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ThHinrarc ofthe August 1981 No. 51 1982 INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES ects in Burma and Thailand with staff Uinveisiiy Ul Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the Department of Economics, Colo-

Carl N. Hittle , INTSOY Agronomy, will rado State University. become Project Supervisor on the IADS (International Agricultural Develop- Participating in the Second Interna- ment Service) Integrated Cereals tional Maize Virus Disease Colloquim Project in Nepal, beginning in Sep- and Workshop, Ohio Agricultural Re- tember. In his UIUC Professor emeri- search and Development Center (OAR- tus status, he will continue his ded- DC), Wooster, Ohio, August 2 to 6, icated service in international agri- will be: Richard E. Ford and Jacque -

cultural development. line Fletcher , Plant Pathology, Cath-

Dr. Hittle recently donated most erine E. Eastman , Economic Entomolo-

of his professional library to the gy, and Michael E. Irwin , Agricultur- library of the newly created Post al Entomology. Graduate Institute of Agriculture

(PGIA), University of Peradeniya, Sri Lloyd E. Davis , Clinical Pharmacol- Lanka. ogy, is the only veterinarian among 30 pharmacologists visiting the Peo-

James E. Corbin , Animal Science, was ple's Republic of China in September. in Brazil from June 12 to 24 to dis- The delegation was formed at the in- cuss pet food nutrition research with vitation of the China Pharmaceutical University of Campinas researchers, Association. The team will meet with kennel groups in Sao Paulo and Rio de government leaders, physicians, and Janeiro, and pet owners. His trip professional workers involved in the was sponsored by the Brazilian pet research, development, manufacture, industry and feed manufacturers. regulation, and distribution of phar- maceuticals. They will also visit

Marlowe D. Thorne , Agronomy, reviewed hospitals and clinics, evaluate Chi- the MUCIA (Midwest Universities Con- nese pharmacologic techniques, and sortium for International Activities) observe drug manufacturing and re- program at the Institute of Agricul- search. ture and Animal Sciences, Tribhuvan

University, Rampur, Nepal, from July Harold E. Kauffman , INTSOY Director, 6 to 29. discussed INTSOY activities with staff at the International Develop-

Sam H. Johnson , Agricultural Econom- ment Research Centre (IDRC), Ottawa, ics, will present a paper entitled "A Canada, on July 23. Simulation Approach to Economic Eval- uation of Modifications in Pakistan's William N. Thompson and Earl D. Kel -

Irrigation System Operating Proce- logg , Office of International Agri-

dures" at the American Agricultural culture, and Sam H. Johnson , Agricul- Economics Association meetings, Au- tural Economics, discussed how uni- gust 1 to 4, Utah State University. versities can support USAID's farming He will also discuss research proj- systems work in developing countries .

with Agency for International Devel- researcher in Food Science who is opment and Board for International working with Fred A. Kummerow until Food and Agriculture Development (BI- MarcH 1984 on fats and oils problems. FAD) staff, Washington, D.C., July 22 Dr. Hassan can be reached at the and 23. Burnsides Research Laboratory, 333- 1874.

John T. Scott, Jr. , Agricultural Eco- nomics, will discuss factor analysis Paulo de Morres Barros , University of with D. N. Lawley, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, is a visiting re- Edinburgh, Scotland, in late August. searcher in Veterinary Medicine's Ophthalmology Section in July and Au-

Jean M. Due , Agricultural Economics, gust. Contact him c/o Ophthalmology will participate in the International Section, Small Animal Clinic, 333- Association of Agricultural Econo- 5300. mists meeting in Jakarta, Indonesia, August 24 to September 2. Dr. Due will then conduct research VISITORS RECENTLY ON CAMPUS in Zimbabwe, Zambia, and Tanzania un- til early December on allocation of Mujahid Al-Fayadh , Faculty of Food credit to small farm families and on Science, University of Baghdad, Iraq, women in development. While in Tan- visited Food Science and discussed zania, Dr. Due will also work on the the ripening of buffalo milk cheddar Bean/Cowpea Collaborative Research cheese with Robert M. Whitney, June Support Program (CRSP). 24 and 25 and July 2 to 6.

Davindar S. Wadhwa , College of Agri- VISITING RESEARCHERS cultural Engineering, Punjab Agricul- tural University, Ludhiana, India,

Motoki Ikeda , Laboratory of Plant discussed UIUC research in soil me- Nutrition, Kyushu University, will be chanics with John C. Siemens, Agri- working with Richard H. Hagemen, cultural Engineering, on July 1 and

Agronomy, from July 1982 to February 2. Dr. Wadhwa ' s visit was part of a 1983. Sponsored by a fellowship from UNESCO fellowship to the USDA Nation- the Japanese Society for the Promo- al Tillage Machinery Laboratory, Au- tion of Sciences, he will investigate burn, Alabama. nitrogen metabolism in the corn leaf during grain development, and photo- Forty young farmers, alumni of Land - synthesis and photorespiration in wirtschaf tskammer Schleswig-Hol stein rice and corn. Dr. Ikeda can be con- in Rendsburg, Germany, visited the tacted at S-334 Turner Hall, 333- College of Agriculture on July 6. A 1278. program on the role and functions of the College of Agriculture was pre-

Kenji Horiguchi , Associate Professor pared for them. of Agricultural Economics at Tokyo

University of Agriculture, Japan, M. P. Rajan , Managing Director, and

will spend his sabbatical year (Sep- A. K. Banerjee , Director of the Board tember 1982 to August 1983) in the of the Madhya Pradesh Oilseed Grow- Agricultural Economics Department. er's Federation, India, visited UIUC He will study land utilization and on July 8. They met with Dean Or- land tenure in U.S. agriculture, and ville G. Bentley, and staff in Agron- international and domestic distribu- omy, Agricultural Engineering, Food tion of primary U.S. agricultural Science, INTSOY, and International products Agriculture. Their trip was sponsor- ed by the Cooperative League of the

Neima A. Hassan , Egypt, is a visiting U.S.A. (CLUSA). UNIVERSITY OF It.; Sgriculture library

Maheswar Prasad Bharati , soybean Agronomist, stationed at Kabwe; agronomist with the Department of Jagmohan Joshi , University of Mary- Agriculture, Kathmandu, Nepal, and land-Eastern Shore, Soybean Breeder, currently a graduate student in stationed at Magoye; and William W. agronomy at Iowa State University, Roath , USDA, Sunflower Agronomist, met with INTSOY, Agronomy, Plant stationed at Mt. Makulu. They can be Pathology, and Food Science staff contacted in care of the ZAMARE Proj- from July 19 to 21. ect, P. 0. Box 50955, Lusaka, Zambia.

Among the recent visitors to Dairy Putteho M. Ngonda , Ambassador of the

Science were: R. D. Politiek , Neth- Republic of Zambia to the U.S., and erlands, July 21 and 22, to meet with Tens Kapoma , First Secretary, visited the genetics division; James F. D. UIUC on July 23 and 24 to discuss the

Greenhalgh , Chairman of Animal Pro- Zambia Agricultural Research and Ex- duction and Health Group, University tension Project (ZAMARE). of Aberdeen, Scotland, on July 19; J.

M. Forbes , Department of Animal Phys- iology and Nutrition, University of VISITORS COMING TO CAMPUS Leeds, England, July 9, who presented a seminar on the control of food in- Nabih Ibrahim Ashour , National Re- take in ruminants; Constantino della search Centre, Cairo, Egypt, will vi-

Bruna , microbiologist with Farmita- sit the College of Agriculture on Au- lia, Italy, to discuss rumen and gas- gust 5 and 6. He is sponsored by the trointestinal microbiology with Mar- Applied Science and Technology Re- vin P. Bryant and R. S. Wolfe, Micro- search Program, a joint program on biology, June 22; and Mr. and Mrs. the U.S. National Academy of Science

Rob Little , Carlisle, Scotland, July and the Egyptian Academy of Scientif- 8, who met with W. Reginald Gomes and ic Research and Technology. Dr. Ash- Michael F. Hutjens. They were ac- our will study the application of new companied by Rich Vetter, Division of advances in plant physiology and pho- Research, Harvestore Systems. tosysthesis to field production of corn and soybeans.

Malisa Tosic , maize virologist, and

Duska Tosic , entomologist, University Wang Bin Ru , Wu He Li , Wang Chin- of Belgrade, Yugoslavia, visited ling , and Hong Liang , Heilongjiang Plant Pathology and Agricultural En- Academy of Agricultural Sciences, tomology from July 23 to 31. Harbin, People's Republic of China, will visit UIUC from August 23 to 25.

James F. Ragin , team leader on the Sponsored by an FAO study tour pro- ZAMARE (Zambia Agricultural Research gram, they will discuss soybean pro- and Extension) Project, was at UIUC duction and processing with USDA and from July 6 to 16 to confer with INTSOY staff. staff before traveling to Zambia to begin his long-term assignment. The Samir Mohamed Younis , Agricultural remainder of the team will begin Engineering Department, University of their assignments in August and Sep- Alexandria, Egypt, and Ahmed Farid tember: Ronald G. Dedert , UIUC, Re- El-Sahrigui , Agricultural Mechaniza- search Liaison Extension Officer, tion Project Director, Egyptian Min-

stationed at Kabwe; Paul T. Gibson , istry of Agriculture, will visit UIUC Southern Illinois University-Carbon- on August 26 and 27 during a three- dale, Maize Breeder, stationed at Mt. week U.S. tour to observe agricultur-

Makulu; Alfred G. Harms , UIUC, Farm- al research methodology. Their pro- ing Systems Economist, stationed at gram was arranged through USDA/OICD

Kabwe; Robert E. Hudgens , Southern (Office of International Cooperation Illinois Universi ty-Carbondale , and Development). A team of ten South Africans will schedules are being arranged by Mi- discuss corn and soybean research and chael E. Irwin, 172 Natural Resources extension with College of Agriculture Bldg., 333-6659. staff on August 12. They will be ac- companied by a representative of John Jan van Eldik and Jack Wixley , agri- Deere. cultural economists with the South African Sugar Cane Grower's Associa- Two Israeli entomolgists will visit tion, Durban, will study computerized

UIUC during August: David Rosen , He- financial record systems for commer- brew University, August 13, to dis- cial farmers, and cost accounting cuss biosystematics of Chalcidoids, methodology for determining cost of and biological control of citrus producing crops on commercial farms,

pests; and Benny Roccah , Department September 7 to 13, in Agricultural of Plant Virology, Volcani Institute, Economics. Their schedule is being in late August, to discuss epidemiol- arranged by Allan G. Mueller, 450 ogy of nonpersistant viruses. Their Mumford Hall, 333-0753.

The International Agriculture Newsletter is published monthly by the Office of International Agriculture, 113 Mumford Hall, 1301 W. Gregory Dr., Univer- sity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 61801; Bonnie Irwin, editor. Faculty and departments are encouraged to submit Newsletter items. The College of Agriculture provides equal opportunities in programs and employment.

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INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES in agricultural communications at Gadjah Mada University, Indonesia.

Evelyn J. Weber , Agronomy, presented Sam H. Johnson , Agricultural Econom-

a paper in a symposium on cereal lip- ics, and William N. Thompson , Inter- ids at the 7th World Cereal and Bread national Agriculture, were in Chicago Congress, Prague, Czechoslovakia, on August 17 to attend a meeting on June 28 to July 2. farmings systems research and exten- sion. Attending the International Pig Vet-

erinary Society Congress, Mexico, Earl D. Kellogg , International Agri-

July 26 to 31, from UIUC's College of culture, and Earl R. Swanson , Agri- Veterinary Medicine were: R. Lennart cultural Economics, will be in St.

Backstrom, Gregg W. BeVier , Borje Vincent and Barbados from August 28

Gustaf fson , and John C. Thurmon . to September 15 to develop plans for technical assistance in agriculture

Stanley E. Curtis and Temple Grandin , under the Midwest Universities Con- Animal Science, participated in the sortium for International Activities Housing and Welfare Seminar sponsored (MUCIA)/USAID Caribbean project. by the Commission of the European

Communities, July 28 to 20, Aberdeen, Gordon J. Benson , Veterinary Clinical Scotland. Dr. Curtis presented a Medicine, will present a paper enti- paper entitled "Perception of Thermal tled "Diaphramatic Function in Po- Comfort by Farm Animals" and Ms. nies: Effect of Halothane Anesthesia Grandin spoke on "Welfare Require- Upon Regional Blood Flow" at the ments for Handling Facilities." They First International Veterinary Anes- also met with researchers at the Uni- thesia Congress, Cambridge, England, versity of Bristol and the University September 16 to 18. of Reading. Francisco 0. Calvo and Janice M.

Carroll E. Goering , Agricultural En- Bahr , Animal Science, are invited gineering, participated in the First participants in a symposium on repro- International Symposium on Vegetable ductive biology of poultry, to be and Plant Oils as Fuel, Fargo, North held during the 17th Poultry Science

Dakota, August 1 to 4. Symposium, University of Reading, England, September 15 to 17.

James F. Evans , Agricultural Communi-

cations, attended a regional confer- Gordon J. Baker , Veterinary Clinical

ence on communication education at Medicine, and Murli Manohar , Veteri- the University of the Philippines, nary Biosciences, will attend the Los Banos, from August 9 to 13. First International Conference on From mid-August to late December Equine Exercise Physiology, Exeter Dr. Evans will serve on a team to College, Oxford, England, September plan an undergraudate degree program 22 to 25. VISITING RESEARCHERS staff in Animal Science and Dairy Science, July 14.

Luis Angel de Uriarte , Anderson Clay- ton Company, Guadalajara, Mexico, was Allan J. Beattie and Don Beattie , a visiting professor in Animal Sci- Atherton, Queensland, Australia, dis- ence during the summer. He worked on cussed sweet corn culture and pro- the formulation and nutrition of pet cessing with Herbert J. Hopen and Da- foods with James E. Corbin. vid B. Dickinson, Horticulture, and Marvin P. Steinberg, Food Science,

Michael Theodorou , Grassland Research July 23. Institute, London, England, worked with Marvin P. Bryant, Dairy Science, Chris Venter, Division of Agricultur- from June through August on methano- al Engineering, Department of Agri- genesis. culture and Fisheries, Stellenbosch, South Africa, spent July 24 to 26 at

Huan-Wen Gao , Beijing Institute of UIUC. He met with Dale H. Vander- Agricultural Mechanization, will be a holm, Donald L. Day, and Arthur J. visiting scholar in Agricultural En- Muehling, Agricultural Engineering, gineering through July 1983, working to discuss livestock housing and with Donnell R. Hunt. His research waste management systems. will include the study of machinery management on large Illinois farms. Recent visitors with Marvin P. Bry- Mr. Gao can be contacted at 104 Agri- ant and Robert B. Hespell, Dairy Sci- cultural Engineering Building, 333- ence, include Bernard Schink , Univer- 2738. sity of Konstanz, West Germany, July

29 and 30, and Alan G. Williams , Re- Hannah Re- Bernard A. Goodman , Department of search Microbiologist, Spectrochemistry, Macauley Institute search Institute, Ayr, Scotland, Au- for Soil Research, Aberdeen, Scot- gust 16 to 18. land, will work with Joseph W. Stuc- ki, Agronomy, and David N. Hendrick- Akke J. van der Zijpp , Department of son, Chemistry, for the next year Animal Husbandry, Agricultural Uni- while taking his sabbatical leave at versity, Wageningen, the Netherlands, UIUC. Dr. Goodman will study the presented a seminar on "Genetic Con- chemistry of metal ions in clay min- trol of Immune Responsiveness in the erals and other natural systems using Chicken," August 2. Dr. van der magnetic Mossbauer spectroscopy and Zijpp is Secretary of the Interna- electron and nuclear magnetic reso- tional Society for Animal Blood Group nance techniques. Research (ISABR), and she conferred with Ben A. Rasmusen, Animal Science, who is president of ISABR.

VISITORS RECENTLY ON CAMPUS Visiting UIUC in conjunction with the International Maize Virus Disease Colloquium, Wooster, Ohio, August 1 Marc F. Masson , Jacques M. Hallard ,

6 Pierre Signoret , INRA, and Jean-Claude Mercier , Clause Seed to were: Co., Orge, France, visited with fac- Montpellier, France; Gerardo Martinez Agrope- ulty and graduate students in Horti- Lopez , Instituto Colombiano Rodrigo Gamez culture and Plant Pathology on July cuario (ICA), Bogota; , 14. Universidad de Costa Rica, San Jose;

and Peter Markum , John Innes Insti- Norwich, England. They met Maurice Bichard , Director, Pig Im- tute, provement Company, England, discussed with staff in Plant Pathology, Agri- population genetics, progeny testing, cultural Entomology, and Economic and environmental management with Entomology. A. T. Tschanz , Asian Vegetable Re- Nafziger, Agronomy, search and Development Center, Tai- wan, attended the China/USA Soybean M. J. Caulfield , Maize Coop Company Conference and met with College of of Harare, Zimbabwe, and a Zimbabwe

Agriculture staff, July 26 to 30. student, Harold Corke , now studying at Guelph, Canada, visited Donald G.

Christopher Wheeler , Botany Depart- White, Plant Pathology, and George F. ment, University of Glasgow, Scot- Sprague, John W. Dudley, Gilbert B.

land, and Kerstin Huss-Dannell , For- Fletcher, and D. Eugene Alexander, estry Faculty, University of Umea, Agronomy, August 17. They discussed Sweden, visited the Forestry Depart- corn breeding methods used in Illi- ment and discussed UIUC research on nois, particularly those dealing with symbiotic nitrogen fixation by alder disease resistance, yield, and nutri- trees with Jeffrey 0. Dawson. Their tional qualities. visits were in conjunction with a

meeting on the biology of Frankia , Jean Berlan , an economist from the Madison, Wisconsin, August 3 to 6. Universite d'Aix, Marseille, France, discussed the effects of corn breed- Visiting Veterinary Medicine the week ing research on the hybrid corn seed of August 3 were: Yves Moreau and industry with George F. Sprague, John

Natalie Laurent , Institute Merieux, W. Dudley, and D. Eugene Alexander,

Lyon, France; Pierre Ambroise-Thomas , Agronomy, August 17 and 18. Universite Scientifique et Medicale,

Grenoble, France; and Nick McHardy , Two agriculturalists and four farmers Wellcome Laboratories, London, Eng- associated with Vrystaat Kooperasie

land. They discussed research on he- BPK , Reitz, South Africa, discussed raotropic diseases with M. Ristic. corn production with Allan G. Muel- ler, Agricultural Economics, D. E.

Iichiro Takahashi and Keizo Tsuchiya , Alexander and Johannes M. J. de Wet, Kyushu University, Japan, visited Agronomy, and John C. Siemens, Agri- UIUC on August 4 and 5 as part of a cultural Engineering, August 26-27. study tour to learn about the U.S. livestock and meat industry. They VISITORS COMING TO CAMPUS met with Mohamed E. Sarhan, Agricul-

tural Economics. Won Chul Chun , Sam Yang Oil & Feed,

Chong Min Kim , Dong Bang Oil & Flour

Johann Fuls, South Africa Department Mill, Moo Young Yoo , Cheil Sugar Co., of Agriculture, Pretoria, and Gerhard Joon Shik Rhee , Korea Advanced Insti-

Vellguth , Institute fur Landtech- tute of Science and Technology, and nische Grundlagenforschung, Braun- Say Young Jo , American Soybean Asso- schweig, Germany, discussed alterna- ciation, will meet with staff in Food tive fuels and vegetable oil fuels Science, Animal Science, and Agricul- research with Carroll E. Goering, tural Engineering, September 3, as Agricultural Engineering, August 11. part of a five-state tour arranged by the American Soybean Association and

K . K . Sh im , Dean of Agriculture, Sung USDA/FAS. Kyun Kwan University, Korea, met with

Walter E. Splittstoesser, Horticul- U Chit Saing , Deputy General Manager ture, August 12 and 13. Dr. Shim re- (Extension), Ministry of Agriculture,

ceived his Ph.D. from UIUC in 1972. and U Aye Myint Tun , Taze Township Manager, Burma, will be at UIUC from Faustino Cabral visited UIUC on Au- September 6 to 17 for a study program gust 13 as part of a U.S. tour for arranged by USDA/OICD on extension winning a corn farming award in the activities for corn production, eco- Philippines. He met with Emerson nomics, storage, and processing. Pedro Robin , Occupational Safety En- matched by non-MUCIA money. Further gineer, Brazilian Department of La- information is available from the bor, will discuss farm safety with MUCIA Office, 3010 Foreign Languages staff in extension and Agricultural Building, 333-1993. Engineering, September 15 to 17.

R. A. Winkfield , Extension Advisor, CHINA/USA SOYBEAN SYMPOSIUM Commercial Grain Producers Associa- tion, Zimbabwe, will discuss corn and More than 220 people attended the wheat production with campus and China/USA Soybeam Symposium held at county extension staff, September 17 UIUC, July 26 to 30. There was an to 20. eight-member delegation from the Peo- ple's Republic of China, and U.S. Contact John W. Santas, 113 Mumford soybean scientists from 19 states. Hall, 333-3638, to meet with any of these visitors.

IBPGR/INTSOY MEETING FUNDS AVAILABLE The International Board of Plant Ge- UIUC has received a $3,000 grant from netic Resources (IBPGR) and INTSOY the Midwest Universities Consortium held a working group meeting on soy- for International Activities (MUCIA) bean gerraplasm at UIUC, August 9 to to be used before June 30, 1983. 11. The group reviewed the status of Areas of support include travel to soybean germplasm collections around international conferences, develop- the world, developed a five-year plan ment of international components for to collect, evaluate and utilize the courses and international projects, germplasm, and prepared an interna- and campus seminars. Funding must be tional set of descriptors.

The International Agriculture Newsletter is published monthly by the Office of International Agriculture, 113 Mumford Hall, 1301 West Gregory Drive, Uni- versity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 61801; Bonnie Irwin, editor. Faculty and departments are encouraged to submit Newsletter items. The College of Agriculture provides equal opportunities in programs and employment.

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October 1982 No. 53

INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES Robert Herendeen , Forestry, and Rob-

ert Costanza , Illinois Natural His-

Walter E. Griffith , Cooperative Ex- tory Survey, presented invited lec- tension Service, conducted a 4-H tures about their work in ecological study tour in Sweden, July 24 to Au- economics at the Marcus Wallenberg gust 14, for extension staff and 4-H Foundation, Stockholm, Sweden, Sep- volunteers. UIUC county extension tember 1 to 3. agents participating included: Lynn

Riskedal and Ann F. Rund , Piatt Coun-

ty, Larry L. Wachtel , McDonough Coun- Kenneth Holmes , Veterinary Biosci-

ty, and Geralyn M. Holthaus , Coles ences, presented an invited paper at County. the 12th European Conference on Mi- crocirculation, Jerusalem, Israel,

Poo Chow , Forestry, served as an ex- September 1 to 10. ternal examiner for postgraduate stu- dents in wood products engineering at

the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, Russell T. Odell , Agronomy emeritus, and visited the International Insti- evaluated possibilities for rainfed tute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), soybean production in southern Sudan August 14 to 22. Dr. Chow also dis- for the Food and Agriculture Organi- cussed research programs with scien- zation, September 3 to October 3. tists at the Centre Technique du

Bois, Paris, France, August 23 and Jeffrey 0. Dawson , Forestry, present- 24. ed an invited consensus paper on di- nitrogen fixation in forests at the

Gilbert R. Hollis , Animal Science, Second International Conference on participated in a series of swine Nitrogen Fixation with Non-Legumes, production seminars in Mexico, the Banff, Canada, September 5 to 11. Dominican Republic, Venezuela, and

Colombia, August 15 to September 4, William N. Thompson , OIA, met with in a program arranged by the American Board for International Food and Soybean Association. Dr. Hollis lec- Agriculture Development (BIFAD) staff tured on evaluating swine production on September 13 and 14, Washington, systems and management of breeding D.C. herds.

Earl D. Kellogg , and William N.

William S. Dancer , Agricultural Eco- Thompson , OIA, participated in a Ti- nomics, presented a paper entitled tle XII Strengthening Program work- "Prime Agricultural Land Restoration shop sponsored by USAID and BIFAD, after Coal Mining in Midwestern USA: September 28 and 29, Washington D.C. Chemical and Nutritional Considera- tions," at the Canadian Land Reclama- J. Kent Mitchell , Agricultural Engi- tion meetings, Nova Scotia, August 25 neering, is on sabbatical leave in to September 3. South Africa through December 1982. .

Theodore Hymowitz , Agronomy, present- Attending the International Symposium ed an invited paper entitled "Varia- on Soybean Breeding for the Tropics, tion and Genetics of Certain Anti- Caracas, Venezuela, October 4 to 7,

Nutritional and Biologically Active are Luis H. Camacho , INTSOY/Agronomy Components of Soybean Seed" at the at Puerto Rico, and James B. Sin-

CIBA Symposium on Better Crops for clair , Plant Pathology. Dr. Sinclair Food, London, England, September 13 will present a paper on the effects to 16. of fungal and bacterial diseases on seed quality.

Harold E. Kauffman , INTSOY, will be

in Asia and Europe until raid-October George Z. Gertner , Forestry, will to discuss regional and national pro- present a paper entitled "Application grams and collaborative INTSOY activ- of a Bayesian Technique for Increas- ities with staff and administrators ing the Precision of Growth Projec- at NifTAL, Hawaii; International Rice tion Estimates" at a meeting of the Research Institute (IRRI), University International Union of Forestry Re- of the Philippines at Los Banos, search Organizations, October 4 to Southeast Asian Regional Center for 10, Vienna, Austria. Graduate Study and Research in Agri-

culture (SEARCA), Philippine Council James B. Sinclair , Plant Pathology, for Agriculture and Resources Re- will present a paper on the use of search and Development (PCARRD), in fungicidal sprays for control of in- the Philippines; International Crops ternally seedborne fungi at the First Research Institute for the Semi-Arid International Symposium on Seed Pa- Tropics (ICRISAT), Indian Council of thology, Copenhagen, Denmark, October Agricultural Research (ICAR), Madhya 11 to 15. He will then travel to the Pradesh Oilseeds Federation, and G. International Institute of Tropical B. Pant University of Agriculture and Agriculture (IITA), Ibadan, Nigeria, Technology, India; and FAO/UN and the to participate in the Joint Planning International Board for Plant Genetic and Evaluation Committees on High Resources (IBPGR), in Rome, Italy. Yielding Varieties Technology Dr. Kauffman will also attend an FAO- Projec t sponsored soybean conference in Ma- drid, Spain, in early October.

Joseph A. Jackobs , Agronomy, will Johannes M. J. deWet , Agronomy, will participate in the discussions in In- be Asia from October to December to dia, September 22 to 30. study the origins and evolution of cereals in a cooperative program with

Erwin Small , Veterinary Clinical Med- the International Crops Research icine, will present papers on feline Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics diseases at the 17th annual meeting (ICRISAT), Hyderabad, India. Dr. of the Society for International Vet- deWet will also visit several herbar- erinary Symposia, October 2 to 17. ia in Europe. The group will hold meetings in Ja- pan, Singapore, Thailand, and Hong Kong in conjunction with veterinary VISITING RESEARCHERS medical associations of each host

country. Samuel Nzietchueng , Nyombe , Cameroon, is a Fulbright scholar working for

David L. Chicoine , Agricultural Eco- four months with Jack D. Paxton, nomics, presented a paper at the 48th Plant Pathology, on pythium root rot

International Conference on Assess- of Xanthasoma . He will present a ment Administration, Kansas City, lecture on October 20 (see seminar

Missouri, October 3 to 7. list) . .

The College of Agriculture and the Shrestha, Nepal, apples; Won Yoo, College of Veterinary Medicine wel- Korea, biochemistry of apple protein. come the following new foreign gradu- ate students to the University of HUMAN RESOURCES AND FAMILY STUDIES: Illinois at Urbana-Charapaign. Yu-kyung Bae, Korea, textiles and clothing, Grazyna Szyraborska, Poland, AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS: Syed Arid, general home economics. India, farm management and production economics; Bruno Bidegain, France, PLANT PATHOLOGY: Susan E. Carlisle, marketing and agricultural prices; Canada, biological control of crop Raj Chhikara, India, agricultural pests; Chih-Ping Chao, Taiwan, plant finance; Sadok Driss, Tunisia, mar- disease control of fruits. keting and agricultural prices; Shashidhara Kolavalli, India, inter- VETERINARY MEDICINE: Marie Cote, national agricultural economics; Canada, veterinary toxicology; Faysal Israeli Mmari, Tanzania, agricultural El-Awar, Lebanon, mirobiology; Simon finance; Marie Nord, Sweden, market- Roe, Australia, surgery. ing and agricultural prices; Mahmud Tunkuyahya, Malaysia, farm management and production economics.

AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING: James Kel- The College of Agriculture welcomes ly, Ireland, power and machinery. Enrique Mayer and Mahir Saul, new faculty in the Department of Anthro- AGRONOMY: Bruno Albrecht, Switzer- pology. Dr. Mayer has specialized in land, plant breeding; Casey DoValle, Andean economic and exchange systems Brazil, forage breeding. and traditional agriculture and Dr. Saul on mechanisms of stratification ANIMAL SCIENCE: Libertado Cruz, Phil- and levelling in the farming economy ippines, reproductive physiology; of a Voltaic village. Ezequiel Rodriguez do Valle, Brazil, reproductive physiology; Alicia Car- riguary, Uruguay, animal breeding; Anna Chang, Taiwan, program systems HEALTH AND NUTRITION IN AFRICA analysis A round table on Health and Nutrition DAIRY SCIENCE: Lee R. Krumholz, Cana- in African Development will be held da, microbiology. at UIUC on November 11 and 12. Top- ics to be covered include: population FOOD SCIENCE: Sudhir S. Deshpande, and fertility, nutrition, parasitic India, food processing and engineer- diseases and their control, infec- ing; Naghshineh Farnaz, Iran, food tious diseases and their control, and microbiology; Pankajkumar N. Patel, health service planning and develop- India, food processing and engineer- ment. The round table is sponsored ing. by the African Studies Program, Col- lege of Medicine, School of Social FORESTRY: Tarhulah C. Jeyol, Nigeria, Sciences, College of Agriculture, and physiology; Mushtaq A. Khawa j , Paki- the College of Veterinary Medicine at stan, urban forestry. UIUC in collaboration with the School of Public Health, UICC. More infor- HORTICULTURE: Chen Hogi, People's mation is available from the African Republic of China, pomology; Hyouk Studies Program, 1208 W. California Joung, Korea, tissue culture; Gyan Street, room 101, (217) 333-6335. ,

SEMINARS November 17 The Outlook for Pigeon- pea and Chickpea (Garbanzo) - Y. L. October 6 The Implications of Plant Nene, International Crops Research Virus Epidemiology in World Agricul- Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics ture - J. Michael Thresh, East Mai- (ICRISAT), Hyderabad, India. ling Research Station, England. 4:00 p.m., 426 Mumford Hall. 4:00 p.m., 426 Mumford Hall.

