february 2012
Agricultural Experiment Station
Bernadette van der Vliet, Layout Design
Steven L. Miller, Senior Editor
Sheep unit manager Brent Larson,le, and hog unit manager DaveLutterman lead tours o the sheepand hog acilities. Juliet Daniels,UW Extension community devel-opment educator based in LaramieCounty, is acilitating the Leader-ship Laramie program.Proessor K.J. Reddy presents inormationabout his researcheorts to members o Leadership Laramie.AssistantProessorNaomiWarddiscussedresearchconductedat LaBonteLake inLaramie.Bee unit manager ravis Smithoutlines activities at the center.Liz Harvey, Laramie Rivers Con-servation District, is at right.
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ollege o Agriculture and Natural Resources ad-ministrators and proessors oered inormation toLeadership Laramie members about the importance o agriculture to Laramie and Wyoming, but piglets andlambs at the Laramie Research and Extension Centerwere the stars o the day. Te young animals were thecenter o attention or photographs during tours o theacilities by the Leadership Laramie group in January.Presenters included Dean Frank Galey and BretHess, associate dean and director o the AgriculturalExperiment Station. Proessor K.J. Reddy, Departmento Ecosystem Science and Management, and AssistantProessor Naomi Ward, Department o Molecular Biol-ogy, presented research activities. ours o the hog andsheep units ollowed.
Centers of attention
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Dave Lutterman, hog unit man-ager, holds a newborn piglet.Mary Aguayo o UW Admissionsis at le.
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A young lamb draws the attentiono Ashley Dimit, le, Wyomingechnical Institute career services,and Mary Aguayo, UW Admis-sions.Piglets in the hog barn are the starso photographs by Davona Doug-lass, le, o the UW Research Prod-ucts Center, and rinity Tatchero UniWyo Federal Credit Union.
Centers of attention
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Sheep unit manager Brent Larsondescribes operations to MichaelMcNamee III, Big Brothers BigSisters, rinity Tatcher, UniWyoFederal Credit Union, and DavonaDouglass, UW Research ProductsCenter.
Leadership Laramie is a community-based leadershipprogram patterned aer the Extension Volunteer Organi-zation or Leadership, Vitality and Enterprise (EVOLVE)model developed by University o Wyoming Extension.
UW Extension publicationsreceive recognition
M
agazines produced through University o WyomingExtension in the College o Agriculture and NaturalResources received recognition during the Wyoming PressAssociation’s (WPA) annual associate’s group communi-cations contest.
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Ag News
, published three times yearly, was runner-upin publications. Te magazine eatures people andprograms in the college.
UWyo Magazine
, publishedthrough UW Institutional Communications, receivedrst place.
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Barnyards & Backyards
magazine, published quar-terly, placed third in publications. Te magazine pro- vides inormation rom land resource proessionalshelpul to small-acreage landowners in Wyoming.Te publications are produced by ana Stith, man-ager, and Steve Miller, editor, in the Oce o Commu-nications and echnology.Other awards:
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Bernadette van der Vliet, UW Extension graphic de-signer, placed second in page layout and design or thepublication “
Impacts 2010
,” which highlights eorts o educators and specialists in extension.
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Miller received second place in magazine writing oran
Ag News
eature about retired Proessor Larry Heldin the Department o Agricultural and Applied Eco-nomics.In addition, Stan Skrabut, instructional technology educational specialist, presented “Social Media and Us-ing ools to Maximize Distribution o Your Stories” at theconerence. Skrabut is in the Oce o Communicationsand echnology.Te WPA met January 13-14 in Laramie. Te conven-tion attracts Wyoming newspaper proessionals and alsothe WPA’s associate members or two days o workshops,seminars, and speakers.
Tis young black lamb poses or photographs with, rom le, JasonPacheco, Laramie Plains Community FCU, Michael McNamee III, BigBrothers Big Sisters, and Davona Douglass, UW Research ProductsCenter.
