March 28, 2019
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Darrin Dodds, right, is new head of Mississippi Plant and Soil Science. Here, he chats with Dennis Burns, LSU Extension, and Nick King, King Precision Irrigation, at the recent Conservation Tillage Conference in Baton Rouge.
A Mississippi State cotton agronomist is the new head of the university’s Department of Plant and Soil Sciences.
Darrin Dodds, a 12-year veteran of the department, takes the helm April 1.
A native of Rushville, Illinois, Dodds is well respected throughout the Midsouth for teaching, research and outreach programs in cotton physiology. In 2016, he was awarded the Dr. J. Tom Cothren Outstanding Young Physiologist Award by the National Cotton Council and its partners.
An MSU alumnus, Dodds has garnered nearly $6 million in research funding and mentored a dozen graduate students. The professor performs more than 100 cotton Extension and research trials each year.