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William Vance Baird, alumni distinguished professor of molecular genetics and interim chair of the Department of Horticulture at Clemson University, has been named chairperson of the Michigan State University Department of Horticulture.

You can take the boy out of the Bronx, but you can't take the Bronx out of the boy, nor would you want to.

The contentious international Olympic torch relay is dead and buried. London 2012 organizers had already decided that the promotional value of the pre-Games celebrity dash through other capitals and countries was far outweighed by the security problems.

Addressing the significant challenges facing citizens, corporations and the global community in finding a solution to current and future water scarcity issues, the 10th Intelligent Use of Water Summit convened an impressive panel of Australian and U.S water experts in Melbourne for a day-long discussion on the sustainability of Earth's water resources.

In response to growing market demand for synthetic turf and in keeping with the company's mantra of innovation, FieldTurf has opened a new manufacturing facility in Calhoun, GA.

STMA's Call for Presentations for the 2010 Conference is now open! The 2010 Conference will be held January 12-16 at Disney's Coronado Springs Resort & Convention Center in Orlando.

Miami-Dade county commissioners finished a seemingly endless quest to build a baseball-only facility for the Florida Marlins, approving the plan for a 37,000-seat, retractable-roof stadium at the site of the old Orange Bowl.

Cub Cadet is making it even easier to find the right equipment with a new, enhanced Web site.

Just when it seemed that all the sports-licensing ideas had been exhausted — coffins with team logos, unveiled a few years ago, could have reasonably been the presumed end — along comes something that has been growing in plain sight all along.

State Rep. Kim Fawcett, D-Fairfield, urged colleagues on the environment committee to support her bill placing a temporary moratorium on construction of state-funded artificial turf athletic fields.