Calendar
February 7-8
:
WESI Ag Days, Worland
February 22-23
: Research and extension centers plan-ning conerence and awards banquet, Laramie
February 24-25
: Farm and ranch succession work-shop, Laramie
February 25-26
: Wyoming winter air, Riverton
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Changing Faces, Changing Places
(efective date in parentheses)
Welcome:
Farinha, Daryl-Ann
: Converse County University o Wyoming Extension, administrative assistant (1/3)
Turner, Stephanie:
eton County UW Extension,oce manager (1/5)
Department of AnimalScience Seminars
Fridays, 12:10-1 p.m., Animal Science/Molecular Biol-ogy building, room 103.Lunch served or $4 beginning at 11:50 a.m. by theAnimal Science Graduate Student Association.
February 3
: o be announced
February 10
: “A Novel Role or PeptidylarginineDeiminase 2 (PAD2) in Mammary Epithelial Cells,” BrianCherrington, assistant proessor, Department o Zoology and Physiology, University o Wyoming
February 17
: o be announced, Bob Weaber, KansasState University, cow/cal specialist, Kansas State University Department o Animal Sciences and Industry.
February 24
: “Decisions Related to Buying or RaisingReplacement Heiers with the Lowest Bee Cow Inven-tory in 30 Years,” Jack Whittier, proessor, extension bee specialist, Department o Animal Sciences, Colorado StateUniversity
Proposals Submitted
Islam, Anowar, Robin Groose, Urszula Norton,Steven Paisley, Axel Garcia y Garcia, John Ritten, Jay Norton, Augustine Obour,
Ramesh Sivanpillai, and
James Krall
: $9,999,549 to U.S. Department o Agriculture(USDA) National Institute o Food and Agriculture (NIFA)or “Incorporating Legumes into Dryland Cropping Sys-tems in Semi-arid Agriculture: Economic and Environmen-tal Benets in the Face o Climate Change.”
Latchininsky, Alexandre, and Amanda Priestley
:$121,454 to USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Ser- vice or “Wyoming Cooperative Agricultural Pest Survey Program: Inrastructure (Core), Small Grains Commodity and Ug99 Black Stem Rust Survey, and Nematode Survey.”
Liberles, David
, and Liang Liu: $163,105 to NationalScience Foundation or “Developing a Probabilistic Modelor Gene Family Evolution.”
Rapp, Ryan, and Andrew Kniss
: $130,000 to USDANIFA or “Overcoming Barriers to Adoption o ProactiveHerbicide Resistance Management Programs.”
Taylor, David
: $17,875 to Booz, Allen, Hamilton or“Economic Impact Analysis o the Resource ManagementPlan or the BLM’s Rock Springs Field Oce.”
Range, crops, landscapingamong topics at WESTI AgDays in Worland
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ange and livestock topics, crop issues, pesticide cer-tication and landscaping are among more than 30sessions at this year’s Wyoming Extension’s Strategically and echnologically Inormative (WESI) Ag Days inWorland.Specialists and educators rom University o WyomingExtension will join other agricultural experts uesday andWednesday, February 7-8, at the Worland Community Center Complex. Te theme is Partners in Agriculture.A ull schedule is available online athttp://bit.ly/xXVR6.Fridays, 2:10-3 p.m., Animal Science/Molecular Biology building, room 103.
February 3
: “A New Role or the Chromosome Archi-tectural Condensin Proteins in Gene Silencing during RNAIntererence,” Kirsten Hagstrom, assistant proessor, Univer-sity o Massachusetts Medical School
February 10
: “Baculovirus Nucleocapsid ransport in vivo and in vitro,” Loy Volkman, proessor, University o Caliornia, Berkeley
February 17
: “LR4 Mediated Immunity to BacterialChallenge in the Bladder,” Soman Abraham, proessor, DukeUniversity
February 24
: “Development o Glycomics echnologiesand Applications to Stem Cell Dierentiation and CancerDiagnostics,” Michael Pierce, Distinguished Proessor o Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University o GeorgiaCancer Center director
Department of Molecular Biology Seminars
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