The 8th Annual Horse Festival was held on March 31, 2007. The festival was a complete success with over 4,500 attendees throughout the day on Saturday. The festival is a fund raising event which helps support the D.E. King Equine Program. The event's proceeds were double over last year's festival.

Animal Science Department faculty, staff and graduate students joined in 'Operation Xmas Stockings for Soldiers Drive' by donating useful items and other goodies for soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division 3-187 Infantry Battalion, a deployed U.S. military unit serving in Iraq.

(Pictured left to right are Vicky Watkins, Janeal Yancy, Pattie Lanning, Connie Stewart, Jeannie Hornsby and Linda Jones stuffing stockings. Hadley Twilley not pictured.)

The UofA D.E. King Equine Program’s annual Razorback Roundup Horse and Tack Sale was held November 17 at the Pauline Whitaker Animal Science Center.

The Animal Science Department held its holiday party on Dec. 4, 2006 and the "Kiss the Pig" contest winners were announced.

ANSC department faculty members and graduate assistants will be in attendance at the joint annual meeting of ADSA-ASAS (American Dairy Science Association and American Society of Agricultural Scientists) to be held July 7-11 in Indianapolis.

The Animal Science Department was well represented at the Association of Agricultural Scientists meeting held in February in Dallas.

Charles V. Maxwell, Jr., a professor of swine nutrition and management in the UA Animal Science Department, received the 2007 Animal Management Award at the annual meeting of the American Society of Animal Scientists held on July 9 in San Antonio.

Welcome Dr. Dirk Philipp to the faculty.  He fills the position formerly held by Dr. Wayne Coblentz and will focus his extension and research on livestock and water quality issues.  He will become part of the team at the new Watershed Research and Extension Center.

The Department of Animal Science hosted its annual awards and scholarship luncheon April 16 in the AFLS atrium on the University of Arkansas campus.