October 11 Glimpses of the People's Republic of China - Arthur J. Mueh- ling, Agricultural Engineering. VISITORS COMING TO CAMPUS 1:00 p.m., 240 Agricultural Engineer- ing Building.

J. Michael Thresh , East Mailing Re- October 13 Forestry in Finland search Station, Maidstone, Kent, Eng- in Jussi Soramaki , University of Frei- land, will meet with staff Plant burg, West Germany, Pathology and Agricultural Entomology noon, 205 Forest Science Lab. the week of October 4. Dr. Thresh will present a seminar on October 6 October 13 Institution Building in a (see seminar list). His schedule is Constantly Changing Environment: A being arranged by Michael E. Irwin, Case Study from Nepal - Andrew J. So- Agricultural Entomology, 172 Natural franko, Agricultural Economics. Resources Building, 333-6659. 4:00 p.m., 426 Mumford Hall.

October 18 Citrus Dieback - A Com- S. P. Raychaudhuri , Indian Agricul- plex Disease -S. P. Raychaudhur i ture Research Institute (IARI) emeri- Indian Agricultural Research Insti- tus, will visit Plant Pathology from tute . October 17 through 19. He will pre- 4:00 p.m., W-109 Turner Hall. sent a seminar on October 18 (see seminar list). October 20 Cameroon, Africa, with Special Reference to Its Agriculture

- Samuel Nzietchueng, General Delega- Keizi Kiritani , Chief of the Division tion for Scientific and Technical Re- of Entomology, Insect Ecology Labora- search, Cameroon. tory, National Institute of Agricul-

4:00 p.m., 426 Mumford Hall. tural Sciences, Tsukuba , Japan, will discuss soybean entomology with Agri- October 27 Agriculture and Agricul- cultural Entomology and Economic En- tural Education in Uttar Pradesh, In- tomology staff, October 19 to 22. dia - Poorna N. Thapliyal, G. B. Pant Dr. Kiritani is national coordinator University of Agriculture and Tech- of the Japanese program for soybean nology, India. entomology. His schedule is being 4:00 p.m., 426 Mumford Hall. arranged by Marcos Kogan, Agricultur- al Entomology, 172 Natural Resources

November 3 Soybeans in Viet Nam Building, 333-1005. . Joseph A. Jackobs, Agronomy. 4:00 p.m., 426 Mumford Hall.

Luis Amendola , Proyecto Suelos Cul- November 10 Collective Decision Mak- tivos, Estacion Experimental del ing in Traditional Andean Agriculture Norte, Tacuarembo, Uruguay, will meet Enrique Mayer, Anthropology and with INTSOY staff the week of October Center for Latin American and Carib- 21. Ing. Agr. Amendola' s schedule is bean Studies. being arranged by John W. Santas, 4:00 p.m., 426 Mumford Hall. OIA, 113 Mumford Hall, 333-3638. .

Maria Angelica Solari , Rubino Insti- presented a seminar on pig neuroendo- tute, Montevideo, Uruguay, arrived crinology, August 16.

September 1 for an intensive training program in hemoparasitic diseases. F. A. Bernardo , President of Visayas Sponsored by FAO/UN, she will work State College of Agriculture, Philip- with Ronald D. Smith and Michael G. pines, visited UIUC August 27 to 30. Levy, Veterinary Medicine. He met with William N. Thompson, J. B. Claar, and John W. Santas, OIA;

Tamas Szundy , a corn breeder at the Dean Orville G. Bentley; Harold E. Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Mar- Kauffman, INTSOY; Poo Chow, Forestry; tonvasar, will be working with the Upson S. Garrigus, Animal Science; corn group in Agronomy until January. Charles M. Brown, Agronomy; Arthur J. Siedler, Food Science; and Delbert T.

Jussi Soramaeki , a Finnish student Dahl, Agricultural Communications. doing graduate work at the University of Freiburg, West Germany, is visit- Lesley Kahl , Hall Institute of Medi- ing the Forestry Department until the cal Research, Melbourne, Australia, end of October as part of an annual met with the hemotropic disease group student exchange. He will present a in Veterinary Medicine from August 29 seminar on October 13 (see seminar to September 2. Dr. Kahl presented a list). Last summer, Michael Pope, an seminar on antigens and immune re- undergraduate student in Forestry, sponses to Babesia bovis in cattle. spent three months at the University of Freiburg. Insaf Nasr , Dean of the Faculty of Home Economics at Helwan University,

Weibo Chen , a mathematician from Bei- Cairo, Egypt, met with staff from Co- jing Agricultural University, Peo- operative Extension and the School of ple's Republic of China, arrived in Human Resources and Family Studies August to spend a year working with from August 30 to September 17. Her William G. Ruesink, Agricultural En- program was arranged by Lawrence B. tomology, on several projects that O'Reilly, Assistant Director, Cooper- involve forecasting insect pest popu- ative Extension. lations and their impact on agricul- ture. Jorge A. Colaco , Instituto Universi- tario de Tras-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Jon Piqul is a Fulbright scholar from Portugal, discussed animal breeding the Agricultural University of Poz- and genetics with Michael Grossman nan, Poland, working for ten months and Roger D. Shanks, Dairy Science, with Fred A. Kummerow, Food Science, and Leif H. Thompson, Daniel Gianola, on oxidation of lipids in tissue. and David L. Thomas, Animal Science, Also working with Dr. Kummerow is September 7.

Takayoshi Toda , Nagasaki University

School of Medicine, Japan. Dr. Toda Peter Chen Hsiao-Tzu , Department of will be here for two years investi- Mechanical Engineering, National gating atherosclerosis in swine and Chung-Hsing University, Taiwan, vis- chickens ited Agricultural Engineering on Sep- tember 9.

VISITORS RECENTLY ON CAMPUS Eugene Pipano , Kimron Veterinary In- stitute, Bet Dagan, Israel, visited

Franz Ellendorff , Institut fur Tier- Veterinary Medicine from September 13 zucht und Tierverhalten, Mariensee, to 16. Dr. Pipano is cooperating in- West Germany, met with William C. vestigator, and Miodrag Ristic is Wagner, Veterinary Medicine, and principal investigator, on a BARD Philip J. Dzuik, Animal Science, and project on bovine babesiosis. . ,

Archie Laing , University of London, Thomas A. McCowen, INTSOY, and James

England, Stig Einarrisson , Uppsala B. Sinclair and Richard E. Ford, Veterinary College, Sweden, Michel Plant Pathology. Parez, French Ministry of Agricul-

ture, and Harold Hawk , USDA Dairy Re- Eight European journalists , sponsored search Center, Beltsville, Maryland, by the American Soybean Association discussed plans for the 1984 Interna- (ASA), met with John W. Santas, Tho- tional Congress for Animal Reproduc- mas A. McCowen and Dan R. Erickson, tion and Artificial Insemination with INTSOY, and Delbert T. Dahl, Agricul- William. C. Wagner, Veterinary Medi- tural Communications, September 23. cine, Glenn W. Salisbury, Dairy Sci- They were accompanied by Dan Ruwee ence emeritus, and other members of ASA. the local committee, September 16 to - 18. The congress will be held at Leones A. de Almeida , and Jose Tada

UIUC. shi Yorinori , National Soybean Cen- ter, met with UIUC soybean breeders - Emidio Bonato , Head , and Milton Kas and pathologists, September 30 and ter, Technical Director of the Na- October 1. tional Soybean Center, Londrina, Bra- zil, visited UIUC September 19 to 21. A 17 member soybean study team from They met with Marcos Kogan, Agricul- Japan attended a symposium presented tural Entomology, Charles Helm, Eco- by UIUC staff on the U.S. soybean in- nomic Entomology, Richard L. Bernard dustry, October 1. Sponsored by the and Donald A. Holt, Agronomy, John W. American Soybean Association, the Santas and William N. Thompson, OIA, team was accompanied by J. Yamashita.

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INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES Nathan C. Russell , Agricultural Pub- lications, accepted a position as Attending the 21st International Hor- editor at the International Institute ticultural Congress, Hamburg, Ger- of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Iba- many, August 29 to September 4, were dan, Nigeria, beginning in mid-Octo-

William L. George , Daniel B. Meador , ber. and John S. Titus , Horticulture. Dr.

George presented a paper on tomato Miodrag Ristic , Veterinary Pathobiol- genetics and breeding, and partici- ogy , was in France from October 4 to pated in pre- and post-congress tours 14 to meet with officials from the of research institutes and vegetable World Health Organization, Geneva, production areas in Germany. Dr. Switzerland, Institute Merieux, Lyon, Meador participated in pre- and post France, and the Universite Scientifi- congress tours of the fruit industry que et Medicale, Grenoble, France, in northern Italy and southern Ger- concerning the Second International many. Conference on Malaria and Babesiosis, Dr. Titus visited the Agricultural to be held in September, 1983, in Institute and the Department of Hor- Annecy, France. ticulture, University College, Dub- lin, Ireland, and presented papers at Thomas A. McCowen , INTSOY Administra- A- the Ninth International Plant Nutri- tion, and Luis H. Camacho , INTSOY/ tion Colloquium, Coventry, England. gronomy at Puerto Rico, discussed the development of collaborative regional

John T. Scott , Agricultural Econom- soybean research programs with scien- ics, presented a paper on computer- tists at the Centro International de ized data recall and formula adminis- Agricultura Tropical (CIAT), and the tration of farm land assessment at Instituto Colombiano Agropecuario the World Congress on Computer As- (ICA), Colombia, October 10 to 15. sisted Valuation of Real Property,

August 1 to 6. The congress was Peter J. Barry , Agricultural Econom- sponsored by the Lincoln Land Insti- ics, presented a series of lectures tute at Harvard University. on agricultural finance at the Uni- versity of Guelph, Canada, October 12

L. Touby Kurtz , Agronomy, was in the to 15. People's Republic of China from Sep- tember 3 to 21 at the invitation of Harold E. Kauffman , INTSOY, presented Li Ching-kwei, Deputy Director of the a seminar entitled "Potential for In- Soil Research Institute, Academia ternational Collaboration on Soybean Sinica, Nanjing. Dr. Kurtz met with Research and Development" at Cornell soil scientists and presented lec- University, October 20. tures at the South China Institute of

Botany, Guangzhou, the Soil Research Arthur J. Muehling , Agricultural En- Institute in Nanjing, Beijing Agri- gineering, is participating in a cultural University, and in Shanghai. project to eradicate African swine ,

fever in Haiti. The project is ad- y Trigo (CIMMYT), Mexico, November 10 ministered by the Inter-American In- to 15. stitute for Cooperation in Agricul- ture (IICA), San Jose, Costa Rica. Dr. Muehling was in Haiti from Sep- VISITING RESEARCHERS tember 26 to October 15, and will re- turn there in early November. Nabil Hemeida , Cairo University, Egypt, is a visiting professor in

Marcos Kogan , Agricultural Entomolo- Veterinary Clinical Medicine from gy, lectured on general principles of September through July, 1983, to pest management at a course on Inte- study factors that influence phagocy- grated Control of Cassava Pests held tosis of organisms by white blood at the Centro International de Agri- cells in cattle. cultura Tropical (CIAT) , Colombia, Also visiting Veterinary Clinical

October 22 to 29. Medicine is Carlos Roehe , Universi- dade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, is Robert W. Howell , Agronomy emeritus, Porto Alegre, Brazil. Dr. Roehe will serve as senior advisor on a here for one year for advanced clini- UNDP/FAO project to strengthen soy- cal training and research on diagnos- bean research for increased produc- tic and internal medicine of cattle. tion in Heilong jiang Province, Peo- ple's Republic of China, for a month Toshiaki Nakanishi , Nagasaki Univer- beginning in late October. sity Medical School, Department of Internal Medicine, arrived in Septem- with Toshiro Nishida, Marlowe D. Thorne , Agronomy, left ber to work November 1 to serve as UIUC staff Food Science, on lipoprotein in rela- member on a Midwest Universities Con- tion to heart disease. Dr. Nakamishi sortium for International Activities can be reached at 102 Burnsides Re- (MUCIA) project at the Institute for search Laboratory, 333-1876. Agriculture and Animal Sciences

(IAAS), Tribhuvan University, Rampur Emir Alkissah Siregar , Program Manag- Nepal. The project will assist IAAS er, Information Resource Center, and In- in developing an integrated program Amri Jahi , Extension Education, of teaching, research, and extension stitut Pertanian Bogor, Indonesia, suited to Nepali agriculture. Dr. were at UIUC from October 18 to 30 Thorne, who will serve as team lead- for a program arranged by Agricultur- er, will advise in plant sciences. al Communications on communications The Thome's address is: IAAS/MUCIA, instruction and technology. GPO Box 984, Kathmandu, Nepal.

W. Douglas Morrison , professor of The third ICA/INTSOY Soybean Produc- animal and poultry science, Univer- tion course will be held in Palmira, sity of Guelph, Canada, is working Colombia, November 22 to December 10. with Stanley E. Curtis, Animal Sci- Conducted in Spanish, the course is ence, for the fall semester. for Latin American soybean scientists and extension agents. INTSOY staff who will lecture include John W. San- VISITORS RECENTLY ON CAMPUS tas, OIA, Jose A. Bravo and Luis H.

Donald Winkelmann , head of the eco- Camacho , INTSOY Agronomy at Puerto nomic program at CIMMYT (Centro In- Rico, Michael E. Irwin , Agricultural ternational de Mejoramiento de Maiz Entomology , and Jane E. Polston , Plant Pathology. y Trigo), visited UIUC on October 28 Dr. Irwin will also view the crop- and 29. He met with Office of Inter- ping systems program at the Centro national Agriculture, INTSOY, and Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maiz Agricultural Economics staff. PROCEEDINGS AVAILABLE OIA TRAINING ACTIVITIES

"Understanding the World Food System: IVORY COAST Its Importance to Illinois and the Nation" has been issued by the Office Four students from the Ivory Coast, of International Agriculture. This participants in a training project volume is the proceedings of the sponsored by the Office of Interna- world food conference held at UIUC tional Agriculture and the Ivory February 14 and 15, 1982. Single Coast Ministry of Agriculture, are copies are available from the Office enrolled in UIUC's Intensive English of International Agriculture, 113 Institute. They are Djokouri Kouas- Mumford Hall, 333-6421. si, Abdoulaye Conde, Kouassi V. Tie- eha, and Valentine C. Yapi. Next se- mester they will be enrolled in mas- INTERPAKS DIRECTOR ter's degree programs at U.S. uni- versities. Through this program 38 Eldon L. Johnson will serve as Direc- Ivorians have completed their de- tor of the International Program for grees, and 21 are enrolled in mas- Agriculture Knowledge Systems (INTER- ter's degree programs in the U.S. PAKS) while J. B. Claar is Acting Dean for the College of Agriculture. ZAIRE Dr. Johnson can be contacted at 434 Mumford Hall, 333-4350. Please note Four students from Zaire, sponsored that his mailing address is 113 Mum- for master's degree study through the ford Hall. MASl/UIUC subcontract, have begun study in the U.S.: Asan Mawiya, soil science, North Carolina State Univer-

FOUNDATION PRESENTATION sity at Raleigh; Nkala Lubaki , soil science, Southern Illinois Univer- The Office of International Agricul- sity; Mukishi Pyndji, plant patholo- ture, in cooperation with the Office gy, UIUC; and Mbikayi Tshidimba, In- of Agricultural Communications, made tensive English Institute, UIUC. the feature presentation at the Octo- ber 9 meeting of the University of ZAMBIA Illinois Foundation. A special slide-audio show illustrating the in- Eleven Zarabian students, sponsored ternational activities of the Col- under the ZAMARE project, have been leges of Agriculture and Veterinary enrolled in U.S. universities for the

Medicine was presented. This was fall semester: George Simakando , ani- followed by a panel discussion by mal science, UIUC; Watson Mwale, Dean Orville G. Bentley, Dean Richard plant and soil science, Southern

E. Dierks , William N. Thompson, and Illinois University; Benny Zimba, Earl D. Kellogg. agricultural economics, UIUC; Andson Ngala, agricultural economics, South- ern Illinois University; Mathias Kan- yemba, agronomy, Southern Illinois BOOKS SENT OVERSEAS University; John M. Moonga and Ste- phen Muliokela, agronomy, Mississippi More than 125 volumes of journals and State University; Mantel C. Sindazi, books were recently sent to Kasetsart agricultural mechanics, University of University Library, Bangkok, Thai- Maryland-Eastern Shore; Francis H. land. The collection included mater- Mweemba, Chisambwe Chishinda, and ial contributed by Ivan J. Jansen, Kamona K. Mulonda, agricultural ex- Agronomy, and J. W. Gerdemann and tension, University of Maryland-East- James B. Sinclair, Plant Pathology. ern Shore.

VISITORS RECENTLY ON CAMPUS and Leif H. Thompson, Animal Science, September 29. Sponsored by the Amer-

C. E. Muralidhar , Head of the Depart- ican Soybean Association, the team ment of Botany, NMKRV First Grade was escorted by Rene Ledesraa, ASA/- College for Women, Bangalore, India, Mexico, and Tom Eshleraan, ASA/ St. visited Horticulture July 29 and 30. Louis. He presented a lecture on in vitro

propagation of Cymbidium Passiflora Vladmir F. Kiver , Deputy Director, and Polianthes, and discussed tissue All-Union Corn Research Institute,

propagation with Martin M. Dnepropetrovsky ; Fedor L. Kozlovtsev culture , Meyer. Deputy Chief, Regional Agricultural Administration, Volgograd; Alexander

Ralph Wilson , technical services man- D. Kalinichenko , Chairman of the Col- ager of Meade-Buswell, Northampton, lective Farm "Friendship of People,"

England, and a 1982 Churchill Fellow, Crimea; and Pavel P. Sorokin , Dean, discussed design of animal facilities Moscow Institute of Agricultural with Temple Grandin and Stanley E. Engineering, USSR, discussed grain Curtis, Animal Science, September 1. drying with Agricultural Engineering staff, September 30. Sponsored by

Hiroyoshi Okamoto , Grain Division of Monsanto, they were accompanied by Mitsui Co., Tokyo, Japan, and Haruhi - Donald L. Barnes, International Prod-

ko Kozui , Director of Kimura Co., uct Development Department, Monsanto Osaka, Japan, discussed soybean de- St. Louis, and Michael E. Chramko, hulling and utilization with L. S. Monsanto Austria/USSR. Wei, Food Science, September 8.

Colin Clark , University of Queens-

Prudence Kupka , Universite Scientifi- land, Australia, and formerly Direc- que et Medical, Grenoble, France, tor of the Agricultural Research In- collaborated with Miodrag Ristic, stitute, Oxford University, visited

Veterinary Pathobiology , on research UIUC October 4. He discussed econom- techniques in malaria, September 22 ic aspects of agricultural develop- to October 1. ment with students and faculty in economics and agricultural economics,

Ricardo Roberto Siciliano , plant and presentd a seminar entitled "Re- breeder with the Compania Continen- sources, Agriculture, and the Recent tal, Argentina, met with Richard L. History of the Developing Countries." Bernard and Danny R. Erickson, Agron-

omy, James B. Sinclair, Plant Pathol- Chongrak Prichananda , Rector of Ka- ogy, and Thomas A. McCowen, INTSOY, setsart University, Bangkok, Thai- September 22. land, met with International Agricul- ture staff on October 6.

Mats Molen , an architect with the

Swedish University of Agricultural Ed Rybicki , University of Cape Town, Sciences, Department of Farm Build- South Africa, met with Plant Pathol- ings, discussed farm house design and ogy staff on October 11 and 12, and farmstead planning with Donald J. presented a lecture on virus trans- Jedele, Agricultural Engineering, mission by insects. September 27.

Ion Dinu , Rumanian Agricultural Atta-

R. Martin , F. Aguirre , F. Gonzalez , che, Washington, D.C., and formerly

J. Fox , and J. M. Gonzalez , swine professor and Director of the Agri- producers from Mexico, met with Upson cultural Institute, Bucharest Univer-

S. Garrigus , Donald E. Becker, Stan- sity, met with Arthur J. Muehling, ley E. Curtis, Benjamin A. Rasmusen, Agricultural Engineering, and Animal Robert A. Easter, Gilbert R. Hollis, Science staff, October 14 and 15. VISITOR COMING TO CAMPUS November 10 Collective Decision Mak- ing in Traditional Andean Agriculture

Claus-Dieter Hartjen , Institut fur Enrique Mayer, Anthropology and Landwirtschaf t liche Betriebs-und Center for Latin American and Carib- Arbeitslehra der Christian Albrechts bean Studies. Universitat, Kiel, West Germany, will 4:00 p.m., 426 Mumford Hall. discuss development and application of computer assisted information and decision supporting systems in agri- November 17 The Outlook for Pigeon- culture, and grain storage and han- pea and Chickpea (Garbanzo) - Y. L. dling with Agricultural Economics and Nene, International Crops Research Agricultural Engineering staff, No- Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics vember 4 to 8. (ICRISAT), Hyderabad, India. 4:00 p.m., 426 Mumford Hall. Contact John W. Santas, 113 Mumford Hall, 333-3638, to meet with Mr. December 2 Caught in a Squeeze: The Hartjen. Effects of Labor Shortage on Agricul- tural Development Among Lahu Women in Northern Thailand - Jacquetta Hill, Educational Psychology, SEMINARS noon, University YMCA, Parr Lounge, 1001 S. Wright St., Champaign. November 3 Soybeans in Viet Nam - You are welcome to bring your lunch Joseph A. Jackobs, Agronomy. or you may purchase it in the YMCA 4:00 p.m., 426 Mumford Hall. cafeteria. (WID seminar series).

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INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES FAO study will build on Dr. Swanson 1 s ongoing research on agricultural edu-

Roy K. Simons , Horticulture, attended cation institutions in the third the 21st International Horticulture world. Congress, Hamburg, Germany, August 29

to September 4. He also participated Marcia White , Agricultural Economics, in a pre-congress tour of fruit-pro- presented a progress report on the ducing regions in Germany and a post- bean-cowpea research in Tanzania at a congress tour to observe vegetable, meeting in East Lansing, Michigan, fruit, and nursery production and October 31 to November 2. research stations in Denmark and

Sweden. Earl D. Kellogg , International Agri- culture, Frederick C. Fliegel and Mo -

Gail M. Fosler , Horticulture, was an hamed E. Sarhan , Agricultural Econom-

invited speaker at the 15th Interna- ics, Corrine Glesne , Educational Pol-

tional Bedding Plant Conference and icy Studies, and Violet M. Malone , Trade Show, Orlando, Florida, October Cooperative Extension Service, spent 2 to 7. three weeks in St. Vincent during No- vember completing the second phase of Mel C. Chu, Horticulture, lectured on an agriculture sector assessment for in vitro plant propagation, plant St. Vincent. This is being done micro-techinques , and North American through a Technical Service to Mis- ornamental trees and shrubs at Bei- sion contract of MUCIA with USAID/- jing Forestry College, People's Re- Barbados. Based on the findings of public of China, October 12 to 27. this study, the USAID/Barbados mis- sion will work with the government of

Michael F. Hutjens , Dairy Science, St. Vincent to design agricultural presented seminars on dairy calf man- development assistance. agement and feeding at Seoul, Pusan,

and Suweon, Korea. His trip was William C. Wagner , Veterinary Biosci- sponsored by Bordens International ences, recently spent a month in Bra- and the National Rendering Associ- zil at the invitation of the Brazil- ation. ian government consulting on repro- ductive physiology problems. He

Burton E. Swanson , Agricultural Edu- spent three weeks advising on gradu- cation, was invited to Rome, Italy, ate and animal health programs at the October 25 to 27, by the Food and University of Pelotas and one week at Agriculture Organization (FAO). He the Campo Grande University and beef consulted with the Human Resources, research facility. Institutions, and Agrarian Reform Di-

vision of the Agricultural Education Jacqueline Fletcher , Plant Pathology, and Extension Service on a study of was in Mexico from November 9 to 20. agricultural education and training She visited soybean production areas institutions in Africa. The proposed in southern Mexico to search for plants showing symptoms similar to Pietro Catizone , weed scientist, and

those of machismo disease and col- Giovanni Toderi , Director of the In- lected samples for study at UIUC. stitute of General Agronomy and Field Crop Cultivation, University of Bolo-

Harold E. Kauffman , INTSOY, discussed gna, Italy, reviewed Illinois agri- collaborative activities with the di- cultural production with Ellery L.

rectors of IITA, AVRDC, CIAT, and Knake , Agronomy, September 22. ICRISAT during meetings held at the

World Bank headquarters in Washing- Christen Sievertsen , a student at the ton, D.C., November 11 and 12. Danish Agricultural University, Co- penhagen, discussed dairy cattle

John E. Bowman , graduate student in housing and feeding systems with Plant Pathology, is conducting a por- staff in Agricultural Engineering and tion of his Ph.D. thesis research at Dairy Science, September 24. the National Soybean Research Center,

Londrina, Brazil. He left in mid- Elliot Kitajima , University of Bra- September and will spend one year silia, Brazil, visited UIUC on Octo- studying soybean diseases. ber 14. He discussed current virol- ogy research with Cleora J. D'Arcy, William N. Thompson and Carolyn Prib - Jacqueline Fletcher, Richard E. Ford,

ble , Office of International Agricul- and Alan Howarth, all in Plant Path-

ture, and Enrique Mayer , An thropo lo- ology. Dr. Kitajima also met with in E. gy , participted the Symposium on Marcos Kogan and Michael Irwin, Farming Systems in the Field held at Agricultural Entomology, and Lindsay Kansas State University, Manhattan, M. Black, Botany emeritus. from November 21 to 23. This sympo- sium was sponsored under KSU's Title Visiting the Agronomy corn group on

XII Strengthening Grant. October 25 were Yoel Efron , assistant director and program leader of the

Theodore Hymowitz , Agronomy, will cereal improvement program of the In- present papers on the ethnobotany of ternational Institute of Tropical Pueraria spp. at the U.S. -Taiwan Co- Agriculture (IITA), Ibadan, Nigeria; operative Symposium on the Improved and Israeli industrialists Armin Pal -

Exploitation and Development of Plant kovic and Yoram Ben Ami . They were Resources, December 12 to 19, Taipei. primarily interested in high oil hy-

The symposium is sponsored by the Na- brids. Drago Parlov , a corn breeder tional Science Foundation, the New with the Institute for Breeding and York Botanical Garden, Taiwan Nation- Production of Field Crops, Zagreb, al University, and the National Sci- Yugoslavia, met with the Agronomy ence Council of Taiwan. corn group on October 26. Dr. Hymowitz will lecture in To-

kyo, Japan, from December 19 to 21, Nelson Morgado C. , Chief of Plant sponsored by the Japan Association Protection, Venezuela Ministry of

for Development and Preservation of Agriculture, Jorge Alberto Osorio , New Crop Strains. Head, Venezuela Vegetable Quarantine

Division, Manuel Rodriguez , Associate Director, U.S. Feed Grains/Venezuela,

VISITORS RECENTLY ON CAMPUS and Mike Callahan , Associate Director of U.S. Feed Grains/Latin America,

H. J. Oosten and G. Elzenga , Wilhel- visited UIUC on October 20. They minadorp Fruit Breeding Station, the discussed grain quality and breakage Netherlands, discussed tissue culture during handling and shipping with induced variability in fruit crops Marvin R. Paulsen, Agricultural Engi- with Robert M. Skirvin, Horticulture, neering, and molds affecting grain September 13. storage with Barry J. Jacobsen, Plant Pathology. The Venezuelan grain team production training programs for In- was escorted by Melody Taylor, Direc- dia with Harold E. Kauffman, INTSOY, tor of Communications, Illinois Corn Joseph A. Jackobs, Agronomy, Burton Growers Association. E. Swanson, Agricultural Education, Raymond A. Woodis and John A. Beh- rens, Agricultural Communications, A delegation from Bulgaria including and John W. Santas, Office of Inter-

Ivan Tonev , Deputy Chairman, National national Agriculture, November 4 and Agro-Industrial Union (Plant Protec- 5. tion); Angiel Bobokov , Chief, De- partment of Agriculture, Central Com- Uzi Geller , Granot Agricultural Coop- mittee of the Bulgarian Communist erative, Israel, discussed automation

Party; Dimitur Andreevski , Director, of milking parlors with Sidney L. International Division, National Spahr, Dairy Science, November 9. Agro-Industrail Union; Dimitur Tso-

lov, Special Advisor to the National Maud Knutsson , product development Agro-Industrail Union; Stancho Ber - manager, Astr Ewos of Alfa Laval Com- emski , Agricultural Attache, Bulgar- pany, Stockholm, Sweden, met with ian Embassy, Washington, D.C.; a.nd Dairy Science and Animal Science

Dmitri Dimitrov , Trade Representa- staff on November 9 and 10. Ms. tive, Bulgarian Embassy, Washington, Knutsson received a M.S. in Animal D.C., visited central Illinois on Oc- Science at UIUC in 1973. tober 27 and 28.

