Jayachandran, Krishnaswamy Graduate Faculty

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  • Krishnaswamy Jayachandran is a Distinguished University Professor with the core expertise of environmental microbiology/soil science by training. He received PhD in Plant Pathology with a focus on Soil Microbiology from Kansas State University, MS in Agricultural Microbiology, and BS in Agricultural Sciences from Tamil Nadu Agricultural University. He worked as a Research Associate at International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics before joining his PhD at K-State. He has co-founded the Agroecology Program through significant funding from USDA to promote education, research, training and outreach activities for students pipelining and capacity building. He enjoys teaching soils and ecosystems, advanced soil resources analysis, agroecology, soil microbiology, soil biology and ecology of South Florida. He has mentored over 300 undergraduate students promoting experiential and experimental learning activities and 75 MS and PhD students thesis and dissertaion research in environmental, ecological, agricultural areas. He is the recipient of University teaching, research, mentoring, service, community engagement, Access & Equity, ASA Fellow, SoTL, Israel Science Fellow, and the Jefferson Science Fellow.
  • Krishnaswamy Jayachandran is a Distinguished University Professor with the core expertise of environmental microbiology/soil science by training. He received PhD in Plant Pathology with a focus on Soil Microbiology from Kansas State University, MS in Agricultural Microbiology, and BS in Agricultural Sciences from Tamil Nadu Agricultural University. He worked as a Research Associate at International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics before joining his PhD at K-State. He has co-founded the Agroecology Program through significant funding from USDA to promote education, research, training and outreach activities for students pipelining and capacity building. He enjoys teaching soils and ecosystems, advanced soil resources analysis, agroecology, soil microbiology, soil biology and ecology of South Florida. He has mentored over 400 undergraduate students promoting experiential and experimental learning activities and 75 MS and PhD students thesis and dissertaion research in environmental, ecological, agricultural areas and 80 PSM-EPM graduate students. He is the recipient of University teaching, research, mentoring, service, community engagement, Access & Equity, ASA Fellow, SoTL, Israel Science Fellow, and the Jefferson Science Fellow.

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  • Krishnaswamy Jayachandran

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