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|2020 CASNR E-NEWSLETTER |[pic] |
|VOLUME 15, ISSUE 06 | |
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|IN CASE YOU MISSED IT | |
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|Top students, faculty highlighted as part of CASNR | |
|virtual honors recognition | |
|Outstanding students, staff and faculty from across| |
|CASNR are being honored in this time of a pandemic | |
|as part of the college’s virtual Honors Banquet. | |
|Sponsored by the CASNR Ag Council, the annual event| |
|features a variety of honors, including selection | |
|of this year's overall Outstanding CASNR | |
|Student, Micah Rainey, a senior natural resources | |
|management major from Stephenville, Texas. | |
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|IN OTHER NEWS | |
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|Agricultural Communications’ Courtney Meyers named | |
|AAAE Fellow | |
|In recognition of exceptional and sustained | |
|contributions to the profession throughout her | |
|career, Courtney Meyers, a professor and graduate | |
|studies coordinator within the Department of | |
|Agricultural Education and Communications, has been| |
|honored as a 2020 American Association for | |
|Agricultural Education Fellow. "We're so proud to | |
|see Dr. Meyers' accomplishments recognized,” | |
|said AEC Chair Scott Burris. | |
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|DID YOU KNOW? | |
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|Make a Gift: Your gifts to CASNR help support | |
|scholarships & more | |
|CASNR’s leaders believe that Texas Tech is a campus| |
|of opportunity. Students who become Red Raiders | |
|have the opportunity to grow, learn and develop | |
|leadership skills, and CASNR graduates continue to | |
|be a testimony to CASNR’s success | |
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|UPCOMING | |
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|ν CASNR Summer Term II | |
|Tuesday, Jul. 7, 2020 | |
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|ν CASNR Advisory Board Meeting | |
|Thursday, Aug. 20, 2020 | |
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|ν CASNR Faculty Retreat | |
|Friday, Aug. 21, 2020 | |
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|ν Fall Semester – First Class Day | |
|Monday, Aug. 24, 2020 | |
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|ν CASNR Fall Commencement | |
|Saturday, Dec. 12, 2020 | |
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|LATEST ON THE VIRUS | |
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|CASNR Guide to the Pandemic | |
|As local, national and global health | |
|recommendations shift to reduce the spread of the | |
|virus, CASNR continues to take steps that will help| |
|protect our community. Visit the university's | |
|new Texas Tech Commitment page and the TTU | |
|COVID-19 page for information on updates and | |
|prevention guidelines. Separately, CASNR experts – | |
|AAEC’s Darren Hudson, AFS’s Dale Woerner, LA’s | |
|Muntazar Monsur and PSS’s Joey Young – are stepping| |
|up to answer crucial questions surrounding COVID-19| |
|and agriculture. | |
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| |Kristin Hales, Tech's Thornton Distinguished Chair and an associate professor in the Department of Animal and Food |
| |Sciences, received the award from the USDA's National Institute of Food and Agriculture for her project, |
| |"Investigating the Emergence and Ecology of Antimicrobial Resistance in High-Risk Beef Cattle.” The project will seek |
| |to identify how antimicrobial resistance develops and is spread in beef cattle, and develop mitigation strategies to |
| |reduce antimicrobial resistance incidents throughout the beef industry. “To achieve our goals, we have assembled a |
| |highly qualified, interdisciplinary team with expertise in food safety, gastrointestinal microbial ecology, |
| |microbiome, ruminant nutrition, animal health, disease, epidemiology and outreach," she said. >> more |
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| |NRM’s Stevens set to study habitat functionality of Texas Kangaroo Rat |
| |Richard Stevens, an associate professor with the Department of Natural Resources Management, has received a $300,000 |
| |grant from the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts. His project, titled "Spatial Ecology of the Texas Kangaroo Rat," |
| |will attempt to evaluate Texas Kangaroo Rat movements, dispersal and metapopulation dynamics in North Texas grasslands|
| |with the hope of enhancing its survival. |
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| |AFS microbial, food safety expert joins new School of Veterinary Medicine |
| |Alexandra Calle, an assistant professor with the Department of Animal and Food Sciences for the past three years, has |
| |joined Tech’s new School of Veterinary Medicine in Amarillo as an assistant professor of microbiology. She said it’s |
| |an opportunity to show that food safety, public health and animal health are closely related, based on the premise |
| |that animal health is important to human health. |
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| |Journal of Agricultural Education honors Rayfield for outstanding article |
| |John Rayfield, an associate professor in the Department of Agricultural Education and Communications, was recognized |
