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WHO, WHAT,
WHEN,
WHERE
HEADLINES
UA professor named to Altheimer Soybean Chair
SWREC assesses windstorm damage
Division of Agriculture to operate state poultry testing lab
Wow! Students will do DNA fingerprinting in teaching lab
Don Hubbell named Livestock and Forestry Branch Station director
Gifts provide new scholarships, graduate student award
Bob and Hazel Spitze receive philanthropy award
Paul Beck appointed assistant professor
Delta Classic raises CSES scholarship funds
Farm Bureau conference to focus on the future
GSD celebrates 50th anniversary
27 attend Poultry Science Youth Conference
Local Master Gardeners lend a hand with fruit research
Bumpers College hosts Gifted and Talented group
Bumpers College sponsors Livestock Judging Camp
Farm Bureau awards scholarships
Summer orientation greets students
RECENT NEWS RELEASES
Poultry Science Youth Conference held at the University of Arkansas (with 2 photos)
Local Master Gardeners lend a hand with fruit research (with 1 photo)
Adding selenium to beef offers health benefits for consumers (with 1 photo)
UA Animal Scientist Receives Alltech Medal (with 3 photos)June 2004
Rice growers, millers, users focus on quality at UA conference (with 1 photo)
SWREC assesses windstorm damage (with 4 photos)
Researchers study impact of humans on public lands
UA expands genetic base for cotton breeders (with 1 photo)
UA Livestock Judging Camp prepares 4-H, FFA students for competition (with 2 photos)
UA shows non-toxic endophyte at international symposium (with 1 photo) May 2004
Time is money in transgenic variety development (with 2 photos)
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July-August 2004 • Vol. 30, No. 4
Bumpers College hosts Gifted and Talented group
Bumpers College hosted a Gifted and Talented Summer Institute session June 7-25 with a theme of “The Good, the Bad, and the Genetically Engineered.”
Ashley Harris, coordinator for Bumpers College, said activities included making food products from soybeans, visiting the Tyson Foods Research Laboratory, biotechnology and soil science experiments and an entomology field trip, among others.
This is the first year for
the program, organized by the Office of Pre-College Programs at the U
of A. Activities were provided by faculty and graduate students in Crop,
Soil, and Environmental Sciences; Food Science; Entomology; Plant Pathology;
Human Development and Family Sciences; and Agricultural Communications.
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| Dr. Pengyin Chen, Department of Crop, Soil, and Environmental Sciences, and Jessi White of Huntsville discuss different strains of soybean plants in a greenhouse during the Gifted and Talented Summer Institute. |