As humans move from an agrarian life to more urbanized areas, the connection with soil and plants is being lost with it. One side effect of this trend is that land-grant universities across the United States are doing away with their soil science departments. I was lucky enough to have been one of the last few undergraduates at the University of California, Riverside to study soil science as a a degree option. However, the appreciation for soils should not be limited to land-grant and agricultural universities. Thus I wrote an article for soil scientists to not forget that learning about soils has occurred and still occurs at America’s premier universities, the Ivy League.

See the article Studying soil science at an Ivy League school