Department News and Updates! February 13, 2015

NEWS AND EVENTS

  • Lupe Pena, an Animal Science major, received a medal & honorable mention for her research poster presentation at the is California Alliance for Minority Participation (CAMP) Symposium held in Irvine
  • Jim Oltjen’s data used to clarify the amount of water needed to produce beef in Meat MythCrushers

RESEARCH

  • Ermias Kebreab co-author of “Estimating enteric methane emissions from Chilean beef fattening systems using a mechanistic model” in Journal of Agricultural Science
  • Alex Van Dam & Bernie May co-author  “Range Wide Phylogeography of the Cochineal Insect (Dactylopius coccus )” in Ann. Entomol. Soc. Am.

OUTREACH AND TRAVEL

  • GOAT DAY Great Success! Nearly 275 attendees. Thanks to Jan Carlson, Rachel Conway, Jim Murray, Elizabeth Maga, Dana Welch & all who helped
  • Deanne Meyer & Frank Mitloehner attended General World Ag Expo in Tulare