On Monday afternoon, Orrville City Schools announced the hiring of Brent Besancon as its new head football coach “Coach Besancon brings a wealth of experience having previously assisted and led other varsity football programs,” the release said he has been instrumental in shaping competitive teams at the varsity level His dedication to fostering a culture of teamwork and excellence has earned him recognition among players More: More than wins and losses: Orrville staff, students and community show support for football coach More: Zoey Eades, Isabella Adams and Kayla Moroschan earn sectional titles "I am honored to take on this role and look forward to building a strong competitive program,” said Besancon in the press release “My goal is to instill a sense of pride and dedication in our athletes and help them grow as players and individuals.”  Besancon is excited to be leading a program that he has been in awe of from the outside Now he is the frontline leader of one of the area’s premier football programs “I have always appreciated this storied program and the community's support of Orrville football,” said Besancon More: Wooster's Alessandra Gerber swims lights out, and Michael Buchholz earns All-Ohio twice “The first task is to assemble a team and a staff that shares my values That is what one would expect from a Red Rider football player.” from his years as an assistant for the Generals’ he now gets to see the other side of the area's and one of the state’s best rivalries It’s part of the excitement and something that Besancon couldn’t be more excited to be a part of again passed away in early December 2024 in Camden He was truly beloved and will be profoundly missed by his wife Captain Besançon was a decorated naval officer who served for nearly 30 years he pursued a second career in academia and then volunteered actively most notably with The Navy League and The Seeds for Jubilee Foundation Mike’s legacy is one of service – to his family His contributions will be remembered with deep gratitude by all who knew him May his memory bring comfort and peace to those who mourn his loss A Committal Service with Military Funeral Honors is scheduled for 11am on Friday 2025 at the Fort Sheridan National Cemetery in Fort Sheridan José Manuel Díaz takes second ahead of Clément Berthet Guillaume Martin (Groupama-FDJ) attacked from a reduced peloton on the steepest section of the climb to Monfaucon and won Classic Grand Besançon Doubs.  On the double-digit gradients of the Côte de la Malate the second ascent marking the path to the finish Martin made his move when pacemaker Matteo Vercher (TotalEnergies) dropped back with 2.5km to go Martin was next in line and accelerated over the next 500 metres charging ahead for his solo effort as the gradient relented slightly Clément Berthet (Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale) and José Manuel Díaz (Burgos Berpellet BH) went on the chase for the final 2km to the finish taking his first victory in almost three years I had tactically perfect day," Martin said at the finish noting that he felt like he had early symptoms of a cold but his teammates supported him well to the final climb The race is part of the Coupe de France series with Stian Edvardsen-Fredheim (Uno-X Mobility) leading the overall standings by 7 points ahead of Clément Venturini (Arkéa-B&B Hotels) Martin moved into third place with the 70 points he earned for the win Friday joining five other riders 10 points behind the leader Making his return to the peloton after Cian Uijtdebroeks (Visma-Lease a Bike) returned to racing a month after he abandoned Tirreno-Adriatico on the final stage experiencing numbness in his legs which plagued him in 2024 The young Belgian finished 1:32 off the winning pace in 32nd position and is expected to continue his comeback at the Tour du Jura on Saturday and the Tour du Doubs on Sunday.  With 50km to go in the 168.6km French one-day race Loe van Belle (Visma-Lease a Bike) and Tom Portsmouth (Wagner Bazin WB) ascended the Côte de la Malate for the first pass and created the first true breakaway of the race.  They were joined by Louis Rouland (Arkéa-B&B Hotels) Théo Delacroix (St Michel-Preference Home-Auber93) and Johannes Kulset (Uno-X Mobility) but the accelerations from behind ended their charge with 15km to go It all came down to the second and final ascent of the steep 3.9km Malate climb he kept the pressure on by moving out of the saddle to open a 15-second advantage over his two chasers and held on for the victory Results powered by FirstCycling a sports marketing and public relations agency which managed projects for Tour de Georgia a Georgia non-profit to promote safe cycling She is proud to have worked in professional baseball for six years - from selling advertising to pulling the tarp for several minor league teams She has climbed l'Alpe d'Huez three times (not fast) Her favorite road and gravel rides are around horse farms in north Georgia (USA) and around lavender fields in Provence (France) you will then be prompted to enter your display name Liberal ArtsImmersive French program enhances fluency and cultural understandingPenn State students experience life language and even the Olympics in FranceStudents in Christina Sztajnkrycer’s (first row second from right) FR 299 course in Besançon — A faculty-led summer French language program in Besançon offered beginner to advanced-level students of French an immersive experience to rapidly improve their fluency Penn State students spent June and July enrolled in FR 299 Foreign Study: French, a seven-credit intensive program held at the Center for Applied Linguistics at the University of Franche-Comté. The experience was one of 12 faculty-led programs that took place in the College of the Liberal Arts this summer students benefited from living in a city with few English-speaking tourists lodging with host families and experiencing the rich cultural environment of Besançon Classes were held five days a week with other international students in the program “The cultural insights and French proficiency that are gained from living with a host family and taking classes with other students who have the same language goals is a one-of-a-kind experience and opportunity that is hard to replicate once students graduate,” said Heather McCoy “The Besançon program is a unique opportunity for students to really live in France for an extended period of time and gain the kind of knowledge that can only be gained as a cultural insider.” McCoy served as the faculty leader of the program from 2011 to 2023, when Christina Sztajnkrycer, assistant teaching professor of French and Francophone studies McCoy has seen multiple iterations of the program over the years and served as the program assistant to Sztajnkrycer to facilitate the transition this summer advocate and facilitator for the students as they navigate their cultural experience “People often have sort of a false impression about how French culture is going to be similar to North American culture,” Sztajnkrycer said “There are really some important differences that shock people so I kind of tried to ease the students into those cultural differences Although a fully enriching cultural experience is one of the primary drivers of the education abroad program the main goal is to significantly boost a student’s ability to communicate in French Living in Besançon for an extended period of time provided students with the unique opportunity to become cultural insiders found the immersive environment incredibly beneficial due to the constant exposure to French without the crutch of English The consistent interaction with the language embedded French into her subconscious she now experiences moments where English TV shows in the background begin to sound like French to her Students in the program were placed with host families with Ried’s host mother welcoming her and other students from the United States Each student had a different level of French fluency but they were able to communicate with each other no matter their background students alternated between two types of classes The intensive French classes covered grammar through comprehension in reading The French culture classes offered an in-depth exploration of French society Sztajnkrycer encourages Penn State students to learn more about this program as it isn’t limited to French majors but is also offered as a way to fulfill a French minor or simply improve fluency the summer format of faculty-led programs allows students who find it challenging to fit traditional study abroad into their busy academic schedules a way to still have the experience students walk away from the program with professional development skills a deeper understanding of French culture and newfound friends Ried and her fellow students had several standout experiences during the trip from watching the Olympic flame pass through Besançon in June to attending the Olympic soccer match between Morocco and Singapore to traveling to Marseille and Dijon to watch the Tour de France “Many students who have done the Besançon program have gone on to study abroad again in a different program done internships in France or gone to graduate school in France,” McCoy said “Some have built careers with French multinationals and worked in other French-speaking contexts.” She said education abroad offers students not only the opportunity to explore the world but the chance for self-exploration The Career Enrichment Network empowers Liberal Arts students to explore engage and define their career journey through diverse career development opportunities Students can meet with a career coach to explore careers the Liberal Arts Alumni Mentor Program and more the Career Enrichment Network provides Liberal Arts students the opportunity to apply for funding to help support participation in many of these experiences Averi Besancon is a student reporter for