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It is with great sadness that we share the news that Dr. Hwei-Hsien (HH) Cheng passed away on January 24 at Gable Pines Senior Living Facility in Vadnais Heights where he and his wife Jo have lived for several years. He was 88 years old.
HH received his PhD at the University of Illinois and was then a faculty member at Washington State University for 24 years. He joined the University of Minnesota as Head of the Department of Soil Science (now Soil, Water, and Climate) in 1989 and remained as head until his retirement in 2001.
HH is widely known for his research on carbon and nitrogen cycling in soils, transformations of natural and anthropogenic chemicals in soil, water quality, precision agriculture, and agricultural sustainability. He was president of the Soil Science Society of America in 1996 and President of the American Society of Agronomy in 2000. He was honored by the University of Minnesota with an honorary LLD degree in 2004. You can read his obituary in the Star Tribune here.