Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station, University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture
Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences
A newsletter for faculty, staff and students
January-February 2006 • Vol. 32, No. 1
Table of Contents
WHO, WHAT,
WHEN, WHERE
• Notables
• Grants
• Articles Published
• New Projects
• New Publications
• Coming Events
• Dean reviews 2005 accomplishments
• 700-plus attend ‘Party of the Century’
• Food Science Building expanded
• Robert Bacon is CSES interim head
• Robertson to coordinate Apparel Studies major
• Food packaging, processing expert joins UA faculty
• AGCS adds digital media specialist
• Donors provide new scholarships and building funds
• Legislature applauds UA fruit breeding program
• Crop Biotechnology minor proposed
• Bumpers welcomes transfer students
• Magazine features U of A spinach breeding program
• Congratulations to fall graduates
• Poultry science students win national awards for research
• CSES students win ASA poster contest
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Vision Archive Index
All About Advising
• Monthly newsletter index
UA Agri LInks
• Division of Agriculture
• University of Arkansas
• Dale Bumpers College of
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• Arkansas Agricultural
xxxExperiment Station
• Cooperative Extension
xxxService
• Alumni and Development
• Future Students
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Donors provide new scholarships and building funds
Bob and Hazel Spitze have made an $80,000 gift to a building fund for the Child Development program in the School of Human Environmental Sciences. The gift sets the stage for a continuing development program to provide for a state-of-the-art facility to house both the Infant Development Center and the Nursery School that would meet the needs of the faculty, students and children.
Mary Trimble Maier of Fayetteville, a longtime supporter and member of the Campaign or the Twenty-First Century steering committee, donated $40,000 for an honors academy scholarship endowment for Animal Science students. The UA matching gift program will double the endowment to $80,000.
SoHo Clothiers, Inc., in Rogers has made a $30,000 commitment to establish an endowed scholarship for apparel studies students. Owners Steve and Annette Sohosky are also interested in sponsoring student internships.
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| SCHOLARSHIP ENDOWMENT — Bentonville Garden Club president Cynthia Coughlin, right, presented a check to complete a $25,000 scholarship endowment for horticulture students at the University of Arkansas. Also pictured are, from left, Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Science development director Mark Power, garden club member Marilyn Bogle, associate vice chancellor for development Sandy Edwards and horticulture professor Curt Rom. |
The Bentonville Garden Club and celebrity horticulturist P. Allen Smith teamed up to endow a $25,000 scholarship fund for Horticulture students. The host of “P. Allen Smith Gardens” on network television, “P. Allen Smith’s Garden Home” on public television, and author of best-seller gardening books is a Little Rock native and current resident.
Bentonville Garden Club president Cynthia Coughlin said Smith attended a club luncheon last September as a guest of member Marilyn Bogle, and he offered to donate a tour of his Little Rock garden for the club’s scholarship endowment project.
Coughlin said the club decided in 2004 to fund a $25,000 scholarship endowment over four years with the proceeds from spring plant sales and an annual fall silent auction. But the donations for 17 places on the P. Allen Smith garden tour brought in $15,000, and the endowment was completed ahead of schedule.