UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa., Sept. 15 -- Pennsylvania State University issued the following news release:
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. - Joe Louis has been named head of the Department of Plant Science in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences, effective Oct. 7.
Louis joins Penn State from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where he served as the Eberhard Professor of Agricultural Entomology with joint appointments in the Department of Entomology and the Department of Biochemistry. He also served as associate department head in the Department of Entomology and led the department's stress biology initiative.
Troy Ott, Peter and Ann Tombros Dean of the College of Agricultural Sciences, said Louis is an internationally recognized researcher in pla...