KASU News This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page The TimesThe murder of 15-year-old Azad Budak was filmed by a passer-by and posted on Telegram the video of him lying on the ground with a bullet in his chest spread through Besançon who phoned his parents to say what had happened Budak sits in the elegant stone-walled offices of Maître Myriam Kabbouri the city spoke of art de vivre with its narrow streets and rich history Team Visma | Lease a Bike started this weekend's triptych of one-day races in France without a top result the yellow-black brigade rode a strong race but a flat tire of Jørgen Nordhagen on the final climb meant that a good performance was no longer possible the so-called White Jersey group of the Dutch cycling formation made it an attractive race Loe van Belle escaped from the peloton with three other riders Where his fellow escapees were caught on the flanks of the Montfaucon Côte de la Malate At about fifteen kilometers from the finish Van Belle was caught and the favorites prepared for the finish on top of the steep climb of the Montfaucon Cian Uijtdebroeks and Jørgen Nordhagen were well positioned up front all day but lost ground on the start of the final climb and were unable to play a role in the battle for victory in the French one-day race but at the most unfortunate moment on the final climb sports director Marc Reef states afterwards we were constantly riding at ease as a team in the peloton behind We executed the established plan perfectly and started the final climb in perfect position but unfortunately couldn’t join the battle for the victory where almost the same group of riders will be at the start Subscribe yourself for the Team Visma | Lease a Bike newsletter and receive previews for races Niels Vandeputte third on brutally cold day in France Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck) did it again taking another solo victory at the UCI Cyclocross World Cup in Besançon on Sunday on a brutally cold day The world champion powered away on the second lap of the slippery and heavy course to claim his third World Cup victory of this cyclocross season Toon Aerts (Deschacht-Hens-FSP) who got off to a fast start and stayed with Van der Poel during the first lap held off the chasing field to secure second place Niels Vandeputte (Alpecin-Deceuninck) was third Though Van der Poel said it would be a “difficult race to manage” at the start due to the conditions he obviously had no problems on the course made slippery by a layer of ice over mud “It was nice course with a ice crowd as well It’s not often we go abroad anymore with cyclocross so it's nice to see so many people here,” said Van der Poel who flew by private jet from his home in Antwerp to claim his fifth win out of five races Van der Poel quickly made his way through traffic to connect with Aerts before taking a faster line down on a small drop to take the front He then put in the fastest lap - a time of 9:13 on the second lap - to establish his gap and continued to find the safest and fastest path over the muddy and icy ruts on the technical course but I kept doing my thing and I stayed out of trouble all day actually and that was what I was trying to do.” Aerts and Vandeputte settled in second and third place respectively After a disastrous start marred by a bike exchange problem World Cup leader Michael Vanthourenhout (Pauwels Sauzen-Bingoal) found himself in 37th place trailing the leader by over 30 seconds after the first lap steadily working his way through the field and capitalizing on mistakes by those ahead He ultimately crossed the line in seventh place 1:17 behind the winner — enough to keep him in the World Cup leader’s jersey Also having issues was Eli Iserbyt (Pauwels Sauzen-Bingoal) who had trouble clipping in after a fast start pushing him well down the rankings and forcing him to chase until he connected with Joran Wyseure (Crelan-Corendon) on the penultimate lap to battle for fourth place The pair chose to skip the pit on the final lap but Iserbyt was able to pull away to take fourth place nine seconds ahead of Wyseure who finished fifth Results powered by FirstCycling Lyne LamoureuxLyne has been involved in professional cycling for more than 15 years in both news reporting and sports marketing quickly becoming a trusted source for news of the North American professional cycling world She was the first to successfully use social media to consistently provide timely and live race updates for all fans She is proud to have covered men's and women's news equally during her tenure at the helm of the site Her writing has appeared on Cyclingnews and other news sites.  