They toured the Kraft factory in M. Yamamoto , Eisai Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Champaign, the grain handling and Japan, discussed automatic detection marketing facilities at The Ander- of mastitis in milking parlors with son' s, and the Charles Ehler farm in Hoyle B. Puckett, Agricultural Engi- Champaign. They also discussed Illi- neering/USDA, and Sidney L. Spahr and nois corn production with Emerson Ranjit S. Fernando, Dairy Science, Nafziger, Agronomy; Illinois soybean November 12. production with Gary E. Pepper, Agro-

nomy; and Illinois agriculture and George Lewis , Director of the U.S. the federal/ state partnership in Army Medical Unit in Kuala Lumpur, agricultural research with Raymond G. Malaysia, met with Miodrag Ristic,

Cragle, Agricultural Experiment Sta- Veterinary Pathobiology , to review tion. The Bulgarian agricultural joint programs on epidemiology of delegation was escorted by Erick Rickettsia sennetsu in humans in Erickson, USDA' s Office of Interna- Southeast Asia, November 11 and 12. tional Cooperation and Development.

William H. Judy , Africa Bureau, Of- fice of Development Resources, U.S.

Pirkko Antilla , assistant director of Agency for International Development, the National Board of General Educa- visited UIUC on November 19 and pre- tion located at the University of sented a seminar entitled "Coopera- Helsinki, Finland, observed content tion for Development in Africa." and procedures for teaching art and design in formal and informal educa- Stewart Crocker , Farms Director of tional settings, November 1 through Commonwork, Kent, England, discussed 8, at the School of Human Resources adding value to animal waste with and Family Studies. The trip was Thomas Brumm and Elwood F. Olver, sponsored by a Fulbright Scholarship. Agricultural Engineering, and D. Homer Buck, Illinois Natural History Survey, November 22. Mr. Crocker was

David Kidd , consultant for the World sponsored by a Nuffield Farming Trav- Bank, discussed bean and grain legume el Scholarship. professor of animal SHORT COURSE EARNINGS Guenther Melhorn , production and veterinary medicine, Karl-Marx University, Leipzig, Ger- Earnings allocated to departments in many, will be an International Re- the College of Agriculture for par- search and Exchanges Board (IREX) ticipation in three 1982 short scholar at UIUC from November 19 to courses were as follows: December 10. His program was arrang- ed by Robert E. Brown, Overseas Proj- ects and Foreign Visitors, 3019 For- Seed Improvement eign Languages Building, 333-1990. Agronomy $1,885 Agricultural Communications $1,885

SEMINARS Technical and Economic Aspects of December 2 Caught in a Squeeze: The Soybean Production Effects on Lahu Women in Northern Agricultural Communications $3,200 Thailand of Labor Shortage from Agri- Agricultural Economics $2,800 cultural Development - Jacquetta Agricultural Engineering $2,050 Hill, Educational Psychology, Agricultural Entomology $3,000 noon, Paar Lounge, YMCA Agronomy $6,000 Food Science $2,400 December 2 Strengthening Interna- Plant Pathology $3,000 tional Agricultural Research - Lowell Hardin, Assistant Director of Inter- national Programs and professor of Soybean Processing for Food Uses agricultural economics, Purdue Agricultural Engineering $150 University. Food Science $1,892 3:00 p.m., 426 Mumford Hall. Foods and Nutrition $150

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INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES James R. Karr , Forestry and Ecology, Ethology and Evolution, will be on sabbatical leave in Panama from Janu- August, 1983. He will Mark A. James , Veterinary Pathobiol- ary through on the organization ogy , was an invited speaker at a sym- conduct research posium on hemotropic diseases of cat- of bird communities in tropical for- tle held during the Third Venezuelan ests, and the principles for the de- Congress of Microbiology, November 6 sign of nature preserves in tropical to 12, Barquisimeto. He spoke on the forest environments. The research is "Epidemiology of Bovine Anaplasmosis supported by a grant from the Nation- and Babesiosis in the Centro-Occiden- al Science Foundation. tal Region of Venezuela." Dr. James is UIUC representative in a coopera- Raymond A. Woodis , Agricultural Com- Smucker tive research project with the Uni- munications, and Donald R. , versidad Centro-Occidental Lisandro Cooperative Extension Service Agri- Alvarado, Barquisimeto. culture Advisor for Piatt County, have been selected for two-year as- Carroll J. W. Drablos, Agricultural signments on the Caribbean Agricul- Engineering, participated in the In- tural Extension Project (CAEP). This ternational Drainage Workshop held at is Phase II of a contract which the the National 4-H Center, Chevy Chase, Midwest Universities Consortium for Maryland, the week of December 6. International Activities (MUCIA) has with the USAID regional mission in

Sam H. Johnson , Agricultural Econo- Barbados. mics, will be in Asia during January. Beginning January 1, Mr. Woodis He will spend two weeks in Pakistan will be assigned to the Department of discussing agricultural development Agricultural Extension, University of in Baluchistan with World Bank and the West Indies, Trinidad, to help USAID personnel and gathering addi- organize an agricultural communica- tional data on water management. Dr. tions and outreach program for the Johnson will also participate in a Faculty of Agriculture. workshop at Chiang Mai University, Mr. Smucker will be in Belize be- Thailand, to help develop a new M.S. ginning February 15 to help implement program in agricultural systems. the national extension improvement plant, which was developed under I Earl D. Kellogg , Office of Interna- Phase of CAEP. tional Agriculture, was in St. Vin-

cent from December 8 to 17 to final- Earl R. Swanson , Agricultural Econom- ize a Project Identification Document ics, will be team leader of an agri- for USAID assistance in agriculture. cultural assessment study for Anti- Dr. Kellogg was working with the re- gua. The study is to be performed in gional USAID office in Barbados and January through a Technical Support Leon Hesser of IADS. to Mission (TSM) contract held by the Midwest Universities Consortium for West Germany, spent October through International Activities (MUCIA) with December at UIUC's College of Veteri- the USAID mission in Barbados. nary Medicine. She was the third student from Hannover to participate William N. Thompson and Thomas A. in this extern program. The college McCowen, Office of International has a similar program with the Uni- Agriculture, traveled to Washington, versity of Edinburgh, Scotland, and D.C., December 21, to discuss Zambia Cambridge University, England. Agricultural Research and Extension of (ZAMARE) Project activities with Byung Sung Sah , president Bordens-

Ernest Gibson, USAID/Lusaka , USAID/- Korea, and Lew Sutton , general mana- Washington, Southern Illinois Univer- ger of Bordens International, visited sity, and University of Maryland- two dairy farms in Illinois on Novem- Eastern Shore representatives. ber 22. Michael F. Hutjens, Dairy Science, was their host.

VISITING RESEARCHERS Lazar Kojic , Maize Institute of Zemun Polje, Yugoslavia, visited the Agron- 29. Paul Hemsworth , Animal Research In- omy corn group on November stitute, Werribee, Australia, is a

George A. Miller visiting Scholar in Gan Yongziang , director of the Animal the Department of Animal Science, De- Husbandry Department of Henan Provin-

cember 1, 1982, through May 15, 1983. cial Agricultural Bureau; Qi Lingyun , Dr. Hemsworth, who is interested in director of the Research Department domestic animal behavior and the ef- of the Henan Agricultural Academy of

fect of animal-human interaction on Science; Shen Zhikui , deputy manager growth and reproduction, will work of Huang Fan State Farm; Wang Huai - with Stanley E. Curtis, Harold W. shun, Zheng Yang Swine Breeding Farm;

Gonyou, and Philip J. Dziuk. and Feng Yongchen , Foreign Affairs Office of the People's Government of People's Republic of Bernard Kruff , Lehr and Versuchsgut Henan Province, Oberschleissheim des Fachbereichs China, attended a swine seminar pre- Tiermedizin der Ludwig-Maximillians sented by Animal Science staff on No- Universitat Munchen, will study ap- vember 30. Participating in the sem- plied and research aspects of embryo inar were: Upson S. Garrigus, Donald transfer in pigs, sheep, and cattle E. Becker, Gilbert R. Hollis, Stanley for three months in Animal Science. E. Curtis, Robert A. Easter, Aldon H. He will work with Philip J. Dziuk. Jensen, Daniel Gianola, and Leif H. Thompson. The Henan Technical Study Group of Swine Science was escorted VISITORS RECENTLY ON CAMPUS by Lyle Roberts, Export Division, Il- linois Agricultural Association. Recent visitors to Agricultural Eco-

and Geoffrey Best , De- nomics include Rick Lacey , Agricul- Margaret Britz tural Business Research Institute, partment of Applied Biology, Royal University of New England, Armidale, Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia, October 18 and 19, and R. Australia, discussed methods of iso- and characterization of vari- A. E. Mueller , University of Kiel, lation West Germany, November 29. They dis- ous metabolic groups of anaerobic cussed research and application of bacteria with Marvin P. Bryant, Mi- electronic marketing systems and crobiology Division of Dairy Science, pricing institutions in the U.S. November 30 and December 1. Dr. Best and Dr. Britz are both working at the Institute of Technology Christina Schlumbohm , a student at Massachusetts the veterinary college in Hannover, (MIT), Amherst, for one year. Twenty-seven Japanese farmers visited cussed metabolic interactions of bac- UIUC on December 2. They toured the terial species in anaerobic degreda- beef research facilities with Larry tion and methanogenesis with Marvin L. Berger, Animal Science, and at- P. Bryant, Microbiology Division of tended a lecture on corn and soybean Dairy Science, December 17. marketing given by Lowell D. Hill, Agricultural Economics. ICA/ INTSOY SHORT COURSE

Louis Jackai , entomologist with the Grain Legume Improvment Program Twenty-one Latin American soybean re- (GLIP) at the International Institute search and production personnel par- of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Iba- ticipated in the third ICA/ INTSOY dan, Nigeria, met with Agricultural Soybean Production Course, Palmira, Entomology staff during the week of Colombia, November 22 to December 10:

December 6. Roberto Delgadillo Velez , Instituto Boliviano de Tecnologia Agropecuaria

Emil Paldi , Agricultural Research In- (IBTA), Yacuiba; Carlos E. Velasquez stitute, Hungarian Academy of Sci- P. , FONAIAP, Guarico, Venezuela; Hugo ences, Martonvasar, discussed the Faiguenbaum M. , Universidad de Chile, biochemistry of plant nucleases with Santiago; Jose Morales Gonzales , In- Curtis M. Wilson, Agronomy and USDA, stituto Nacional de Investigacion y and other phases of RNA metabolism Promocion Agropecuaria (INIPA), Tingo with Agronomy and Botany staff, De- Maria, Peru; Oswaldo del Castillo and cember 7. Dr. Paldi is in the U.S. Margoris Boadas Herrera , Universidad on an interacademy program sponsored de Oriente, Venezuela; Raul Lozano by the National Academy of Sciences. Romero , FUSAGRI , Venezuela; Eduardo

Mata M. and Ricardo Quiros U. , CARE D. breeder R. Padilla Roman V. Seshu , plant and coor- Costa Rica; Rubens , dinator of the international rice farmer, Valledupar, Colombia; Luis testing program of the International Fernando Sanchez , Hernan Villar S. ,

Rice Research Institute (IRRI), the and Raul Madrinan M. , ICA, Palmira,

Philippines, visited INTSOY and Colombia; Pedro Milanez de Rezende , Agronomy staff on December 8 to dis- Escola Superior de Agricultura de

cuss plant breeding and varietal Lavras, Brasil; Renato Barboza Rolim , testing activities. EMGOPA, Goiania, Brasil; Oscar Acuna

Navarro , Universidad de Costa Rica,

John Wenzel , a consultant for the San Pedro; Jesus Ramirez P. , Ministe- Canadian International Development rio de Agricultura del Valle, Palmi- Agency (CIDA), discussed soybean pro- ra, Colombia; Junior Jose Padron Lo- duction and processing projects in pez , S.E.A., Santo Domingo, Dominican Maria Mosquera Sri Lanka with Joseph A. Jackobs, Republic; and Jose , Agronomy, Alvin I. Nelson and Wilmot Universidad del Tolima, Colombia. Wijeratne, Food Science, and Harold E. Kauffman, INTSOY, on December 3.

Ibrahim Miyic , technical engineer and SUMMER LANGUAGE FELLOWSHIPS FOR 1983

director, and Dzanic Husein , consul- tant, Agrokomerc Co., Velika Kladusa, January 24, 1983, is the application Yugoslavia, met with L. S. Wei and deadline for 1983 summer language Marvin P. Steinberg, Food Science, on study for UIUC graduate students of December 8. They discussed soybean Brazilian Portuguese, Amerindian lan- food utilization of full-fat and de- guages, or Latin American Spanish. fatted products. Details are available from the Center for Latin American and Caribbean

Rene Misrahi , Societe Lyonnaise des Studies, 1208 W. California Street, Eaux et de L'Eclairage, France, dis- Urbana, IL 61801, 333-3182. THE ROLE OF THE CARIBBEAN IN LATIN those who wish to update their file, AMERICA - CALL FOR PAPERS should contact Carolyn M. Pribble, 113 Mumford Hall, 333-6337. April 1, 1983 is the deadline for all proposals to present papers or organ- ize panels for the conference enti- STUDENT SUMMER PROGRAM IN ARGENTINA tled "The Role of the Caribbean in Latin America," which will be held March 1, 1983 is the application November 3 to 5, 1983, at UIUC. Fac- deadline for Juniors, Seniors, and ulty and undergraduate and graduate graduate students interested in a students are encouraged to partici- five-week summer session at the Uni- pate. For further information con- versity of Belgrano, Buenos Aires, tact the Center for Latin American Argentina. Students must be profi- and Caribbean Studies, 1208 West Cal- cient in Spanish, and must be major-

ifornia Street, Urbana , IL 61801, ing in Latin American studies or in a 333-3182. discipline with a concentration in Latin America. The session consists of two interdisciplinary courses REGISTRY OF INSTITUTIONAL RESOURCES taught in Spanish: Contemporary So- cio-Economic and Political Develop- The Registry of Institutional Re- ments in the Southern Cone, and In- sources is maintained by the U.S. ternational Relations of the Southern Agency for International Development Cone. (USAID) to match U.S. university re- A complete description of the sources with USAID programs. program and application procedures In 1981, UIUC staff were given the can be obtained from Paul Drake, Cen- opportunity to submit a Professional ter for Latin American and Caribbean Profile to the Registry. Faculty and Studies, 1208 West California Street, staff joining UIUC since then, and Room 250, Urbana, IL 61801, 333-3182.

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INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES Earl D. Kellogg , International Agri- culture, gave presentations on the Rabel J. Burdge, Agricultural Econom- world food situation at the Illinois ics and Institute for Environmental Leadership for Agriculture Foundation Studies, spent part of his recent program at Allerton Park, January 6, sabbatical as a Visiting Fellow in and the Illinois Women for Agricul- the Australian School of Environmen- ture meeting in Decatur, January 14. tal Studies, Brisbane.

William N. Thompson , Thomas A. Mc Cow-

Errol D. Rodda , Agricultural Engi- en , Carolyn M. Pribble , and Earl D.

neering, was a consultant for the Kellogg , International Agriculture,

World Bank in Hungary from November and Burton E. Swanson , International 15 to December 15. Programs and Studies, participated in a Title XII Regional Seminar at Cor-

Miodrag Ristic , Veterinary Pathobiol- nell University, January 16 to 18. ogy, met with scientists at the Na-

tional Institute for Agricultural Roger R. Yoerger and Errol D. Rodda , Research, Maracay, Venezuela, Decem- Agricultural Engineering, and William

ber 3 to 11, and reviewed the prog- N. Thompson , Office of International ress of research trials for a vaccine Agriculture, traveled to Washington, against bovine babesiosis. Two UIUC D.C., to discuss USAID's Joint Career staff members, Sonia Montenegro-James Corps, January 14. and Mark A. James, both in Veterinary

Medicine, are stationed in Venezuela Richard E. Ford , Plant Pathology, and

for this project. Michael E. Irwin , Agricultural Ento- mology, represented UIUC at the Con-

D. Homer Buck , Animal Science and sortium for International Crop Pro- Illinois Natural History Survey, was tection (CICP) Board Meeting held in invited by the National Academy of Berkeley, California, Jan. 20 and 21. Science to attend the International Conference on Chemistry and World William N. Thompson and Thomas A. Food Supplies (CHEMRAWN II), Manila, McCowen, International Agriculture, Philippines, and to participate in a will be in Zambia for two weeks be- postconference workshop on aquacul- ginning February 7 to review the ture and integrated farming, December Zambian Agricultural Research and 6 to 11. Extension Project (ZAMARE) opera-

tions .

B. Jack Butler , Agricultural Engi- Mr. McCowen will also travel to neering, participated in an agricul- Nairobi, Kenya, to discuss adminis- tural mechanization project for the trative matters concerning the ZAMARE Egyptian Ministry of Agriculture and project with USAID/REDSO staff. USAID during January, He helped test

and evaluate a self-propelled field Marcos Kogan , Agricultural Entomol- sprayer. ogy, was an invited speaker at the . .

Brazilian Entomological Congress, Contract, met with OIA and MUCCA Brasilia, the first week of February. staff and presented a seminar on He presented papers on soybean February 1. insects, sampling techniques, and host-plant resistance. He also trav- eled to Goiania to finalize arrange- VISITING RESEARCHERS ments for a grain legumes workshop planned for April, 1983. The work- Young In Lee completed the require- shop is sponsored by the Consortium ments for the Ph.D. degree in ento- for International Crop Protection mology and returned to Korea to re- (CICP), INTSOY, EMBRAPA, and the sume work at the Crop Improvement International Institute of Tropical Research Center, Suweon. Agriculture (IITA).

Mostafa H. El-Kattan , Peace Fellow

John W. Santas , International Agri- .supported by the government of Egypt culture, will participate in a semi- and USAID through the America-Mideast nar entitled "U.S. /Latin American Foundation, arrived January 13 to Relations and Resources for Develop- spend ten months working on alcohol ment," February 11 to 19, held at fuel production with Marvin P. Stein- CIAT (Centro Internacional de Agri- berg and Joseph Monticalvo, Food cultura Tropical), Cali, Colombia. Science This is the third seminar in a series of six for recipients of the Partners Mohan C. Ghildiyal , FAO Fellow with of the Americas/Kellogg Foundation the Indian Agricultural Research In- Fellowship in International Develop- stitute, New Delhi, is working with ment . William L. Ogren, Agronomy, on photo- Dr. Santas will also travel to San synthesis and photorespiration, Janu- Jose, Costa Rica, to discuss soybean ary through June development projects with CARE, FAO, Also working with Dr. Ogren on and IICA representatives. photorespiration and photosynthesis

is Jun-Ichi Takanashi , National In- stitute of Agricultural Sciences, VISITORS RECENTLY ON CAMPUS Tsukuba, Japan. Dr. Takanashi, who arrived in November, will be at UIUC

J. Ritchie Cowan , International Rice for one year sponsored by the U.S.- Research Institute liaison officer in Japan Green Energy Program. Indonesia, met with Agronomy and INT- SOY staff on December 20. Two researchers arrived in December to spend three months with the De-

Loren Schulze , AID/Washington, par- partment of Animal Science. Shin-

ticipated in the annual INTSOY re- Soek Bae , Department of Animal Sci- treat held on January 13 at the Illi- ence, Chungbuk National University, ni Union. Korea, is studying animal nutrition under an ongoing UlUC/Chungbuk Uni-

Lowell H. Watts , Director of Interna- versity exchange and training pro- tional Extension and Training at Col- gram.

orado State University, presented a George M. Hillyer , Deputy Head of seminar on January 19 entitled "Some Animal Production, Advisory, and Reflections on Agricultural Knowledge Development Department, East of Scot- Systems Abroad." He also met with land College of Agriculture, Edin- INTERPAKS personnel. burgh, is working with Robert A. Easter, Aldon H. Jensen, Gilbert R. P. Holzgraefe on Kim Wilson , Michigan State University Hollis, and David Project Leader for MUCIA-USAID/Carib- developing computer models for pig bean Technical Services to Mission production programs. Geraldo A. Tosello , University of Sao Shore; Mick Mwala , plant breeding, Paulo, Brazil, arrived January 20 to University of Missouri; Sanford spend three weeks with the Agronomy Susikwana , plant pathology, Univer- breeding group. Dr. is sity corn Tosello of Missouri; and Johnston Kale , in charge of a breeding program to crop science, North Carolina State increase oil content of corn. University. Fifteen students are now enrolled in U.S. universities through the ZAMARE project. MONICAL POLICY-PAPER AWARDS Ivory Coast April 18, 1983 is the deadline for entries in the Monical Policy-Paper Four students from the Ivory Coast, Prize on Latin America. Undergrad- participants in a training project uate and graduate students at UIUC sponsored by the Ivory Coast Ministry are encouraged to submit papers on of Agriculture and UIUC's Office of "Policies for Development of Human International Agriculture, have com- Well-Being in Central America." pleted intensive English training and Papers must be between 50 and 60 are now enrolled in master's degree and pages long, multi-author projects programs in the U.S.: Chia Yapi , are welcome. One first place prize animal science, UIUC; Abdoulaye Conde of $2,000 and three second place and Kouassi Tieha, forestry, State prizes of $1,000 will be awarded. University of New York at Syracuse;

Details are available from the Center and Djokouri Kouassi , statistics, for Latin American and Caribbean Rutgers University. Through this Studies, 1208 West California Street, program, 42 students have completed room 250, Urbana, Illinois, 61801, their degrees, and 19 are currently 333-3182. enrolled in master's degree programs in the U.S.

FOREIGN VISITORS IN 1982 BOOK REQUEST FROM THE CAMEROONS The Office of International Agricul- ture coordinated itineraries for 177 Bortabot General Agencies, a non- people from 25 countries in 1982. profit organization which promotes This number does not include the many educational activities in the Came- visiting scientists who directly roon, has requested books and jour- contacted faculty members of depart- nals for libraries. They can be sent ments in the College of Agriculture. to Bortabot General Agencies, P.O. Box 116 Tiko, South West Province, United Republic of Cameroon.

OIA TRAINING ACTIVITIES

Zambia BOOKS SENT TO MT. MAKULA, ZAMBIA

One hundred volumes of journals and Four more Zambian students, sponsored books were recently sent to the Mt. under the Zambia Agricultural Re- Makula Library, Zambia. The items search and Extension (ZAMARE) proj- were donated by D. W. Chamberlain, ect, have been enrolled in U.S. uni- USDA and Plant Pathology (retired), versities for the spring semester: Theodore Hymowitz, Agronomy, James B.

Boniface Mulyate , plant science, Sinclair, Plant Pathology, and 0. G. University of Maryland, Eastern Bent ley. SEMINARS March 9 An Agricultural Sector Assessment in St. Vincent and the February 9 Professional Agricultural Grenadines - presented by project Communicators for Indonesia - James team members: Frederick C. Fliegel, E. Evans, Agricultural Communica- Earl D. Kellogg, Violet M. Malone, tions. Mohamed E. Sarhan, and Earl R. 4:00 p.m., 426 Mumford Hall. Swanson. 4:00 p.m. 426 Mumford Hall. February 16 Tribal Agriculture in the Eastern Ghats of India - Johannes de Wet, Agronomy. March 16 Update on Zambia - William 4:00 p.m., 426 Mumford Hall. N. Thompson and Thomas A. McCowen, Office of International Agriculture. February 23 Land Resettlement in 4:00 p.m., 426 Mumford Hall. Zimbabwe and Other Reflections on a Sabbatical Leave in Africa - Jean M. Due, Agricultural Economics. March 23 The Problems Facing Japan- 4:00 p.m., 426 Mumford Hall. ese Agriculture in Dealing With Farm- land Fragmentation and High Land March 2 Local Organization and Peas- Prices - Kenji Horiguchi, Visiting ant Participation in Ugandan Agricul- Associate Professor in Agricultural tural Development Projects - Steven Economics from Tokyo University of G. Bunker, Sociology. Agriculture, Japan. 4:00 p.m., 426 Mumford Hall. 4:00 p.m., 426 Mumford Hall.

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INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES World Bank personnel in Washington, D.C., February 24 and 25.

R. Lydon Baker , Stanley E. Curtis , and Temple Grandin , Animal Science, Chester B. Baker and Earl R. Swanson , participated in the International Agricultural Economics, began a one- Stockman's School - International month agricultural sector assignment Seminar on Ruminant Production, Janu- on February 14 in Antigua. This ary 2 to 6, San Antonio, Texas. Dr. project is coordinated by the Midwest Baker presented four papers on beef, Universities Consortium for Interna- sheep, and dairy cattle breeding tional Activities (MUCIA) as part of programs in New Zealand. Dr. Curtis its Technical Support to Mission con- spoke on Measuring an Animal's Envi- tract with the regional USAID office ronment; Measuring Environmental in Barbados. Stress; Animal Welfare; and Energet- ics in Cattle Production: Feed and Lun-Shin Wei , Food Science, will be Environment. Ms. Grandin presented an external examiner to the Faculty papers on livestock phychology and of Food Science and Technology, Uni- handling facility design; design of versiti Pertanian Malaysia, Serdang, corrals, squeeze chutes, and dip Selangor, Malaysia. Dr. Wei will be vats; handling feedlot cattle; and in Malaysia from March 17 to April reducing transportation stress. 16.

Burton E. Swanson , Agricultural Edu- William N. Thompson , Office of Inter- cation and Office of International national Agriculture, has been ap- Programs and Studies, attended a re- pointed to the Committee on Interna- view panel on the INTERPAKS (Interna- tional Affairs for 1983 of the Na- tional Programs for Agricultural tional Association of State Universi- Knowledge Systems) proposal in Wash- ties and Land-Grant Colleges (NASUL- ington, D.C., February 18. GC). Dr. Swanson will be in Rome from

March 15 to April 1 designing an Af- Mark A. James , Veterinary Medicine rican agricultural education study stationed at the Universidad Centro- for FAO. occidental Lisandro Alvarado, Barqui- simeto, Venezuela, visited UIUC the Luis R. Zavaleta and Michael E. Ir- week of February 11 to review the win , Agricultural Entomology, pre- joint program on bovine anaplasraosis. sented the two keynote addresses at the First Integrated Pest Control Congress of Guatemala, held in Guate- VISITING RESEARCHERS mala City from February 21 to 24.

Albert Meijering , Institute of Animal

' Harold E. Kauffman , INTSOY, discussed Research Schoonord' , Zeist, the the International Soybean Center pro- Netherlands, is working with Daniel posal with USAID, USDA, CGIAR, and Gianola, Animal Science, on genetic aspects of calving difficulty, and visit UIUC on March 8 and 9. His methods for analyzing categorical schedule is being arranged by Burton data in animal breeding. Mr. Meijer- E. Swanson, 3019 Foreign Languages ing, who will be at UIUC until Sep- Building, 333-1993. tember, can be contacted at 150 Ani- mal Sciences Laboratory, 333-1714. Dely P. Gapasin , Director, Crop Re- search Department, Philippines Coun-

Greg Chappel , Calala, New South cil for Agriculture and Resources

Wales, Australia, is visiting the An- Research (PCARR) , will visit UIUC on imal Science Department from February March 13 to discuss collaborative through April to learn about beef activities between PCARR and INTSOY. cattle production. Mr. Chappel was Her schedule is being arranged by awarded this trip for winning an Aus- Harold E. Kauffman, 113 Mumford Hall, tralian cattle judging contest. 333-6422.

Hans-Erik Uhlin , Department of Eco- nomics and Statistics, Swedish Uni- versity of Agricultural Sciences, Lund, is visiting Agricultural Eco- INTERNATIONAL AGRICULTURE ADVISORY nomics from February 7 to mid-March COMMITTEE to do research for his doctoral the- sis entitled "The Importance of Tech- The International Agriculture Adviso- nical Change and Farm Size for Pro- ry committee will meet at UIUC on ductivity in Agriculture." He can be March 16. Members of the committee contacted at 302b Mumford Hall. are: Richard Feltes, Director of Crop Research, Continental Grain Com- pany, Chicago; William Fugate, farm- VISITORS RECENTLY ON CAMPUS er, Fairbury; Lyle G. Reeser, Agri- cultural Consultant, Caterpillar

Gabriele Diekert , Department of Mi- Tractor Company, Peoria; Willard crobiology, Phillips University, Mar- Severns, farmer, Moweaqua; James M. burg, Germany, visited the Microbiol- Spata, Consultant, Ohio; and Wilbert ogy Division of Dairy Science and the Stevenson, farmer, Streator. Department of Microbiology on Febru- ary 10 and 11 to discuss the biochem- istry of carbon dioxide and carbon dioxide plus hydrogen conversion to THIRD WORLD SYMPOSIUM acetate by various anaerobic bacte- ria. A symposium entitled "Development Communications in the Third World"

Lars Svensson and Andrus Kangro , De- will be held at UIUC on April 15, partment of Farm Buildings, Swedish sponsored by the International Collo- University of Agricultural Sciences, quium in cooperation with the Insti- Lund, discussed livestock shelter tute of Communications Research, MU- heat exchangers, heat pumps, solar CIA (Midwest Universities Consortium collectors, and computer systems for for International Activities), and livestock production with Agricultur- the Office of International Agricul- al Engineering staff on February 17. ture. The symposium will explore and discuss the role of development com- munications in the Third World as it VISITORS COMING TO CAMPUS relates to agriculture, health care delivery and nutrition, and educa- from the William Flinn , Executive Director of tion. Details are available MUCIA (Midwest Universities Consorti- International Colloquium, 357 Educa- um for International Activities) will tion Building, 333-4350. SEMINARS Agriculture, Japan. 4:00 p.m., 426 Mumford Hall. March 2 Local Organization and Peas- ant Participation in Ugandan Agricul- April 6 Observations on Agriculture tural Development Projects - Steven in Northeast China - Robert W. How- G. Bunker, Sociology. ell, Agronomy emeritus. 4:00 p.m., 426 Mumford Hall. 4:00 p.m., 426 Mumford Hall.

March 3 Production Efficiency: Meas- April 8 Pioneering in the Brazilian urement and Use - Hans-Erik Uhlin, Amazon - Judith Lisansky, Anthropol- Swedish University of Agricultural ogy- Sciences. Noon, 449 Administration Building. 12:00 noon, 426 Mumford Hall. Latin American Studies Brown-Bag Col- Agricultural Economics seminar. loquium Series.

March 4 Peru: Alternative Develop- April 22 The Development Bank as En- ment Models - Javier Iquiniz, Chair, trepreneur: The Case of Nacional

Department of Economics, Catholic Financiera, S.A. , Mexico - Miguel Ra- University, Lima, Peru. mirez, Economics. 3:30 p.m., 207 Gregory Hall. Noon, 449 Administration Building. Sponsored by the Center for Latin Latin American Studies Brown-Bag Col- American and Caribbean Studies. loquium Series.

