Steven C. Ricke, director of the Center for Food Safety, will receive National Chicken Council Broiler Research Award at the annual Poultry Science Association virtual meeting this month.

Asmita Singh, a doctoral student in the Bumpers College food science program, has been selected to receive a Feeding Tomorrow Scholarship.

A $10 million donation to the University of Arkansas System from the Fryar Family Charitable Foundation will be used to create and support a center that will provide analysis and education on issues of price risk management in agriculture, finance and energy.

Bryan Fuentes, a recent master's graduate in crop, soil and environmental sciences, won first place in the graduate-level oral competition for the Soil Science Society of America's Pedology Division.

Navam Hettiarachchy has been honored as a fellow of the International Academy of Food Science and Technology and has been named director of Phi Tau Sigma.

The Department of Animal Science set a record this year for the number of students accepted into veterinary school with a total of 24 individuals who have already been granted admission.

Minerva Dorantes, a doctoral student in crop, soil and environmental sciences, is one of 100 doctoral students in the U.S. and Canada selected to receive a $15,000 Scholar Award from the P.E.O. Sisterhood.

Caleb Hutcherson, an agricultural economics and agribusiness major in Bumpers College, is a registered beekeeper who relocates bee swarms away from residential areas.

Jianmin Chai was awarded a grant to investigate the respiratory microbiome of beef cattle and the influences on bovine respiratory disease, using next-generation sequencing.

A.J. Kaufman, Leslie Massey, Kathryn McCoy and Rebecca Muenich were inducted into the Arkansas Academy of Biological and Agricultural Engineers.