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WHEN, WHERE

• Notables
• Grants
• Articles Published
• New Projects
• New Publications

HEADLINES

• Division of Agriculture Field Days

• Yanbin Li named to Tyson Chair in Biosensing Engineering

• New headquarters for Fruit Substation and SEBS

• Jim Moore named to ASHS Hall of Fame; Navaho named Outstanding Cultivar

• New York Times reports on Arkansas blackberries

• Poultry youth campers develop new products

• Belize team to receive Faculty-Student Collaboration Award

• Delta Classic raises scholarship funds

• Animal Science student is Bodenhamer Fellow

• Carver program provides taste of graduate school

• Don Herring retires as AEED head

• Bentley joins Division administrative team

• Bees removed from Old Main tower, put to work at AAREC

• Maxwell receives Animal Management Award

• SWCS presents best paper award to Sharpley

• Terry Siebenmorgen receives food engineering award

• ADA names Foote 'Outstanding Dietetics Educator'

• Communications projects win national awards

• Faculty members attend teaching camp

• 4-H O'Rama comes to campus

• KC Kauffman Scholars visit Bumpers College

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Carver program provides taste of graduate school

Lakeita Rena Ruffin, left, and Monique Fahie are conducting research this summer in the George Washington Carver Research Program.

Monique Fahie of the U.S. Virgin Islands and Lakeita Rena Ruffin of Fayette, Miss., are conducting economics and horticulture research projects this summer with faculty mentors in Bumpers College. They are among 21 undergraduate students participating in the George Washington Carver Research Program at the university. The internship program helps prepare minority undergraduate students for graduate school.

Fahie is a senior at Alcorn State University at Lorman, Miss. Ruffin is a 2007 graduate of Alcorn State. Both are agricultural economics majors. Their research at the U of A began May 20 and will continue through July 13.

Ruffin is working with Curt Rom, HORT, conducting an economic analysis of organic management systems for apples. She is examining different types of mulch, fertilizer and other treatments.

"We're looking at 12 different management systems with everything needed to establish an organic orchard," Ruffin said.

Fahie is working with Dan Rainey, AEAB, on an analysis of what Arkansas has done or needs to do to compete in a global economy. Part of the study includes collecting data on Arkansas higher education and occupations since 1970 to see how college majors correlate with the state's job market.

"We're trying to find out what more Arkansas can do to attract investments in the state and its people," Fahie said. "That includes learning what schools are doing to attract students to majors in marketable careers."

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