Department News and Updates! June 10, 2011

NEWS AND EVENTS

  • Commencements: Graduate students last night, Undergraduate students tomorrow (below is photo from Fall 2010 ANS/ANM students)
  • Graduation Reception Tomorrow ~ 4 pm in breezeway
  • Plant Science research exonerates livestock grazing in Yosemite Toad decline (CE Specialist Tate)

TEACHING AND VISITORS AND TRAVEL

  • Quarter ends!
  • Juan Medrano in Denmark
  • Peter Robinson June 6-8 East London, South Africa for Large Herds Conference

OUTREACH

  • National Thoroughbred Racing Association Representative tours Horse Barn

RESEARCH

  • Ermias Krebreab part of $1 million Conservation Innovation Grants- Greenhouse Gas Award for Innovative Beef and Dairy GHG Emission Reduction Strategies
  • Grants submitted in last two weeks:
    • Kebreab: USDA FAS “Borlaug International Agricultural Sciences & Technology Fellowship Program” 
    • Berger: National Pork Board
    • Mitloehner co-PI: USDA AFRI 
    • Lit, Oberbauer, & Famula: NIH R01. 
    • Maga: Bill and Melinda Gates Fnd. 
  • Josh Hull coauthor of BMC Evolution Biology paper: “Reduced MHC and neutral variation in the Galapagos hawk, an island endemic.” 5/25/2011