The Inaugural COANR Alumni BBQ |
The Inaugural College of Agriculture and Natural Resources Alumni BBQ was held on Friday August 5th, and was a tremendous success!
This fun-filled evening celebrated our alumni community and the legacy of Dr. Johnny Johnson with the dedication of The Purple Tractor in his honor.
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Tarleton Students Presented at
Mid-South Ruminant Nutrition Conference
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Animal science graduate students, Michaela Plowman, Grace Canny, Alex Corpus, and Taylor Burrell, and undergraduate student, Catherine Murphy, presented at the first annual research poster presentation at Mid-South Ruminant Nutrition Conference recently held in Grapevine, Texas.
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Faculty, Staff, Students & Alumni
10% every day at The Purple Tractor
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Animal Science Graduate Faculty host first graduate student welcome and orientation |
This annual orientation allows for first- and second-year students to become acquainted with graduate school, graduate faculty, and fellow graduate students.
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Summer Internship: Texas Parks & Wildlife, Urban Wildlife Program |
Over the summer, I was interning for the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department under the Dallas Fort Worth Urban Wildlife Program. In the three months, I was in this position, I worked with Urban Wildlife Biologists Rachel Richter and Sam Kieshnick.
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American Dairy Science Association Meeting
Dr. Jones and graduate students Alex Corpus, Taylor Burrell, and Grace Canny attended the American Dairy Science Association meeting in Kansas City, MO. Dr. Jones is now past president of the Southern ADSA board and passed her president duties on at the meeting. All three graduate students presented research at the poster sessions.
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Progressive Dairy Canada
Tarleton Graduate Student Alex Corpus recently had her extension article published in the Progressive Dairy Canada magazine. Corpus's article is titled "Effectiveness of footbath design and solution on lameness rates in dairy cattle".
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Natural Resource Ecology Students Take to the Hill Country State Parks for Research |
August in Texas will always be hot! Coupled with the ongoing drought, the condition for conducting outdoor research is almost unbearable. However, these factors have not deterred Tarleton students from moving forward with research over the summer.
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Congratulations to Agricultural Education and Communication student Ty Williams! Ty, an Agricultural Services and Development major, was elected to serve as a Texas FFA State Vice President for the 2022-2023 year.
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Hempseed Meal Supplementation
Graduate students Lane Smith, Ryon Springer, and Samantha McGovern have been researching the effects of hempseed meal supplementation on feedlot performance and the physiology of growing rough stock cattle.
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The Department of Wildlife and Natural Resources Welcomes
Two New M.S. Students Join the Human-Wildlife Coexistence Research
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Christopher Mbisana is a graduate student at Tarleton State University from Botswana in Southern Africa. I did my Bachelor’s degree at the Botswana University of Agriculture and Natural Resources majoring in Soil and Water conservation. I have worked with Cheetah Conservation Botswana since 2015 doing research on wildlife conservation predominantly carnivore species in the southwest of Botswana and dealing with human-wildlife conflict in the area. For my graduate studies, I will be focusing on human and wildlife interactions in pastoral farming areas, in western Botswana along wildlife corridors. My aim is to create more awareness and knowledge of the importance of wildlife species in areas that are deemed as non-photographic tourism sites in Botswana. |
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Kaileigh Smith earned her Bachelor's Degree with Honors from Texas State University, where she conducted research and completed a thesis on the foraging and echolocation ecology of Brazilian Free-tailed bats along the Texas Gulf Coast. Her primary research interests include spatial ecology and interspecific competition among predators relative to human activity. She will be working under Drs. Mathewson and Schwertner, along with an international team of collaborators, examine the landscape use of African Lions relative to traditional pastoral communities in the Kalahari Desert of Botswana with the goal of mitigating human-predator conflict therein. |
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Study-Away takes students to Texas Coast
This summer Tarleton Wildlife and Natural Resource students had a unique opportunity to firsthand see and study ecosystems in our “collective” backyard.
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Tarleton Meat Science - On The Road
TSU Meat Science students have been busy this summer attending meat conferences and being recognized with scholarships as a result of their success in and out of the classroom.
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College of Agriculture and Natural Resources
Box T-0180
Stephenville, TX 76402
(254) 968-9227
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