March 8 MUCIA Activities - William Flinn, Executive Director of MUCIA. CONFERENCE ON LATIN AMERICA 4:00 p.m., General Lounge, Illini Union. "Forces of Change in Latin America: The Future of Inter-American Rela- March 9 An Agricultural Sector As- tions" is the topic of the 15th Annu- sessment in St. Vincent and the Gren- al Quad-Cities World Affairs Confer- adines - presented by project team ence, March 25 and 26, 1983, Moline, members: Frederick C. Fliegel, Earl Illinois. Advanced registration is D. Kellogg, Violet M. Malone, Mohamed required. Additional information is E. Sarhan, and Earl R. Swanson. available from J. Terry Iversen, 205 4:00 p.m., 426 Mumford Hall. Arcade Building, 333-1465.

March 11 Agricultural Sector Assess- ment in St. Vincent and the Grena- dines - Earl D. Kellogg, Internation- JOINT CAREER CORPS POSITIONS al Agriculture. AVAILAVLE IN USAID Noon, 449 Administration Building. Latin American Studies Brown-Bag Col- Five new positions in the Joint loquium Series. Career Corps program of USAID have been announced. March 16 Update on Zambia - William Three positions are for Yaounde, N. Thompson and Thomas A. McCowen, Cameroon: Agricultural Educations/Ex- Office of International Agriculture. tension Specialist, 2 years; Agri- 4:00 p.m., 426 Mumford Hall. cultural Economist, 2 years; and Edu- cational Planner, 2 years. March 23 The Problems Facing Japan- Two positions are for Lima, Peru: ese Agriculture in Dealing with Farm- Senior Agricultural Economist, 2 land Fragmentation and High Land years minimum; and Senior Tropical Prices - Kenji Horiguchi, Visiting Agronomist, 2 years minimum. Associate Professor in Agricultural Details are available from Earl D. Economics from Tokyo University of Kellogg, 113 Mumford Hall, 333-6337. . .

The College of Agriculture and the College of Veterinary Medicine welcome the following new foreign graduate students to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS: Dimitrios FOOD SCIENCE: Bassam Annous , Baroutis, Greece, agricultural fi- Lebanon, dairy science; Chunggyu nance; Tauhidi Bello, Nigeria, Kim, Korea, food microbiology; agricultural finance; Rakia Moalla, Jose Roho, Venezuela, food chemis- Tunisia, international agricultural try. development; Zacch Olorunnipa, Nigeria, marketing and agricultural HORTICULTURE: Ximin Deng, Peo- prices; J. Yanquoi Flomo Sarlie, ple's Republic of China, pomology; Liberia, agricultural finance. Farshid Parivar, Iran, posthar- vest physiology of flowers; Moosa AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING: Adenuga Yahya, Iraq, postharvest physiology 0. Atewologun, Nigeria, structures of flowers. and environment; Cephas Kennedy M. Msipa, Zimbabwe, power and machin- HUMAN RESOURCES AND FAMILY STUDIES: ery. Leslie Helyar, Canada, foods and nutrition; Young-Kyung Lew, Kore- AGRONOMY: Damares de Castro Monte, a, apparel design. Brazil, plant genetics. PLANT PATHOLOGY: Mohammad B. Al-

ANIMAL SCIENCE: Yanming Han, Peo- Heeti , Iraq, soybean diseases; ple's Republic of China, poultry nu- U. B. Gunasinghe, Sri Lanka, virus trition; Oscar Izquierdo, Mexico, epidemiology; JuJu Manandhar, Ne- animal nutrition; Pawel Kindler, pal, soybean fungi. Poland, aquatic biology; James

Smith, Guyana, . world animal pro- VETERINARY MEDICINE: Fun-in Weng, duction; Chia Yafci', Ivory Coast, Taiwan, veterinary pathobiology animal breeding.

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INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES USAID and OICD/USDA, and met with Zambian Agricultural Research and Ex-

George K. Brinegar , Agricultural Eco- tension (ZAMARE) students enrolled at nomics, left in mid-February for a the University of Maryland, Eastern six-month sabbatical in Australia. Shore.

Burton E. Swanson , Agricultural Edu- Richard E. Hageman , Agronomy, will be cation and Office of International in Tokyo, Sapporo and Fukuoka, Japan,

Programs and Studies (OIPS) , was at during April for the final exchange the Centro International de Agricul- of scientists in the U.S. -Japan coop- tura Tropical (CIAT), Cali, Colombia, erative project on carbon-nitrogen from February 28 to March 2 to design interaction in crop productivity. an evaluation program for UNDP's root

and tuber project. Sam H. Johnson , Agricultural Econom- ics, will leave April 16 for a three-

Lowell D. Hill , Agricultural Econom- week trip to Asia. He will discuss

ics, and Marvin R. Paulsen , Agricul- graduate research possibilities at tural Engineering, conducted a study the Asian Vegetable Research and De-

of grain harvesting and marketing velopment Center (AVRDC) , Taiwan; practices in Argentina from March 8 complete a research project on the to April 2. They collected data and Nam Pong water basin, Northeast Thai- evaluated marketing procedures on land, at Kasetsart and Khon Kaen uni- pricing, transportation, marketing versities; and meet with Ford Founda- efficiency, grade standards, export tion and USAID personnel in New Del- rules, and government policies. In hi, India. Dr. Johnson will also at- addition, they collected samples of tend a meeting on agroecosystem anal- corn from country and export eleva- ysis at Imperial College, London, tors, and from ocean vessels loaded England, and present a paper entitled at Argentine ports. This work is "Externalities in Irrigated Agricul- part of a continuing program of eval- ture" at a World Bank workshop in uating alternative marketing systems, Washington, D.C. grading procedures, and quality char-

acteristics of corn and soybeans in Harold E. Kauffman , INTSOY, James B. - major exporting countries. Sinclair , Plant Pathology, and Mich

ael E. Irwin , Jenny Kogan , and Marcos

John W. Santas , International Agri- Kogan , Agricultural Entomology, will

culture, and Tim Koehnen , Vo-Tech. participate in a Workshop on Inte- Education, participated in an Inter- grated Pest Control for Grain Leg- national Science and Education Coun- umes, Goiania, Brazil, April 4 to 8. cil training conference, Washington, Jenny Kogan will present a paper on D.C., the week of March 14. Dr. soybean insect research information Santas also discussed training proj- and international cooperation in

ects with MASI , Ivory Coast Embassy, grain legume protection, and Marcos and international training staff in Kogan will present papers on sampling f

techniques and integrated pest man- fact-finding trip to identify devel- agement for soybeans. The workshop opmental needs of Panama. Areas in is sponsored by CICP, FAO, EMRRAPA, agriculture that they will examine IITA, and INTSOY. include forestry, aquaculture, alter- Dr. Kauffman and Dr. Sinclair will nate sources of protein, marine sci- also discuss collaboration on soybean ences, pest management, extension, research with EMBRAPA, CNPSoja, and and animal health. University of Londrina staff.

Sidney L. Spahr , Dairy Science, and

Hoyle B. Puckett , USDA/Agricultural EXCHANGE STUDENTS FROM AUSTRALIA Engineering, will participate in the Second International Livestock Mech- Sharon Seymour and Melissa Sweet, un- anization Symposium, April 20 to 22, dergraduate students at Muresk Agri- Wageningen, the Netherlands. Dr. cultural College and Western Austral- Spahr will present two papers: "Data- ia Institute of Technology (WAIT), Base-Management System Approach to are studying agricultural communica- Microcomputer Management of an Indi- tions this semester under a new ex- vidual Cow Data Base," and "Analysis change program between UIUC and WAIT. of On-Line Conductivity Data." Prof. The two visitors are second-year stu- Puckett will present a paper entitled dents in rural journalism. "Real Time Measurement of Milk Con- ductivity." VISITING RESEARCHER

Curtis M. Wilson , USDA/Agronomy , will review the USDA-sponsored project Shlomo Grossman , biochemist, Bar-Ilan "Breeding Maize for Improved Protein University, Ramat-Gan, Israel, will Quality and Increased Oil Content" at be working on lipid oxidizing systems the Maize Research Institute, Zemun- in soybeans with Barbara P. Klein, Belgrade, Yugoslavia, April 5 to 20. Foods and Nutrition, from May through Dr. Curtis will also visit maize pro- September. Dr. Grossman can be con- tein research laboratories at the tacted at 461 Bevier Hall, 333-1325. University of Milan and the Istituto Sperimentale Cerealicoltura, Italy, and the Institut National de la Re- VISITORS RECENTLY ON CAMPUS cherche Agronomique (INRA) , Versail- les, France. Micha Roumiantzef , Institut Merieux in Lyon, France, and coordinator of a William N. Thompson and Earl D. Kel- joint research program on malaria logg , OIA, were in Washington, D.C., vaccine development with UIUC, met March 30 and 31. They attended a with Miodrag Ristic, Veterinary Path- meeting of the Board for Food and obiology, and the malaria research Agricultural Development (BIFAD), staff from March 2 to 4. discussed cooperative programs with representatives of the Association of Jake Halliday , Director of the NifTAL Southeast Asian Nations (Thailand, project, University of Hawaii, dis- Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, and cussed cooperative research activi- Indonesia), and conferred with USAID ties in microbiology with William N. personnel on the upcoming project in Thompson and Thomas A. McCowen, OIA, Pakistan. Joseph A. Jackobs, Agronomy, and Har- old E. Kauffman, INTSOY. Seydou Sa-

Dean J. C. Claar , College of Agricul- nogho, NifTAL microbiologist, arrived ture, and Michael E. Irwin , Agricul- in Zambia in March to spend 30 months tural Entomology, will be in Panama at the Mt. Makulu Research Station, from April 16 to 22 as part of a Chilanga, with the ZAMARE team. He MIDWEST REGIONAL SYMPOSIUM!

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Friday, April 15 Practical Applications of Development Communications Room 269-273 lllini Union 1:30 pm Candice Francis, Self Interest as a Mediating Variable in the 8:30 am Registration Omar Oliveira, Effectiveness of a Media Campaign for Molly Rose Teuke, Food Consumption in Belize Chair, Morning Session: Robert D. Porter Sonja Williams and Drew McDaniel 9:00 Vickie A. Sigman: Introductory Remarks 2:05 Kathleen Goodman: Letters from Teachers: A report on the Keynote Address Feedback from Participants in the Radio

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in Africa SEMINARS Latin American Studies Colloquim.

April 6 Observations on Agriculture May 4 Local Organization and Peasant Tti Northeast China - R. W. Howell, Part icipation in Ugandan Agricultural Agronomy emeritus. Development Projects - S. G. Bunker, 4:00 p.m., 426 Mumford Hall. Sociology. 4:00 p.m., 426 Mumford Hall. April 11 World Bank and Agricultural Development: A Personal Perspective - TITLE VI LATIN AMERICAN FELLOWSHIPS W. Mark Wilson, World Bank. 11:00 a.m., 426 Mumford Hall. April 11 is the application deadline for 1983-1984 Title VI Latin American April 15 Pioneering in the Brazilian language and area studies fellow- Amazon - J. Lisansky, Anthropology, ships. Eligibility requirements in- noon, 449 Administration Building. clude graduate student status at UIUC Latin American Studies Colloquium. in Latin American language and area studies or international aspects of April 18 Activities in the Farm professional study combined with Buildings Investigation Unit - Seaton Latin American language and area Baxter, Head of the Scottish Farm courses. Further information is Buildings Investigation Unit. available from the Center for Latin 1:00 p.m. 240 Agricultural Engineer- American and Caribbean Studies, 1208 ing Building. West California Street, Room 250, Urbana, 333-3182. April 19 Design Strategies for Ani- mal Faculties - Seaton Baxter, Head IREX DEVELOPMENTAL FELLOWSHIPS of the Scottish Farm Buildings Inves- tigation Unit, Aberdeen. April 15 is the application deadline 11:00 am.ra, 121 Animal Sciences Lab. for the International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX) program of April 20 The Illinois Department of graduate and postdoctoral fellowships Agriculture's Role in Foreign Market to strengthen Soviet and East Euro- Development - Richard Vogen, Interna- pean studies in the U.S. Applicants tional Marketing Coordinator of the from all disciplines are eligible. Illinois Department of Agriculture. Further information is available from 4:00 p.m., 426 Mumford Hall. Carolyn M. Pribble, 113 Mumford Hall, 333-6337, or directly from IREX, April 22 The Development Bank as En- attn. Eileen Viani, 655 Third Avenue, trepreneur: The Case of Nacional New York, NY 10017, (212) 490-2002. Financiera, S.A., Mexico - Miguel Ramirez, Economics, SENIOR SCHOLAR FULBRIGHT AWARDS noon, 449 Administration Building. Latin American Studies Colloquium. Application deadlines for 1984-1985 awards are June 15 for American re- April 2 7 Agricultural Sector Assess- publics, Australia, and New Zealand; ment of Antigua and Barbuda - Chester and September 15 for Africa, Asia, E. Baker and Earl R. Swanson, Agri- Europe, and the Middle East. Senior cultural Economics. scholar Fulbright awards for univer- 4:00 p.m., 422 Mumford Hall. sity teaching and postdoctoral re- search are offered in all academic April 29 A Comprehensive Crop Pro- fields for periods of 2 to 10 months tection program for Peru: Frustra- in more than 100 countries. Applica- tion and Political Reality - Michael tions are available from CIES, 11 Du- E. Irwin, Agricultural Entomology, pont Circle, Suite 300, Washington, noon, 449 Administration Building. D.C., 20036. will implement a research program on Aberdeen, will visit Agricultural En- biological nitrogen fixation. gineering and Animal Science on April 18 and 19. Mr. Baxter will present

Richard Bernsten , Winrock Interna- two seminars (see seminar listing). tional Livestock Research and Devel- His schedule is being arranged by Ar- opment Center, Morrilton, Arkansas, thur J. Muehling, 212 Agricultural met with OIA staff from March 7 to 9 Engineering Building, 333-1313. to discuss small computer activities appropriate for less developed coun- tries, possible cooperative work be- Zhang Piliu, Director, and Zhao Zhi- tween Winrock and UIUC on farming long, Deputy Director, Institute of systems, and program developments in Animal Husbandry, Beijing, and Fan international agriculture. Zhangming, swine breeding specialist from the Chinese Academy of Agricul-

Richard Feltes , Director of Crop Re- tural Sciences, People's Republic of search, Continental Grain Co., Chica- China, will discuss cooperative re- go, presented a seminar on March 15 search with Daniel Gianola, Leif on a recent Brazilian crop survey, Thompson, and others in Animal Sci- and on the PIK program. Mr. Feltes ence from April 5 to 7. is a member of the International Agriculture Advisory Committee.

Hernan Vallejo , President of the Co-

Barbara Sohm Ekbom , Department of lombian National Cattle Growers As- Plant and Forest Protection, Swedish sociation and 1983 Eisenhower Fellow University of Agricultural Sciences, from Colombia, will visit UIUC from Uppsala, met with Agricultural Ento- April 10 to 12 to see how the College mology, Economic Entomology, and of Agriculture, the Cooperative Ex- Plant Pathology staff the week of tension Service, and the Cooperative March 21. State Research Service fit together in a land-grant institution. John W. Klaus Bustrup, Vice President of the Santas, OIA, 113 Mumford Hall, 333- Danish Agricultural Council and Den- 3638, is arranging his schedule. mark's representative to the European Economic Community's Committee of Santosh Shahra, Director of Ruchi,

Agricultural Organizations, visited Ltd. , India, will discuss soy bever- UIUC on March 25 and presented a sem- age preparation with Food Science inar on US/EEC agricultural trade re- faculty on April 19. lations. He was accompanied by Ron Soriano, EEC/Washington. Florence Chanakira, Department of Crop Science, University of Zimbabwe,

Marcelo Regunaga , Director of the Harare, will study stem rot in soy- Economic Division of the Argentine beans, peanuts, and sunflowers with Grain Board and Associate Professor Barry J. Jacobsen, Plant Pathology, of rural administration, University May 2 to 6. Ms. Chanakira is spon- of Buenos Aires, visited the Depart- sored by the USAID/Zimbabwe Develop- ment of Agricultural Economics on ment Project. March 28 and 29. His trip was spon- sored by the U.S. Information Agency, H. A. Al-Jibouri, Senior Officer, and coordinated by Meridian House In- Field Food Crops Group, Plant Produc- ternational, Washington, D.C. tion and Protection Division, FAO/- Rome, will discuss FAO/INTSOY collab- VISITORS COMING TO CAMPUS oration with INTSOY staff on April 18 and 19. To meet with Dr. Al-Jibouri

Seaton Baxter , Head of the Scottish contact John W. Santas, 113 Mumford Farm Buildings Investigation Unit at Hall, 333-3638. NEW UNIVERSITY DEVELOPMENT PROJECT IN will include further documentation of PAKISTAN the USDA germplasm collection and the collation and publishing of informa- UIUC has been selected to assist the tion from collections in other coun- University of Agriculture, Northwest tries. Frontier Province, Peshawar, Paki- stan, through a USAID-sponsored uni- versity development project. South- INDIA RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS ern Illinois University-Carbondale will collaborate in this effort. The July 1, 1983, is the application USAID/Pakistan decision followed a deadline for 1984-1985 Advanced Re- visit of the site-visit team to UIUC, search Fellowships in India. Twelve March 1 to 3. The design phase of long-term and nine short-term re- the project, to be carried out from search awards, without restriction to mid-April to mid-June, will be fol- subject area, are offered by the lowed by the long-term implementation Indo-U.S. Subcommission on Education phase of the project. and Culture. Scholars and profes- sionals who have limited or no exper- ience in India are especially encour- IBPGR GRANT TO INTSOY aged tc apply. Application forms and further information are available The International Board for Plant from the Council for International Genetic Resources (IBPGR) has granted Exchange of Scholars, attention: INTSOY $29,000 to aid in the documen- Indo-American Fellowship Program, 11 tation of soybean germplasm collec- Dupont Circle, Suite 300, Washington, tions around the world. The project D.C., 20036, (202) 833-4985.

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INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES Theodore R. Peck , Agronomy, will be in Europe from April 26 to May 11 to Two faculty members in Horticulture develop a course syllabus and prepare have received research awards from a report for the Association of Illi- the International Dwarf Fruit Tree nois Soil Testers. He will visit the Association. Robert M. Skirvin will Rothamsted Agricultural Experiment study the isolation of unique forms Station, England, the Netherlands of apple rootstock from single cell Soil Testing Project, Wageningen, and cultures, and Roy K. Simons will the Buntehoff Agricultural Research study the effect of stock scion rela- Station, Hannover, Germany. This tionships on translocation of nutri- trip is part of his sabbatical leave. ent elements, especially calcium.

Erwin Small , Veterinary Clinical Med-

Steven M. Haber , Plant Pathology, icine, was an invited speaker at the collected geminivirus samples and Voorjaarsden (Dutch Congress) spon- lectured at the University of Puerto sored by the Royal Netherlands Veter- Rico, Mayaguez, Feb. 21 to March 9. inary Association and the Netherlands Small Animal Veterinary Association,

Donnell R. Hunt , Agricultural Engi- Amsterdam, April 12 to 14. He spoke neering, presented two talks in a on liver diseases, dermatology, and special lecture series at the Univer- small animal pediatrics. Dr. Small sity of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, also lectured at the Utrecht Veteri- April 11 and 12. nary College.

Arthur J. Muehling , Agricultural En- Errol D. Rodda , Agricultural Engi- gineering, delivered the opening ad- neering, will spend part of his sab- dress at the Guelph Pork Symposium, batic leave at the Northeast Agricul- Ontario, Canada, April 11 and 12. tural College, Harbin, People's Re- public of China, May 15 to August 15.

Roger R. Yoerger , Agricultural Engi- He will lecture on grain drying and neering, participated in the Interna- storage, and on alternate energy re- tional Conference on Agricultural search. Dr. Rodda will also advise Mechanization, Zaragosa, Spain, April on research needs. Erica Rodda will 13 to 15. tutor spoken English to PRC study abroad candidates.

Jack R. Harlan , Agronomy, was in Am-

man, Jordan, from April 4 to 10 at Donald L. Uchtmann , Agricultural Eco- the invitation of the Jordanian De- nomics, will present an invited paper partment of Antiquities. He present- entitled "Agricultural Credit Laws in ed a paper entitled "The Early Bronze the United States" at the 12th Euro- Age Environment of the Southern Ghor pean Agricultural Law Congress and and Moab Plateau" at the symposium on Colloquium, to be held in Ferrara, Jordanian Environment: Geographical Italy, May 11 to 14. and Historical. Munir Cheryan , Food Science, will Stanley E. Curtis , Animal Science, present an invited paper entitled will be in Europe for three weeks "Fouling Characteristics of Hollow beginning May 10. He will present an Fibre and Spiral Wound Ultrafiltra- invited paper on airborne microbes as tion Modules: A Comparative Study of related to swine health at the annual the Behavior of Skimmilk and Acid hygiene conference in Leipzig, East Whey" at the biannual conference of Germany, and meet with veterinary the International Circle of Dairy faculty at the State University in Research Leaders (ICODRL), Amsterdam, Utrecht and the Agricultural Univer- the Netherlands, May 24 to 27. Dr. sity at Wageningen, the Netherlands. Cheryan will also attend the First In addition, Dr. Curtis will met with International Congress and Fair for researchers at the Station for Virol- Food Manufacturing and Processing, ogy and Immunology Research, Thiver- Cologne, Germany, May 29 to June 1. val-Grignon, and the Station for Swine Production Research, L 1 Hermi- tage, France.

PAKISTAN PROJECT DESIGN TEAM CHOSEN Gary V.' Johnson, UIUC Institute of Environmental Studies, mathematics Twenty-one UIUC and SIU-C (Southern communications and statistics; Illinois University at Carbondale) John H. Behrens, UIUC Agricultural faculty will participate in the de- Communications, learning resources sign phase of the USAID-sponsored center; university development project for Burton E. Swanson, UIUC Interna- the University of Agriculture, Pesha- tional Agricultural Education, war, Northwest Frontier Province, continuing agricultural educa- Pakistan. The design phase will be tion; carried out from mid-April to mid- Howard H. Olson, SIU-C Internation- June. Team members, their affilia- al Agriculture and Dairy Science, tions, and project responsibilities animal sciences production; are: Borje K. Gustafsson, UIUC Veteri- William N. Thompson, UIUC Office of nary Clinical Medicine, animal International Agriculture, team sciences health; leader and institution development Edward J. Armbrust, UIUC Agricul- Thomas A. McCowen, UIUC Office of tural Entomology, entomology; International Agriculture, admin- James B. Sinclair, UIUC Plant Pa- istration and fiscal support; thology, plant pathology; Ann M. Settle, UIUC Office of In- Russell T. Odell, UIUC Agronomy, ternational Agriculture, data and soil science; word processing; James 0. Curtis, UIUC Agricultural William Doerr, SIU-C Assistant Dean Engineering, agricultural engi- of Agriculture, curriculum; neering; Sam H. Johnson, UIUC Agricultural Ray A. Speckman, UIUC Food Science, Economics, research management; food technology and agricultural Walter J. Wills, SIU-C Agricultural chemistry; Economics, economics; Herbert Portz, SIU-C Agronomy, a- Andrew J. Sofranko, UIUC Agricul- gronomy and breeding; tural Economics, rural sociology; Daniel F. Dayton, UIUC Horticul- T. Roy Bogle, UIUC Cooperative Ex- ture, horticulture; tension Service, extension; J. B. Claar, UIUC Dean of Agricul- ture, administration. VISITORS COMING TO CAMPUS dale, to meet with ZAMARE sponsored students, their advisers, and SIU-C

Andre Louw , senior manager for agri- admissions officers. cultural development, SANTAN Bank, Johannesburg, South Africa, will meet R. Ramamurthi , professor and head of with Agricultural Economics faculty the Department of Zoology, Sri Ven- and tour local credit agencies, May 3 kateswara University, Tirupati, In- to 5. Dr. Louw's schedule is being dia, met with William N. Thompson, arranged by Allan G. Mueller, 450 OIA, on April 5. Dr. Ramamurthi was Mumford Hall, 333-0753. accompanied by Robert C. Hiltibran, Illinois Natural History Survey and A team of five scientists from the Agronomy emeritus. Institute of West Asian and African

Studies of the Chinese Academy of Lowe 11 H . Watts , International Exten- Social Sciences, People's Republic of sion and Training Programs, Kenneth

China, will visit UIUC from May 8 to Nobe , Department of Economics, and W.

10 for an overview of African studies Brown , Plant Pathology, Colorado research and programs. Their trip is State University, visited UIUC on sponsored by the Ford Foundation. April 7 and 8. They discussed an up- Further information is available from coming conference on the role and Charles C. Stewart, African Studies constraints of extension in agricul- Program, 1208 W. California Street, tural development with Eldon L. John- 333-6335. son, INTERPAKS. Sponsored by INTER- PAKS and CSU, the conference will be held in Colorado in July of 1983. VISITORS RECENTLY ON CAMPUS

Ulf Renborg , Dean of the Swedish Uni-

Dario Cortez , Linguistics, L. A. versity of Agricultural Sciences,

Nelson , Agricultural Statistics, and Uppsala, discussed the program of the

H. Doug Gross , Agronomy, North Caro- 19th International Conference of lina State University at Raleigh, Agricultural Economists, to be held visited UIUC on March 28 to get an in Spain in 1985, with Agricultural overview of campus international Economics faculty from April 8 to 11. activities. Dr. Gross met with Wil- Dean Renborg is vice president in liam N. Thompson, Earl D. Kellogg, charge of the conference program. and Thomas A. McCowen, Office of

International Agriculture. Graham French , National Association of the Partners of the Alliance,

Dragon Negovanovic , Serbian Institute Washington, D.C., was on campus April for Application of Science to Agri- 13 to discuss the U. S.-Brazi lian uni- culture, Belgrade, Yugoslavia, dis- versity linkage program. He met with cussed intensive feeding of bulls, John Thompson, Geography, Werner waste removal, cattle nutrition, and Baer, Latin American and Caribbean extension service activities with Studies Center, and Earl D. Kellogg Larry L. Berger, Animal Science, and and John W. Santas, Office of Inter-

Joseph A. Jackobs , Agronomy, April 1 national Agriculture. to 3.

Gradon R. Johnstone , Tasmanian De-

Asina Sibetta , Training Officer with partment of Agriculture, Hobart, Aus- USAID/Lusaka, Zambia, met with Office tralia, discussed plant virus epide- of International Agriculture staff miology research with Plant Pathology and UIUC admissions officers on April and Agricultural Entomology staff 4. On April 5 and 6 she traveled from April 13 to 15. Dr. Johnson with Carolyn M. Pribble, OIA, to also presented a seminar on apple and Southern Illinois University-Carbon- insect transmission of viruses. VISITING RESEARCHERS FULBRIGHT AWARDS IN AGRICULTURE

Toru Kawakami , Training Affairs De- June 15, 1983, is the application partment of the Japanese Internation- deadline for Fulbright senior scholar al Cooperation Agency (JICA), Tokyo, awards for Latin America, Australia, arrived at UIUC on April 5 for a two- and New Zealand. Awards available in year training program on soybeans and agriculture include: field crops. Brazil: four awards in food sci-

Ranjit Fernando , Sri Lanka, began ences and nutrition, Univer- work in January with Sidney L. Spahr, sity of Campinas. Dairy Science, on detecting mastitis Colombia (Spanish required): agri- through electrical conductivity. cultural economics; food process- ing; plant science. SEMINARS Ecuador (Spanish required): agri- cultural economics at Fundacion May 4 Local Organization and Peasant Natura. Participation in Ugandan Agricultural Peru (Spanish required): appropri- Development Projects - Stephen G. ate technology. Bunker, Sociology. Australia: animal genetics at

4:00 p.m., 426 Mumford Hall. •'; CSIRO.

May 6 The Role of Veterinary Medi- Further information about these cine in the Animal Agriculture of awards is available from Carolyn M. Kenya - Garrett R. Oetzel, Veterinary Pribble, 113 Mumford Hall, 333-6337. Clinical Medicine. Noon, room 250 Large Animal Clinic.

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INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES visited the National Chemical Labora- tory, Pretoria. Three new members have been added to the Pakistan Project Design Team for Miodrag Ristic , Veterinary Pathobiol- the University of Agriculture, Pesha- °gy > visited the Institute Merieux, war. They are: Mary A. Keith , UIUC Lyon, France, from April 18 to 29. Foods and Nutrition, Violet M. Ma - He discussed joint research on malar- lone , UIUC Cooperative Extension ia vaccine development, and plans for Bontempo upcoming Second International Service, and Lawrence P. , the telecommunications consultant, Fort Conference on Malaria and Babesiosis,

Collins, Colorado. Annecy , France, September 19 to 22, 1983. Organized by UIUC, the Univer- A pilot study on controlling lepto- sity of Grenoble, France, and the In- spirosis in domestic animals in Ja- stitute Merieux, the conference is maica, prepared by Lyle E. Hanson , sponsored by USAID, the U.S. Army Re- Veterinary Microbiology, for the Pan search and Development Command, the American Health Organization, has led Rockefeller Foundation, and the World to a US$330,000 project in Jamaica. Health Organization. Dr. Hanson is currently serving as an adviser on the new project and will William M. Sager , Cooperative Exten- also be assisting in the development sion Service, Eureka, returned April of a second project to control lepto- 26 from a 15-day assignment at the s pi r os is in humans. Universidad Tecnologica del Sur at Azua, Dominican Republic. He lec-

Marvin P. Bryant , Microbiology Divi- tured in Spanish to students and fac- sion of Dairy Science, was in the Re- ulty of UTESUR about principles of public of South Africa during April. technology transfer. The trip was He chaired the session on "Limita- sponsored by the Rotary International tions of Rumen Fermentations" at the 3H Program—Health, Hunger, Humanity. Symposium on Herbivore Nutrition in the Subtropics, Pretoria; presented Jean M. Due , Agricultural Economics, seminars at the University of Cape represented UIUC at a MUCIA (Midwest Town, the University of the Orange Universities Consortium for Interna- Free State, the University of Stel- tional Activities) meeting in Colum- lenbosch, and CSIR, Pretoria; and bus, Ohio, April 18 to 20. s

J. B. Claar , Office of International Sandra Brown , Forestry, will be in Agriculture, traveled in Asia during Costa Rica from June 3 to 26 to sam- May. He met with government, UNDP, ple soils under different land uses FAO, and Kasetsart University offi- to determine changes in the soil or- cials in Bangkok, Thailand, presented ganic carbon pool as a result of a paper at the International Confer- tropical forest conversion. This ence on Extension and Rural Develop- trip is part of a project on the role ment Strategies in Kuala Lumpur, Ma- of tropical forests in the global laysia, and served as an administra- carbon cycle. tive adviser on the Pakistan Design

Team Project, Peshawar. Jean Treloggen Peterson , Human Devel- opment and Family Ecology, was award- Dur- John W. Santas , OIA, served on an ad ed a Hewlett Foundation Grant. hoc review panel to advise BIFAD' ing June and July she will survey Joint Committee on Agricultural Re- Philippine households to collect data search and Development (JCARD) on on sex-role complimentari ty , life ways to strengthen AID's participant cycles, and household strategies. training programs, Washington, D.C., May 16.

