- Avian Sciences Senior Nora
Elsalawy was selected as one of the West Coast's outstanding
poultry students. The award included an all-expenses paid trip to
Georgia to tour the R&D facilities of the Merial Company and to
visit poultry operations in the South. Nora recently presented a paper
at the Poultry Science Association meeting in Montreal describing work
done with Extension Specialist Francine Bradley.
- Brooke
Humphrey, Master of Science in Animal Science graduate
student, received the American Registry of Professional Animal
Scientists Memorial Scholarship Award. Brooke's major professor is
Chris Calvert.
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Ron
Knight, retired UC Cooperative Extension Livestock and
Range Farm Advisor and County Director, died unexpectedly on May 19,
2000, at the age of 69. Ron joined CE in 1957 as a junior
agriculturist in Solano County. He moved to Tulare County as a 4-H
advisor in 1964 and was appointed county director in Tehama in 1972, a
post he held until his retirement in 1991. Knight helped organize the
UC Beef Workgroup in 1984 and was influential in the livestock
industry statewide.
- The department was saddened to learn of the death of former Animal
Science Professor Joan Macy.
Joan left the Department in 1995 to become Head of the School of
Microbiology at La Trobe University in Bundoora, Victoria, Australia.
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- On July 19, 2000, the Department hosted a
retirement luncheon for long-time employee Robert
Scadden. Bob joined the department in October 1963 as an animal
caretaker and retired as a principal animal technician. Most of his 37
years with the department were spent caring for beef cattle at the
Beef Facility and Feedlot and, in recent years, operating the Feedmill.
His jovial nature brightened the gloomiest of days. We miss you, Bob.
Best wishes for a very happy retirement!
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Heather
Taylor, Master of Science in Animal Science graduate
student working with Professor Mary Delany, received a Graduate
Student Travel Award to attend and present a paper at the
International Plant and Animal Genome VIII Meeting in San Diego.
- Joy
Mench, Professor of Animal Science and director of the
Center for Animal Welfare, is a member of the scientific advisory
committee for the new Free-Farmed Certification Program. The first
such certification effort in the U.S., the program is designed to
establish living standards for poultry, dairy cows and beef cattle
raised for food production. The program was launched recently by the
American Humane Association and will be administered by affiliate Farm
Animal Services. "The guidelines our committee developed for the
humane treatment of farm animals are based on members' collective
animal management experience," Mench said. "Our goal was to
develop standards that are scientifically sound, as well as practical
and achievable from an industry standpoint."
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