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

HEADLINES

• 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
xxxAgricultural, Food and
xxxLife Sciences
• Arkansas Agricultural
xxxExperiment Station
• Cooperative Extension
xxxService
• Alumni and Development
• Future Students
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Vision Credits
Vision is published six times a year by the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station in the U of A System's Division of Agriculture and by the Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences. It is produced by the Communication Services unit of the Department of Agricultural and Extension Education, 110 Agriculture Building, U of A, Fayetteville, AR 72701. 479-575-5647.

• Editor: Howell Medders, (hmedders@uark.edu).
• Web manager: David Edmark (dedmark@uark.edu).
• Writers and photographers: Fred Miller and Karen Eskew
• Editorial Assistants: Cassandra Cox and Amalie Holland
• Broadcast e-mail support: Arkansas Alumni Association

E-mail items for publication in Vision to ahollan@uark.edu

Congratulations to fall graduates

Congratulations to the AFLS graduating class of Fall 2005. The graduates, as listed in the latest issue of “All About Advising,” are:

AECT: Jennifer Coleman

AGBS: Stephen Brooks, Michael Henderson, Justin Looney, Clifford Robinson, Robert Shepherd and Sharelle Williams

ANSC: Stephanie Beard, Jason Corey, Megan Fleshman, Todd Forrest, Andrea Havely, Rachel Hudson and Shiloh Whiting

APST: Christina Dunn, Elizabeth Edwards, Ashley Evans, Katherine Jester, Lauren Kemp, Sarah Kleinhenz, Jaclyn Roetzel and Naomi Weaver

BENG: Katie Merriman

CPMG: Grant Carter

ESWS: Kenneth Kaufman, Lorena Moreno and Ryan Neal

FDSC: Kenneth Over, Jamie Steward and Alicia Yancey

FHNH: Misty Jackson, Susan Penn and Jana Shoemaker

HDFS: Kristin Ivey and Brooke Lewis

HORT: Solomon Aydani and Kimberley Dennis

IDES: Beverly Odom and Carrie Parker

POSC: Steven Culwell