Dr. Angelo Telatin, an internationally known horse trainer, competitor, and an Associate Professor at Delaware Valley University, brought his knowledge and experience in “Speaking the Horse’s Language” to horsemanship workshops for San Carlos Apache, Navajo, and Hopi tribal members this past June.

UArizona alumnae, Kami Weddle, is the director of food safety and quality at Rousseau Farming Company in Phoenix. She credits her degree in Microbiology and time spent in the College of Agriculture, Life and Environmental Sciences as providing her with the necessary tools to lead her on to this career path.

ACBS 160, the introductory class on “Human and Animal Interrelationships”, brings animals to campus through their “Animal Encounters” activity to facilitate interactions between students and live animals including goats, chickens, miniature horses, and rabbits.

The hard work of ACBS Faculty has been recognized in recent grant funding, including a $2,398,682 grant from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases with Principal Investigator Sean Limesand.

Students gain a basic background in range cattle reproduction management, as well as hands-on experiences, working with cattle in Calving Management Course.

ACBS students pursuing an Animal Science degree with an equine emphasis will have noticed a transition beginning in January 2022. Learn more about this exciting opportunity to offer an even stronger equine program to the benefit of our students.

Students in the ACBS Vet Sci Applied Animal Behavior Emphasis - Companion Animal began their Spring semester with thre field trips to vist community partners which included the Bureau of Land Management Wild Horse and Burro Program, 4Ropin Ranch, and Equine Voices Rescue and Sanctuary.

Koenraad Van Doorslaer was awarded the 2022 Excellence in Postdoctoral Mentoring Award. This award is presented by the UArizona Postdoctoral Affairs and recognizes a faculty member who provides exceptional mentoring to postdoctoral scholars.

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.