- Ashley Becker Steele, Reimagining agriculture in the Midwest US: Exploring environmental and social solutions to better support farmers, communities, and the environment PhD 2025 Environment & Resources (PhD seminar 9 Dec 2025)
- Mpumelelo Ncwadi, It takes a commons: Decolonizing South Africa’s Eastern Cape with agroecology. PhD 2025 Environment & Resources (PhD seminar 13 Nov 2025)
- Mia Keady, Thinking like a prairie: Soil carbon to perennial conservation. PhD 2025 Environment & Resources (PhD seminar 14 Aug 2025)
- Angela Leon Tinoco, Microbial-derived residues and their role in carbon stabilization and aggregate formation in southern Wisconsin cropping systems. PhD 2025 Agronomy (PhD seminar 2 May 2025)
- Clarissa Dietz, Grain and forage cropping systems typical of the upper Midwest except grazed pasture lose soil organic carbon over 30 years. MS 2022 Agroecology
- Ashley Becker, Pastures with managed grazing have more surface-soil carbon than row crops. MS 2021 Environment & Resources