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For Immediate Release

 

Contact: Robert Waggener, Editor

Phone: (307) 766-3571

E-mail: robertw@uwyo.edu

 

Date: March 30, 2006

College of Agriculture well represented in UW Graduate Student Symposium

            Fifty-nine College of Agriculture graduate students are participating in the annual University of Wyoming Graduate Student Symposium Monday, April 3, and Tuesday, April 4, in the second floor of the Wyoming Union.

                Graduate students in all disciplines will showcase their research achievements in either poster or oral presentations.    

            Concurrent oral presentations are 9 a.m. to noon and 1 to 5 p.m. both days.

            Poster sessions are 3 to 5 p.m. Monday and 10 a.m. to noon Tuesday.

            A complete schedule of presentations can be viewed at www.uwyo.edu/UWGrad. Click on "program" under "graduate student symposium."

April 3 oral presentations

            Animal science – John Willford, Terrill Weston, and Rebecca Atkinson.

            Agricultural and applied economics – Barnett Sporkin-Morrison.

            Molecular biology – Jacque Keele, John David “JD” McEnerney, Sherry Adrianos, Amanda Brooks, Benjamin Brooks, Abha Bandyopadhyay, Shane Nelson, Natalia Kirienko, and Melinda Creager.

            Plant sciences – Andrew Kniss, Gatua Mbugwa, and Jason Bagley.

            Renewable resources – Travis Roth, Michelle Patterson, Victor Resco de Dios, Abbey Wick, Rifat Akis, Hannah Griscom, Rachel Mealor, Diana Dean, Eric Wald, and Dayong Wu.

            Veterinary sciences – Rebecca Dailey.

April 3 poster presentations

            Agricultural and applied economics – Sara Skalsky.

            Animal science – Brynn Berg and Keith Underwood.

            Molecular biology – Aaron Bender.

            Renewable resources – Wick, Victoria Regula, Bubba LaMolinare, Amanda Scott, Amitava Chatterjee, Youquan Jiang, and Christopher Johnston.

            Veterinary sciences – Mandy Kauffman, Heather Sanchez, and Lane Vause.

April 4 oral presentations

            Animal science – Jennifer Chase, Platt Price, and Britney Burt.

            Molecular biology – Christoph Geisler.

            Renewable resources – Brian Mealor, Angel Ferrero-Serrano, Sadikshya Rana, Darrell Freeman, Sudhir Raj Shrestha, and Viswatej Attili.

April 4 poster presentations

            Animal science – Rena Stohrer.

            Molecular biology – Pooja Gupta.

            Plant sciences – Kariyat Ramachandran and Gustavo Sbatella.

            Renewable resources – Mary Williams, Dibya Devkota, Paul Fallgren, Maneesh Sharma, and Tracy Baldyga.

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