May 18th, 2011
COLLEGE STATION — The TAMU Meat Judging Team Reunion will be held September 15-18, 2011 in College Station.Registration: Registration to attend the reunion is now open and can be made online or by mail. Registration deadline is Sept. 9, 2011. Thursday, Sept. 15: Rosenthal Lecture Series featuring Dr. Temple Grandin. This event will begin at 7 p.m. in…
May 18th, 2011
COLLEGE STATION — Amber Adams, Shannon Garey and Aimee Hafla, all graduate students in the Department of Animal Science, have been selected to receive the Tom Slick Graduate Research Fellowship Award from the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. This prestigious fellowship is awarded to outstanding students and provides them support while working on dissertation…
May 15th, 2011
COLLEGE STATION — The Department of Animal Science congratulates the May 2011 graduates! Earning a master of science in animal science were Theresa Marie Chavez, Viviana Victoria Cordero, Holly Danielle Edwards, Jacob Lynn Lemmons, Jeannette Diane Mawyer, Carl Thomas Muntean, Catherine Pomeroy Payne, Kyle Matthew Segner, William Al Wiederhold and Whitney Lynn Williams. Shane Lee…
May 6th, 2011
Thomas Hairgrove, DVM, has been appointed to a new committee created by the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) that will advise the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on the issue of veterinarians’ involvement of antimicrobial use for food animals. Hairgrove is Program Coordinator for Livestock and Food Animal Systems with the Texas AgriLife Extension Service…
May 6th, 2011
COLLEGE STATION — Dr. Glenn Holub, instructional assistant professor and academic advisor in the Department of Animal Science at Texas A&M University, is the recipient of the 2011 Margaret Annette Peters Advising Award.The award was presented by the Texas A&M University Advisors and Counselors (UAC) on May 4, 2011, and recognizes a faculty member or…
April 22nd, 2011
COLLEGE STATION – Dr. Jodi Sterle, associate professor in the Department of Animal Science, is a recipient of the 2010 Student Recognition Award for Teaching Excellence, formerly known as the Teaching Excellence Awards.Sterle is one of 279 faculty members in the Texas A&M University System to receive this award. The Teaching Excellence Awards were initiated…
April 22nd, 2011
KATY — The Texas A&M Senior Horse Judging Team dominated for the third consecutive year at the National Reining Breeders Classic in Katy on April 20, 2011, leaving a more than 150 point margin between themselves and their closest competitor.Laramie County Community College, University of Wisconsin and Iowa State University rounded out the top four,…
April 17th, 2011
ABILENE — The 2010-2011 Texas A&M University Stock Horse Team won reserve champion team at the American Stock Horse Association Intercollegiate National Championship Show in Abilene on April 15 and 16, 2011.Team members are Melanie Armstrong from Dime Box; Kelsey Larson from San Antonio; Anna Haines from San Antonio; Ryan Birkenfield from Nazareth; Ari Sear…
April 16th, 2011
COLLEGE STATION — Coral Dworaczyk is a recipient of the 2011 U.S. Senator Phil Gramm Doctoral Fellowship Award. Dworaczyk is a physiology of reproduction doctoral student working under the direction of Dr. Martha Vogelsang, senior lecturer in the Department of Animal Science. The award was presented to Dworaczyk and six other graduate students in a…
April 15th, 2011
COLLEGE STATION — Several staff members and students in the Department of Animal Science were recognized and inducted into the Texas A&M University chapter of Gamma Sigma Delta, The Honor Society of Agriculture, on April 13, 2011, at the College Station Conference Center.Bryan Weaver, an animal science major, and Shay McDonald, a dairy science major,…
