Pamela Carvalho-Moore, a graduate assistant in U of A's Department of Crop, Soil and Environmental Sciences, has been named recipient of the Southern Weed Science Society Endowment Enrichment Scholarship for 2024.

Recipients are able to choose a week-long education experience among various areas of weed science, including experiences from the field to the lab, in research or extension, and with industry or academia.

Carvalho-Moore is a U of A Doctoral Academy Fellow and a PEO Scholar, which is a philanthropic organization of women who motivate, educate and celebrate women in the U.S. and Canada pursuing doctoral-level degrees.

Carvalho-Moore is a crop, soil and environmental sciences doctoral student in the Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences. A native of Rondônia in Brazil, she is a 2018 Universidade Federal do Pampa graduate where she majored in agronomy. She earned her M.S. in 2018 in cell and molecular biology from the U of A.

Her research focuses on the addition of metabolic inhibitors as an approach to improve the efficacy of the herbicide glufosinate under varied environmental scenarios, as well as understanding the resistance mechanism to glufosinate in resistant Palmer amaranth from Arkansas. Her adviser is distinguished professor and Elms Farming Chair of Weed Science Jason Norsworthy, a faculty member and researcher and scientist with the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station, the research arm of the U of A System Division of Agriculture.

SWSS brings together those from any state, area, institution or agency who are directly interested in weed control within the society area through research, education, regulation, manufacturing or merchandising.

The southern section includes Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and Puerto Rico.

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. For more information about Bumpers College, visit our website, and follow us on Twitter at @BumpersCollege and Instagram at BumpersCollege.

About the University of Arkansas: As Arkansas' flagship institution, the U of A provides an internationally competitive education in more than 200 academic programs. Founded in 1871, the U of A contributes more than $2.2 billion to Arkansas' economy through the teaching of new knowledge and skills, entrepreneurship and job development, discovery through research and creative activity while also providing training for professional disciplines. The Carnegie Foundation classifies the U of A among the few U.S. colleges and universities with the highest level of research activity. U.S. News & World Report ranks the U of A among the top public universities in the nation. See how the U of A works to build a better world at Arkansas Research and Economic Development News.