| |last month for his academic scholarship when his research study was selected as the 'Outstanding Journal Article for |
| |2019' by the American Association for Agricultural Education's Journal of Agricultural Education. "It has been a |
| |career goal to have my research recognized at this level,” he said. |
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| |CASNR experts team with Zoonotic & Infectious Diseases Research Center |
| |More than 30 years of activity in biology, agricultural sciences, engineering and more are behind the launch of Texas |
| |Tech’s new Zoonotic and Infectious Diseases Research Center. As part of that effort, Vinicius Machado with the |
| |Department of Veterinary Sciences and Kristin Hales with the Department of Animal and Food Sciences are examining |
| |cattle health with a special focus on antimicrobial resistance. |
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| |Achilles Vieira-Neto joins CASNR's Department of Veterinary Sciences |
| |Achilles Vieira-Neto, an expert in nutrition and endocrinology of dairy cows, has been named a research assistant |
| |professor in the Department of Veterinary Sciences, effective June 1. The Brazil native indicated that his research |
| |program broadly focuses on understanding the nutritional physiology underlying the absorption and regulation of |
| |nutrients and their metabolism during the transition period in dairy cattle. |
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| |LA’s Monsur part of int'l team studying children’s adaptation during COVID-19 |
| |Children's experiences of life during the COVID-19 pandemic are to be investigated by researchers. A research team |
| |that includes Muntazar Monsur, an assistant professor with the Department of Landscape Architecture, aims to find out |
| |what kinds of activities children and young people have been doing during the pandemic and how they have adjusted to |
| |the huge changes brought on by the lockdown. |
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| |PSS’s Guo using drones to detect crop conditions, including temperature |
| |Wenxuan Guo, an assistant professor of crop ecophysiology and precision agriculture with Tech's Department of Plant |
| |and Soil Science, is using drones that measure about six feet wide and can carry up to 20 pounds of payload such as |
| |thermal, hyperspectral and multispectral sensors, which can measure or determine temperature, plant count, height, |
| |leaf area, canopy cover and plant maturity. |
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| |Texas Tech’s virtual commencement ceremony features CASNR students |
| |Despite not hosting graduating students and their families on campus for graduation due to COVID-19, CASNR still |
| |celebrated its May 2020 graduates. This semester, that celebration took place in the form of a virtual commencement |
| |ceremony that included a graduate slide of the student that featured their name, academic degree and honors. The |
| |program also featured comments by football standout Patrick Mahomes. |
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| |PSS students shine in annual graduate research poster competition |
| |Three top-flight Department of Plant and Soil Science students brought home awards earlier this semester from the |
| |Texas Tech Graduate School's 19th Annual Graduate Student Poster Competition. Doctoral student Kathryn Radicke won |
| |first place in the biological life sciences category. In addition, Prakash Parajuli and Shaida Rumi both received |
| |third place honors in the biological life sciences category. |
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| |Texas Tech announces CASNR’s 2020 incoming first-year Terry Scholars |
| |Officials at Texas Tech's Financial Aid and Scholarship Office have announced the names of three CASNR students |
| |receiving the latest prestigious Terry Scholarships. The first year students are Sydney Blackmon, a plant and soil |
| |science major from Van, Texas; Madison Klam, an agricultural communications major from Schulenburg, Texas; and Kaitlyn|
| |Perkins, a plant and soil science major from Brenham, Texas. |
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|Administrative Council | | |
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|DR. WILLIAM BROWN |DR. MICHAEL ORTH |DR. GLEN RITCHIE |
|Dean |Animal & Food Sciences |Plant & Soil Science |
|william.f.brown@ttu.edu |michael.orth@ttu.edu |glen.ritchie@ttu.edu |
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|DR. CINDY AKERS |DR. SCOTT BURRIS |DR. MICHAEL BALLOU |
|Associate Dean for Academic |Agricultural Education |Veterinary Sciences |
|& Student Programs |& Communications |michael.ballou@ttu.edu |
|cindy.akers@ttu.edu |scott.burris@ttu.edu | |
| | |NORMAN MARTIN |
|DR. CHRISTY BRATCHER |ERIC BERNARD |Marketing & Communications |
|Associate Dean for Research |Landscape Architecture |norman.martin@ttu.edu |
|christy.bratcher@ttu.edu |eric.bernard@ttu.edu | |
| | |JANE PIERCY |
|DR. PHILLIP JOHNSON |DR. WARREN CONWAY |Development & |
|Agricultural & Applied Economics |Natural Resources Management |Alumni Relations |
|phil.johnson@ttu.edu |warren.conway@ttu.edu |jane.piercy@ttu.edu |
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| | |LINDA WHITEBREAD |
| | |Administration & Finance |
| | |linda.whitebread@ttu.edu |
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