Congratulations to Sara Perl Egendorf, one of our finest graduate students (first year PhD student), for winning the Best Graduate Student Presentation Award at the Annual Soil Science Society of America Conference in Phoenix, AZ. Way to go, Sara! Sara Perl Egendorf, Earth and Environmental Sciences, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY, Zhongqi Cheng, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY and Anna Paltseva, Earth and Environmental sciences, CUNY Graduate Center, Brooklyn, NY Abstract: Urban gardening provides valuable benefits to participants and local residents, including access to healthy food, reduced reliance on food transportation and distribution systems, …