FRONT ROW (L-R): Monique Lemon, Sara Johnson, Dr. Robert J. Barney, Marian Shiyanbade, Ebony J. Grisby. SECOND ROW (L-R): Kenneth Thompson, Leigh Anne Vitatoe (accepting for Aaron van Arnum), Charles Weibel, Shawn Brown, Louis Rivers III.

Nine KSU students win ten awards at ARD 2000 Research Symposium! Frankfort, KY -- The Association of Research Directors (ARD), Inc. 12th Biennial Research Symposium was held April 19-21, 2000 in Washington D.C. Approximately 500 scientists from the eighteen 1890 Land-Grant Institutions and representatives from USDA, EPA, other federal agencies and private industry met to exchange information on four primary topics: Food Safety, Nutrition and Health; Environmental Stewardship; Small Farms and Rural Development; and New and Enabling Technologies. In addition to oral and poster presentations by university researchers, undergraduate and graduate students could enter competitions judged by university and federal scientists. Students from Kentucky State University (KSU) won 10 of 30 possible student awards available to the 18 universities, an astounding 33%!

Oral presentations were made by 16 KSU students and poster presentations were made by 3 KSU students. All the winning presentation titles and authors are listed below. Dr. Robert J. Barney, Associate Research Director in the KSU Land Grant Program, served as the Co-Chair of the ARD 2000 Symposium Committee.

1st Place Undergraduate New and Enabling Technologies:  The Characteristics of the Proteases Involved in Hydrolyzing Paddlefish (Polyodon spathula) Myosin. S. Johnson, B. Wang, C. Wang, Y. Xiong and S. D. Mims, Kentucky State University (undergraduate - competitive)

1st Place Undergraduate Small Farms and Rural Development:  Effect on Growth and Body Composition of Hybrid Striped Bass Fed Diets with Animal and Plant Protein Sources as Total Replacements for Fish Meal. E. J. Grisby, C. D. Webster, K. R. Thompson and A. M. Morgan, Kentucky State University (undergraduate - competitive)

1st Place Graduate New and Enabling Technologies:  The Integration of Hydroponic Vegetable Production with Nursery Production of Juvenile Freshwater Prawns, Macrobrachium rosenbergii, Stocked at Two Densities. Aaron VanArnum, Sharon Bale, Jim Tidwell, Shawn Coyle and Charles Weibel, Kentucky State University (graduate - competitive)

2nd Place Undergraduate New and Enabling Technologies:  Identification of Molecular Markers that Segregate in a Simple Mendelian Fashion in Controlled Crosses of Pawpaw [Asimina triloba (L.) Dunal]. Shawn P. Brown, Tera M. Bonney, Snake C. Jones and Kirk W. Pomper, Kentucky State University (undergraduate - competitive)

2nd Place Undergraduate Small Farms and Rural Development:  Growth, Survival, and Body Composition of Cage-Cultured Nile Tilapia, Oreochromis nilotica, Fed Pelleted and Unpelleted Distillers Grains with Solubles in Polyculture with Freshwater Prawn, Macrobrachium rosenbergii. Monique Lemon, Shawn D. Coyle, James H. Tidwell, Aaron VanArnum and Charles Weibel, Kentucky State University (undergraduate - competitive)

2nd Place Undergraduate Environmental Stewardship:  The Effects of Several Beetle-Active Bacillus thuringiensis Products Assayed Against Maize Weevil, Sitophilus zeamais Motschulsky, Using Artificial Kernels. Louie Rivers III, John D. Sedlacek, Bryan D. Price and Anthony M. Hanley, Kentucky State University (undergraduate - competitive)

2nd Place Graduate Small Farms and Rural Development:  Effects of Different Feeding Frequencies on Growth, Body Composition, and Fillet Composition of Juvenile Sunshine Bass (Morone chrysops x M. saxatilis) Grown Indoors. Kenneth R. Thompson, Carl D. Webster, Ann M. Morgan and Ebony J. Grisby, Kentucky State University (graduate - competitive)

1st Place Undergraduate Food Safety, Nutrition and Health:  Effects of Soy Protein and Estrogen Replacement on Bone Mass and Bone Strength of Energy Restricted Rats. M. Shiyanbade, Y. Zhang and C. Wang, Kentucky State University (undergraduate - competitive)

2nd Place Undergraduate Food Safety, Nutrition and Health:  The Texture of Freshwater Prawns (Macrobrachium rosenbergii) Under Refrigerated and Frozen Storage in Relation to Rigor Mortis. S. Johnson, B. Wang, C. Wang, Y. Zhang and J. Tidwell, Kentucky State University (undergraduate - competitive)

2nd Place Undergraduate Small Farms and Rural Development:  The Effect of Water Temperature on the Survival of Adult Freshwater Prawns Macrobrachium rosenbergii Held in Tanks. Charles Weibel, James H. Tidwell, Shawn Coyle and Aaron VanArnum, Kentucky State University (undergraduate - competitive)

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