People
To successfully address the issues in agricultural sustainability requires a concerted effort from multiple disciplines to embrace the three principles defining sustainability, i.e., economics, environment, and social. Therefore, the CARS’s personnel consists of faculty members with expertise in many specialties who work together as a team to research solutions to a wide range of complex problems in the subject area by developing, improving, and implementing sustainable agricultural production practices. Not only is the team approach necessary, but it provides a unique and vital platform for each team member to make indispensable contributions to the overarching mission of CARS in research, teaching, and extension towards establishing sustainable agriculture in Arkansas.
Directors
Arkansas Center for Agriculture and Rural Sustainability
Jun Zhu, Ph.D.
Director of Waste Management
Dept. of Biological and Agricultural Engineering
Jennie Popp, Ph.D.
Director of Economics
Dept. of Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness
Ron Rainey, Ph.D.
Director of Risk Management
Dept. of Agricultural Economics and Agri Business
Heather Friedrich
CARS Progam Manager
Dept. of Horticulture
Affiliated Faculty and Staff
Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness
L. Lanier Nalley
Michael Popp
Qiuqiong Huang
Animal Science
Charles Maxwell
Dirk Philipp
Yan Huang
Biological and Agricultural Engineering
Brian Haggard
Benjamin R. Runkle
Biological Sciences
Kusum Naithani
Agricultural Education, Communications and Technology
Donald M. Johnson
Office for Sustainability
Marty Matlock
Community and Economic Development
Stacey McCullough
Wayne Miller
Crop, Soil and Environmental Sciences
Trenton Roberts
Kristofor Brye
Mike Daniels
Mary Savin
Entomology
Donn T. Johnson
Food Science
Kristen Gibson
Ali Ubeyitogullari
Horticulture
Elena Garcia
Amanda McWhirt
Human Environmental Sciences
Eunjoo Cho
National Agricultural Law Center
Harrison M. Pittman
Elizabeth Rumley
Rusty W. Rumley
Extension
Amanda Philyaw Perez
Poultry Science
