NEWS AND EVENTS
- Successful Horse Production Sale June 18! All horses sold with the following averages: QH/Paint - $1,480, Mule - $2,150, Warmblood- $463, TB - $675, Mare - $496
AWARDS
- Jim Fadel selected by students as Animal Science Advisor of the Year
- Kimberley Katleba received a FASEB MARC Program Presentation Travel Award for the Soc Study of Repro (SSR) meeting
- Erin Legacki received the Larry Ewing Memorial Trainee travel award to attend SSR.
OUTREACH
- Jan Roser instructor on Inyo National Park UC Extension Horse pack trip with 25 people
- Dan Sehnert judge at Am Assoc Meat Processors annual convention/contest
RESEARCH
- Russ Hovey submitted DOD grant
- Juan Medrano invited speaker at Copenhagenomics Conference: “Milking the genes: Genetic analysis of the milk transcriptome” cphx.org/2011/06/recap-of-day-1-at-cphx/
- Alison van Eenennaam authors CAST report entitled “The Science and Regulation of Food from Genetically Engineered Animals”
- Cass Tucker and grad student Amélie Legrand publish “Using water to cool cattle: Behavioral and physiological changes associated with voluntary use of cow showers” J. Dairy Sci 94:3376
- Melinda Baerwald, Project Scientist in Bernie May’s program, PI on $600K grant from the Delta Science Program:“Understanding the scale and mechanisms of connectivity between splittail populations and the implications for management”