Dr. Robert Barney, Associate Research Director in the Land Grant Program and Principal Investigator in the Community Research Service, was recently elected to a two-year term as Secretary of the Association of Research Directors Inc. (ARD) The ARD is a federation of 18 autonomous land grant universities that provides coordination of research initiatives among member 1890 institutions in cooperation with federal, state and private partners.
Dr. Kimberly Holmes, Associate Director of the Land Grant Program, has been elected to join the Budget and Legislative Committee of the Extension Committee on Organization and Policy (ECOP) the governing committee for the national Cooperative Extension System and a division of the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges. Dr. Holmes was elected to a three-year term by members of the Association of Extension Administrators at the NASULGC National Conference. She was also appointed to a three-year term on the Board of Directors for the Southern Rural Development Center which seeks to strengthen the capacity of the region's 29 land grant universities to address critical contemporary rural development issues impacting the well-being of people and communities in the rural South.
Dr. George Antonious, Principal Investigator in the Community Research Service was elected to serve a four-year term as Chairperson of the Kentucky Academy of Science Committee of Distribution of Research Funds. Dr. Antonious also served as a panelist on the National Peer Review Committee for the Federally Recognized Programs. The main objective of this panel is to establish and support extension education programs in North America. Twenty-seven proposals from academia and the federal government were recommended for funding by the USDA/CSREES in 2009.
Dr. Kirk Pomper, Principal Investigator of Horticulture in the Community Research Service of the KSU Land Grant Program, was interviewed in the Christian Science Monitor concerning the KSU Pawpaw Program. The article by Craig Summers Black, America's Forgotten Fruit, appeared in the Jan. 29, issue of the Christian Science Monitor.
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