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STMA golf tournament set for The Ranch Golf Club in San José
The Jacobsen/SAFE Golf Tournament has been set for the Ranch Golf Club in the eastern foothills of the Silicon Valley
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“Building Equity”
While revenue-generating football and basketball programs maintain the highest profiles at colleges and universities, other sports such as golf, softball, soccer, tennis, baseball, lacrosse, and even intramurals and marching band activities are receiving increasingly equitable treatment within shared facilities.
Advan announces strategic refocusing and ownership change
Advan LLC becomes a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sipcam Agro USA, Inc.
CA AG files lawsuits against artificial turf companies
California’s Attorney General’s offices and the Center for Environmental Health (CEH) initiated legal action against several turf companies under California’s Proposition 65 law today.
Plant Science's turfgrass program showcased during open house
Different turfgrass species have dramatically different water needs in the summertime, according to turfgrass scientist Jason Henderson, an assistant professor in the Department of Plant Science.
Turf wars: School districts, athletes weigh costs against benefits to athletes
Voters in the Wappingers Central School District rejected a $175.65 million budget proposal, which included - of keen interest to Goddard -a proposition of $5.56 million for a pair of artificial-turf fields and other athletic improvements.
New research initiative on monocot evolution
A major new effort to document the evolution of the economically most important group of plants on earth – the monocots – will be supported by a grant of nearly $2.9M by the National Science Foundation under its Assembling the Tree of Life (AToL) Program.
Turface Athletics offers $5,000 and on-site consultation opportunity
Visitors submitting a registration form on www.turface.com between now and October 31, 2008, will be entered into a sweepstakes for the chance to win $5,000 in field maintenance supplies and a day of on-site consultation.
Jon Pritchett's dream of reviving AstroTurf became a PR nightmare
When the news broke the following spring, it set off a nationwide scare, and for tiny GeneralSports Venue, a public-relations nightmare.
STMA award, scholarship program deadlines approaching
October 15 is the deadline for the SAFE Scholarship program applications and the STMA Field of the Year submittals.