This article originally appeared in the June/July 2017 edition of CFAES Monthly.
Rattan Lal, Director of the Carbon Management and Sequestration Center, received the Honoris Causa degree from the Universitat de Lleida, Spain on June 13. While in Spain, Lal discussed distance learning, student exchanges, study abroad opportunitiies and soil management research with the rector and vice rector of the 700-year-old university. Included in the photo, from the left, are Delfi Robinat Catala (President del Consell Social), Ildefonso Pla Sentis (professor of soil science), Roberto Fernandez Diaz (rector), Lal, and M. Teresa Areces Piñol, secretary general of the University of Lleida.