Retired UCR professor will receive the Soil Science Society of America’s Kirkham Medal

Retired UCR professor will receive the Soil Science Society of America’s Kirkham Medal

Redlands resident William Jury, a retired UC Riverside professor of soil physics, has been selected by the Soil Science Society of America to receive the Don and Betty Kirkham Medal, an international career research award bestowed only every eight years. This is the third time the medal has been awarded. Previous recipients are Donald R. Nielsen from UC Davis and Rien van Genuchten from the United States Salinity Laboratory, according to a news …