Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station, University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture
Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences
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Table of Contents • Notable • College and campus enrollment at record highs • New faculty members enrich variety of programs • Chair holder is culinary tourism expert • Childcare center architects approved • Kent Rorie joins Vice President's staff • Arkansas wins national IFT College Bowl • Savoy forest used for research, extension projects • Turfgrass specialist receives national award • Weed science team wins Southern Region Contest • Faculty member's colleagues host benefit concert • 'Corps of Discovery' lecture scheduled • New soybean variety described at Pine Tree Field Day • NEREC observes 50th anniversary at field day • Vegetable Substation hosts Southern Pea Field Day • Field day features turfgrass programs • Food science sponsors MasterFoods USA summer interns • Habitat project selected for USGBC study • Johnson consults on blackberries in Nanjing
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Childcare center architects approved The University of Arkansas Board of Trustees, at its monthly meeting Sept. 22 in Fayetteville, selected the Fayetteville architectural firm of Miller-Boskus-Lack to design a proposed childcare center for the Fayetteville campus. Dean Greg Weidemann said the design would allow the college to begin raising money for the project, with an estimated cost of about $4 million for a 10,000 square foot building. "The new center will provide the modern facility our students need to enhance their learning experience," Weidemann said. The center would house up to 125 children and combine the UA Infant Development Center and UA Nursery School, now in separate buildings on either end of campus. The new center, like the existing facilities, would serve as a learning and research laboratory for the child development program in the School of Human Environmental Sciences and Bumpers College. The Infant Development Center at 536 N. Leverett was built in the 1970s. The Nursery School is in a 1940s house at 16 S. Duncan. Mary Warnock, HESC Director, said each facility houses a maximum of about 20 children. The nursery school provides care for 32 children by splitting them in morning and afternoon sessions. Both facilities are accredited by the National Association for the Education of Young Children and have long waiting lists every year, Warnock said. Vernoice Baldwin, director of the two centers, said combining the children in a new facility would mean continuity of care for children, space for additional children and staff, and better accommodations for students majoring in child development in Human Environmental Sciences as well as education students who also take the laboratory classes. "The students spend time observing and interacting with children in both the Nursery School and Infant Development Center as part of their course work," Baldwin said. "We need more space for the children to move and play while still allowing the involvement of the university students. We’re making do with the rooms, storage spaces and the way the classrooms and playgrounds are set up now.”
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