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Caroline Lewallen, a 2011 agricultural education graduate, is co-owner of a pasture-raised beef cattle farm in Clarkesville, Georgia. (contributed) CAES News
2020 Alumni President 06/17/20 Josh Paine
Caroline Lewallen, a 2011 agricultural education graduate, has been elected to serve as president of the University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences Alumni Association for the 2020-21 term beginning July 1.
dairy cow CAES News
2020 Georgia 4-H State Dairy Quiz Bowl 06/13/20 Cristina Luisa deRevere
More than 25 youth participated in the 2020 Georgia 4-H Dairy Quiz Bowl on June 5, 2020, offered virtually this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The contest is supported by The Georgia Dairy Youth Foundation and Milk Check-Off.
Nadia Tamim will serve as the undergraduate teaching coordinator in the UGA Department of Poultry Science beginning in the fall 2020 semester. (contributed photo) CAES News
Nada Tamim Hire 06/08/20 Maria M. Lameiras
Nada Tamim will join the University of Georgia’s Department of Poultry Science as the undergraduate teaching coordinator on August 1.
Ivan Chapu, a graduate student at Makerere University in Uganda, uses handheld sensors to evaluate peanuts growing in the field. Scientists in three countries are using the sensors as part of a Peanut Innovation Lab project to speed up the process of assessing peanut varieties for various traits. The work could help peanut breeders in their work to create varieties resistant to disease and resilient to climate shocks. (Photo provided by Ivan Chapu) CAES News
High-Throughput Phenotyping 06/06/20 Allison Floyd
Commercially available high-tech sensors can give farmers more information about the overall health of a crop, showing a clearer picture of how widely disease or drought is stressing the plants. Those same sensors can help plant breeders more quickly and objectively to assess the phenotypic characteristics of a particular variety, enabling the breeder to work quicker to develop varieties with resiliency traits.
Georgia 4-H Goat Judging CAES News
Virtual Livestock Educational Resources 06/05/20 Cristina Luisa deRevere
As school responsibilities wrap up and summer break begins, youth now have more time for livestock projects and hands-on learning.
The R. Harold Harrison Distinguished Professorship was established through the generosity of the Luther and Susie Harrison Foundation to strengthen the CAES Department of Poultry Science. Immunologist Rami Dalloul is the first faculty member to hold the newly established professorship. (contributed photo) CAES News
Distinguished Professorship 06/04/20
Poultry immunologist Rami Dalloul has been named the R. Harold Harrison Distinguished Professor in Poultry Science at the University of Georgia’s College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences (CAES).
UGA Professor Cesar Escalante was recognized by the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association for his mentoring work with his minority graduate student advisees. His research focuses on socially and financially disadvantaged farmers. (Photo by Dorothy Kozlowski, January 2020) CAES News
Escalante honored by AAEA 06/04/20 Maria M. Lameiras
University of Georgia Professor Cesar Escalante has been selected to receive the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA) Mentoring Award.
National 4-H Healthy Living Photo CAES News
Healthy Habits at Home 06/03/20 Courtney Still Brown
Our nutrition and physical activity behaviors are not just the result of our personal choices. The environment or setting in which we live and family cultures and customs can also influence our choices and behaviors.
Wayne Hanna, left, and Brian Schwartz in a turfgrass research field at UGA-Tifton. (UGA photo taken by Dorothy Kozlowski/UGA in 2017) CAES News
TifTuf Recognition 06/03/20 Ashley Crain, Tyler G. Duggins
Earlier this spring, the Georgia General Assembly passed a pair of resolutions recognizing the University of Georgia-developed bermudagrass TifTuf.
The second-leading cause of lung cancer in the U.S., radon is an odorless, invisible, tasteless radioactive gas released by the natural decay of uranium in our soils and rocks. UGA Extension offers a low-cost service for those who need to test their home for radon. CAES News
Radon Awareness 06/03/20 Pamela R. Turner
Spending more time at home has made all of us more aware of the air we breathe inside our homes.