grow the good you get from eating fruits and veggies ...

CFAES Time & Change
News article: HCS Alumni Spotlight: Dr. Michael Dzakovich

Meet Michael Dzakovich | HCS Alumni Class of 2020
News article: HCS Alumni Spotlight: Emma Bilbrey

Meet Emma Bilbrey | OSU HCS Alumna Class of 2020