October 14th, 2010
COLLEGE STATION – The TAMU Horse Judging Team is undefeated with one contest to go. The team traveled to Columbus, Ohio to compete in the All American Quarter Horse Congress and won high team overall, halter and performance. University of Nebraska, West Texas A&M University and Oklahoma State University took second through fourth, respectively.Lauren Fulce…
October 12th, 2010
TULSA, OKLAHOMA & DALLAS, TEXAS—The Texas A&M University Livestock Judging Team brought home several high team and high individual awards after competitions in Oklahoma and Texas Oct. 9 and 11, 2010.The team competed in the Tulsa State Fair in Tulsa, Okla., on Sept. 9. The team won high overall and cattle. Oklahoma State University and…
September 16th, 2010
COLLEGE STATION – H. Russell Cross, Ph.D., has been named interim department head of the Department of Animal Science in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Texas A&M University effective Sept. 15, 2010. The announcement was made by Mark A. Hussey, Ph.D., vice chancellor and dean for Agriculture and Life Sciences.Cross, who most…
September 14th, 2010
AUSTIN, MINNESOTA — The Texas A&M University Livestock Judging Team finished in second place behind Western Illinois University at the National Barrow Show Contest in Austin, Minn., on Sept. 13, 2010.Iowa State University and Oklahoma State University finished third and fourth, respectively.A&M team member Joe Rathmann of Bastrop secured the highest overall individual award and…
September 9th, 2010
COLLEGE STATION — Three graduate students in the Department of Animal Science are the recipients of the recently established Ronnie L. Edwards Graduate Teaching Award in Animal Science, in recognition of their important contributions as graduate students to the undergraduate student experience. Coral Dworaczyk, Kevin Curley, Jr., and Lyda Garcia were each honored during a…
September 8th, 2010
ANCHORAGE, ALASKA — Dr. Fuller Bazer was recognized with the Pioneer Award at the 8th annual International Ruminant Reproduction Symposium held Sept. 3-7, 2010 in Anchorage, Alaska. Bazer is a regents fellow, distinguished professor and holder of the O.D. Butler Chair in the Department of Animal Science.The Pioneer Award is given in recognition of outstanding…
August 16th, 2010
SOUTH PADRE ISLAND — Dr. Ted McCollum, professor and Extension beef cattle specialist, received the Specialist of the Year in Texas Agriculture Award from the Texas County Agricultural Agents Association at the group’s annual meeting held August 1-4, 2010 in South Padre Island.McCollum is located at the Texas AgriLife Research and Extension Center in Amarillo….
August 16th, 2010
Europe — Two faculty and three undergraduate students from the equine science section within the Department of Animal Science spent a couple of weeks this summer in Europe teaching horse riding clinics.Animal Science undergraduate students Ari Sear from Simonton, Amy Heartfield from Belton and Raul Valdez from Laredo served as instructors at the International Horsemanship…
July 29th, 2010
COLLEGE STATION — Two faculty members in the Department of Animal Science are part of an international team of researchers awarded a $1 million United States Department of Agriculture grant to study ways to protect the safety of fruits and vegetables. Dr. Alex Castillo, associate professor, and Dr. Matt Taylor, assistant professor, both food microbiologists and…
July 16th, 2010
DENVER, COLOADO — Faculty and students from the Department of Animal Science attended the Joint Annual Meeting of the American Dairy Science Association, Poultry Science Association, Asociacion Mexicana de Produccion Animal, Canadian Society of Animal Science, Western Section of the American Society of Animal Science, and American Society of Animal Science held in Denver, Colorado…
