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Anheuser-Busch professorship for rice genetics
Jewel Minnis Trust provides endowment
Sealed Air donates equipment and scholarship money
Seed dealers and Talberts endow scholarship
Wilda McMurry endows fellowship fund
Student research grants awarded
Division hosts national spinach conference
Haggard named ARS Scientist of the Year
Grad students will study in Belgium
ASID students host national officer
Interior Design builds shelters
Horticulture honors alumni and friends
Discovery student journal published
David Pryor keynotes POSC program
Endowed chairs and professors honored
Alums help launch Pioneer Biofuels
Patent issued for herbicide-resistant rhizobia
Faculty and staff photo
to go in centennial time capsule
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November-December 2005 • Vol. 31, No. 6
Sealed Air endows scholarship and donates packaging machine
Sealed Air Corporation, a leading global manufacturer of a wide range of food and protective packaging materials and systems, has made a gift valued at $75,000 to Bumpers College and the Division of Agriculture.
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| ENDOWMENT — Officials from the Cryovac Food Packaging Division of Sealed Air Corporation presented a check to create an $80,000 Honors Academy Scholarship endowment. The company also donated equipment valued at $35,000 for research and teaching in the food science department. Pictured, from left, are Ron Buescher, Food Science Department head; Jim Belcher, director of applications, development and support for the Cryovac Food Packaging Division of Sealed Air; Dean and Associate Vice President Greg Weidemann; and Paul Ahmed, national accounts manager with Sealed Air. |
The company gave the Food Science Department a tray lidding machine valued at approximately $35,000, which includes the machine’s installation, transportation, support and training.
An additional gift of $40,000 will be matched by funds in the Matching Gift Program to create an $80,000 Honors Academy Scholarship endowment.
“The advancement in the interactions between packaging materials and the food that is being packaged continues to expand at a rapid pace,” said Jim Belcher, director of applications, development and support for the Cryovac Food Packaging Division of Sealed Air. “We hope this donation of a state of the art packaging system to the University of Arkansas will help them in their pursuit of new solutions in the area of food preservation.”
This gift was committed during the Campaign for the Twenty-First Century, which recorded $1.046 billion in gifts and pledges designated toward student and faculty endowments, academic programs, capital improvements and University Libraries when it concluded June 30, 2005.