Michael Kotutwa Johnson, research associate with the Native American Agriculture Fund, will talk about the "Continuity of Hopi Agriculture" at 3:30 p.m. Monday, Jan. 27, in Plant Science Building 009.

Proko won second place in the nationally competitive American Society for Cell Biology annual Elevator Pitch competition.

Ioannis E. Tzanetakis, professor of plant pathology for the U of A System Division of Agriculture, has received a fellowship from the Greek Diaspora Fellowship Program to work with the Agricultural University of Athens, Greece, on research to identify and describe viruses and viroids that affect fig crops.

Dean Margaret Sova McCabe and professor Susan Schneider were among the experts who 

John Anderson will join the Division of Agriculture and Bumpers College as head of the Department of Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness on Jan. 2, 2020.

Tyler Carr and Eric De Boer, graduate students in Bumpers College, did well in national competition with presentations on their research.

A team of researchers from the Department of Animal Science at University of Arkansas recently published an article on their findings from a longitudinal study of the swine gut microbiome.

Ana Gonzalez, a doctoral student in food science, placed third in the national contest with research into porous starches, which have great absorption ability.

Don Johnson, agricultural systems professor, said the robot will be used in existing classes, as well as an upcoming special topics class on agricultural industrial robotics.

Undergraduate theses by Sarah Beth DeLay, Mersady Redding and Kelsey Johnson were published by an international undergraduate journal.