October 17, 2006 |
1. Royal Moves to Development, Fowler Joins Staff
2. Class of 2006 Reports Average Starting Salary of $35,532
3. Mondays at Ella's
5. Food Science Seminars. Room D-1, Food Science Building
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1. Royal Moves to Development, Fowler Joins Staff. Merritt Royal, who has served as administrative associate to Vice President for Agriculture Milo Shult in the Fayetteville office since 1994, was appointed director of development for the Cooperative Extension Service in July.
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Sophia Fowler |
Sophia Fowler, who is coming from Philadelphia where she was controller/business manager at the Awbury Arboretum, filled the administrative associate position Oct. 9.
The administrative associate's duties include managing the Agricultural Development Council, which provides for collection, investment and disbursal of funds donated to Division of Agriculture programs.
Royal is a Fayetteville native with a B.S. degree in communication from the U of A. She joined the Division in September 1989 as an hourly assistant in International Agriculture and was soon promoted to project director. She moved to a secretary position in Horticulture for a short time before joining the vice president's staff as administrative assistant (later associate) in 1994.
"I am really excited about being a member of the Division's development team," Royal said. She will remain on campus and coordinate her efforts for CES development programs with Chuck Culver and Mark Power, development directors for the Division and Bumpers College, respectively.
The position Royal is leaving, "has given me the opportunity to comprehend the full scope of the Division and how it benefits Arkansans," Royal said. "I am very appreciative and feel that it has helped prepare me for my new job."
Fowler is a native of Colts Neck, N.J., and has a B.S. degree in business from American Sentinel University in Englewood, Colo. She has 15 years of accounting and office management experience, including managing human resources and accounting for one for-profit and two non-profit organizations at Awbury Arboretum.
Fowler, whose husband, George Fowler, is head of library systems for the U of A Libraries, has also been internal auditor for Lawn Doctor, regional administrative manager for Brinks, Inc., and a U.S government purchasing agent and contracting officer.
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2. Class of 2006 Reports Average Starting Salary of $35,532. The average starting salary of jobs reported by members of the Class of 2006 in a survey at the May Commencement program was $35,532. The range of salaries reported was $24,960 to $52,000.
The survey, conducted by Alice Griffin, Bumpers College coordinator for advising and retention, provided insight into the immediate plans of 179 students surveyed out of the 187 who participated in Commencement.
Of those surveyed, 120 (85 %) either planned to start jobs (94) or attend graduate school (59), and seven of those planning to pursue advanced degrees also said they had jobs line up, Griffin says.
The 59 students planning to pursue advanced degrees included four enrolled in schools of veterinary medicine, seven accepted to medical or dental schools, and four going to law school.
The Class of 2006 is one of the largest in recent years, with 245 graduates who completed bachelor's degree requirements in May 2006 and in August and December of 2005. Some of the students who participated in the May 13 Commencement the Pauline Whitaker Animal Science Center still had courses to complete before receiving their degrees.
In addition to bachelor's degrees awarded, 99 students received M.S. degrees and 33 received Ph.D. degrees after completing a course of study and research under the direction of Bumpers College faculty members.
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3. Mondays at Ella's. Hospitality and Restaurant Management students have revived the tradition of providing a fine dining experience on Monday evenings in the Maple Bistro at Ella's Restaurant, the Inn at Carnall Hall.
La Cucina Italiana is the theme for dinner on Monday, Oct. 23, at 5 p.m. The dinner will include traditional white bread bruschetta with melon prosciutto antipasto; pork saltimbocca, pork loin scallopini layered with parma ham, herbs and seasonings on a bed of spinach linguine. Desert is a dark chocolate tort with port reduction and white chocolate sauce. Wine list available. $12. For reservations: Nola Magee, 575-3245 or nmagee@uark.edu.
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4. CSES Seminar Series. Mondays, 3:30 p.m., Plant Sciences 009. Oct. 23: Maricela Blair, Soil Properties and Crop Performance of Vegetable Soybeans following Application of Different Types of Poultry Litter.
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5. Food Science Seminars. Room D-1, Food Science Building. Oct. 23 at 3:30 p.m. Alice Donya, FDSC MS-UA, Effect of Processing Methods on Bitterness of Bitter Melon.