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• Introduction - Ray Miller, Director, International Programs in Agriculture & Natural Resources.
  
• The World - Ken Leonard, Associate Professor, AREC
  Challenges and opportunities presented by the world food crisis.
• Part 1a - Senegal - Manami Brown, Senior Agent, Baltimore City
  4-H youth civic engagement.
• Part 1b - New Zealand - Kelsey Farrish, Junior, Landscape Architecture & Civil Engineering
  Study abroad.
• Part 1c - Tanzania, Ethiopia & Chad - Ray Weil, Professor, ENST.
  Soil health, human health, and African development.
• Part 1d - South Africa & Burkina Faso - Vivian Hoffman, Assistant Professor, AREC.
  A neglected basic need: Menstrual management in developing countries.
• Part 1e - Lebanon - Nadine Sahyoun, Associate Professor, NFSC.
  Food security and nutritional status of vulnerable populations in Lebanon.
• Part 2 - Helping others benefits us, too!
  Panel Discussion with Susan Schoenian, Dave Myers, and Stan Fultz.
• Part 3a - China 2+2 - Mark Varner & Ziyan Yang.
  China 2+2 - Mark Varner & Ziyan Yang.
• Part 3b - Many Countries - Jianhong Meng, Professor, NFSC & Director of JIFSAN.
  Many Countries - Jianhong Meng, Professor, NFSC & Director of JIFSAN.
• Part 3c - Argentina - Jose Costa, Associate Professor, PSLA.
  Helping solve the wheat scab problem in Argentina and Maryland.
• Part 3d - Georgia & Armenia - Valerie Ragan, Research Associate & Director, Center for Public & Corporate Veterinary Medicine, VMRCVM.
  Supporting agriculture and veterinary medicine in the Caucasus.
• Part 3e - Haiti - Stephanie Lansing, Assistant Professor, ENST.
  Using ecological engineering to turn waste into energy.
• Part 3f - The World Coming to UM and Maryland - Dale Johnson, Principal Agent & Extension Specialist.
  Short-term international training programs at UM and in the State.
• Part 3g - France - Tom Porter, Professor & Chair, ANSC.
  Genetic and molecular basis for chicken growth.
• Part 4 - Campus Recognition for AGNR International Work
  Campus Recognition for AGNR International Work by Saul Sosnowski.
• Part 5 - Q&A with the presenters.
  Q&A with the presenters.
• Part 6 - Wrap up and closing with Dean Wei.
  Wrap up and closing with Dean Wei.
• Part 7 - Awards Ceremony.
  Awards Ceremony.

Previous Convocations

• 2008 Awards Convocation
  Video of the 2008 Faculty & Staff Awards Convocation
• 2009 Awards Convocation
  Video of the 2009 Faculty & Staff Awards Convocation
• 2010 Awards Convocation
  Video of the 2010 Faculty & Staff Awards Convocation

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Last updated: 05/8/2011

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