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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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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Poultry science students win national awards for research
Three Poultry Science students competed and won at the Southern Poultry Science Society Annual Meeting held in Atlanta Jan. 23-24.
Carol Ojano-Dirain, a Ph.D. student from Pamplona in Cagayan, Philippines, received the Alltech Student Manuscript Award for her paper on mitochondrial function in broilers with low and high feed efficiency. Only one Alltech award is given out each year and this was the second year in a row for her to win this prestigious honor. Her major professor is Dr. Walter Bottje.
Fausto Solis de los Santos, a Ph.D. student from Santiago City in the Dominican Republic, won the Outstanding Research Presentation Award in the area of physiology and pathology for his paper on gut development in turkey poults. De los Santos is a Fulbright Scholar and his major professor is Dr. Ann Donoghue.
Valerie Brewer, a junior poultry science major from Prairie Grove, won the Outstanding Research Presentation award in the area of processing and products for her paper on phase-feeding in broilers. Brewer had to compete against master’s and Ph.D. students from across the nation to win this award. Drs. Jason Emmert and Casey Owens both assisted Brewer with her project.