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
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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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Robertson to coordinate Apparel Studies major
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Lona Robertson |
Lona Robertson has joined the Bumpers College faculty as an associate professor and area coordinator for the Apparel Studies major in the School of Human Environmental Sciences.
Mary Warnock, HESC director, said, “Dr. Robertson is a highly regarded educator in the field of fashion merchandising. We are delighted that she has joined us to help meet the growing student demand for our Apparel Studies major.”
Robertson came from Oklahoma State University where she was an associate professor and assistant dean in the College of Human Environmental Sciences. In 2005, she was awarded the President's Certificate of Excellence for her work with the Graduate and Professional Student Government Association at OSU.
Apparel Studies is one of the fastest growing majors at the U of A. Enrollment has more than tripled in six years from 63 students in the fall of 1999 to 211 in the fall semester of 2005. The major added 33 students from fall 2004 to fall 2005. It is the most popular of 15 majors offered by Bumpers College.
Robertson grew up in Florida. She has a B.S. degree in fashion merchandising and a master’s degree in clothing and textiles, both from Florida State University. She was an assistant professor of textiles, apparel and merchandising at Indiana State University while working on a doctorate in education from Indiana University.
She received her Ed.D. degree in 1995 and joined the Oklahoma State University faculty that year.