2009 Agricultural Awareness Day -
November 5, 2009
This year, 1,330 students in the 4th grade from the Tift, Ben HIll, Colquitt and Irwin County area and 4th - 6th graders from Ware County toured the 40 stations set up around the University of Georgia Tifton Campus. These students learned about where their food and fiber comes from. Stations included lectures on livestock, picking cotton and harvesting peanuts.
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Dr. Ayodeji Adedoyin, an Electrical Engineering graduate from Florida State University, has joined Dr. Changying Li’s “Advanced Sensing Lab for Food and Fiber”. He will be working on the project of developing sensing technologies for cotton fiber quality measurement.
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Joe Knoll, (Ozias-Akins Biotech Lab), won 3rd place in the Postdoc Oral Presentation Competition at the annual Society for In Vitro Biology meeting.
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Sergio Villagran, a consulting Irrigation Engineer & a graduate student at the Univ. of Concepcion (Chile), is spending 6 months with the UGA Precision Ag team to learn about precision agriculture.