Earl D. Kellogg , Thomas A. McCowen , - Marvin P. Steinberg , Food Science, Carolyn M. Pribble , and John W. San was in France from May 14 to 22. He tas , OIA, will attend the AUSUDIAP served as an external examiner at the (Association of United States Univer- Dairy Center, Institut National Poly- sity Directors of International Agri- technique de Lorraine Ecole, Nancy, cultural Programs) annual meeting, and presented several graduate semi- June 21 to 23, at the Tuskegee Insti- nars. He also discussed bound water tute. Dr. Kellogg will present a research with Prof. D. Simatos, Head paper entitled "International Studies of the School of Biology and Nutri- and the Professional Agricultural- tion, Dijon. Dr. Steinberg then ist." traveled to Israel. He presented seminars at the Volcani Research Cen- David L. Thomas , Animal Science, was ter, Tel Aviv, and at the Israel In- an invited speaker at the Prolific stitute of Technology, Haifa, wrote a Sheep Breeds Workshop, Edinburgh, BARD research proposal on animal Scotland, July 7 to 9. He will make waste conversion with Gideon Oren, a presentation on UIUC research in University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, selection studies for reproduction and visited the Department of Biology rates in sheep. Dr. Thomas will also at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. visit the Hill Farming Research Or- ganization, Rowett Research Insti- of Scotland College of David H. Baker , Animal Science, made tute, East two presentations at the Elanco Coc- Agriculture, and the Animal Breeding cideosis Conference, Mexico, May 25 Research Organization, all in Scot- to 30. He spoke on nutrition-para- land, the Meat and Livestock Commis- site interrelationships and anticoc- sion, England, and the Wales Agricul- cidials for poultry. tural College, Bangor.

Michael E. Irwin , Agricultural Ento- W. Gonyou mology, participated in discussions David L. Thomas , Harold , Long on implementing crop protection pro- Joseph M. Stookey , Thomas E. ,

jects in Central America and Panama and Chia V. Yapi , Animal Science, held in Turrialba, Costa Rica, May 21 will attend the regional technical to 27. The discussions were sponsor- committee meeting of NC-111, In- ed by USAID and the Consortium for creased Efficiency of Lamb Produc- International Crop Protection, CICP. tion, Ottawa, Canada, June 15 to 18. s

VISITING RESEARCHER Agronomique (INRA) in France.

Lea Fish , Kiraron Veterinary Insti- Daniel Fau , Center for Nutrition Re- tute, Bet Dagan, Israel, arrived May search, Meudon, France, met with 10 to spend four weeks in Veterinary James L. Robinson, David H. Baker, Medicine. She will work with Miodrag John A. Milner, and other faculty and Ristic's team on bovine Babesia re- staff in Nutritional Sciences on search. April 18. Dr. Fau presented a semi- nar on metabolic consequences of an excess of dietary methionine. VISITORS COMING TO CAMPUS

Mary Kurban , a Ph.D. candidate at the

Roy E. Gaunt , Senior Lecturer in University of Gent, Belgium, visited Plant Pathology, Lincoln College, with plant pathologists and horticul- Canterbury, New Zealand, will visit turalists during the week of April with Plant Pathology faculty from 18. Ms. Kurban is working on Armil- June 30 to July 6. laria root rot.

Mehmet Bulbul , Professor of Agricul- Louis Jackai , entomologist with the tural Economics at Ankara University, International Institute of Tropical Turkey and currently a visiting Agriculture (IITA), Ibadan, Nigeria, scholar at Cornell University, will met with Economic Entomology staff discuss agricultural finance, credit the week of April 22. needs, and investments with Agricul- tural Economics faculty from June 4 Isaac Kerstenetzky , Dean of Social to 11. His schedule is being planned Sciences at the Catholic University by Peter J. Barry, 307 Mumford Hall, of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, visited 333-1827. UIUC from April 25 to 29. Professor Kerstenetzky met with Robert G. F.

Masami Toi , Professor of Agricultural Spitze and Andrew J. Sofranko, Agri- Economics at Kansai University, Os- cultural Economics, and Earl D. Kel- aka, Japan, will visit UIUC the week logg, OIA. Prof. Kerstenetzky ' of June 13 to discuss the production visit was arranged by Werner Baer, and marketing of corn. John W. San- Latin American and Caribbean Studies. tas, OIA, 113 Mumford Hall, 333-3638, is arranging his schedule. Hursit Ertugrul , Rector of Ataturk University, Erzurum, Turkey, visited the Colleges of Agriculture and Vet- VISITORS RECENTLY ON CAMPUS erinary Medicine during a visit to UIUC on April 28 and 29. He met with

Michael Bernon , French Scientific Acting Dean J. B. Claar, Harold E. Attache to the U.S., discussed genet- Kauffman, INTSOY, Eldon L. Johnson, ic engineering and biotechnology with INTERPAKS, John W. Santas, OIA, and Robert M. Skirvin and M. Kouider, Veterinary Medicine faculty in a Horticulture, and met with David B. program arranged by the Office of Dickinson, Constantin A. Rebeiz, and International Programs and Studies Herbert J. Hopen, Horticulture; Don- (OIPS). ald A. Holt and Jack M. Widholm,

Agronomy; Raymond G. Cragle, Agricul- John Hives , Principal Quantity Sur- tural Experiment Station; and Marvin veyor, Farm Buildings Group, Ministry P. Steinberg, Food Science, on March of Agriculture, Cambridge, England, 16. Dr. Bernon is interested in es- discussed Illinois methods of dissem- tablishing formal research ties be- inating farm buildings information to tween UIUC and several stations of farmers and bui lders and "turn-key" the Institut National de Recherche building contacts with Donald G. Jedele and James 0. Curtis, Agricul- Free State, Bloemf ontein, South Afri- tural Engineering, April 29. ca, visited UIUC on May 16 and 17. He met with Dean John R. Campbell,

Florenece Chanakira , Crop Science Robert P. Bentz, Cooperative Exten- Department, University of Zimbabwe, sion Service, Raymond G. Cragle, Harare, met with Barry J. Jacobsen Agricultural Experiment Station, and and Molly N. Cline, Plant Pathology, Agricultural Economics extension from May 2 to 6 to learn methods for staff. Allan G. Mueller, Agricul- screening soybeans for sclerotinia tural Economics, hosted Professor white mold resistance. Kotze.

Laxman Singh , Systems Agronomist and Country Team Leader for the Caribbean SOVIET AGRICULTURE DISCUSSION Agricultural Research and Development Institute (CARDI), St. Kitts, West A discussion group on Soviet agricul- Indies, visited UIUC on May 11. He ture, part of the 1983 Illinois Sum- met with Joseph A. Jackobs, John D. mer Research Laboratory, will be held Alexander, and Henry H. Hadley, from June 27 to July 1, 3:00 to 5:00

Agronomy; Chester B. Baker and Earl p.m. , in room 225 Library. The pub- R. Swanson, Agricultural Economics; lic is welcome to participate. To H. E. Kauffman, INTSOY; and B. Jack present a paper or obtain information Butler, Agricultural Engineering. on daily topics contact Dianne Merri- dith, Russian and East European Cen- H. A. Kotze, Dean of the Faculty of ter, 1208 W. California Avenue, 333- Agriculture, University of the Orange 1244.

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Benjamin A. Rasmusen , Animal Science 16 to 28 Ms. Polston will study the

and president of the International taxonomy of Bemisia tabaci , the trop- Society of Animal Blood Group Re- ical whitefly vector of yellow mosa- search, traveled to Gottingen, Ger- ic, at the British Museum of Natural many, May 28, to plan for the socie- History, London. ty's 19th international conference.

Dr. Rasmusem also participated in an Harold E. Kauffman , INTSOY, visited animal genetics and breeding seminar the Asian Vegetable Research and De- at the University of Gottingen and velopment Center (AVRDC) in Taiwan on presented a paper entitled "Linkage June 13 and 14 to discuss collabora- Between Genes for Halothane Sensitiv- tive activities, Indonesia on June 15 ity and Blood Groups in Pigs." and 16 to plan an Asian soybean vari- etal improvement working group meet-

Stephen G. Bunker , Sociology, is con- ing, and Sri Lanka from June 17 to 21 ducting research on peasant farmers to plan a soybean utilization train- in Uganda from June through August, ing program. sponsored by a Hewlett Foundation Dr. Kauffman was in Palmira, Co- grant. Dr. Bunker will be a fellow lombia, from June 22 to 24 to partic- at UIUC's Center for Advanced Study ipate in the Latin American Soybean next semester to prepare a monograph Varietal Improvement Working Group analyzing the ways in which peasant Meeting. Other UIUC staff attending farmers have influenced agricultural the meeting included: Joseph A. Jac -

and rural development in Uganda. kobs , Agronomy, Luis H. Camacho , Agronomy/Puerto Rico, and Marcos Ko -

Burton E. Swanson , Agricultural Edu- gan and Luis R. Zavaleta , Agricultur- cation, visited the International al Entomology. Plant breeders at- Service for National Agricultural Re- tended from Argentina, Bolivia, Bra- search (ISNAR), The Hague, Nether- zil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, lands, and FAO/Rome, Italy, June 6 to Mexico, Peru, the United States, Uru- 10, in connection with an upcoming guay, Venezuela, AVRDC, and INTSOY. INTERPAKS program on technology de- The Instituto Colombiano Agropecuario velopment and transfer. (ICA) and the Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical (CIAT) were Jane Polston, Plant Pathology, hosts for the meeting, FAO provided will be at the International Center the funds, and INTSOY coordinated for Research in the Semi-Arid Tropics plans. (ICRISAT), Hyderabad, India, from

June 12 to August 15 working on the James B. Sinclair , Plant Pathology, epidemiology of yellow mosaic of soy- left June 15 for a month in the Peo- beans with Y. L. Nene. From August ple's Republic of China as an FAO consultant on strengthening soybean includes a ten-day tour during July research on diseases and their con- of public and private soybean re- trol at Heilongjiang Academy and search facilities in the U.S. and other institutions. Great Britain. Dr. Sinclair is un- able to participate in the tour.

Roy K. Simons , Horticulture, was in- vited to view research on pomology Michael E. Irwin , Agricultural Ento- and soil management at the East Mai- mology, will be in Honduras the week ling Research Station, Maidstone, of July 10 as part of a team review- Kent, England, May 10 to 20. ing the crop protection teaching pro- gram at the Escuela Agricola Panamer-

Ellery L. Knake , Agronomy, will be in icana, El Zamorano. the People's Republic of China from

June 26 to July 18 as part of a Peo- Theodore Hymowitz , Agronomy, will ple-to-People Agronomy Delegation. collect wild Glycine in Queensland, Australia, from July 19 to August 9.

Dusit Jesdapipat , Agricultural Eco- This trip, part of a joint research nomics, will be in Tokyo, Japan, to project between CSIRO and UIUC, is collect information on corn-livestock sponsored by the International Board industries, June 26 to July 9. This for Plant Genetic Resources (IBPGR). information will be used as part of his Ph.D. dissertation. Attending the Second China/USA Soy- bean Symposium, July 28 to August 2,

Luis H. Camacho , INTSOY Agronomy sta- Jilin Academy of Agricultural Sci- tioned at Puerto Rico, participated ences, Gongzhuling, Jilin, are: Mar- in an FAO- sponsored meeting on a sub- cos Kogan , Agricultural Entomology; regional cooperative network on edi- Randall L. Nelson and Gary E. Pepper , ble grain legumes, Santo Domingo, Do- Agronomy, and Harold E. Kauffman , minican Republic, June 27 to 29. INTSOY.

Lowell D. Hill , and Frederick C. William L. Ogren , Archie Portis , and - Fliegel , Agricultural Economics, Jo Patty Gruenwald , Agronomy, will be seph S. Vandemark , Horticulture emer- attending the Sixth International itus, and Corrine Glesne , Educational Congress on Photosynthesis, Brussels,

Policy Studies, were in St. Vincent Belgium, August 1 to 6. Dr. Ogren during June and early July to design will present an invited lecture enti- an agricultural development project tled "Genetic Analysis of Photosyn- for USAID/Caribbean. thetic Carbon Pathways." Dr. Portis will present a poster, coauthored by

Poo Chow , Forestry, will present a T. Stuart Boag, on inhibition of the paper entitled "The Variability of higher activation of fructose-1 ,6- 7- Lateral Fastener Resistance in New bisphosphatase and Sedoheptulose-1 , Wood-Base Structural Sheathing Prod- bi sphosphatase by osmotic stress in ucts" at the International Union of isolated spinach chloroplasts. Dr. Forestry Research Organization's All Portis will also participate in the Division 5 Conference, Madison, Wis- Workshop on Light-Dark-Modulation of consin, June 27 to July 5. Plant Enzymes, University of Bay- reuth, West Germany, August 8 to 11.

Loyd M. Wax , Agronomy/ USDA, and James

B. Sinclair , Plant Pathology, were Thomas A. McCowen , OIA, was recently selected for the 1983 Soybean Re- elected to a two-year term as secre- searcher's Recognition Program spon- tary-treasurer of AUSUDIAP (Associa- sored by the American Soybean Associ- tion of U.S. University Directors of ation and ICI Americas. The award International Agriculture Programs). VISITING RESEARCHERS control of soybean cyst nematode with Dale I. Edwards and Gregory R. Noel,

Ke Shan-qiang , Wuhan Institute of and root diseases with James B. Sin- Botany, People's Republic of China, clair, Sung M. Lim, and Lynn E. Gray. is a visiting scholar in Horticul- ture. He arrived in March for a two- year program on small fruits produc- VISITORS COMING TO CAMPUS tion and research techniques, espe-

cially strawberries and blackberries. R. P. C. Morgan , Research Development Mr. Ke can be contacted at 105 Horti- at the National College of Agricul- culture Field Laboratory, 333-1530. tural Engineering, Silsoe, England, will visit Agricultural Engineering Two veterinarians from Cairo Univer- on July 21. J. Kent Mitchell, 137 sity, Egypt, arrived in March for a Agricultural Engineering Building, one-year program in Veterinary Clini- 333-4913, is arranging his schedule. cal Medicine sponsored under the

Amideast Peace Fellowship Program. Robert E. Armstrong , Project Officer Abdel Ghallab is working with Randall with USAID/Kenya, will visit INTSOY S. Ott on reproduction in food ani- on July 25. mals, and Mohamed Shoukry is working with Ann Johnson and Alfred G. Schil- Lawrence Wilson , Dean of the Faculty ler on bone grafting in dogs and nav- of Agriculture, University of the icular disease in horses. West Indies, is expected to visit UIUC for two weeks in late July and

Dragon Misevic , Maize Research Insti- early August. His schedule is being tute, Zemun-Polje, Yugoslavia, is a arranged by Burton E. Swanson, MUCIA visiting scholar with the corn breed- liaison officer, 3019 Foreign Lan- ing group in Agronomy. He arrived in guages Building, 333-1993. late May and will be on campus for one year. FULBRIGHT APPLICATION DEADLINES Two new visiting scholars in Agronomy - are Isao Kishimani , Laboratory of September 15 Africa, Asia, Europe, Plant Nutrition, Tohoku University, Middle East; October 15 - scholars- 1 - Japan, and Kuman Paka , Department of in-residence program; November , Botany, University College, Vidyaran- junior lectureships to France, Ger- yapuri, Warangal, India. Mr. Kishi- many, Italy, Portugal, and Spain;

mani, who will be at UIUC through February 1 , 1984 , travel awards in March, 1984, is working on auxotrop France. **Agriculture awards are selection and characterization exper- available in Algeria, Egypt, Came- iments with haploid cells and proto- roon, Hungary, India, Korea, Nepal, plast. Mr. Paka is conducting re- Romania, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Syria, search on somatic plant cell hybridi- Thailand, Turkey, U.S.S.R., Yugoslav- zation and will be here until Janu- ia, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. ary, 1984. Details are available from Carolyn Pribble, 113 Mumford Hall, 333-6337.

Ma Shu-jung , Soybean Institute, Hei- longjiang Academy of Agricultural VISITORS RECENTLY ON CAMPUS Sciences, Harbin, People's Republic

of China, arrives July 1 as an FAO Eiji Yuda , Department of Horticul- Fellow in Plant Pathology. Ms. Ma ture, Osaka University, Japan, met will work on plant virology tech- with James S. Titus and Walter E.

niques with Cleora J. D'Arcy and Jac- Splittstoesser , Horticulture, April queline Fletcher, identification and 27 and 28. Gershon Segelman , research director Seitz, Peter J. Barry, Steven T. Son-

of Israel Fertilizer Research Center, ka , and David A. Lins, Agricultural Tel Aviv, visited the College of Economics, and Robert Behrens, Com- Agriculture from May 9 to 11 to dis- mercial Bank of Champaign. cuss current developments in fertil-

izers and soil fertility. He met Subash Mozaria and Tony Irvin , Inter- with Thomas D. Hinesley, L. Fred national Laboratory for Research on Welch, and Frank J. Stevenson, Agron- Animal Diseases (ILRAD), Nairobi, omy, and John M. Swiader, John M. Kenya, discussed research programs in Gerber, and L. Arthur Sporaer, Horti- hemotropics diseases with Miodrag culture. Dr. Segelman 1 s visit was Ristic, Ronald D. Smith, and Michael

arranged by L. Touby Kurtz, Agronomy. G. Levy, Veterinary Pathobiology , May 20 to 23.

Venantia Malima , Research Section of

the Tanzanian Ministry of Agricul- Ibrahim Mujic , Director, Agrokomerc, ture, discussed INTSOY and INTERPAKS Velika Kaduusa, Yugoslavia, met with programs with Eldon L. Johnson, Har- Lloyd D. Witter, Lun-Shin Wei, and old E. Kauffman, and John W. Santas, Peter J. Bechtel, Food Science, and OIA, and Joseph A. Jackobs, Agronomy, visited the American Oil Chemists' on May 19. Society, Champaign, May 25.

A 16-member delegation from the Agri- Peter Greshoff , Department of Botany, cultural Committee of the Swedish Australian National University, Can- Savings Banks Association visited berra, met with Agronomy faculty and UIUC on May 25 as part of their U.S. presented a seminar on genetics of tour. The team met with Wesley D. symbiotic nitrogen fixation, June 17.

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Sidney L. Spahr , Dairy Science, and Illinois State Florists Association.

Ram Sagi , Agricultural Engineering,

Israel Institute of Technology, Hai- J. B. Claar , INTERPAKS, traveled to fa, recently received a $250,000 Njala University College (NUC), Sier- grant from the United States-Israel ra Leone, June 10 to 24, to advise Binational Agricultural Research and USAID on phasing out the USAID-spon- Development (BARD) Fund to support a sored ACRE project. Dr. Claar devel- continuing research project on auto- oped alternatives for consideration mation and electronics for dairy herd by USAID and the government of Sierra management. Most of the work will be Leone, and presented a paper at a performed at UIUC. Dr. Sagi met with conference at NUC. Dr. Spahr on June 30 to finalize the

project Wayne L. Pedersen and J. K. Pataky , Plant Pathology, participated in the

David H. Baker , Animal Science, was International Workshop on the Current the featured speaker at the Nutrition Status of Botanical Epidemiology, and Intestinal Parasitism Conference, North Carolina State University, June Acapulco, Mexico, May 26 and 27. He 18 to 24. Dr. Pedersen presented a presented three papers on nutrition paper entitled "Components of Disease and parasitology. Resistance in Corn."

Harold Brinkmeier , Agriculture Exten- Rabel J. Burdge , Agricultural Econom- sion Adviser, Carroll County, recent- ics and Institute for Environmental ly hosted on his farm Samba Kaputo, Studies, attended the International Deputy Minister for Higher and Uni- Seminar on Environmental Impact As- versity Education, Kinshasa, Zaire. sessment, University of Aberdeen, Sponsored by the U.S. Information Scotland, July 17 to 29. Agency (USIA), Mr. Kaputo was inter-

ested in modern farming techniques, John W. Santas , OIA, participated in crops, and fertilizer use. a seminar entitled "Socio-Cultural Aspects of Development and Informa-

Marvin C. Carbonneau , Horticulture, tion as a Resource," July 18 to 22, was the only educator on a team of 25 University of Minnesota, St. Paul. commercial flower producers who tour- This was the fourth seminar in a se- ed carnation, rose, and chrysanthemum ries of six for recipients of the cut-flower producing areas near Bogo- Partners of the Ameri cas/ Ke 1 logg ta and Medellin, Colombia, June 8 to Foundation Fellowship in Internation- 13. Organized by the American Farm al Development. Emerson D. Nafziger , Agronomy, par- ease prevention and control in poul- ticipated in a farming systems work- try, Sydney, August 30 to September shop, July 18 to 22, sponsored by US- 3. Dr. Tripathy will also visit the AID and held at the University of Department of Microbiology at Monash Florida's Center for Tropical Agri- University, Clayton, Victoria, Aus- culture. tralia.

Sandra Brown , Forestry, visited for- estry departments of universities and VISITORS COMING TO CAMPUS government organizations in Indone- sia, Thailand, and the Philippines to Shamsher Ali Khan , Commissioner, Ma- observe activities related to water- lakand Division, Amanullah Khan , Po- shed protection, plantation forestry, litical Agent, Malakand Agency, Ehaz forest management of natural stands, Rahim, Secretary, Northwest Frontier and reforestation projects during Province Planning and Development De-

July. partment, Toaha Quareshi , Director of Planning, Pakistan Narcotics Control P. Robert Bentz and Violet M. Malone , Board, Syed Abbass Hussian Shah , Cooperative Extension Service, Jerry Joint Secretary, Ministry of the In-

W. Robinson and Sam H. Johnson , Agri- terior, Pakistan, and Stan Samuelson , cultural Economics, Burton E. Swan- U.S. State Department, will visit son , Agricultural Education, Earl D. UIUC from July 31 to August 2. They

Kellogg , OIA, Eldon L. Johnson , OIPS, are investigating the replacement of and J. B. Claar , INTERPAKS, discussed drug crops with agricultural crops. INTERPAKS programs with 10 faculty The team will meet with Thomas A. Mc- from Colorado State University during Cowen and William N. Thompson, OIA, a meeting held at Steamboat Springs, Joseph A. Jackobs, Dan R. Erickson, Colorado, July 25 to 27. and Russell T. Odell, Agronomy, Lun- Shin Wei, Alvin I. Nelson, and Wilmot Representing UIUC at the Fourth In- Wijeratne, Food Science, INTERPAKS ternational Congress of Plant Pathol- staff, and extension administrators. ogy, August 17 to 24, Melbourne, Aus- They will also visit the Champaign tralia, will be Cleora J. D'Arcy , County Cooperative Extension Service

Jack D. Paxton , James B. Sinclair , R. Office and a corn/ soybean farm.

Dan Neely , Stephen M. Haber , and

Richard E. Ford , Plant Pathology, and Jorge Chang , head of the Agronomy De-

Michael E. Irwin , Agricultural Ento- partment, Escuela Agricola Panameri- mology . cana, El Zamorano, Honduras, will Dr. Ford and Dr. Irwin will par- visit INTSOY on August 10 and 11. ticipate in the International Working

Group on Legume Viruses meeting, Masayuki Ohmori , Laboratory of Marine Binna Burra, Australia, August 10 to Biology, Oceanic Research Institute, 12, and Dr. Irwin in the Plant Virus University of Tokyo, Japan, will dis- Epidemiology meetings, Corowa, August cuss nitrogen metabolism with Walter 25 to 27. From September through No- E. Splittstoesser, Horticulture, and vember Dr. Irwin will collect insects Richard H. Hageman, Agronomy, August from wild relatives of soybeans in 15 to 17. Dr. Splittstoesser, 101 Australia. Vegetable Crops Building, 333-1905, is arranging his schedule.

Deoki N. Tripathy , Veterinary Patho- biology, will attend the World Veter- Four scientists from Jilin Academy of inary Congress, Perth, Australia, Au- Agricultural Science and Hubei Acade - gust 21 to 26, and present an invited my of Agriculture, People's Republic paper on control of duck diseases at of China, are scheduled to visit UIUC a Congress satellite meeting on di s- from August 24 to 27. Escorted by H. FULBRIGHT SENIOR SCHOLAR AWARDS Middle East/ South Asia Regional: any specialization September 15 in the application dead- line for 1984/1985 Fulbright Senior Morocco: science education; research Scholar Awards for Africa, Asia, Eu- methods in agriculture, biology, rope, and the Middle East. Awards of economics interest to agriculture and veteri- nary medicine faculty include: Nepal: plant or forest ecology

Algeria: any specialization Netherlands: international economic st agnation Bahrain: invertebrate biology, genet- ics, economics Pakistan: marine biology, economics

Bangladesh: development economics Poland: international economics

Cameroon: rural development Portugal: membrane transport

Egypt: animal, plant, or soil sci- Romania: agronomy, biology, economics ences; any specialization Sierra Leone: agronomy, agricultural Hungary: economics, biology research engineering

India: agricultural botany, agricul- Sudan: animal or plant sciences, en- tural technology, agricultural gineering, technology, marine bi- microbiology, agronomy, horticul- ology, vertebrates, physiology ture, soil science, forestry, mo- lecular and environmental biology, Syria: any specialization toxicology of pesticides, food technology, veterinary science, Thailand: agricultural economics, animal husbandry; any specializa- multicropping projects tion Tunisia: international economics Indonesia: evolution biology, fresh- water or marine biology, botany Turkey: bioproductivi ty,. photosyn- thesis, bioraass, environmental Ivory Coast: microbiology or other microbiology biology specialties USSR: any specialization in biology, Japan: international economics agriculture, or economics

Kenya: botany, economics Yemen: microbiology

Korea: any specialization Yugoslavia: plant genetics, economics

Malaysia: marine science Zambia: agricultural economics, vet- erinary medicine Mauritius: economics of developing countries Zimbabwe: animal science

Further information on the awards is available from the Graduate College Fellowship Office, 311 Administration Building, 333-0036. . ,

recent visitors , continued has an exchange program with the M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University

John L. Woods , UNDP Asia and Pacific (MGU) . Associate and full professors Programme for Development Training in the natural sciences, social sci- and Communications Training, Bangkok, ences, and the humanities may lecture Thailand, discussed INTERPAKS train- and conduct research at MGU for peri- ing work and possible cooperative ods ranging from six weeks to three programs in Asia with J. B. Claar, months. Further information on the July 11 and 12. exchange is available from Burton E. Swanson, OIPS, 3010 Foreign Languages

Hyung Tai Shin , head of the Depart- Building, 333-1993. ment of Dairy Science, Sung Kyun Kwan University, Suweon, South Korea, dis- cussed animal nutrition questions with Animal Science and Dairy Science faculty on July 20. Dr. Shin re- ceived his Ph.D. from Animal Science ZAMARE ORIENTATION in 1976. Twenty-five B.S., M.S., and Ph.D.

L. K. Oosthuizen , senior lecturer in students from Zambia, participant agricultural economics, University of trainees in the Zambia Agricultural the Orange Free State, Bloemfontein, Research and Extension (ZAMARE) proj- South Africa, and currently a post- ject, will be in Illinois August 8 doctoral fellow at the University of through 16 for a workshop. At UIUC Minnesota, visited Agricultural Eco- they will participate in seminars nomics from July 25 to 27. Dr. Oost- given by John W. Santas, Thomas A. huizen 1 s research is in economics of McCowen, Carolyn M. Pribble, J. B. water management and irrigation. Claar, and William N. Thompson, OIA; Dean John R. Campbell; INTERPAKS Twenty-two international participants staff; Violet M. Malone, Cooperative in the Seed Improvement Short Course Extension Service; Raymond G. Crag- were at UIUC from July 25 to August 3 le, Agricultural Experiment Station; for a workshop on "Agronomic and Com- and Jerry W. Robinson, Marcia N. munications Skills for Seed Technolo- White, and Thomas Gi 1 lard-By ers gists." The Agronomy program was co- Agricultural Economics. They will ordinated by A. W. Burger and the also visit the Illinois Department of Agricultural Communications portion Agriculture and the State Fair in by John H. Behrens Springfield, the Mason County Exten- sion Office, the Experiment Field

Robert E. Armstrong , USAID/REDSO, (Sand Farm) at Kilbourne, and farms Nairobi, Kenya, discussed a possible in Mason County. oilseeds program in Uganda with John Puteho Ngonda, Zambian Ambassador W. Santas, Thomas A. McCowen, and to the U.S., Winter Chibasa and Rus- William N. Thompson, Office of Inter- sell Mulele, Zambia Ministry of Agri- national Agriculture, Joseph A. Jac- culture and Water Development, Ernest kobs and Dan R. Erickson, Agronomy, Gibson, USAID/ Lusaka, James Ragin, and L. S. Wei, Food Science, July 25. ZAMARE team leader, Chancellor Wil- liam Hytche, University of Maryland, Eastern Shore, and Howard Olson and MUCIA/USSR EXCHANGE PROGRAM Oval Myers, Southern Illinois Univer- sity at Carbondale, will meet with The Midwest Universities Consortium the trainees on August 8 to update for International Activities (MUCIA) them on the ZAMARE project. C. Chiang, University of Minnesota, Kerstin Thoren-Tolling , Sweden, vis- they will discuss UIUC research on ited the veterinary clinics on June 9 resistance to northern corn blight and 10 to discuss clinical immunolo- with Wayne L. Pedersen, Plant Pathol- gy- ogy. Dr. Pedersen, N-519 Turner

Hall, 333-3847, is arranging their Alvaro M. R. Almeida , EMBRAPA/CNP- schedule. Soja, Brazil, Mani Skaria , India, both Ph.D. students at Purdue, and

Y. D. Sharma , Agricultural Universi- Mohamed Eweida , plant pathologist at ty, Palampur, India, and currently an the Swedish University of Forestry FAO scholar at Cornell University, and Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, will spend the week of August 20 with discussed research on potato viruses Safi S. Korban, Horticulture, learn- and barley yellow dwarf virus with ing techniques on disease screening, Jacqueline Fletcher, Steven M. Haber, seedling evaluation, and selection in and Henryk Jedlinski, Plant Pathol- fruit trees. ogy, and William G. Ruesink and Mich- ael E. Irwin, Agricultural Entomolo- gy, June 16 and 17. VISITING RESEARCHER

Andrew Hughes Hallett , Erasmus Uni-

Tribhuvan Singh , Department of Bota- versity, Rotterdam, Netherlands, vis- ny, University of Rajasthan, India, ited Agricultural Economics from June will study seedborne diseases of soy- 20 to 22 and presented a seminar en- beans with James B. Sinclair, Plant titled "Can We Rely on International Pathology, for six months beginning Commodity Agreements to Redistribute in August. Resources Between North and South?"

