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UA Alumna Donates Doctoral Fellowship To Walton College
-- Posted by dboddie on Wednesday, February 25 2004

University of Arkansas Alumna Margaret Gerig Martin, in memory of her late husband, R.S. Martin Jr., BSBA ’47, is doing her part to attract and recruit highly qualified doctoral candidates to the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the U of A.

Margaret Martin of Kilgore, Texas has given $100,000 in a charitable gift annuity to establish the Margaret Gerig and R.S. Martin, Jr. Doctoral Fellowship in the Walton College. The gift will be matched by $100,000 from the Walton Family Charitable Support Foundation’s $300 million gift to the U of A in April 2002. The match will bring the endowment to $200,000, on which the investment returns will support the fellowship. The first student fellowship will be awarded for the fall of 2004.

To read more, please go to http://advancement.uark.edu/news/FEB04/MartinGift.html.

SOUTHERN WEED SOCIETY HONORS UA STUDENTS
-- Posted by dboddie on Friday, February 6 2004

One student and several alumni of the UA department of crop, soil, and environmental sciences were honored at the Southern Weed Science Society (SWSS) annual meeting, held Jan. 26- 29 at Memphis, TN. Jason Bond placed first in the student paper contest for his paper "Variation Among Palmer Amaranth Accessions," co-authored with Dr. Dick Oliver. Jason became the third student in the history of the SWSS to win both paper and poster contests and receive the award for high individual score at the Southern Weed Contest. Three former CSES graduate students who are now attending Mississippi State University also received awards for paper presentations. Thomas Barber was a
first-place winner in the application technology section; Nathan Buerhing received a second-place award in the Physiology/Biology section; and Matt Kirkpatrick won a second-place poster award. Eric Scherder (Ph.D. 2003 under Dr. Ron Talbert) received the 2004 outstanding Ph.D. graduate student award. Mike DeFelice, who received
his M.S. degree in weed science at Arkansas in 1980 under Dr. Dick Oliver, was honored with the 2004 distinguished service award for industry, and David Jordan (Ph.D., 1992 under Dr. Bob Frans) was honored with the 2004 outstanding young weed scientist award.

POULTRY SCIENCE GRADUATE STUDENTS WIN AWARDS AT NATIONAL POULTRY SCIENCE MEETING
-- Posted by dboddie on Friday, February 6 2004

Three graduate students from the UA department of poultry science recently competed and won at the Southern Poultry Science Society annual meeting held in Atlanta Jan. 26-27.

Anne Fanatico, a Ph.D. student from Fayetteville, won the most outstanding graduate research paper and presentation for the processing/products section. Her aper, "Comparison of broiler meat quality among alternative slow-growing breeds and a commercial breed grown with or without outdoor access," was co-authored with faculty members Casey Owens, Jason Emmert and J.F. Meullenet; research
associate Padma Pillai; and former Ph.D. student Cain Cavitt now working for Tyson Foods, Inc.

Carol Ojano-Dirain, a Ph.D. student from Pamplona in Cagayan, Philippines, also took an award for most outstanding graduate research paper and presentation in the physiology section. Her paper, "Assessment of respiratory chain complex activities and protein banding pattern in duodenal mitochondria in broiler breeder males
with low and high feed efficiency," was co-authored by her major professor Walter Bottje, research assistant professors Muhammad Iqbal and Neil Pumford, master's student Kentu Lassiter, undergraduate student Nicholas Tinsley and two Cobb-Vantress, Inc., employees Mark
Cooper and Terry Wing.

Lisa Bielke, a Ph.D. student of Billy Hargis’ from Tomball, Texas, received the Alltech student manuscript award for her paper, "Approach for selection of individual enteric bacteria for competitive exclusion in poults." Only one Alltech award is given out each year and the candidate must have won previously in their respective section in order to be considered.

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