Notable Notes

Animal Science Professor Serge Doroshov and Staff Research Associate Joel Van Eenennaam are organizing a Sturgeon Broodstock Management Workshop to be held September 27-28, 1996 at the College of Southern Idaho in Twin Falls. The Workshop is the culmination of four years of collaborative research through the Westem Regional Aquaculture Consortium Sturgeon Research Project with contributors from research institutions and commercial sturgeon farms in California, Idaho and Montana. The purpose of this research was to focus on the most critical aspects of sturgeon broodstock development and breeding and to establish reliable production seedstock for the commercial sturgeon industry.

Professor Emeritus G. Eric Bradford gave an invited presentation on "Small Ruminant Genetic Resources - Global Overview" at a symposium sponsored by the Food and Agriculture Organization in Bejing, China, in early May. He has also been asked to chair a Council for Agricultural Science & Technology (CAST) National Task Force to write a publication on the "Impacts of Animal Production on the Future Availability of Food for Humans."

Emeritus Professor Bob Laben was recently recognized as the California Hunter Education Instructor of the Year by the California Department of Fish and Game. For 35 years, Bob has taught proper gun handling techniques, hunter ethics and wildlife conservation to over 2,000 individuals in 81 Hunter Education classes. A Hunter Education Certificate is required in California before individuals can be issued a hunting license.

If you want to know what it's like in Siberia, just ask Animal Science and Management Junior Stacy Pettigrew this fall. Stacy is spending a three-month summer internship at the Homatova School of Agriculture in Irkutsk. She will be taking classes in farm management and fur processing and will work with their youth agriculture program (similar to our Future Farrners of America). The sponsor is Rural Enterprise Adaptation Program International.

Dr. James France of the Institute of Grasslands & Environmental Research (IGER) in North Wyke, Great Britain, is spending his 6-month sabbatical here working with Professor Lee Baldwin and others in the Department.

Professor Tom Famula is hosting Dr. Matti Oljala from the University of Helsinki, Department of Animal Science in Helsinki, Finland, who will be with us during his 13-month sabbatical.

Dr. Mario Poli of the Instituto de Genetica in Villa Udaondo (Castelar), Argentina, is here until January 1997 working with Professor Juan Medrano.

Professor Ed DePeters is providing training at our Dairy Barn for visiting scholar Manuel Valdez-Lopez, a professor in the School of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science, Universidad Autonoma de Sinaloa, Mexico, for the next three months.

CaroleWallace, secretary to the chair of Animal Science, and David Tafoya, an Ag Tech employee on our farm crew, have both received their 10-year pins for their years of service with the University.