Joshua Lowe Posner, a professor of agronomy at the University of Wisconsin and an international agricultural expert, died in his home April 3, 2012, of Hodgkin?s Lymphoma, a disease he battled for two years. He was 64. Josh was hired by the UW in 1986 to participate in a research project in Banjul, Gambia and arrived in Madison in 1988. His pioneering work on the Wisconsin Integrated Cropping Systems trial is a 20-year research trial, one of his most important domestic legacies. The research has involved many of his students and colleagues, on and off campus and has examined a large number of issues related to low input (organic) agriculture in the Midwest. His most recent international work was as the principal investigator of a National Science Foundation training grant to support University of Wisconsin graduate students to learn Chinese and conduct their dissertations in Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainable Livelihoods in Yunnan Province.
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