Maru Kering Postdoctoral - AG Research Grant-OBC Cook/Guretzky mkkering@noble.org

• American Society of Agronomy
• Doctor of Philosophy in agronomy, University of Missouri-Columbia, Mo.
• Bachelor of Science in agriculture, University of Nairobi, Kenya

Kering accepted a postdoctoral fellowship position in the Noble Foundation Agricultural Division and works under the supervision of Billy Cook, Ph.D. He will be working on the potential dual utilization of switchgrass for stocker cattle and bioenergy.

Kering joined the Noble Foundation soon after graduating from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 2008.

Kering was born and raised near Eldoret, the administrative and commercial city of Uasin Gishu district in the western highlands of the great rift valley in Kenya.