Research News of February 2023
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Experiment Station, Bumpers Faculty Selected for LEAD21 Leadership Program
Two faculty members with the University of Arkansas’ Dale Bumpers College of AFLS and the AAES have been selected to participate in this year's Class 19 LEAD21 program...
Ark-La-Tex Feral Hog Damage Assessment Provides Deeper Understanding
Managing feral swine — the land-damaging, disease-carrying wild hogs that roam throughout the country — starts with good data, according to Nana Tian...
Rhoads Named Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science
University Professor Douglas Rhoads has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world’s largest general scientific society and publisher of the journal Science...
Kyung Soo Kim, Retired Division of Agriculture Researcher, Dies at 89
Kyung Soo Kim, a retired professor of plant pathology for the AAES and the Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences at the University of Arkansas, died Feb. 8...
New Researcher Works the Intersection of Statistics, Biology, Computer Science
Rich Adams builds new statistical algorithms to make sense of the biological data from DNA, RNA, proteins and other complexities of biology...
Arkansas Ag Researchers Seek Climate-Resilient Rice as Part of USDA Grant
Scientists at the UADA’s Rice Research and Extension Center seek to develop rice that is more resilient in the face of climate change and usable water depletion...
Crop Science M.S. Student Places Second in International Yield Prediction Contest
Igor Fernandes, M.S. student in CSES in the Dale Bumpers College of AFLS, recently placed second in an international prediction contest conducted by the Genomes to Fields Initiative...
Teaching Method Increases Students’ Interest in Programming and Breadboarding
Researchers validated a curriculum development model that increased the confidence and interest of beginning agricultural students learning how to breadboard and program Arduino UNOs...