A Smithville man died in a Saturday morning crash on Saltcreek Township Road 609 according to a news release from the Holmes County Sheriff's Office Besancon was driving southbound on 609 when his vehicle drifted left of center swiping a GMC pickup and the trailer it was pulling The truck and trailer were being operated a 24-year-old Norton man Besancon’s vehicle exited the east side of the roadway and struck a mailbox a large landscaping stone and a fence before coming to rest in a bean field which notes the pickup driver and a passenger were wearing safet belts and were not injured Assisting the Sheriff's Office at the scene were Fredericksburg Fire and EMS and the Holmes County coroner and her first World Cup podium was Blanka Vas (SD Worx-Protime) who crossed the line 1:02 behind the winner In her return to cyclocross after an almost two-year absence, Marianne Vos (Visma-Lease A Bike) chased from a fifth-row start to take fifth place after a battle with Zoe Backstedt (Canyon-Sram) who finished fourth on Sunday it was such an amazing crowd,” Van Empel said Van Empel agreed that being able to set her lines at the front at the front on the usually fast course made heavy by the cold conditions leaving a thin top layer of ice over slick mud so it was a benefit that I could ride my own race Backstedt had a fast start to take the holeshot ahead of the 66-rider field which did not include Puck Pieterse who took a planned break with riders stringing out behind her on the technical course Van Empel had settled at the front with a gap to all chasers a position she would keep until the finish as riders were seen blowing on their hands to try and warm up their fingers on the finish straight I rode my own pace and there was enough,” Van Empel said the Dutchwoman still held a gap of seven seconds a lead that would increase lap by lap to the end.  each exploiting different sections of the course that played to their strengths Brand managed to open a small gap on a fading Vas Vos uses her skills and power to move up from her fifth-row start to 15th place after one lap and in a battle for fourth place with Backstedt halfway through the race.  Vos chose to skip a couple of bike changes to try and get the advantage but in the end crossing the line two seconds ahead of the eight-time world champion for fourth place Eight-time ‘cross champion chases from fifth row start After a nearly two-year absence from cyclocross, Marianne Vos made her return at the UCI World Cup in Besançon on Sunday where she finished in fifth place on the difficult icy course with a mediocre starting position The eight-time world champion’s last cyclocross race was at the Benidorm World Cup in January 2023 before her recovery from iliac artery surgery in August forced her to miss the following 'cross season.  the Visma-Lease A Bike rider admitted that she had some apprehension about her first race back exciting and some nerves as well of course always the first race of the season,” Vos said “I think in this race everybody will fight for it's technical,  I will have to try and she knew that she would have a battle in front of her to get a result and then she faced the extra challenging ice-over-mud course conditions and brutally cold weather and could not pinpoint a specific section as the most difficult.  “There's not much of a recuperation in the race so if you're uphill and you're pushing or running you need to be very sharp and then focus because every corner is really slippery.” The 37-year old Dutchwoman and the 20-year old Brit were then locked in a duel each using their specific skills to take the front and even skipping some bike changes to get the advantage while keeping track of riders coming up behind them.  But then and hold it to the finish line for fourth place.  “I had nothing,” Vos said of her final lap the coordination gets a bit messy if you're tired so the last lap was maybe not the best one but it was a good race also with Zoe Backstedt  so it was nice.” It was definitely a hard race but I was happy to find myself moving up in the bunch and then of course when I was around 4 or 5 Vos said that she would use this race to test her performance to see if she would race the World Championship in in Liévin more environmentally-friendly mobility to the area's 200,000 inhabitants million in cumulative sales over the 7 years of the contract inhabitants benefit from the "Ginko" public transport network municipalities served by 600 stops, including 31 tramway stations This new contract marks an important step towards offering ever more innovative, sustainable mobility solutions tailored to individual needs.Share the article This site is in partial compliance 98,53% (with RGAA 4.1 standards) Mathieu van der Poel’s win streak continued in Sunday’s eighth round of the 2024-2025 UCI Cyclocross World Cup in Besançon It was his fifth straight triumph in eight days including a natural hat trick of World Cup rounds Sunday’s runner-up Toon Aerts cut Michael Vanthourenhout’s lead to 25 points at the top of the table Van der Poel had stolen the limelight over the last two rounds but Vanthourenhout was 36 points clear of Aerts at the top of the table after earning two of the six rounds Aerts was determined to snag the hole shot on Lap 1 