G.M. Reddy , geneticist at Osmania VISITORS RECENTLY ON CAMPUS University, Hyderabad, India, dis- cussed new approaches in genetics and Recent visitors to Horticulture in- breeding, and apple tissue culture clude Joseph Sullivan , University of work with Safi S. Korban and M. Koui- Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, May 12, and der, Horticulture.

John Miles , Centro International de

Agricultura Tropical (CIAT), Cali, Wang Yu-min , Soybean Institute, Hei- Colombia, May 26 and 27. Dr. Sulli- longjiang Academy of Agricultural van presented a seminar on "Searching Sciences, Harbin, People's Republic for Wild Bean Germplasm in Mexico" of China, and currently an FAO fellow and Dr. Miles a seminar on "Improve- at Iowa State University with Detroy ment of Forage Crops by Breeding, Green, discussed breeding for physio- with Special Reference to the Tropi- logical traits with faculty in Agron- cal Legume Stylosanthes guianensis ." omy, Plant Pathology, and Agricultur- al Entomology, June 14 to 18. Mr.

Pothinus C. Mokgokong , Rector, Uni- Wang also attended the Agronomy Field versity of the North, Pietersburg, Day. South Africa, visited UIUC from June

1 to 3. Dr. Mokgokong toured the John D. Sutton , senior research sci- College of Agriculture experimental entist from the National Institute farms with John W. Santas, OIA, and for Research in Dairying, Reading, met with Charles Stewart, Center for England, met with Dairy Science fac- African Studies, UIUC administrators, ulty on June 20 and 21. He presented and College of Education administra- a seminar on concentrate utilization tors. for milk production. Visitors to Animal Science to discuss of bovine chimeras by micromanipula- recent developments in pet foods and tion.

animal feeding include David Newton ,

Framlingham, England, June 23; E. Brojendra N. Banerjee , Director, Man-

Troch and Bernard Drossch , N. V. agement and Marketing Consultancy Cervo, Merksem, Belgium, June 7 and Services, New Delhi, India, Simon W.

8; and Abilio Tardin , Mogiana Foods Kahunya , Director, Nakura Layman and Feed, Campinas, Brazil, June 30. Association Training Center, Nakuru,

Kenya, and Jose Domingo Ramos , Direc- tor, Asociacion Accion Unida, Monter-

Ramesh Sinha , Agriculture Canada, ia, Colombia, visited with Donald L. Ottawa, visited UIUC on July 1. He Day, Agricultural Engineering, and discussed plant mycoplasm and spiro- Garrett R. Oetzel, Veterinary Clini- plasm techniques with Jacqueline cal Medicine, about utilizing by- Fletcher, Plant Pathology, and Cath- products from animal production in erine E. Eastman, Economic Entomolo- developing countries for producing gy, and met with Lindsay M. Black, fuel, feed, and fertilizer. They Plant Pathology emeritus. Dr. Sinha were escorted by Paul Henselman, In- received his Ph.D. from UIUC. ternational Farming Systems, Inc., Wheaton, IL, July 2.

G. Stranzinger , Federal Institute of Koos Van Leeuwens , Ministry of Agri- Technology, Zurich, Switzerland, vis- culture, Arnhem, Holland, met with ited Veterinary Clinical Medicine and Roger D. Shanks, Charles N. Graves, Dairy Science on July 1, and present- Sidney L. Spahr, and Ralph V. John- ed a seminar on attempted production son, Dairy Science, July 1.

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INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES tied "Characterization of Culture De- rived Soluble Babesia bovis Antigens" Vikram Singh Bisht recently completed at the Second International Iramunopar- his Ph.D. in Plant Pathology and has asitology Symposium, Lincoln, Nebras- accepted a postdoctoral position at ka, August 3 to 5. the International Crops Research In- Dr. James recently returned from a stitute for the Semi-Arid Tropics two-year stay in Venezuela where he (ICRISAT), Hyderabad, India. worked on a UIUC/ Universidad Centro- Occidental Lisandro Alvarado project

Richard L. Bernard , Agronomy, spent on hemoparasitic diseases. four weeks during July and August as

an FAO consultant to the Heilongjiang Jack M. Widholm and Randal Hauptmann , Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Har- Agronomy, participated in the Sixth bin, People's Republic of China. International Protoplast Symposium, Basel, Switzerland, August 12 to 16.

Jeffrey 0. Dawson and Paul Carlson , They presented a paper, jointly au- Forestry, spent July 14 to 29 at the thored with T. Kumar, Agronomy, enti- Reserva Merenberg, La Plata, Colombia, tled "Carrot x Tobacco Somatic Cell sampling alder nodules and measuring Hybrids Selected by Amino Acid Analog Alnus jorullensis tree growth. The Resistance Complementation." data will be used in Mr. Carlson's

M.S. thesis. Jack D. Paxton , Plant Pathology, pre- sented seminars at Christchurch and

Jane Gleason , Agricultural Economics, Auckland, New Zealand, and Brisbane,

and Susan Rogers , recent graduate from Sydney, Canberra, and Melbourne, Aus- Agricultural Economics, traveled in tralia, before participating in the the Ivory Coast, Mali, and Upper Volta Fourth International Congress of Plant from July 23 to August 20 for an on- Pathology, Melbourne, August 17 to 24. site study of agricultural conditions.

Michael Hut jens , Dairy Science,

Safi S. Korban , Horticulture, attended will present a two-day dairy nutrition the International Workshop on Fruit school for the Northern Ontario Veter- Tree Vigor, Beltsville, MD, July 25 to inary Association, North Bay, Ontario, 29. The workshop was sponsored by the Canada, September 23 and 24. American Society of Horticultural Sci-

ence and the International Society for Bruce Brodie , Veterinary Clinical Med- Horticultural Science. icine, will take sabbatical leave at the University of Alexandria's Campus

Mark A. James , Veterinary Pathobiolo- for Veterinary Medicine, Edfina, Egypt, February. Dr. gy , presented an invited paper enti- from September through .

Brodie will be involved in a research VISITING RESEARCHERS AND TRAINEES project on the causes of infertility in water buffalo and will help estab- Two new visiting scholars in the Mi- lish a herd health program. crobiology Division of Dairy Science

are Karen Robins , Department of Public

Burton E. Swanson , Agricultural Educa- Health, University of New South Wales, tion, is reviewing the training pro- Sydney, Australia, August 1 to October grams at the Centro Internacional de 31, and Zhao Hongxue , Chengdu Biogas Mejoramiento de Maiz y Trigo (CIMMYT), Institute, Sichuan, People's Republic Mexico, and will make recommendations of China, for one year beginning in for the future, August 28 to Septem- August. Both will work with Marvin P. ber 9. Bryant on bacteria involved in anaero- bic degradation and methanogenesis. INTERPAKS will prepare the second edi- tion of "Agricultural Extension: A Aunna Lippert , Ontario Veterinary Col- Reference Manual" for FAO/UN. Burton lege, Guelph, and Benjamin Shechter ,

E. Swanson , Agricultural Education, University of Montreal, Canada, are at will be the editor. Chapters will be UIUC for one-year clinical training prepared by John H. Behrens and James programs in Veterinary Medicine. Dr.

F. Evans , Agricultural Communications; Lippert is an intern in small animal

Robert P. Bentz , Cooperative Extension medicine and Dr. Shechter is in food

Service; J. B. Claar , INTERPAKS Direc- animal medicine and surgery. tor; Frederick C. Fliegel , Andrew J.

Sof ranko , and Sam H. Johnson , Agricul- Visiting Agronomy for one month are: tural Economics; Earl D. Kellogg , OIA; Ayre Kenig , Israel Institute of Tech-

F. Wilfrid Lancaster , Library and In- nology, Haifa, to work on nitrogen and - formation Science; and Violet M. Ma crop simulation beginning September 1, lone ; Extension Education. and Nicola Tomov , Director of the Maize Research Institute, Knejha, Bul-

Erwin Small , Veterinary Clinical Medi- garia, to work with the corn group be- cine, will present a series of semi- ginning in mid-September. Dr. Tomov nars with the International Veterinary is sponsored by the International Re- Symposia in Norway, Finland, and Swe- search and Exchanges Board (IREX) den from September 19 to October 4.

Dr. Small is program chairman for the Miao Shu-hua , Academia Sinica, Peo- Society. ple's Republic of China, arrived in July for one year's study in Agronomy The Second International Conference on on amino acid-resistant maize mutants. Malaria and Babesiosis, organized by UIUC's College of Veterinary Medicine, Three faculty members of the Northwest the Marcel Merieux Foundation, and the Frontier Agricultural University, University of Grenoble, France, will Peshawar, Pakistan, arrived on August be held in Annecy, France, September 23 for advanced studies under the 19 to 22. Attending from UIUC are: Pakistan Agricultural Education, Re- - - Dean Richard E. Dierks , John A. Shad search, and Extension Project: Moham duck , Ronald D. Smith , Mark A. James , mad Saeed , Ph.D study in Food Science - Sonia Montenegro-James , Miodrag Ris at UIUC; Hafiz Inayatullah , one-year tic , Federico Montealegre , Mary Lynn non-degree study in Horticulture at - Chilbert , Marilyn V. Lynch , and Cyn UIUC; and Mohammad Karim , one-year thia J. Holland , Veterinary Medicine; non-degree study in Agronomy at SIU-C.

Theodore L. Brown , Graduate College; and Robert A. Compratt , Office of Pat- Zaird Caffoor and N. Vignarajah , ents and Copyrights. agronomists with the Sri Lanka Soybean .

Project, arrived in August for a two- Mr. Kato , President, Kato Oil Co., month study tour of the U.S. They Okayama, Japan, to discuss the poten- will work with INTSOY staff until mid- tial and future of soy foods, partic- September, and then travel to Iowa ularly soy protein concentrates and State University, Delta Branch Experi- isolates, August 2. ment Station in Stoneville, MS, Mis- sissippi State University, and the A team of eleven extension agronomists University of Florida. On their way from Israel visited UIUC on August 2 home they will participate in a soy- and 3 to discuss corn production re- bean cropping systems conference in search. They met with Emerson Nafzi- Tsukuba, Japan, Sept. 26 to Oct. 1. ger, Michael J. Ottman, D. E. Alexan- der, and Ellery L. Knake, Agronomy, Donald E. Kuhlman, Agricultural Ento- WOMEN IN DEVELOPMENT SEMINAR mology, and M. Dale Bateman, Douglas County Agricultural Extension Advisor. September 8 These are Modern Times:

Infant Feeding Practices in Contem- Greg Ticehurst , Manager of Livingston porary Malaysia - Lenore Manderson, Farm, University of Sydney, Australia, School of Sociology, University of visited Illinois as part of a U.S. New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. study tour on soil conservation and 4:00 p.m., W-115 Turner Hall. no-till techniques. He met with John Dr. Manderson will visit UIUC from C. Siemens, Agricultural Engineering, September 7 through 9. Her schedule Augus t 8 is being arranged by the Office of

Women in International Development, Cas Maree , Livestock Science Depart- 3022 Foreign Languages Building, 333- ment, University of Pretoria, South 1977. Africa, met with Animal Science facul- ty from August 8 to 10.

VISITORS RECENTLY ON CAMPDS Marshall Baillieu , Bioenterprises Pty. Ltd., Melbourne, Australia, discussed

Robert Dantzer , Laboratory of Behav- the potential for using parasitic nem- ioral Neurobiology, University of atodes in insect control with Allan S. Bordeaux, France, was on campus from Felsot, Eli Levine, Kevin L. Steffey, June 21 to 24 to discuss animal behav- William H. Luckmann, and Stephen P. ior research with Stanley E. Curtis, Briggs, Economic Entomology. Harold W. Gonyou, and Paul C. Harri- son, Animal Science. Mr. Dantzer also Nora Quebral , Head of the Department met with Joseph Simon, Veterinary of Development Communications, Univer-

Pathobiology , and Robert W. Hendersen, sity of the Philippines at Los Banos,

Psychology . visited UIUC from August 17 to 19. She met with faculty in Agricultural Recent visitors with Lun-Shin Wei in Communications and the College of

Food Science include: Yutaka Ota , Communications, William N. Thompson, Processed Foods Department, Mitsubishi Office of International Agriculture, Corp., Tokyo, Japan, who discussed the Robert E. Brown, Office of Interna- potential for soymilk marketing in Ja- tional Programs and Studies, and Joan pan, the U.S., and other parts of the D. Solaun, Study Abroad Office. world, and Hiroyoshi Okamato July 25; ,

Grain Division, Mitsui Co., Ltd., To- E. J. M. Rabu , General Manager, Agri- kyo, Japan, Etsuo Nomura , Planning and cultural Finance Corporation, Nairobi, Marketing Department, Hohnen Oil Co., Kenya, met with Chester B. Baker and

Tokyo, Japan, Hiroshi Hara , Manager, Jean M. Due, Agricultural Economics, Mitsui Co., Okayama Branch, Japan, and August 18. KELLOGG FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM NEW PUBLICATIONS AVAILABLE

September 30, 1983, is the campus Three items in the INTSOY Publications deadline for the W. K. Kellogg Founda- Series are now available: tion's 1984 National Fellowship Pro- International Inoculant Shipping gram. The program is designed for Evaluation by R. S. Smith, W. H. Judy, junior faculty who are interested in and W. C. Stearn. (INTSOY Series No.

developing cross-cultural and inter- 23) . 25 pages. disciplinary perspectives on contempo- International Soybean Variety Ex- rary human and social problems. The periments, Seventh Report of Results, foundation is particularly interested 1979, by J. A. Jackobs, M. D. Staggs, in broad issues involving agriculture, and D. R. Erickson. (INTSOY Series No. education, and health. 24). 211 pages. Applications must include endorse- Soybean Research in China and the ments from the appropriate director, U.S. Proceedings of the China/U.S.A. dean, or supervisor, and from Chancel- Soybean Symposium, B. J. Irwin, J. B. lor Cribbet. Detailed information and Sinclair, and Wang Jin-ling, eds. application materials are available (INTSOY Series No. 25). 194 pages. from Cindy Kienzler, Swanlund Adminis- Copies are available from Patricia tration Building, 601 E. John Street, S. Cunningham, 113 Mumford Hall, 333- Champaign, IL 61820, 333-6394. 4370.

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INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES glycines Damage to Soybean" at the 15th annual meeting of the Organizaci-

Ronald D. Smith , Veterinary Pathobiol- on de Nematologos de los Tropicos ogy, recently returned from a two- Americanos, Mexico City, Mexico, Aug- month trip to Ecuador, Brazil, and ust 8 to 12. Uruguay. Dr. Smith was in Ecuador to critque a proposal on hemoparasitic Barry A. Eisenberg , Horticulture, diseases of cattle, and in Brazil and traveled to Frankfort, West Germany, Uruguay to assess research on tick- and the Canary Islands to discuss ger- borne diseases. His trip was sponsor- anium shipping research with the Fis- ed by the Interamerican Institute for cher Geranium Company officials, Aug- Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA). ust 9 to 19.

Sorab P. Mistry , Animal Science, gave Harold W. Gonyou , Animal Science, pre- a series of invited lectures and sem- sented a paper at the International inars on metabolic regulation at the Ethology Conference in Brisbane, Aus- Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, tralia, and visited research stations Zurich, in June. in Eastern Australia and New Zealand, August 10 to September 10.

John A. Grunau , Food Science, presen- ted a seminar entitled "The Metabolism Mohamed A. Mehaia and Munir Cheryan , of 7, 12-Dimethylbenz (a) Anthracene: Food Science, presented a paper on Its Modification by Selenium and Other methods for improving productivity of Minerals" at the Imperial Center Re- fermentations at the Third Interna- search Fund, Lincoln's Inn Fields, tional Conference on Anaerobic Diges- London, England, July 4. tion, Boston, Massachusetts, August 15 to 19.

Paul R. Fitzgerald , Veterinary Patho- biology, presented an invited paper Barbara A. Yates, Educational Policy on "The Coooidia of Fishes" at Studies, traveled to Fayetteville, the First International Symposium of Arkansas, August 21 to 24, to assist

Ichthyoparasitology , Ceske Budejovice, in writing a proposal for the design Czechoslovakia, August 8 to 13. Dr. phase of the USAID/Rwanda Cropping Fitzgerald also served as chair of the Systems Improvement Project. section on protozoan diseases of fishes. Jack B. Claar , Office of International Agriculture, was in Washington, D.C.,

Gregory R. Noel , Plant Pathology, pre- August 23, to participate in a USAID sented a paper entitled "Soil pH and seminar on agricultural education in Fertility Effects on Heterodeva Africa. Jack R. Harlan , Agronomy, participated cooperative work in soybean production in a symposium in the USSR on the pre- and view soybean producing areas. history of Central Asia, September 3 to 18. The trip was part of an ex- Alan J. Parker, Veterinary Clinical change program between the Soviet Medicine, was in Japan from September Academy of Science and the American 6 to 20 to address universities and Council of Learned Societies. local veterinary associations in Tok- yo, Osaka, and Fukuoka. From Septem- The University of Illinois was invited ber 29 to October 10, Dr. Parker lec- to conduct a study of agricultural re- tured at the Royal Veterinary and Ag- search in the Northwest Frontier Prov- ricultural University, Copenhagen, ince, Pakistan, and make recommenda- Denmark. His topic in both countries tions on unifying research under the was neurological diagnosis. NWFP Agricultural University. Partic- ipating in the study are: Russell T. Jean M. Due, Agricultural Economics, in the Odell , Agronomy, September 6 to Octo- conferred with researchers

ber 15; Borje K. Gustafsson , Veteri- Bean/Cowpea CRSP in Tanzania, contin- nary Clinical Medicine, September 13 ued her research on land resettlement and met with to October 6; William N. Thompson , programs in Zimbabwe, Office of International Agriculture, members of the University of Illinois September 29 to November 3; and Thomas ZAMARE project team in Zambia during

A. McCowen , Office of International September and early October. Agriculture, October 1 to November 6. Dr. Due will present a paper enti- The study is supported by the U.S. tled "How do Rural Women Perceive De- Agency for International Development. velopment? A Case Study in Zambia" at the Association of Women in Interna- Wash- Sam H. Johnson , Agricultural Econom- tional Development Conference, ics, delivered a paper entitled "Agri- ington, D.C., October 13 to 15. cultural Intensification in Thailand:

Complementary Role of Infrastructure Fred A. Kummerow , Food Science, spent and Agricultural Policy" at the Inter- three weeks in the Soviet Union and national Irrigation Water Management two weeks in Romania during September Workshop, Khon Kaen, Thailand, Septem- and early October through an NSF ex- ber 13 to 16. change program. Dr. Kummerow current- ly has an NSF-sponsored research pro- scientists on the Thomas A. McCowen , Office of Interna- gram with Romanian tional Agriculture, attended the AUSU- role of lipids in biomembranes. DIAP (Association of U.S. University Dr. Kummerow will also present a Directors of International Agricultur- paper on the role of cell membrane in- al Programs) Executive Committee meet- volvement in the development of athe- ing and the CIAP board meeting, Wash- rosclerosis at the International Fat ington, D.C., September 21. Congress, Bucharest, Hungary, October 3 to 8, and present a seminar at the Robert W. Howell and Joseph A. Jack- European Organization for the Control Diseases, Munich, Ger- obs , Agronomy, Harold E. Kauffman , of Circulatory

INTSOY, and James B. Sinclair , Plant many. Pathology, presented papers at the In-

ternational Symposium on Soybean in Michael F. Hutjens , Dairy Science, Tropical and Subtropical Cropping Sys- will present seminars on energy needs tems, Tsukuba, Japan, September 27 to for dairy cattle in Kwangju, Pusan, 30. and Seoul, Korea, October 23 to 28. Following the symposium Dr. Jackobs The trip is sponsored by Borden World will travel to Taiwan, Bangladesh, Ne- Trade, Inc., and the National Render- pal, Turkey, and Nigeria to discuss ing Association. . ,

MONICAL SCHOLARSHIPS October 26 Export Promotion vs. Local Consumption: Agricultural Strategies December 1, 1983, is the application in Mbale, Uganda - Stephen G. Bunker, deadline for Monical Scholarships for Sociology. Study in Costa Rica. Undergraduate 4:00 p.m. 426 Mumford Hall. and graduate students with at least a 4.0 GPA are eligible to apply. Awar- November 2 International Activities dees will engage in a full program of of the University of Illinois at Chi- study at the University of Costa Rica, cago - Annette M. Yonke, Chair, UIC San Jose, during the spring semester Council on International Programs and (January to July, 1984), and will Activities. write a 25-page paper on an aspect of 4:00 p.m., 426 Mumford Hall. human well-being in Costa Rica. De- tails are available from the Center November 9 Household Economic Strate- for Latin American and Caribbean Stud- gies: A Comparison of Commercial Veg- ies, 1208 West California St., room etable and Subsistence Farmers in the 250, 333-3182. Highland Philippines - Jean Trelogen Peterson, Human Development and Family SEMINARS Ecology. 4:00 p.m., 426 Mumford Hall. September 28 Discussions of a Sabbat- ical Leave in Northern China - Errol November 16 Egypt/UIUC Project on D. Rodda, Agricultural Engineering. Microbial Conversion of Biomass into 4:00 p.m., 426 Mumford Hall. Fuels, Feed, and Fertilizer - Mostafa El-Kattan, Agricultural Research Cen- October 5 Forestry in Southeast Asia ter, Giza, Egypt; Donald L. Day, Agri- - Sandra Brown, Forestry. cultural Engineering; and Marvin P. 4:00 p.m., 426 Mumford Hall. Steinberg, Food Science. 4:00 p.m., 426 Mumford Hall. October 6 Observations on Women's Extension Programs in Pakistan - Mary November 30 Report on the Pakistan A. Keith, Foods and Nutrition. Agricultural Education, Research, and Noon, Parr Lounge, YMCA, 1001 South Extension Project - Design Team Mem- Wright Street, Champaign. bers, UIUC. *Women in International Development 4:00 p.m., 426 Mumford Hall. seminar series. (You are welcome to bring a sack lunch.) VISITORS RECENTLY ON CAMPUS October 12 The Role of U.S. Universi- - ties in Meeting World Food Needs Josef Hagin , Faculty of Agriculture, Frederick E Hutchinson, Executive Di- Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, rector, Board for International Food discussed a proposed cooperative re- and Agricultural Development (BIFAD) search project with Frank J. Steven- 4:00 p.m., 426 Mumford Hall. son, Robert G. Hoeft, and Fred E. Be- low, Agronomy, August 3 to 6. Prof. October 19 Report on the Second Hagin' s visit was coordinated by L. China/USA Soybean Symposium held at Touby Kurtz, Agronomy emeritus. Jilin Academy of Agricultural Scien- ces, Changchun, Jilin, People's Repub- Shunitiro Suda , T. Sakata and Company, lie of China - Harold E. Kauffman, seed growers and breeders, Yokohama, INTSOY; Marcos Kogan, Agricultural En- Japan, visited Gail M. Fosler and the tomology; and Randall L. Nelson and UIUC Flower Trials on August 6. This Gary E. Pepper, Agronomy. firm contributes seed and funds for

4:00 p.m. , 426 Mumford Hall. the Trial Garden program. Michael E. Nor- King -Thorn Chung , Microbiology Depart- Jack D. Johnson and ment, Soochow University, Taipei; Rong velle, International Agricultural Pro-

Tyng Lin and Ji-Chern Lin , Energy and grams Office, University of Arizona, Mining Research Service, Taipei; and visited UIUC on September 8 to study of J. C. C. Wang , Taiwan Livestock Re- the organization and administration search Institute, Tainan, Taiwan, met the Office of International Agricul- with Donald L. Day and T. H. Chen, Ag- ture. ricultural Engineering, to discuss en- ergy and feed from biomass, August 22 Nine Brazilian agriculturalists dis- to 24. cussed the size and quality of this year's soybean crop in the U.S. and

Mantel Sindazi , Department of Agricul- Brazil, and the outlook for the 1984 ture, Lusaka, Zambia, and currently a crop with Darrel L. Good, Agricultural student at the University of Maryland, Economics, September 9. Eastern Shore, discussed microbial conversion of biomass into fuels, Nyombo Kapambwe , Department of Agri- feed, and fertilizer with Donald L. culture and Rural Development, Kinsha- Day, T. H. Chen, and Cephas Msipa, Ag- sa, Zaire, met with Robert E. Brown, ricultural Engineering, August 18. OIPS, and discussed corn and soybean production with Harold E. Kauffman, Recent visitors with the Agronomy Corn INTSOY, and Joseph A. Jackobs and

Group include Hans Geevers , Summer George F. Sprague, Agronomy. Grain Sub-Centre, Pietermaritzburg,

South Africa, August 31 to September Anil K. Chopra , Director, Haryana

2, and Marton Herczeg of the Hungarian Dairy Cooperative Federation Ltd. , In- Academy of Sciences, September 21 to dia, met with Michael Grossman, Dairy 22 Science, to discuss the breeding and genetics program, September 14.

G. R. Tanwir , Dean of the Faculty of English, University of Agriculture, A 23-member team from the Tokyo Grain Faisalabad, Pakistan, visited the For- Exchange met with faculty in Agricul- estry Department and met with William tural Economics and the Office of In- N. Thompson, Office of International ternational Agriculture, September 14. Agriculture, September 2. Discussions included the role and his- tory of soybeans in U.S. agriculture A five-member soybean team from Heil- and the present soybean export and ong jiang Province, People's Republic marketing situation. of China, visited UIUC on September 2 to discuss soybean production and pro- Collin S. Hawkins , Department of Agri- cessing. The team met with Harold E. culture and Fisheries, Pretoria, South Kauffman, INTSOY, Earl D. Kellogg, Of- Africa, discussed tractor fuels and fice of International Agriculture, research on vegetable oil fuels with Richard L. Bernard, Agronomy, Royce A. Agricultural Engineering faculty on Hinton, Agricultural Economics, and September 19. Lun-Shin Wei, Food Science. They were escorted by Terry Foley, American Soy- Jeff and Helen Micklem , farmers from bean Association. Zimbabwe, visited UIUC on September 19 and 20 as part of a two-week U.S. tour

Peter Meiring , University of Natal, awarded for winning a corn production Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, visit- contest. They discussed corn and soy- ed with Carroll E. Goering, J. Kent bean production with John C. Siemens, Mitchell, and John C. Siemens, Agri- Agricultural Engineering, and L. Fred- cultural Engineering, from September 7 erick Welch, Gary E. Pepper, and El- to 9. lery L. Knake, Agronomy. FOOD SCIENCE: CHIH H. CHANG, Taiwan, The College of Agriculture and the food processing and engineering; JOSE College of Veterinary Medicine welcome B. CHAVES, Brazil, food processing and the following new foreign graduate engineering; YAAKOB B. CHEMAN, Malay- students to the University of Illinois sia, food processing; JEONG RO PARK, at Urbana-Champaign: Korea, nutritional sciences; SANG-KYU PARK, Korea, food chemistry; MOHAMMED SAEED, Pakistan, food processing. AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS: ANDRES ABRAM- OVICH, Argentina, production econom- FORESTRY: JANET LI-CHEN CHANG, Tai- ics; SYED ARIF, India, production eco- wan, wood science. nomics; AFLA AYEMOU, Ivory Coast, in- ternational agricultural economics; HORTICULTURE: JOONSOO CHOI, Korea, NEN-JING CHEN, Taiwan, agricultural turf grass; HAFIZ INAYATULLAH, Pakis- marketing; HABIB FETINI, Tunisia, pro- tan, vegetable crops; JAMAL SAWWAN, ject analysis and evaluation; NOBU- Jordan, environmental horticulture. MASA HACCHO, Japan, international ag- ricultural economics; HUEI-LING HOU, HUMAN DEVELOPMENT AND FAMILY ECOLOGY: Taiwan, agricultural marketing; FRAN- SARINA PARANJAPE, India, international CIS JACKSON, Sierra Leone, agricultur- family; BIH'YUN WANG, Taiwan, child al finance; TAE-HO KIM, Korea, agri- development. cultural marketing; GOPAL NAIK, In- dia, agricultural marketing; LARE PLANT PATHOLOGY: CAIO MACHADO, Bra- SISAY, Gambia, international agricul- zil, soybean pathology. tural economics; KIM LAI TAN, Malay- sia, production economics; JAMES TAY- TEXTILES, APPAREL, AND INTERIOR DE- LOR, Ghana, international agricultural SIGN: VIVIEN WANG, Taiwan, textiles economics; RAVI VENKATARAMAN, India, and apparel. agricultural finance. VETERINARY MEDICINE: ANTONIO DE PINHO AGRONOMY: USHA BARWALE, India, micro- MARQUES, Brazil, veterinary biosci- biology; SHANKAR KOTHARI, India, plant ence; EL-SAYED M. FATOH, Egypt, veter- cell tissue; MAWSUN LIN, Taiwan, plant inary clinical medicine; NINOKA MAD- breeding and genetics; DESIREE MANAN- RID, Venezuela, veterinary clinical CIO, Philippines, plant breeding; SHO- medicine. JI MIZUNO, Japan, environmental model- ing.

