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WHO, WHAT,
WHEN, WHERE

• Notables
• Grants
• Articles Published
• New Publications
• Coming Events

HEADLINES

• On Top of the Hill
• Development Momentum Continues
• Division Co-Sponsors Biomass Workshop
• Division Forms Biofuels Task Force
• US, EU Exchange Students and Faculty
• Balkan Students Excel in Bumpers College
• Preston La Ferney Retires
• Bob Riggs Retires
• Nolan Arthur Retires
• Graduate Course for HS Teachers
• Delta Classic Raises $35,000
• Barham Endows Scholarship Fund
• Wall Street Journal Discovers Arkansas Berries
• Tailgate Party set for Alabama Game
• Cattle Conference and Marketing Symposium
• Field Days for Crops, Forestry, Wildlife
• College Hosts 4-H O-Rama
• Vegetable Field Day
• Jake Phillips, 1930-2006
• H. Don Scott, 1944-2006
• Darell Widick, 1942-2006
• ACT Group Tours Scotland
• Hospitality Course at Basin Park Hotel
• Apparel Students Visit NYC
• BAEG Designs in Top Three
• Rogers Creek Trail Dedicated
• College Hosts Kauffman Scholars
• College Hosts Gifted & Talented
• Technology Classrooms Ready for Fall
• Carnall Hall Centennial Finale Set


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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.

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Kauffman Scholars Sample Nutrition Course

Dr. Marjorie Fitch-Hilgenberg helps Kristen Jackson, left, and Johanna Leon, both of Kansas City, Kan., calculate nutritional values for bread. Looking on from the next table is Joselyn Chacon of Kansas City, Mo. Fitch-Hilgenberg is director of the didactic program in dietetics in the School of Human Environmental Sciences in the Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences.

Sixty rising eighth-graders from the Kansas City area visited the University of Arkansas campus this summer to learn about what it’s like to attend college and to study the careers of nursing, engineering, business and nutrition.

The students participated in nutrition classes and lab sessions with Dr. Marjorie Fitch-Hilgenberg in the School of Human Environmental Sciences, among others.

Funded by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation in the Kansas City area, Kauffman Scholars is a comprehensive, multi-year program designed to help promising, yet challenged, low-income urban students in Kansas City prepare for and complete a college education. The program provides support to students beginning in seventh grade and works with the students until they complete college. Students and families can expect to be involved in Kauffman Scholars for 10 or 11 years at no cost to the student or family.

As one of the requirements of the program, students must attend a summer residential program at a university. “They learn what it will be like to be in college,” said Gina Ervin, senior associate director of Pre-College Programs.

Joselyn Chacon of Kansas City, Mo., prepares bread dough for baking as part of the Kauffman Scholars program at the University of Arkansas. Chacon and other Kansas City eighth graders learned about college and careers in nutrition, business, nursing and engineering during visits to campus in July.

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