Round 1 victor Eli Iserbyt was in trouble right away after a clip-in problem Aerts rabbited away on the front and by the six minute mark was leading van der Poel Filipe Orts nine seconds behind with van der Poel’s teammate Niels Vandeputte trailing the Spaniard On Lap 2 of 7 it was apparent that Swiss rider Loris Rouiller was on the ride of his life Just as Vandeputte was in touching distance of the lead duo Joran Wyseure dispatched Rouiller in his own podium bid Aerts and Vandeputte trailed by 10 seconds after the second circuit Wyseure had a 2024-2025 Superprestige round in his pocket and he was intent on getting his second World Cup podium of the season but he had 12 seconds to make up on Aerts and Vandeputte on Lap 3 but Vanthourenhout was still scrapping farther back The situation was as-you-were on the middle lap Rouiller and Vanthourenhout met as the former dropped and the latter rose Van der Poel was still riding smoothly and stylishly out front on the penultimate lap Vandeputte hovering two or three seconds behind Iserbyt had climbed to fourth by the time he heard the bell but was 26 seconds in arrears of Vandeputte Vanthourenhout squeezed by Swiss Kevin Kuhn into seventh where he finished It was Vandeputte’s 10th podium of the season and Aerts’ fifth The next round is January 5 in Dendermonde Get the digital edition of Canadian Cycling Magazine Δdocument.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value" It may still be the Christmas-New Year holiday period when traditionally the winter training is increased for road riders but some of our top junior cyclists have made the journey to Europe for cyclocross action this week Conor Murphy and Greta Lawless all pinned on numbers today at the UCI Cyclocross World Cup in Besançon and put in strong performances against the best juniors in the world Lawless has already taken the best ever result by an Irish rider at a World Cup in recent weeks placing 10th at the Dublin round on December 1st Today she was 17th on a day when the French riders went 1-2-3 The race was won by Lise Revol (16) by 23 seconds from Jeanne Duterne Lawless 3:40 down after 45 minutes of racing who was 11th at Superprestige Mol last week placed 16th and Daly was 56th in the 75-rider field The race was won by France’s Soren Bruyere Joumard who also claimed victory at the Dublin World Cup four weeks ago though just 10 seconds up on Belgium’s Arthur Van den Boer Murphy was 1:28 down on the winner in 17th while Daly was at 5:17 We’re determined to make stickybottle.com much better for your enjoyment So become a ‘Stickybottle Supporter’ now from just €5 per month We’ve grown our audience significantly in recent years but the advertising market has become harder and harder each year In order to survive and grow – and create much better content – we need to develop an income from our readers By signing up to become a ‘Stickybottle Supporter’ you’ll be helping to secure independent coverage of Irish cycling for years to come Every cent collected from readers will be used to directly fund content Sign Up High up in the French Alps, it's enthralling to imagine the forces that shaped these colossal peaks. 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But then that one turns out to be wrong too,” he said you’re faced with a dilemma: do I do it again or stick to my first line?” he said that the race at Gavere was more difficult “But today was still a very challenging course It’s also nice to come to France for the World Cup Besançon was his final race of the 2024 season Next for him will be New Year’s Day at the GP Sven Nys It’s safe to say MvdP won’t be having any wild New Year’s Eve parties… Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker MADISON TOWNSHIP — Madison has found its guy Madison Athletic Director Doug Rickert announced in a news release that Brent Besancon is the six-member search committee's choice to be the Rams' new football coach has been submitted for board approval to take over the football program and the matter will be voted upon Wednesday Besancon is a veteran coach with 10 years of experience as a head coach and more than 20 years total including years spent as an assistant He started his coaching career at his alma mater where he was an assistant for 15 years under longtime Smithville coach Keith Schrock "I have been familiar with the area after playing a lot of playoff games in Smithville and I was intrigued by the Madison community," Besancon said "When you live smack dab between Canton and Mansfield and you grow up with the McKinley/Massillon rivalry on one side of you and the other side is the Madison/Mansfield Senior rivalry and I think it is any coach's dream to be involved in either one of these rivalries." As an assistant coach and offensive coordinator for the Smithies he helped them reach the 2002 state championship game and finish as state runners-up They had 11 playoff appearances and nine conference championships during his