ANIMAL SCIENCE: GHAZI F. BASIOUNI, Saudi Arabia, reproductive physiology; VISITORS COMING TO CAMPUS BALAAM MUJUNI, Uganda, environmental physiology; HIROYUKI SATO, Japan, swine nutrition; HENRY SOTO, Costa Jens L. Torp , The Royal Veterinary and Rica, animal breeding; BAMBANG SRIGAN- Agricultural University, Copenhagen, DONO, Indonesia, poultry and nutri- Denmark, will meet with faculty in tion; MOHAMMAD S. ZINO, Iraq, micro- Agronomy, October 2 to 9, to gather biology. information on corn breeding and pro- duction. DAIRY SCIENCE: JOHN J. KLIR, Czecho- slovakia, genetics. A Populus study group from the People's Republic of China will visit FOODS AND NUTRITION: SOON YOUNG SONG, Jeffrey 0. Dawson and Jalmer J. Joke- Korea, foods and nutrition; YUKIKO la, Forestry, to discuss Illinois Cot- TAKAHASHI, Japan, nutrition. tonwood breeding projects, October 4. Frederick C. Hutchinson , Executive Di- UIUC from October 17 to 21 to discuss rector, Board for International Food developments and trends in farm build- and Agriculture, will visit UIUC on ings. His visit is being arranged by October 12 and 13 to discuss Title XII Arthur J. Muehling, 212 Agricultural programs. He will present a seminar Engineering, 333-9313. on October 12 entitled "The Role of

Universities in Meeting World Food Adel Hamid El Farra , Egyptian Ministry Needs" (see seminar listing). of Agriculture, will visit UIUC from October 23 to 30 to take part in a

Zhu Qing-lin , Yu Yu-jun , He Yuan-kang , program on techiques involved in proc-

Li Jin-du , and Kong De-gian , Northwest essing soybeans for human food. College of Agriculture, Wugong, Shaan- xi, China, will discuss plant genetics

and breeding with Agronomy faculty, Rita Hermien Day-Haverkamp , Head of October 15 to 22. To meet with this the Social Department, Board of Guar- group contact John W. Santas, 113 Mum- dianship, Suriname, will visit Human ford Hall, 333-3638. Development and Family Ecology on Oc- tober 20. She is interested in the

J. Brian McQuitty , Department of Agri- rights of the child. To meet with her cultural Engineering, University of contact Rand Conger, 201 Child Devel- Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, will visit opment Laboratory, 333-0896.

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INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES session for an international confer- ence on trade policies, September 23 Janice M. Bahr, Animal Science, lec- to October 8. The trip was organized tured at the International Seminar on by universities in the United States Catecholamines as Hormone Regulators, and Europe. Indianapolis, Indiana, September 12 to Following the planning session, Dr. 14. Dr. Bahr's topic was "The Role of Offutt delivered seminars at the Or- Catecholamines in Ovarian Function." ganization of Cooperation and Develop- ment, Paris, France, and the European

Munir Cheryan , Food Science, presented Commission, Brussels, Belgium. a paper on the effect of selected pro-

cessing methods on the ant inutrit ional Marvin R. Paulsen , Agricultural Engi- factors in dry beans at the Sixth neering, participated in the Interna- World Congress of Food Science and tional Conference on Robotics and In- Technology, Dublin, Ireland, September telligent Machines in Agriculture, 18 to 24. Tampa, Florida, October 2 to 4.

John H. Behrens , Agricultural Communi- Daniel Gianola, Animal Science, was cations, taught audio-visual communi- invited to present papers at the Annu- cation techniques to students in the al Meeting of the European Association Diploma in Extension Program, Univer- of Animal Producers, Madrid, Spain, sity of the West Indies, St. Augus- October 3 to 6. tine, Trinidad, October 7 to 21. He

also reviewed audio-visual equipment Chester B. Baker , Agricultural Econom- needs for the Regional Extension Com- ics, participated in the Seventh World munications Unit. Congress on Agricultural Credit, St. Louis, Missouri, October 3 to 6.

Lawrence E. Datnoff , Plant Pathology,

traveled to Mt . Makulu, Zambia, in Oc- Andrew J. Sofranko , Agricultural Eco- tober as a participant in the special nomics, traveled to Gosler, West Ger- studies portion of the Zambia Agricul- many to present a paper at the Inter- tural Research and Extension Project national Symposium on the Provision of (ZAMARE). He will be conducting long- Housing and Human Settlements, October terra studies on the epidemiology of 2 to 9. Pyrenoehaeta leaf spot and other

soybean diseases. Robert G. Hoeft , Agronomy, presented a paper entitled "Economics of Anhydrous

Lowell D. Hill and Susan E. Offutt , Ammonia Use" at the International Fer- Agricultural Economics, traveled to tilizer Industry Association, Copen- Cergy, France to conduct a planning hagen Denmark, September 25 to October 1. From October 1 to 6, Dr. Hoeft Zambian Ministry of Agriculture and visited the SKW Company and the staff Water Development and UIUC, SIU-C, and at the University of Munich, West Ger- UMES. many. William N. Thompson, Earl D. Kellogg,

Mastura Raheel , Textiles and Interior Thomas A. McCowen , OIA, and Jack B.

Design, presented a paper at the Fifth Claar , INTERPAKS , will attend the International Conference of Textile meetings of the National Association Education in Biella, Italy, October 5 of State Universities and Land-Grant to 10. Dr. Raheel also attended the Colleges, Washington, D.C., November International Textile Machinery Exhib- 14 to 16. They will be attending it, Milan, Italy, October 11 to 19. several sessions of the International Division of NASULGC.

Virginia Kopp , undergraduate student

in Forestry, spent the summer at the Sam H. Johnson, III , Agricultural

University of Freiburg, West Germany, Economics, Jack B. Claar , INTERPAKS, as part of an informal student ex- Carolyn M. Pribble, Earl D. Kellogg , change. Office of International Agriculture,

and Upson S. Garrigus , Animal Science, - Harold E. Kauffman , INTSOY, and Emer will participate in the Farming Sys- son D. Nafziger , Agronomy, partici- tems Research Symposium at Kansas pated in the conference "Agriculture State University, Manhattan, Kansas, with a World Perspective" sponsored by October 31 to November 2. Drs. Kel- the Mennonite Central Committee in logg and Johnson organized a session Akron, Pennsylvania, October 7 to 9. on "The Role of Extension in Farming Systems Research Programs."

John W. Santas , Office of Internation- al Agriculture, and Barbara A. Yates , Educational Policy Studies, partici- VISITORS RECENTLY ON CAMPUS pated in a site-evaluation visit on October 11 at the University of Arkan- Istvan Kiss, Hybrid Seed Production sas for the design phase of the USAID- Cooperative of Babolnai, Hungary, vis- Rwanda Cropping Systems Improvement ited the maize genetics laboratory in Project. Collaborating with UIUC are Agronomy on September 21. the University of Arkansas as lead university, the University of Minne- Sixteen agriculturalists from Zimbabwe sota, University of Puerto Rico, and visited UIUC to discuss corn and soy- Lincoln University. bean production and soil management practices, September 22. They met

Earl D. Kellogg , OIA, will participate with John C. Siemens, Walter D. Lemb- as the UIUC representative in a con- ke, Agricultural Engineering, John D. tracting university executive visit to Alexander, and L. Frederick Welch, Ag- the Zambia Agriculture Research and ronomy. The group was escorted by Lyle Extension (ZAMARE) project, December 4 Reeser, Caterpillar Tractor Co. 16. to Chancellor William P. Hytche ,

University of Maryland, Eastern Shore, S. Galal and A. Salem , faculty members and Dean Gilbert Kroening , College of at the University of Cairo, Egypt, Agriculture, Southern Illinois Univer- discussed the variety testing program, sity, Carbondale, will represent their intercropping of corn and soybeans, respective universities. They will and soybean germplasm with INTSOY review the overall progress of the staff, September 24 to 26. project from the perspective of the contracting universities. The ZAMARE Twenty-eight South African farmers program is administered jointly by the visited UIUC on September 26 for a .

presentation on Illinois agriculture. Steve Perren , University of New Eng- Lectures were given by Robert D. Wal- land, Armidale, NSW, Australia, visit- ker, Cooperative Extension Service, ed faculty in Agricultural Engineering Allan G. Mueller, Agricultural Econom- and presented a seminar, "Soil Erosion ics, John C. Siemens, Agricultural En- Problems in the Australia Wheatbelt", gineering, Ellery L. Knake, Darryl A. October 21. Miller, Agronomy, Donald E. Kuhlman, and Kevin L. Steffey, Agricultural En- Frederi ck E. Hutchinson , Executive tomology. The group also visited the Director, Board for International Food Farm Progress Show in Iowa, and farms and Agricultural Development, visited in Wisconsin and Iowa. the University of Illinois October 12 and 13 to discuss Title XII programs.

A four member team from the People ' s Dr. Hutchinson also presented a semi- Republic of China studying edible soy nar on the organization of BIFAD and protein visited UIUC on October 3. its role in international development. They met with L. S. Wei and John W. Erdman, Food Science, to discuss soy- Thomas Henderson, University of the food processing and soybeans and human West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad, nutrition. The group was escorted by and Anthony Philgence , Senior Agricul- Beth Branthaver, American Soybean As- tural Extension Officer, St. Lucia, sociation. visited UIUC to review progress on the USAID Agricultural Extension Project

Ingemar Nilsson , Federation of Swedish in the Caribbean. Mr. Philgence was Farmers, Stockholm, Sweden, discussed recently named "Outstanding Extension grain marketing and trade, and agri- Agent in the Caribbean." Their trip cultural policy with Agricultural Ec- was sponsored by MUCIA and the Office onomics faculty, October 24. Mr. of International Agriculture. Nilsson also toured The Andersons re- gional grain marketing terminal and observed corn processing at Illinois Cereal Mills, Paris, Illinois. His VISITING RESEARCHERS trip was sponsored by the United

States Information Agency. Ljuben Trajkov , University of Skopje, Yugoslavia, is spending the fall sem- Eight agronomists from Argentina dis- ester at UIUC working with the Agri- cussed tillage practices, corn and cultural Economics staff and with John soybean production, and applications M. Gerber, Horticulture. Mr. Trajkov, of computers to farm management with a participant in the International John C. Siemens, Agricultural Engin- Farm Agricultural Exchange (IFAE) Pro- eering, Gary E. Pepper, Ellery L. gram, is interested in the marketing Knake, Agronomy, Roy Wendte, and Kate of agricultural products, especially Mayberry, Agricultural Economics, Oc- vegetables tober 3. The tour for this group was

arranged by Asgrow Seeds. Daniel B. Okai , University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana, arrived A team of four agricultural engineers in September for four month's research from the People's Republic of China on amino acids in feed ingredients and met with Douglas B. Bauling , Agricul- feed. Dr. Okai, a Fulbright scholar, tural Experiment Station, to tour the is working with Robert A. Easter and new Agricultural Engineering Sciences other faculty in Animal Science.

Building and Arthur J. Muehling , Ag- ricultural Engineering, to discuss the Blandina de Mesa, Philippine Council planning and construction of farm for Agriculture and Resources Research buildings, October 6. and Development (PCARRD) arrived Sep- tember 18 to pursue a two-month study SEMINARS program in the Office of Agricultural Communications. Her program concerns November 9 Household Economic Strate- instructional communications proto- gies: A Comparison of Commercial Veg- types for agricultural extension. etable and Subsistence Farmers in the Highland Philippines - Jean Trelogen

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INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES Dr. Santas also traveled to the state of Sao Paulo, Brazil to identify Daniel Gianola, Animal Science, visit- possible agriculture projects and to ed the Centre National Recherches discuss cooperation between INTSOY and

Zootechniques , Jouy-en-Josas , France, the IICA/ConoSur/BID project, November to present a seminar on sire evalua- 20 to December 5. tion and discuss the estimation of

genetic parameters in the presence of Harold E. Kauffman , INTSOY, was an selection and assortative mating, observer at the International Agricul- October 10 to 14. ture Research Centers Week meeting of the Consultative Group on Internation-

George Z. Gertner , Forestry, presented al Agriculture Research held at The a paper entitled "Using Computer Simu- World Bank, Washington, D.C., Octo- lation Models to Design Future Thin- ber 31 and November 1. ning Experiments" at the International - Conference on Growth and Yield, Buda- L. S. Wei , Food Science, Karl Wein

pest, Hungary, September 27. Dr. gartner , recent graduate of Food Sci-

Gertner also presented an invited ence, and Alvin I. Nelson , Professor paper at the International Conference Emeritus, Food Science, will partici- on Problems in Forest Biomass Growth pate in the African Soybean Utiliza- and Yield Studies, Orleans, France, tion Workshop in Ibadan, Nigeria, October 4. December 1 to 9. The workshop is jointly sponsored by INTSOY, the

Bruce Brodie , Veterinary Clinical International Institute of Tropical Medicine, is in Alexandria, Egypt, Agriculture (IITA), and the American through March 1984 implementing a Soybean Association. Harold E

project dealing with "Water Buffalo Kauffman , INTSOY, will attend part of Infertility Under Village Conditions." the workshop and discuss collaborative The project is funded by the Univer- activities with IITA, November 28 to sity Linkage Program, which has USAID December 7. support

Mohamed E. Sarhan , Agricultural Eco-

John W. Santas , OIA, attended a semin- nomics, is in Kampala, Uganda until ar entitled "Models of Development for mid-December to work on a livestock Latin America" and participated in the marketing project funded by the World annual, convention for recipients of Bank. the Partners of the Americas/Kellogg

Foundation Fellowships in Internation- Burton E. Swanson , INTERPAKS, traveled al Development in Merida, Mexico, to Rome, Italy to discuss the progress November 12 to 19. of the FAO Agricultural Extension , ,

Manual with W. D. Maalouf, Agricultur- Service held at UIUC, December 5 to al Education and Extension Service, 9. FAO, November 5 to 22. Dr. Swanson also visited Niels Roling, Agricultur- VISITORS RECENTLY ON CAMPUS al University at Wageningen, to dis- cuss agricultural extension, Novem- Ben Mweene , Deputy Vice-Chance 1 lor ber 22 to 23. University of Zambia, visited UIUC November 13 to 16 to discuss poten-

Jack B. Claar , INTERPAKS , will travel ials for developing a Memorandum of to Sierra Leone to conduct extension Understanding between the University evaluation as a consultant for USAID, of Illinois and the University of January 8 to 15. Zambia for faculty and student exchange.

Theodore Hymowitz and Jack M. Widholm , Agronomy, participated in the Agri- A group of seven meat packers repre- genetics contract holders meetings in senting the Japan Hamburg and Hamburg-

Cancun, Mexico, November 22 to Decem- er Association , Tokyo, Japan, visited ber 4. Dr. Widholm reported on a the Meat Science Laboratory and Animal soybean project that the association Science faculty, November 15. The is supporting. group is interested in the American fast-food industry.

William G. Ruesnik , Agricultural Ento- mology, participated in the Interna- Geronimo Jamero Farm Factors, tional Congress of Plant Protection in Inc. , Philippines discussed soil test- Brighton, England, November 20 to 25. ing equipment, procedures, and inter- He presented a poster co-authored with pretation of results with Theodore R.

Michael E. Irwin , INTSOY, entitled, "A Peck, Agronomy, October 20. Model for the Impact of Soybean Mosaic

Virus in Soybean." Christo Mermersky , Bulgarian Agricul- tural Attache, Washington, D.C., dis-

Cleora J. D'Arcy , Plant Pathology, cussed Dairy Automation with Hoyle B. will travel to CIMMYT, El Batan, Mexi- Puckett, Agricultural Engineering, co, to make a presentation on the October 18. Dr. Mermersky was a purification and assay of barley yel- visiting scholar in Agricultural Engi- low dwarf, a viral disease of small neering several years ago. grains, December 6 to 8.

Pi Yuan-bo , Beijing College of Agri-

William N. Thompson , OIA, has been culture, People's Republic of China, reappointed by Governor James Thompson visited Plant Pathology and presented as a member of the Illinois Agricul- a seminar on his phytobacteriology tural Export Advisory Committee. research in China, October 24. Dr. Di is currently Visiting Professor, Uni-

James B. Sinclair , Plant Pathology, versity of Wisconsin, Madison. traveled to Milan, Italy to present an

invited paper at the CRSP Internation- Takamoto Kamiya , Institute of Kyodo al Sorghum and Millet Project on con- Milk Industry Company, Ltd., Tokyo, trol of root and stalk rot diseases, Japan, discussed soy beverage and tofu November 27 to December 2. production with L. S. Wei, Food Sci- ence, October 26 and 27.

Ronald G. Dedert , Research Liaison

Extension Officer for the ZAMARE Pro- G. M. Khattak , Chair, Pakistan Univer- ject stationed in Kabwe, Zambia, will sity Grants Commission, and formerly attend the Annual Extension Conference Vice-Chancellor, Northwest Frontier of the Illinois Cooperative Extension Province Agricultural University, 1

visited UIUC, November 8 to 15, to Joong-Man Kim , Wonkwang University, work on planning of the Pakistan Korea is taking a year-long sabbatical Agricultural Education, Research and at UIUC to do soyfood research with L.

Extension Project with Thomas A. S . Wei , Food Science. McCowen and William N. Thompson, OIA.

Qu Ya-lian , Institute for Information A team of scholars from East China of Agricultural Science and Technol- University of Water Resources, ogy, Chinese Academy of Agricultural People's Republic of China, discussed Sciences, Beijing, China, will spend water related curricula with J. Kent one year at UIUC as a visiting schol-

Mitchel , Agricultural Engineering, ar. She will work on the management October 26. of entomological information with

Jenny Kogan , INTSOY.

Adel Hamid El Farra , Egyptian Ministry of Agriculture, spent a week in Octo- Feng Jie-liu , Henan Province, People's ber visiting faculty in Food Science Republic of China, will spend the next to view soy utilization experiments. year as a visiting scholar in Veterin- ary Medicine. She will do research in Five plant geneticists from the Peo - parasitology with Kenneth S. Todd, ple ' s ~Republ ic of China visited UIUC Veterinary Pathobiology , and Norman D. November 27 to 30 to discuss corn and Levine, professor emeritus, Veterinary soybean genetics with faculty in Medic ine. Agronomy and the Agricultural Experi- ment Station. Following their visit G. S. Miranpuri , Indian Veterinary the group traveled to the University Research Institute, Itaznagar, India, of Wisconsin-Madison and Cornell has joined Veterinary Pathobiology as University. an NIH post doctoral fellow. Dr. Miranpuri will be working with Miodrag VISITORS COMING TO CAMPUS Ristic, Veterinary Pathology.

Guillermo Gallacher and Maria de Nuria RWANDA CROPPING SYSTEMS PROJECT

Dufour , National University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, will visit faculty The University of Arkansas as the lead in Agricultural Engineering and Agri- institution in collaboration with the cultural Economics, December 1 to 4. University of Illinois, the University Their visit is part of an eight-week of Minnesota, the University of Puerto study tour in the United States funded Rico, and Lincoln University, has been by UNESCO. requested to negotiate a contract with USAID to implement a cropping systems VISITING RESEARCHERS improvement project in Rwanda, East Africa.

Rajinder Nanda , Ministry of Food and Agriculture, India, will arrive Decem- LANGUAGE FELLOWSHIPS ber 4 for four month's of study with

Joseph T. Woolley , Agronomy. Dr. January 23, 1984 is the application Nanda is the recipient of an FAO fel- deadline for Title VI Summer Intensive lowship. Language Fellowships awarded by the Center for Latin American and Carib-

Daniel B. Okai , University of Science bean Studies. The fellowships are to and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana, is a be used for study of Brazilian Portu- Fulbright Scholar conducting research guese, Amerindian languages, and Latin on the nutritive value of feeds and American Spanish at any qualified feed ingredients with Robert A. East - institution in the United States and er, Animal Science. abroad. ,

NEW WID COURSES third world, call Margo De Ley, WID, 3-1977. The Office of Women in International Development is offering two new INTERNATIONAL TRAINING COURSE courses for Spring 1984. Consumption 379A, INTERPAKS will offer a five-week short in Developing Countries , FACE Taught by Francis Magrabi and Kristin course for overseas administrators of Kline, will focus on consumption needs extension services, September 17 to in the third world. The Family in October 19, 1984. It will be aimed at senior staff in extension positions International Settings , HDFE 388C taught by Jean Peterson, will examine and will cover aspects of directing The the impact of development on the fami- and operating extension services. UIUC, and ly. For more information about these teaching staff will be from courses and other international represent several disciplines. For courses relating to women and the more information contact J. B. Claar, INTERPAKS, 3-4340.

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INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES tion, Brighton, England, November 20 to 25.

Walter D. Lembke , Agricultural Engi-

neering, and John W. Santas , CIA, are Daniel Gianola , Animal Science, was an members of the UIUC International Stu- invited speaker at the Conference on dent Affairs Advisory Committee for Artificial Insemination and Animal 1983-1984. Breeding, Toulouse, France, November 21 to 25. His participation was spon-

John Bowman , recent graduate in Plant sored by the French Ministry of For- Pathology, has accepted a postdoctoral eign Affairs. position as breeder/ pathologist at the

Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento Donald F. Schoeneweiss , Plant Patholo- de Maiz y Trigo (CIMMYT), Mexico. gy and Illinois Natural History Sur- vey, presented a paper entitled "Sum-

David H. Baker , Animal Science, pre- mary and Synthesis of Physiological sented a series of lectures on the po- and Environmental Factors in Root and tential of amino acids in food and Stalk Rot Diseases" at the Consulta- feed supplementation in West Germany, tive Group Discussion on Research October 30 to November 6. Needs and Strategies for Control of Sorghum Root and Stalk Rot Diseases.

Thomas L. Frey , Agricultural Econom- Sponsored by ICRISAT and INTSORMIL, ics, spoke at the Farm Financial Man- the meeting was held at Bellagio, agement Program, Halifax, Canada, No- Italy, November 27 to December 2. vember 7. The program was sponsored

by the Royal Bank of Canada. Eugene E. Killion , Economic Entomolo- gy, presented lectures entitled "Pes-

Munir Cheryan , Food Science, gave an ticides and Honey Bees in Illinois" invited paper on methods of improving and "Management for Comb Honey Produc- productivity of enzymatic and microbi- tion" at the annual meeting of the On- al conversion processes using membrane tario Beekeepers' Association, Toron- bioreactors at the International Mem- to, Canada, November 29 and 30. brane Technology Conference, Sydney,

Australia, November 8 to 10. Dr. Henryk Jedlinski , USDA and Plant Pa-

Cheryan also visited the University of thology, and Cleora J. D'Arcy , Plant New South Wales and Hawkesbury Agri- Pathology, attended the International cultural College. Barley Yellow Dwarf Virus Workshop at CIMMYT, Mexico, December 5 to 9.

Loren E. Bode , Agricultural Engineer-

ing, presented a paper at the 10th In- Violet M. Malone , Extension Education, ternational Congress of Plant Protec- conducted a two-day staff development workshop on Volunteer Management in bondale, for an executive visit to the Rural Organizations, Guelph, Ontario, Zambian Agricultural Research and Ex- December 13 and 14. tension project (ZAMARE).

Luis R. Zavaleta , Agricultural Ento- Sam H. Johnson , Agricultural Econom- mology, will be on leave of absence in ics, will be in Bangladesh from Febru- 1984 to conduct research with the In- ary 3 to March 10 working with staff stituto Internacional de Cooperacion at the Bangladesh Agricultural Re- para la Agricultura, Lima, Peru. search Council. From March 11 to 18 he will be at Chiang Mai University,

Frank J. Stevenson , Agronomy, will Thailand, discussing a study on the present the keynote lecture and a pa- economics of soybean production. Dr. per on nitrogen transformations in Johnson will also visit the Asian Veg- soil at the International Symposium on etable, Research and Development Cen- Nitrogen and Ecosystems, Lahore, Paki- ter, Taiwan, to assist Jane Gleason, stan, January 2 to 16. Ph.D. student in Agricultural Econom- ics, in planning her field research on

Jack M. Widholm , Agronomy, will pre- farmer decision making. sent an invited paper entitled "Selec- tion and Characterization of Plant James B. Sinclair , Plant Pathology, Cell Mutants for Molecular Biology will visit Zambia, Zimbabwe, Kenya, Studies" at a plant microbiology con- and Nigeria as part of a research ference in Jerusalem, Israel, January project on Pyrenochaeta leafspot of 9 to 13. soybean, February 3 to March 2.

James B. Sinclair , Plant Pathology, - and Earl D. Kellogg , Thomas A. McCow INTERPAKS INTERCHANGE NEWSLETTER en , and John W. Santas , OIA, will par- ticipate in the Title XII seminar on Volume 1, Number 1 of INTERPAKS Inter- international agriculture policy being change was published in November 1983. held at the University of Arkansas, INTERPAKS, the International Program Fayettevi lie, January 8 to 10. for Agricultural Knowledge Systems, is a new, interdisciplinary program at

Chia V. Yapi , a graduate student from UIUC dedicated to improving the trans- the Ivory Coast in the Department of fer and utilization of knowledge in Animal Science, was awarded a schol- developing countries. A copy of the arship to attend the 1984 Internation- newsletter can be obtained from the al Stockman's School, San Antonio, INTERPAKS Office, 113 Mumford Hall. Texas, January 8 to 13. The school is sponsored by Winrock International. INTERPAKS TRAINING COURSE

Earl D. Kellogg , Office of Interna- tional Agriculture, will speak on un- INTERPAKS is sponsoring a five-week derstanding world hunger at the Quad short course for overseas administra- Cities Development Education Group, tors of extension services from Sep- January 17. tember 17 to October 19, 1984. The course will cover all aspects of di- Carolyn M. Pribble and Earl D. Kel - recting and operating extension serv- logg , OIA, will be in Zambia from ices, including study of alternative January 22 to February 4 with William systems and the essential conditions P. Hytche, Chancellor, University of for effectiveness. Additional infor- Maryland, Eastern Shore, and Gilbert mation on the short course is availa- Kroening, Dean, School of Agriculture, ble from Burton E. Swanson, 3010 For-

Southern Illinois University at Car- eign Languages Bldg. , 333-1993. SEMINAR VISITORS RECENTLY ON CAMPUS

January 25 Transformation for Rural Recent visitors with Fred A. Kummerow,

Development in Tanzania - B.C. Nindi, Food Science, include Peter Frangopol , visiting Fulbright scholar from the Head of the Department of Biophysics, University of Dar es Salaam, Institute of Physics, Bucharest, Ro- Tanzania. mania, October 26 to November 5; and

4:00 p.m., 426 Mumford Hall. Nicholi Balta , Department of Cardiolo- gy, Bucharest Medical School, Romania, November 7 to 10.

INTERNATIONAL AG INTERN PROGRAM Leif Berndtsson , Economic adviser for the County Agriculture Board, Sweden, The Ohio State University Internation- met with Duane E. Erickson, Charles E. al Agricultural Intern Program pro- Cagley, Delraar F. Wilken, Royce A. vides short-term (1 to 3 months) and Hinton, Steven T. Sonka , and Richard long-term (4 to 12 months) opportuni- P. Kelser, all in Agricultural Econom- ties for study and on-the-job training ics, on October 24. His schedule was for agricultural students. Partici- arranged by Thomas L. Frey. pating countries include the United

Kingdom, France, Germany, the Nether- F. Andrew Smith , University of Ade- lands, and Switzerland. Further in- laide, Australia, discussed research formation is available from Charles E. on nitrogen metabolism with John S. Olson, 104 Mumford Hall, 333-3380. Titus, Horticulture, November 1.

S. Smith , Waite Agricultural Research Institute, University of Adelaide, VISITING RESEARCHERS AND TRAINEES Australia, visited UIUC and the Col- lege of Agriculture, November 1 and 2.

Peter Egwin , Eugenia Medical School,

Department of Biochemistry, Nigeria, Abdul lah Al i , Rector, Universitas is a visiting scholar in the Depart- Syiah Kuala, Darussalam, Banda Aceh, ment of Food Science. He is working Indonesia, visited the College of with Fred A. Kummerow on heart disease Agriculture from November 20 to 25. research. Dr. Ali received his Ph.D. in 1976 from Animal Science.

Tom Aire , Professor and Head of the

Department of Veterinary Anatomy, Uni- Luis Silvela Sangro , INIA, Madrid, versity of Ibadan, Nigeria, will con- Spain, spent the week of November 28 duct research on sperraiogenesis and with the Maize Genetics Group in sperm maturation in the Morphology Di- Agronomy. vision of Veterinary Biosciences. Dr.

Aire arrived in December and can be H.A. Al-Jibouri , FAO/Rome, met with contacted at 333-6825. INTSOY staff on December 5 to discuss a soybean production short course to

Malika Bouquentar , Institute Agronomi- be held in Turkey in 1984. Dr. Al-Ji- que et Veterinaire, Rabat, Morocco, bouri also discussed FAO work in China arrived at UIUC January 4 to begin a with Robert W. Howell, Agronomy, and one-year nondegree program with James James B. Sinclair, Plant Pathology. B. Sinclair, Plant Pathology. Ms.

Bouquentar is sponsored by the U.S. Li Guang-Yi , Northwestern College of Agency for International Development Forestry, Wu-Guong, Shaanxi, China, through a University of Minnesota visited Poo Chow and others in Forest- project. ry during the week of January 3. .

