The van Kessels Establish An Endowment to Help Grad StudentsSubtitle Gift from Former Department Chair Supports Research in Field Crops Stephanie PerlaMarch 13, 2025Trina KleistChris and Betsy van Kessel near their hometown of Uden, The Netherlands. (Courtesy Chris van Kessel) It was the late 1970s, and a young Chris van Kessel was at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, working on his doctoral degree in the field of nitrogen fixation in plants. His co-supervisor Robert H. Burris, a biochemi...
