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The 30th Annual Symposium of the Department of Animal and Avian Sciences was held on June 3, 2016. Faculty, graduate students, staff, and invited guests participated in this all day, research focused event to celebrate our collective scholarship and the completion of another academic year.

Thirty-seven U.S. government veterinarians on an Ebola response team shared an honor for their work to control spread of the virus. Among them Lt. Ilana Schafer, DVM, an alumna of ANSC, who worked in Dr. Carol Keefer's lab during her time in College Park.

A little snow couldn’t keep AGNR’s ewes from having their lambs earlier this month! Since Monday, February 8, thirteen ram lambs and fifteen ewe lambs have been born; ushered into the world by Campus Farm Manager Crystal Caldwell and the 32 students of ANSC235, Applied Small Ruminant Parturition.

Serajus Salaheen, Ph.D. candidate in Dr. Biswas’ lab was awarded a Cosmos Scholars Grant in the amount of $3,000 for his research proposal entitled “Natural phenolic antimicrobials from berry byproducts replacing synthetic antibiotics in farm animal production.”

Researchers at the University of Maryland found a new method to produce fuel — not from fossils or corn, but from bacteria. Richard Kohn, an animal and avian sciences professor, along with Seon-Woo Kim, a faculty research assistant, developed a more efficient process to produce biofuels, or energy sources that come from living things.

Professor Iqbal Hamza was recently awarded a renewal of his NIH R01 grant titled "The Transport of Nutritional Heme in Animal Development" for $2,382,501 over 5 years.

Welcome back for the Fall 2018 semester!

The beginning of summer brought with it a new chair for the Department of Animal and Avian Sciences (ANSC). Dr. Chad Stahl took over the reins at ANSC on June 1st. Stahl most recently worked at North...

Jennifer Reynolds, Coordinator of Equine-Poultry Extension Activities, was chosen as the 2015 Staff Person of the Year by the Department.