FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Scott Senseman, professor and head of the Department of Plant Sciences at the University of Tennessee, has been named recipient of the 2019 Outstanding Alumnus Award by the U of A's Department of Crop, Soil and Environmental Sciences.

Senseman leads his UT department in areas of teaching, research and extension. Before becoming department head in 2013, he was a weed scientist and professor at Texas A&M University from 1994 to 2013, where he focused on pesticide fate and transport, and novel research to reduce off-site movement of pesticides. In 2013, he was recognized for his teaching by winning the Outstanding Educator Award from the Southern Weed Science Society of America.

Senseman has authored or co-authored 107 refereed journal articles, and has edited a book, multiple research reports and press articles.

Senseman earned his master's degree (1990) and doctorate (1994) in agronomy from the University of Arkansas and the Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences. He earned his bachelor's degree in agricultural business from Wilmington College of Ohio in 1986.

He will be honored at the CSES Awards Banquet at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 12, at the Hilton Garden Inn in Fayetteville. On Monday, March 11, he is also presenting a seminar, "Things That I Think I Know Now That I Didn't Know Then," at 3:30 p.m. at Plant Science Building Room 009.

About the Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences: Bumpers College provides life-changing opportunities to position and prepare graduates who will be leaders in the businesses associated with foods, family, the environment, agriculture, sustainability and human quality of life; and who will be first-choice candidates of employers looking for leaders, innovators, policy makers and entrepreneurs. The college is named for Dale Bumpers, former Arkansas governor and longtime U.S. senator who made the state prominent in national and international agriculture.

About the University of Arkansas: The University of Arkansas provides an internationally competitive education for undergraduate and graduate students in more than 200 academic programs. The university contributes new knowledge, economic development, basic and applied research, and creative activity while also providing service to academic and professional disciplines. The Carnegie Foundation classifies the University of Arkansas among only 2.7 percent of universities in America that have the highest level of research activity. U.S. News & World Report ranks the University of Arkansas among its top American public research universities. Founded in 1871, the University of Arkansas comprises 10 colleges and schools and maintains a low student-to-faculty ratio that promotes personal attention and close mentoring.