Bill Jury Wins Prestigious Kirkham Soil Physics Gold Medal

Bill Jury, a retired Distinguished Professor in the Environmental Sciences Department and one of the early founding faculty members of the Environmental Toxicology Graduate Program, has recently been awarded the Don and Betty Kirkham Soil Physics Gold Medal from the Soil Science Society of America. This  international soil science medal has only been awarded 3 times at approximately eight year intervals and was given to Professor Jury for his work studying the movement of hazardous contamination in water and soil.  More information on Prof. Jury and the award can be found in a recent Inside UCR web article. Our congratulations to Bill for this impressive recognition. [The photo is from the Inside UCR article.]