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

AGCS adds digital specialist

Priya Kulkarni joined the Agricultural Communication Services staff as a digital media specialist (project-program specialist) in December. Her primary responsibilities are to assist in developing and managing websites for the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station, Bumpers College and the various units of the Station and College. She will also provide expertise for producing videos and other digital media projects.

Priya Kulkarni

Ms. Kulkarni received an M.S. degree in electrical engineering with a concentration in software engineering from South Dakota State University in May 2004. She has a B.S. degree in computer engineering from Pune University in India.

As a technical assistant in Biological and Agricultural Engineering, Ms. Kulkarni created and maintained an interactive website for the Arkansas Agricultural Working Group. Other positions have included web-based software developer for TICKETsage in Fayetteville and web design positions at South Dakota State University and Web Communities in Pune, India. As a volunteer in the UA Office of International Students and Scholars, she developed and maintained an interactive website for the International Spouses Group. She created and edited videos for television as an employee of the RAVIRAJ advertising firm in India.

Ms. Kulkarni and her husband, Subodh, a senior graduate assistant in Biological and Agricultural Engineering, have a son, Mukul.