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WHO, WHAT,
WHEN, WHERE

• Notable
• Grants
• Articles Published
• New Projects
• New Publications

HEADLINES

• College and campus enrollment at record highs

• Division promotes sustainability

• New faculty members enrich variety of programs

• Chair holder is culinary tourism expert

• Childcare center architects approved

• Kent Rorie joins Vice President's staff

• New issue of 'Discovery'

• 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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Division promotes sustainability

The University of Arkansas System's Division of Agriculture is providing leadership for a sustainable food and agriculture project in the new University of Arkansas Applied Sustainability Center, which is funded by a $1.5 million gift from the Wal-Mart Foundation, Inc.

Mark Cochran, the division's associate vice president for research, said the project will include research and extension projects to identify and help implement key sustainability factors in agriculture and the food industry. Local production and consumption will be emphasized as a way to reduce the amount of energy used to transport food products, Cochran said.

Jon Johnson, executive director of the center and a professor in the Sam M. Walton College of Business, said the sustainable food and agriculture project is one of two innovation projects for the first year. The other project will focus on reducing the embodied fossil fuel content of products and will involve leading experts in carbon reduction.

"This gift from the Wal-Mart Foundation will enable us to create an information hub and a network of experts to support the corporate community in their efforts to become more sustainable," Johnson says.

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