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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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Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences
A newsletter for faculty, staff and students
November-December 2005 • Vol. 31, No. 6
Talberts and Seed Dealers Association endow scholarship fundsNew scholarships will be provided by a gift of $55,000 from the Arkansas Seed Dealers Association and a pledge of $30,000 from Ron and Alice Talbert.
The Seed Dealers Association has funded annual scholarships for a number of years. The new Arkansas Seed Dealers Association Endowed Scholarship will be for undergraduate students in an agriculture-related major.
The Ronald and Alice Talbert Endowed Weed Science Scholarship will be for graduate students pursuing the master's degree in weed science.
Dr. Talbert retired in May to the faculty rank of University Professor Emeritus. He joined the Agronomy Department faculty in 1963. Dr. Talbert is a leading researcher on herbicide resistance in weeds; weed biology and control; behavior, persistence and fate of herbicides in soil; and selectivity of herbicides.
He received the Weed Science Society of America Teacher Award and the Spitze Land Grant University Faculty Award in 1998 and the Southern Weed Science Society Outstanding Educator award in 1999.
A popular mentor and counselor to students and staff, Dr. Talbert will continue advising his last graduate students as they complete their research.