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Production Fit Into Your Operation" and "Kentucky Blackberry Variety Trial Results" at the 2011 Illinois Small Fruit School in Mt. Vernon, IL. The meeting was attended by 265 participants representing nine states.
In the current issue of the Journal of the American Pomological Society, Sheri Crabtree, Co-Investigator of Horticulture, Dr. Kirk Pomper, Principal Investigator of Horticulture, and Jeremy Lowe, Co-Investigator of Horticulture (all in the Community Research Service of the KSU Land Grant Program) published an article entitled: Within-cluster Hand-thinning Increases Fruit Weight in North American Pawpaw [Asimina triloba (L.) Dunal].
Dr. Kirk Pomper gave a presentation at the Kentucky Nut Growers Association (KNGA) meeting in Elizabethtown, Kentucky on April 23 concerning the joint KSU-KNGA Hazelnut trial. Variety trials of new eastern filbert blight resistant hazelnut selections are being planted this spring at the KSU Research and Demonstration Farm and ten grower sites.
The Awards Committee of the Frankfort/Franklin County Branch of the NAACP has selected Dr. Kimberly R. Holmes, associate director of the Land Grant Program, to receive the President's Award for 2011. Dr. Holmes will be honored during the Freedom Fund Banquet on Saturday, June 25.
Ten students and 26 scientists represented Kentucky State University at the 16th Biennial Research Symposium of the Association of 1890 Research Directors Inc, which was held on April 9-13 at the Marriott Marquis in Atlanta. The Symposium was led by Dr. Kimberly Holmes. KSU student Jacob Botkins received a third-place award in the Sustainable Plant and Animal Production Systems category. KSU student Fred Turner also received a third-place award in the Renewable Resources, Bio-energy and Environmental Stewardship category. Graduate student Timothy Brown, Jr. served as manager of the KSU booth in the Symposium Exhibit Hall, which provided visitors with an overview of KSU's Land Grant Program and recruited students for graduate programs. The students below, who are listed with their research topics, participated in oral or poster competitions. Professional research staff and principal investigators also delivered non-competitive oral presentations to symposium participants and are listed as follows: Undergraduate students: Kyla Ross, Rachel Hayden, Marquita Grayson-Holt, Luciane Pires, McKenzie Johnson, Fred Turner, Yankuba Banda; Graduate Students: Jacob Botkins, Michael Ward; Professional/Scientist: Dr. George Antonious, Dr. Michael Bomford, Regina Hill, Eric Turley, Karen Friley, Dr. Kirk Pomper, Dr. John Sedlacek, Dr. James Tidwell, Dr. Lingyu Huang, Dr. Hideka Kobayashi, Dr. Avinash Tope and Dr. Changzheng Wang.
Two specimens of ‘KSU-Atwood™’, the pawpaw variety that was recently released by the Horticulture Program in the Community Research Service of the KSU Land Grant Program, were recently donated by KSU and planted in the State Capitol Monument Park on the Capitol grounds next to State Street. ‘KSU-Atwood™’ is named for Rufus B. Atwood, who served as president of KSU from 1929 to 1962 and also led efforts for desegregated education in Kentucky in the 1940s.
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