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
May-June 2004 • Vol. 30, No. 3
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Table of Contents WHO, WHAT, HEADLINES Tyson Foods endows food safety chair Faculty provide Honors 'Program' Equine, Wildlife minors proposed Commencement speaker from new breed of Bumpers College students Outstanding alumna directs Delta Nutrition Research Initiative Vision goes digital with next issue Faculty name outstanding students Arkansas Golf and Sports Turf Classic raises funds UA AGRI LINKS Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences |
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Tyson Foods endows food safety chair A gift from Tyson Foods will be used to endow the Donald “Buddy” Wray Chair in Food Safety, Chancellor John White announced at an April 15 press conference following the annual Scholarship Luncheon in the Arkansas Union Ballroom.
Buddy Wray is a 1959 graduate of Bumpers College who retired in 2000 as Tyson Foods president and COO. A national search is underway to fill the position, which will enhance the national and international prominence of the University’s research in food safety with an emphasis on microbiology. In early 2003, Tyson Foods made a gift in kind, which will be matched by $1.5 million from the Walton Family Charitable Support Foundation’s $300 million gift to the university in 2002. Investment returns on the total endowment will be used to enhance teaching, research and service programs conducted by the holder of the Wray Chair.
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