time as an assistant He took his first job as varsity head coach in 2007 going 11-9 in two years as New London skipper with 5-5 and 6-4 seasons Besancon then left New London to become head coach at Rittman He went 1-9 during the 2009 season but completely turned things around by going 5-5 in 2010 He resigned after his second season to take over for Schrock at Smithville in 2012 compiling a 32-30 record before stepping down in 2017 He was voted the 2015 Wayne County Athletic League Coach of the Year after leading Smithville to its first playoff win in 13 years Besancon has been an assistant coach at Wooster High School and spent time on Doug Haas's staff and won OCC titles in 2019 and 2020 He also coached Lexington head coach Andrew Saris who spent time as an assistant coach at Madison when Saris was in high school at Smithville "I've had some former players who were assistant coaches at Madison like Andrew Saris and I have kept up with him and he has nothing but great things to say about the community," Besancon said "I've stayed familiar with it and I am excited all I tried to do was make football as enjoyable of an experience as I could for the kids and that will be my main focus going into Madison I want to make football an enjoyable experience for these young men and the community." Besanson has been on Madison's radar for quite some time as he was a finalist for the same position during one of the previous openings "Brent was a finalist for the head coaching position before," Rickert said in the release "He truly wants to be at Madison and turn things around Although he was not the head coach at Wooster he had coached successfully in the OCC as an assistant." The committee was more impressed by his time at New London at Rittman where he dedicated himself to revitalizing the struggling program and turned it into a winner in just two seasons "What stood out to the committee was his ability to turn around struggling programs as he did at New London and Rittman as the head coach," Rickert said in the release he had the best Firelands Conference record in 12 years and the only winning season in 13 years he claimed their first five-win season in five years and increased their roster by 20 boys He expanded their football program to include seventh grade and freshman teams." Besancon will take over a Madison football program that continues to search for answers It has not had a .500-or-better season since going 5-5 in 2015 the Rams are a combined 5-62 with three winless seasons with their lone win in 2022 coming over winless Mount Vernon The Rams haven't won more than two games in a season since 2016 who is 49-53 in 10 seasons as a head coach will be Madison's third head coach in three years "We are looking forward to Brent leading our young men next season on the football field," Rickert said And he is looking forward to getting to work His first order of business will be to meet with his new players and let them know right away that he is here to work and help them achieve their goals we had three coaches over a 50-year period," Besancon said "This is three coaches in three different years for these young men the first thing I am going to work for us get their trust because they have every right to be skeptic we will try and get that level of work as high as we can because that is what it will take is a lot of work to get to where we want to be I will earn their trust so I can raise that level of work." The Swiss Rowing Association (Swiss Rowing) has appointed Frenchman Alexis Besançon as its new elite head coach Besançon will assume responsibility for the national teams Alexis Besançon (50) takes over from Ian Wright who made the job available after the Summer Games in Paris The Frenchman will take up his position in March Besançon will oversee the entire Olympic cycle up to the 2028 Summer Games in Los Angeles A highlight on the way there will be the 2027 World Championships on Lake Rotsee Besançon's first tasks will include forming new teams and integrating young talent into the elite national team Besançon has worked as national coach in France for more than 15 years Jérémie Azou and Pierre Houin won Olympic gold medals in the lightweight double sculls in Rio de Janeiro (2016) and Hugo Boucheron/Matthieu Androdias in the double sculls in Tokyo (2021) Besançon was named the world's best coach of the year by the International Rowing Federation France's top court on Wednesday ordered a retrial of a Chilean accused of killing his Japanese ex-girlfriend in the eastern city of Besancon in 2016 ruling that investigators had withheld evidence from his defence team A lower court had sentenced Nicolas Zepeda in April 2022 to 28 years for killing Narumi Kurosaki An appeals court upheld that verdict in December 2023 said the Chilean would not be released from jail It said it ordered the retrial because one of the investigators had used slides in their presentation to the court not previously submitted to