Dr. Roger Beachy

Roger Beachy, the director of the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), is leaving his post next month after serving less than 2 years. "What a huge loss," says Karl Glasener, director of science policy for the American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America, and Soil Science Society of America. He will return to WUSTL as a professor in the biology department and hopes to continue to advocate for agricultural research. Click to read the details by Erik Stokstad on April 29, 2011 Science Insider