The Race Track Industry Program (RTIP) hosted the 47th Annual Global Symposium on Racing at Loews Ventana Canyon from December 5 – December 7, 2021. The event, which had to be cancelled in 2020 due to the pandemic, is a principal funding source for the RTIP. Given its importance to both the racing industry and to the RTIP, incoming Program Chair, Robert Hartman, saw this event as critical for successfully kickstarting his tenure as the leader of this storied program.

Betsy Greene coordinated and delivered multiple cases of hand sanitizer from the ACBS “Bend the Curve” project to Native American communities across Arizona. The “Bend the Curve” project produced hand sanitizer for Arizona health care workers amid the COVID-19 pandemic when hand sanitizer was scarce to impossible to obtain.

This Fall semester, the teaching team for the animal sciences introductory course redesigned the lab experience to broaden the freshman experience for incoming ACBS students.

Postdoctoral Research Associate, Satyendra Pothula, was awarded the Antarctic Service Medal.

Congratulations to Netzin and Dieter Steklis on this well deserved award!

ACBS 102L (Introduction to Animal Sciences Laboratory) course instructors employed creative solutions for teaching their “hands-on” lab sections in a “hands-off” remote modality.

The Food Safety Consortium (FSC) hosted a Summer Invited Speaker Series to expand the knowledge of members, and foster further research collaborations.

The facility, currently located at the West Campus Agriculture Center off of I-10 between Prince Rd. and Miracle Mile in Tucson, includes a full working feedlot, pastures for the 38 head breeding herd, and a feed mill.

Jennifer Lising Roxas, a postdoctoral fellow, recently received three postdoctoral research grants, including a two-year USDA NIFA Postdoctoral Fellowship. She works in the laboratory of Gayatri Vedantam, professor of immunobiology and animal and comparative biomedical sciences (ACBS).  Roxas received her PhD in Microbiology and Pathobiology from the University of Arizona working under the advisement of V.K. Viswanathan, professor in ACBS.