defence lawyers Kurosaki's body has never been found and prosecutors said all the evidence pointed to him being the premeditated killer of the scholarship student Zepeda has repeatedly claimed he is innocent Kurosaki arrived in Besancon in the summer of 2016 to learn French with whom she had broken up two months earlier often appeared to have difficulty explaining many points of the case NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. — Thierry Besançon, associate extension specialist in weed science for specialty crops, received the 2023 Outstanding Educator Award from the Northeastern Weed Science Society (NEWSS)  He was also elected vice president of the NEWSS board Besançon was characteristically modest and credited the support of his Rutgers NJAES colleagues for the recognition he received from the weed science community at the 2023 joint annual meeting of the Weed Science Society of America (WSSA) and NEWSS in Arlington “I wouldn’t have received the Outstanding Educator award without the help and support of all our Rutgers Extension community,” he said Besançon also received additional accolades at the same meeting that was held from Jan This included the 2023 Outstanding Weed Science Journal Reviewer Award from the WSSA He joined the WSSA Public Relations Committee continuing his outstanding service to the weed science community His research at the NJAES Philip E. Marucci Center for Blueberry and Cranberry Research and Extension in Chatsworth has been focused on weed control in cranberry and blueberry and developing sustainable weed management strategies for specialty crops he was eager to start multidisciplinary collaborative research with other faculty members within the Department of Plant Biology at the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences “There are many new emerging challenges in specialty crops for efficient weed control creating unique opportunities for research on alternative weed management strategies,” he said at the time Besançon grew up in Epinal in northeastern France and worked for 10 years in Europe on pests and disease management in stone fruit production in Crop Science at North Carolina State University where he spent five years working on weed control through cultural practices and crop allelopathy in sorghum and other row crops of the southeastern United States Besançon has focused on developing Integrated Weed Management strategies for vegetable and small fruit cropping systems Of particular interest to him is developing efficient management strategies for Carolina redroot a native species that is a problematic weed of New Jersey cranberry bogs Besançon collaborates with other Northeast and Mid-Atlantic weed scientists to research how to integrate cover crops in plasticulture tomato and cucumber production systems His focus on cover crops also includes evaluating red clover living mulch in cole crops and using goosegrass as a potential row-middle sod cover in New Jersey highbush blueberry where years of repeated cultivation have led to unsustainable soil pH and decrease in content of organic matter Part of his research is also to investigate new spray technologies in perennial cropping systems to optimize herbicide use while maintaining excellent weed control efficacy teaching “Introduction to Weed Science” and “Introduction to Horticulture,” and advising undergraduates and mentoring graduate students Besançon has been recognized with the Rutgers Extension Specialist of the Year award in 2019 Adams Award for outstanding achievements by junior faculty in 2020 and the NEWSS Outstanding Researcher Award in 2021 Read more on Thierry Besançon in a 2017 profile as a new Rutgers faculty member — The next generation of cutting-edge technologies and ideas for the dairy industry will be introduced on the Nexus™ stage at the 2022 Professional Dairy Producers® (PDPW) Business Conference The Nexus stage will showcase five creative products solutions or inventions during the annual conference set for March 16-17 — The Western Illinois University Agronomy Field Day will begin at 10 a.m June 29 at the University Farm on Ember Road in Macomb Guided plot tours will start from the Agronomy Shed The tours will include information about weed management […] — North Dakota State University Extension has set the 2024 Western Crop and Pest Management School for March 12-13 at the Sleep Inn Hotel in Minot and insect infestations that farmers and ag […] assistant professor in the Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences (DMCS) was awarded a two-year Rutgers Global Environmental Change Grant for the project “Upwelling Systems: thermal refugia for reef-building corals in the Eastern Tropical Pacific.” Corals of the eastern tropical Pacific live in a marginal and oceanographically dynamic environment Register now for 'The Woods in Your Backyard' Farm Credit East pays $117 million in patronage dividends Be sure you have your GPS enabled and try again