FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Faculty members Lanier Nalley and Michael Popp in the U of A's Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Science's Department of Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness, have been named Fellows by Agricultural and Resource Economics Review.

Popp and Nalley were chosen for their "sustained excellence in research and commitment to the association's journal." They will be recognized at this year's annual meeting of the Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association in Philadelphia in June.

Nalley's current research emphasis is on rice production, international agricultural policy, the economics of plant genetics, and international development. Popp has research interests in the areas of farm and agribusiness management with an emphasis on alternative production practices and related implications for returns, risk and environment.

The National Agricultural and Resource Economics Association was founded in 1981, and seeks to stimulate and promote education and research on economic and social problems related to the production, marketing and consumption of agricultural products; natural resource use; the environment, and rural economic development; and the interrelation of the agricultural and rural sectors with the rest of the economy. 

Popp and Nalley are the second and third current Bumpers College professors to earn Fellow status, joining Rudy Nayga, holder of the Tyson Chair in Food Policy Economics.

About the Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences: Bumpers College provides life-changing opportunities to position and prepare graduates who will be leaders in the businesses associated with foods, family, the environment, agriculture, sustainability and human quality of life; and who will be first-choice candidates of employers looking for leaders, innovators, policy makers and entrepreneurs. The college is named for Dale Bumpers, former Arkansas governor and longtime U.S. senator who made the state prominent in national and international agriculture.

About the University of Arkansas: The University of Arkansas provides an internationally competitive education for undergraduate and graduate students in more than 200 academic programs. The university contributes new knowledge, economic development, basic and applied research, and creative activity while also providing service to academic and professional disciplines. The Carnegie Foundation classifies the University of Arkansas among only 2 percent of universities in America that have the highest level of research activity. U.S. News & World Report ranks the University of Arkansas among its top American public research universities. Founded in 1871, the University of Arkansas comprises 10 colleges and schools and maintains a low student-to-faculty ratio that promotes personal attention and close mentoring.