Jose Carlos Paes de Almeide , Rotary David J. Miller , Agriculture Communi- International Exchange participant cation and Training Systems (ACTS), from Sao Paulo, Brazil, met with Danny Columbia, Missouri, visited UIUC on R. Erickson, Theodore Hymowitz, and December 12 and 13 to meet with INTER- Joseph A. Jackobs, Agronomy, James B. PAKS staff, including J.B. Claar, IN- Sinclair, Plant Pathology, and Thomas TERPAKS Director, Jerry W. Robinson, A. McCowen and John W. Santas, OIA, on Agricultural Economics, James F. December 7. His schedule was arranged Evans, Agricultural Communications, by J.M. Schultz Seed Co., Dieterich, and Burton E. Swanson, Vocational and Illinois Technical Education. Mr. Miller also met with William R. Oschwald, Coopera-

H.C. Dubourquier and G. Albagnac , tive Extension Service. INRA Research Center, Lille, France,

discussed research on bacteria from James F. Ragin , Chief of Party, ZAMARE raethanogenic ecosystems with Marvin P. project, Zambia, spent December 20 Bryant, Microbiology Division of Dairy and 21 with OIA staff to review prog- Science, December 5 to 7. ress of the project.

Ronald G. Dedert , ZAMARE project re- Karel Vorisek , University of Agricul- search liaison extension officer, vis- ture in Prague, Czechoslovakia, met sited William N. Thompson and others with Carl M. Parsons and others in in OIA, Director William R. Oschward, Animal Science from January 3 to 8 to Cooperative Extension Service, and discuss research on the effects of in- William H. Luckmann, Agricultural En- testinal microflora on nutrient utili- tomology, December 6 to 8. zation in animals.

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INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES Lowell D. Hill , Agricultural Econom-

ics; and Earl D. Kellogg , OIA.

Martin M. Meyer , Horticulture, attend-

ed the 33rd annual meeting of the In- Mary Keith , Foods and Nutrition, and

ternational Plant Propagators Society, Earl D. Kellogg , Office of Interna- Washington, D.C., December 3 to 6. tional Agriculture, spoke about world hunger and malnutrition during a pro-

Jack B. Claar , INTERPAKS, was in Sier- gram for the Quad Cities Development ra Leone for two weeks in January on Education Group, January 17, Rock Is- an extension evaluation project with land, Illinois. the U.S. Agency for International De- velopment (USAID). Frederick C. Fliegel and John C. van

Es , Agricultural Economics, represent-

Earl D. Kellogg , Office of Interna- ed INTERPAKS at the seminar entitled tional Agriculture, made a presenta- "Strategies for Agricultural Extension tion on public education in food and in the Third World," held January 18 agricultural development to the Board to 20 at the Agricultural University, for International Food and Agricultur- Wageningen, Netherlands. They also al Development (BIFAD), Washington, visited the Agricultural Extension and

D. C. , January 5 Rural Development Centre at the Uni- On January 11 Dr. Kellogg presented versity of Reading, England, to obtain a paper on world hunger at a forum en- information about their certificate titled "Changing Face of World Hun- and graduate programs for third world ger," Decatur, Illinois. extension personnel, and the Interna- tional Service for National Agricul- Research (ISNAR), The Hague, James W. Smith , graduate student in tural Dairy Science from Guyana, and Alan Netherlands.

Chestnut , graduate student in Animal

Science, were awarded scholarships to Sam H. Johnson , Agricultural Econom- attend the 1984 International Stock- ics, attended the Technical Committee man's School, San Antonio, Texas, Jan- Meeting of the Farming Systems Support uary 8 to 13. The school is sponsored Project, University of Florida, by Winrock International. Gainesville, January 19 and 20.

The Illinois Agricultural Leadership William N. Thompson , Office of Inter- Seminar on U.S. Economic, Agricultural national Agriculture, participated in and International Trade Policy was the Midwest Universities Consortium held at UIUC from January 12 to 14. for International Activities (MUCIA) The program was planned by Harold D. board meeting, January 26, Chicago,

Gui ther , Robert G.F. Spitze , and Illinois. Lyle E. Hanson , Veterinary Medicine, UIUC was part of a U.S. tour sponsored was in Jamaica the week of January 22 by the American Soybean Association for the Pan American Health Organiza- (ASA), Winrock International, and the tion's project on control of leptospi- Foreign Agriculture Service of USDA. rosis in animals. They were escorted by Terry Foley, ASA's China Office Director.

Harold Kauffman , INTSOY, spoke

about agriculture in less developed Howard E. Olson , Director, Interna- countries at the 56th Annual Winter tional Agriculture, Southern Illinois Meeting of the Illinois Chapter of the University, Carbondale, visited UIUC American Society of Farm Managers and on January 19 for discussions on col- Rural Appraisers, February 2, Decatur. laborative work in Zambia and Paki- stan.

Richard E. Ford , Plant Pathology, and

Michael E. Irwin , Agricultural Ento- Karel Vorisek , University of Agricul- mology, will participate in the annual ture, Suchdol, Czechoslovakia, visited board meeting of the Consortium for with Marvin P. Bryant and Robert B. International Crop Protection (CICP), Hespell, Dairy Science, January 5. Berkeley, California, February 2 and 3. VISITING RESEARCHERS VISITORS RECENTLY ON CAMPUS

Vijay Chowdhury , Haryana University,

Brian Dibble , Head of the School of Hissar, India, arrived at UIUC in De- English, Western Australian Institute cember to work for one year with Jack of Technology, conferred with faculty M. Widholm, Agronomy, on soybean tis- in Agricultural Communications on Jan- sue culture. uary 9 and 10 about the recently-es-

tablished exchange program in agricul- Phillip Johnson , England, recently be- tural communications. Dr. Dibble also gan a two-year residency in equine met with faculty in the Study Abroad medicine in Veterinary Clinical Medi- Office, and the Colleges of Communica- cine. tions, Liberal Arts and Sciences, and Fine and Applied Arts. INTERNATIONAL GRANT SUPPORT

Csaba Lajos Marton , pathologist-breed- er with the Hungarian Academy of Sci- March 15, 1984, is the application ences, visited the Maize Genetics deadline for Office of International Group in Agronomy on January 11 and Programs and Studies grant support for 12. Dr. Marton was sponsored by the international activities. Support U.S. National Research Council. will be available for (a) individual or joint faculty research activities

Liao Jingya , Zhang Xinqin , and Liu with an international dimension or (b)

Changmo , all in the Bureau of Animal conference programs (on-campus or Husbandry, Sichuan Provincial Depart- abroad) having an international focus ment of Agriculture and Animal Hus- which are part of an on-going research

bandry, Pu Jiabi , General Station of program or which will lead to the pub- Breeding and Improvement for Animal lication of conference papers or pro-

and Poultry, Sichuan, and Li Hua , in- ceedings. This grant program is un- terpreter, People's Republic of China, restricted to academic discipline. met with Sidney L. Spahr, Robert A. Contact the Office of International Easter, and other faculty in Dairy Programs and Studies at 3014 Foreign Science and toured the UIUC Dairy Farm Languages Building, 333-1990, for ap- on January 17. The team's visit to plication requirements. :

SEMINARS The College of Agriculture and the College of Veterinary Medicine welcome February 1 Communications as Part of the following new foreign graduate the Caribbean Agricultural Extension students to the University of Illinois Project (CAEP-II) - John H. Behrens, at Urbana-Charapaign: Agricultural Communications. 4:00 p.m., 426 Mumford Hall.

AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS: February 8 Planning the NWFP Agri-

Mohammad Nauab Khan , Pakistan, cultural University in Peshawar, Paki- fartn management; Oscar A. Nunez, stan - Roger G. Kallman, Skidmore, Honduras. agricultural finance; Owings, and Merrill, Architects, Chi-

Theophile Ranaivoavisoa , Mada- cago, Illinois. gascar, rural community development; 4:00 p.m., 426 Mumford Hall.

Hector . Zapata , Honduras, quantitative and research methods. February 15 Forestry Research in the Cloud Forests of Colombia - Jeffrey 0. AGRONOMY Dawson, Forestry.

Eduardo Bvun , Argentina, plant 4:00 p.m., 426 Mumford Hall. breeding; Kazuo Tovii , Japan, soybean production. February 22 Livestock Production in Ghana - Daniel B. Okai, Department of DAIRY SCIENCE: Animal Science, University of Science

, Ghana. Ja mes W . Smith , Guyana dairy and Technology, Kumasi, management. 4:00 p.m., 426 Mumford Hall.

FAMILY AND CONSUMER ECONOMICS: February 29 Report on the World Shim Yt>ung, Korea. Bank/IDA Livestock Development and Marketing Study for the Ugandan Agri- FOODS AND NUTRITION: cultural Rehabilitation Project -

Han a a Heme da, Egypt ; Na lini Mohamed E. Sarhan, Agricultural Eco-

Ayya, India; N e e Ian Go el , nomics. India. 4:00 p.m., 426 Mumford Hall.

HORTICULTURE: March 7 An Entomologist's Search for

Geovge Frsiji Fadi , Lebanon, Wild Glycine in Australia vegetable production. Michael E. Irwin, Agricultural Ento- mology. TEXTILES, APPAREL, AND INTERIOR DE- 4:00 p.m., 426 Mumford Hall. SIGN:

Sook Kuk , Korea, textiles and March 14 Spring Break, no seminar, clothing. March 21 Language, Literacy, and VETERINARY MEDICINE: Agricultural Development in Sub-Sahar- - Miranda El-Avar , Egypt, veteri- an Africa Eyamba Bokamba, Linguis- nary biosciences. tics and African Studies Program. 4:00 p.m., 426 Mumford Hall. AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH POLICY SEMINAR University of Minnesota, 1420 Eckles Avenue, St. Paul, MN 55108, USA, Tele- An Agricultural Research Policy Semi- phone: (612) 373-0725, telex: TWX nar will be held at the University of 298421. Minnesota from April 8 to 19, 1984. Module I, April 9 to 13, will focus on agricultural research policy issues of FOREIGN VISITORS IN 1983 concern to both North American and international participants. Module The Office of International Agricul- II, April 13 to 19, will focus on ture coordinated itineraries for 168 issues that are of particular concern people from 24 countries during 1983. to international participants. For This number does not include the many more information contact Dr. Free visiting scientists who directly con- Hoefer, Agricultural Extension Serv- tacted faculty members in departments ice, Office of Special Programs, in the College of Agriculture.

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INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES Munir Cheryan , Food Science, presented an invited lecture entitled "Membrane T. Albert Senwah finished his M.S. ,- de- Applications in Food and Biotechnolo- gree in Plant Pathology and returned gy" at the Association of Food Science to Liberia, where he will be a Teach- and Technology, Bombay, India, January ing Assistant at the University of Li- 19. Dr. Cheryan also visited the Na- beria, Monrovia. tional Dairy Development Board, Anand, to discuss developments in dairy tech-

William N. Thompson , Office of Inter- nology, and Bombay University Depart- national Agriculture, was appointed to ment of Chemical Technology to study the 1984 International Affairs Steer- developments in fermentation research. ing Committee of the National Associa- tion of State Universities and Land- Daniel Okai , visiting professor in An- Grant Colleges (NASULGC). imal Science from the University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana,

Stanley E. Curtis and Philip J. Dziuk , visited the University of Edmonton, Animal Science, spoke on swine repro- Alberta, Canada, during the latter duction, ecology, and health at the part of January to consult on proce- Alberta Pork Seminar, Banff, Canada, dures for evaluating tropical feed January 18 to 20. ingredients.

Barbara A. Yates , Comparative Educa- David H. Baker , Animal Science, re- tion and Director of the Office of cently served as a World Bank consul- Women in International Development, tant on an agricultural development served as rural sociologist on the de- project in Hungary. sign team of a USAID agricultural On March 13 Dr. Baker will lecture cropping systems project in Rwanda, at the University of Guelph, Canada, January 21 through February 23. on protein-amino acid nutrition and me taboli sm.

Jean M. Due , Agricultural Economics, was one of 18 evaluators for the U.S.

Agency for International Development/ Thomas L. Frey , Agricultural Econom- Board for International Food and Agri- ics, was in Canada from January 28 to culture Development on the use of Ti- February 3. He made three presenta- tle XII strengthening grants in land- tions to the Farm Business Challenges' grant universities, January 29 to 31. 1984 Conference, Vancouver, and led On February 28 Dr. Due spoke on two workshop sessions on coordinated women in African development at the financial statements for agriculture Institute of International Affairs, at the Managing Farm Technology Semi- Bradley University, Peoria. nar, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. .

John W. Santas , OIA, attended a work- ture Gilts," which is coauthored by shop organized by Coverdale, Inc., to Robert A. Easter and Peter J. Bechtel. explain the short-term training they provide foreign students on management for development managers, February 1, VISITING RESEARCHERS AND TRAINEES Washington, D.C.

Indra Kanwar , mycologist from Banga-

Chester B. Baker , Agricultural Econom- lore, India, is studying and conduct- ics, presented an invited paper at the ing research with James B. Sinclair, annual meeting of the Australian Agri- Plant Pathology, on the histopathology cultural Economics Society, University of soybean seeds. Dr. Kanwar began of Sydney, February 5 to 1 1 work in January and will be at UIUC through August.

Jenny Kogan , Agricultural Entomology, was in Costa Rica from February 12 to Ziming Chen , Institute of Soils and 25 as information specialist on a Fertilizer, Chinese Academy of Agri- project to strengthen regional and na- cultural Sciences, Beijing, arrived at tional capabilities in integrated pest UIUC in September for one year's study management in Central America and Pan- in soil fertility with L. Touby Kurtz ama. The project was sponsored by and Theordore R. Peck, Agronomy. USAID/ROCAP through a contract with the Consortium for International Crop Ruzhen Chang , Institute of Crop Germ- Protection (CICP). plasm Research, Beijing, China, ar- rived in early January to spend one William N. Thompson and Thomas A. Mc - year with Richard L. Bernard, Agrono-

Cowen , OIA, were in Pakistan for two my, working on soybean germplasm. weeks during February to continue planning for the North West Frontier Province Agricultural University, VISITORS COMING TO CAMPUS Peshawar.

Dr. Thompson also made a presenta- Lyuben Glogov , Director of the Soil tion on staff orientation at the Title Productivity Institute 'Pushkarev' , XII Workshop in Hawaii, February 27 to Bulgaria, will discuss corn production March 9. techniques and corn physiology with Agronomy staff on March 22 and 23.

Johannes M. J. de Wet , Agronomy, will Dr. Glogov will be accompanied by Dr. discuss progress on cooperative re- Christo Mermerski , Bulgarian Agricul- search with scientists at the Centro tural Counselor, Washington, D.C. The Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maiz trip is sponsored by the Scientific y Trigo, (CIMMYT), Mexico City, Mexi- and Technical Exchange Division of the co, March 11 to 14. The project uses Office of International Cooperation exogenous DNA to transfer characters and Development (STC/OICD) of USDA. among maize breeds.

E. Sgaravatti , Plant Production and

Robert A. Easter , Gilbert R. Hollis , Protection Division, FAO/Rome, will and Louis Russell , Animal Science, visit INTSOY and the College of Agri- will participate in the British Socie- culture on March 28 and 29. John W. ty of Animal Production meetings, Santas, OIA, 113 Mumford Hall, 333- Scarborough, England, March 26 to 28. 3638, is arranging his schedule. Mr. Russell will present a paper enti- tled "An Evaluation of the Erythrocyte Charles H. Antholt , AID/Washington Glutamate Oxaloacetate Transaminase Asia Bureau, will visit UIUC on April Activity Coefficient as a Biochemical 18 and present the International Agri- Indicator of Vitamin B6 Status in Ma- culture Wednesday seminar (see list). .

Hari L. S. Tandon , European Nitrogen April 18 Agriculture in Bangladesh Service Program, New Delhi, India, - Charles H. Antholt, Chief, Agricul- will visit the Agronomy Department ture and Rural Development Office, from April 18 to 21. Dr. Tandon re- Asia Bureau, U.S. Agency for Interna- ceived his Ph.D. degree from UIUC in tional Development, Washington, D.C. 1968. His schedule is being arranged 4:00 p.m., 426 Mumford Hall. by Theodore R. Peck, N-121 Turner Hall, 333-4256, and by L. Touby Kurtz, April 25 Zambia Agricultural Re- 333-4377. search and Extension Project (ZAMARE): An Executive Visit - Earl D. Kellogg and Carolyn M. Pribble, Office of In- SEMINARS ternational Agriculture. 4:00 p.m., 426 Mumford Hall. March 7 Women's Contributions to the Farming Systems and Household Income in Zambia - Jean M. Due, Agricultural Economics VISITORS RECENTLY ON CAMPUS noon, 1038 Foreign Languages Building.

(African Studies Program Lecture) Ram Sagi , Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, met with Sidney March 7 An Entomologist's Search for L. Spahr, Dairy Science, Errol D. Rod- Wild Glycine in Australia - Michael E. da, Agricultural Engineering, and Irwin, Agricultural Entomology. Hoyle B. Puckett, USDA/ Agricultural 4:00 p.m., 426 Mumford Hall. Engineering, on January 28, to coordi- nate a joint research project on auto- March 21 Language, Literacy, and mation and electronics for dairy pro- Agricultural Development in Sub-Sahar- duction. an Africa - Eyamba Bokamba, Linguis-

tics and African Studies Program. Peter J. Burke , Chief Agricultural Re- 4:00 p.m., 426 Mumford Hall. porter at Radio New Zealand, Welling- ton, visited UIUC on February 8 and 9. March 28 Spanish Language Training He discussed UIUC's B. S. degree pro- for Agriculturalists - Bruce H. Main- gram in Agricultural Communications

ous , UIUC Language Learning Labora- with James F. Evans, and the College tory. of Agriculture's radio and T.V. pro- 4:00 p.m., 426 Mumford Hall. gramming with Gary L. Beaumont, Agri- cultural Communications. Mr. Burke April 4 Some Problems Facing Agri- also met with WILL radio staff. cultural Development in the Sultanate

of Oman - Thomas Gi llard-Byers, Agri- Edward P. Cunningham , Deputy Director cultural Economics. of the Agricultural Institute of Ire- 4:00 p.m., 426 Mumford Hall. land and Professor of Animal Genetics at Dublin University, visited UIUC on April 11 Report on a Visit to Zambia February 17. Dr. Cunningham discussed - Earl D. Kellogg, Office of Interna- biotechnology research in animal sci- tional Agriculture. ence with W. Reginald Gomes, Dairy noon, 1038 Foreign Languages Building. Science, and biotechnology research in (African Studies Program Lecture) plant sciences with Johannes M. J. de Wet and Theodore Hymowitz, Agronomy. April 11 When World's Collide: Amer- He also met with Peter J. Bechtel and ican and Western European Agricultural Daniel Gianola, Animal Science. Policies - Susan E. Offutt, Agricul-

tural Economics. Gerard LaBonne , INRA, Montpellier, 4:00 p.m., 426 Mumford Hall. France, discussed aphid trapping and transmission of plant diseases with dum will facilitate cooperative agri- Agricultural Entomology, Plant Pathol- cultural research and the generation ogy, and Illinois Natural History Sur- and delivery of agricultural technolo- vey staff, February 19 to 22. gy to increase the production and quality of food commodities in the

Tian-ren Yu , Head, Soil Electrochemis- tropics. Harold E. Kauffman, INTSOY try Division, Institute of Soil Sci- Director, 113 Mumford Hall, 333-6422, ence, Academia Sinica, Nanjing, China, is campus liaison officer. visited the Agronomy Department from February 20 to March 2 and presented a series of lectures on the applications INDIA FELLOWSHIPS 1985-1986 of electrochemical methods in soil and water research. Professor Yu was June 15, 1984, is the application sponsored by the the Committee on deadline for 1985-1986 Advanced Re- Scholarly Communication with the Peo- search Fellowships in India. There ple's Republic of China (CSCPRC). are no subject area restrictions, and people with limited or no experience in India are especially encouraged to I NT SOY /CI AT AGREEMENT FINALIZED apply. Applicants must be U.S. citi- zens at the post-doctoral or equiva- The International Soybean Program lent professional level. (INTSOY) of the University of Illinois Application forms and further in- at Urbana-Champaign has signed a Memo- formation are available from CIES, randum of Agreement with the Centro Indo-American Fellowship Program, 11 Internacional de Agricultura Tropical Dupont Circle, Suite 300, Washington, (CIAT), Cali, Colombia. The memoran- D.C. 20036, (202) 833-4985.

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INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES Mohamed E. Sarhan , Agricultural Eco- nomics, recently assumed a one-year marketing and international trade ad- Ibulaimu Kakoma , Veterinary Pathobiol- visor assignment on a USAID/USDA proj- ogy , visited the School of Medicine, Grenoble, France, February 8 to 18, ect in Khartoum, Sudan. His address is: M. E. Sarhan (C), Khartoum, State and Gregg W. Clabaugh , Veterinary Pa- thobiology, visited the Institute Me- Department (USAID) , Washington, D.C., rieux, Lyon, France, February 10 to 20523. March 11, for collaborative research

in malaria vaccine development. Thomas A. McCowen , Office of Interna- tional Agriculture, attended meetings (Association of U.S. Munir Cheryan , Food Science, presented of the AUSUDIAP a paper on the design of high-perform- University Directors of International ance bioreactors for the production of Agricultural Programs) Executive Board fuel alcohol from agricultural and and the Commission on International food processing wastes at the Eighth Agricultural Programs of NASULGC, International Biotechnology Symposium, Washington, D.C., March 19 and 20. New Delhi, India, February 19 to 25.

The paper was co-authored by Mohamed Sandra Brown , Forestry, presented a A. Mehaia, Food Science. paper entitled "Watershed Problems and Experiences in the Tropics" at the Foresters Workshop, Wayne L. Banwart , Agronomy, was in To- Second Caribbean ronto, Canada, from February 20 to 29 St. Vincent, March 19 to 22. to review the Canadian program on Long

Range Transport of Air Pollutants

Luis H. Camacho , INTSOY plant breeder,

Richard H. Hageman , Agronomy, is in Cali, Colombia, will be a consultant

Be'er Sheva , Israel, March 15 to April for FAO in Vietnam from April 16 to 28 to work on nitrogen metabolism and May 16. Dr. Camacho will advise on on the use of nitrate to improve bar- strengthening the soybean cultivar im- ley grown in saline water. provement program. William N. Thompson , Office of Inter- tute (IRRI), Los Banos, Philippines, national Agriculture, met with the NA- and will also visit the Asian Vegeta- SULGC International Affairs Committee, ble Research and Development Center, Washington, D.C., on March 15. He al- Taiwan, to discuss continued collabo- so participated in discussions with ration in soybean microbiology. AID/Washington, AID/ Islamabad, and

World Bank Personnel on the Pakistan Lowell D. Hill , Agricultural Econom- Agricultural Education, Research and ics, spoke at the annual convention of Extension Project. the Ontario Corn Producers Associa- tion, Toronto, Canada, March 26 to 28.

Delbert T. Dahl , Agricultural Communi- cations, Violet M. Malone , Extension VISITING RESEARCHERS AND TRAINEES

Education, and J. B. Claar , INTERPAKS, will conduct three one-week workshops Peter Ingliss , a cattle ranch manager on the principles of effective exten- from Echunga, Australia, is visiting sion work and appropriate instruction- the Animal Science Department and au- al techniques. Organized by INTERPAKS diting classes in breeding, market an- (International Program for Agricultur- imal selection, sheep production, and al Knowledge Systems), the workshops meat science. Mr. Ingliss was awarded will be held in Zambia from March 23 this trip for winning the Australian through April 19 for provincial agri- National Angus Judging Contest. cultural officers and for staff from the University of Zambia, the two Zam- Gu Xuan-Hong , Department of Agricul- bian Colleges of Agriculture, and the tural Mechanization, Northeast Agri- Natural Resources Development College. cultural College, Harbin, China, is working with Donnell R. Hunt, Agricul-

Donald E. Kuhlman , Agricultural Ento- tural Engineering, on machinery opera- mology, and John K. Bouseman , Economic tion and maintenance, and alternative Entomology, will be in the Central fuels. Professor Gu, who will be at Province, Zambia, during April to as- UIUC through 1984, can be contacted in sist the Zambian Agricultural Research Room 360-T Agricultural Engineering and Extension (ZAMARE) Project's adap- Sciences Building. tive research planning team. They Mara Mikula graduate student will advise on insect control in soy- V. , at beans, maize, and sunflowers; bionom- the University of Sydney, Australia, ics and systematics of insects; and is a visiting scholar in Agricultural development of extension training pro- Communications during 1984. Ms. Miku- grams in entomology. la is conducting a comparative study of Australian and U.S. agricultural

John W. Santas , Office of Internation- publications. al Agriculture, will participate in the sixth (and final) seminar for re- Wang Peiyin , Soybean Research Insti- cipients of the Kellogg Foundation/ tute, Hei longj iang Academy of Agricul- Partners of the Americas Fellowship in tural Sciences, Harbin, China, arrived International Development, April 8 to March 13 to work for nine months with 14, Washington, D.C. The seminar Randall L. Nelson, Agronomy, on soy- theme is future relationships, models, bean breeding. Ms. Wang is sponsored and policies. by FAO.

Harold E. Kauffman , INTSOY, will par- I. S. Bhandal , Assistant Professor of ticipate in the seminar on "Interna- Botany, Punjab University, India, has tional Agricultural Research Centers a one-year postdoctoral fellowship and Biotechnology," April 23 to 27, at from the government of India to work the International Rice Research Insti- with Jack D. Paxton, Plant Pathology. SEMINARS April 25 Zambia Agricultural Research

and Extension Project (ZAMARE) : An April 4 Some Problems Facing Agricul- Executive Visit - Earl D. Kellogg and tural Development in the Sultanate of Carolyn M. Pribble, Office of Interna-

Oman - Thomas Gillard-Byers , Agricul- tional Agriculture. tural Economics. 4:00 p.m., 426 Mumford Hall. 4:00 p.m., 426 Mumford Hall. (International Agriculture Seminar) (International Agriculture Seminar) May 2 Farming System Development in April 11 Report on a Visit to Zambia- the Dominican Republic - David Will- Earl D. Kellogg, Office of Interna- mot, Agronomy. tional Agriculture. 4:00 p.m., 426 Mumford Hall. noon, 1038 Foreign Languages Building (International Agriculture Seminar) (African Studies Program Lecture)

April 11 When Worlds Collide: Ameri- VISITORS COMING TO CAMPUS can and Western European Agricultural

Policies - Susan E. Offutt, Agricul-' Hari L. S. Tandon , European Nitrogen tural Economics. Service Program, New Delhi, India, 4:00 p.m., 426 Mumford Hall. will visit the Agronomy Department (International Agriculture Seminar) from April 19 to 21 and present two seminars (see listing). To meet with April 12 Genetic Engineering: Promise Dr. Tandon contact Theodore R. Peck, and Problems in Crop Production - N-121 Turner Hall, 333-9486, or L. Peter R. Day, Director, Plant Breeding Touby Kurtz, 333-4377. Institute, Cambridge, England.

7:30 p.m., Law Building Auditorium. Zhang Guo-dong , Vice Director of the (L. J. Norton Lecture Series) Soybean Research Institute, and Wang

Yumin , Heilongjiang Academy of Agri- April 13 Biotechnology and the Devel- cultural Sciences, Harbin, China, will oping Countries - Peter R. Day, Direc- visit UTUC during the first week of tor, Plant Breeding Institute, Cam- April as part of an FAO- funded project bridge, England. to strengthen soybean research. Their 3:30 p.m., 426 Mumford Hall. Open schedule is being arranged by John W. coffee meeting at 3:00 p.m. Santas, 113 Mumford Hall, 333-3638. (L. J. Norton Lecture Series)

April 18 Farming Systems Research/ Ex- INTERPAKS FUNDING APPROVED tension in Rwanda - Barbara A. Yates, Educational Policy Studies and Office The International Program for Agricul- of Women in International Development. tural Knowledge Systems (INTERPAKS) 4:00 p.m., 426 Mumford Hall. was awarded a five-year, $1.7 million (International Agriculture Seminar) research contract by the U. S. Agency for International Development. INTER- April 19 Sulfur in Indian Agriculture PAKS will explore ways to organize and - Hari L. S. Tandon, New Delhi, India. link agricultural research, education, 2:00 p.m., N-221 Turner Hall. and extension institutions to serve (Agronomy Seminar) the needs of farmers in developing countries. Research team members in- April 20 Some Aspects of Fertilizer clude: J. B. Claar, Burton E. Swanson, Efficiency Research in India - Hari L. and Earl D. Kellogg, Office of Inter- S. Tandon, New Delhi, India. national Agriculture, and Sam H. John- 11:00 a.m., N-221 Turner Hall. son, Andrew J. Sofranko, and Frederick (Agronomy Seminar) C. Fliegel, Agricultural Economics. ZAMARE PROJECT CONSULTANTS NSF GRANTS

Two short-term consultants on the Zam- September 1 is the deadline for grant bian Agricultural Research and Exten- applications to the Science in Devel- sion (ZAMARE) Project are: George P. oping Countries Program of the Nation-

Mullendore , Mississippi State Univer- al Science Foundation. Proposals sity, who will be in Zambia during should advance the international ex- April to do a study on constraints to change of scientific knowledge and cotton production and marketing; and contribute to the scientific infra-

Walter J. Brown , Marketing Research structure of developing countries. Analyst for J. G. Boswell Co., Los For specific guidelines contact the Angeles, who is preparing a report on Central Processing Section, National Zambia's relation to world market Science Foundation, Washington, D.C. trends for cotton and cotton products. 20550.

TITLE VI FELLOWSHIPS FOR LATIN AMER- INTERNATIONAL AGRI CULTURE ADVT SORY ICAN LANGUAGE AND AREA STUDIES COMMITTEE April 6 is the application deadline The International Agriculture Advisory for Title VT Latin American Language Committee met at UIUC on March 27 and and Area Studies Fellowships. Appli- 28. Committee members are: Richard cants must be UTUC graduate students J. Feltes, Continental Grain Co., Chi- and U.S. citizens. For more informa- cago; William H. Fugate, farmer, tion contact the Center for Latin Fairbury; Lyle G. Reeser, East Peori- American and Caribbean Studies, 1208 a; Willard Severns, farmer, Moweaqua; West California Street, Room 250, 333- James M. Spata, food scientist, Mont- 3182. gomery, Ohio; and Wilbert N. Steven- son, farmer, Streator. FULBRIGHT AWARDS UPDATE

Applications are still being accepted ICLAS CALL FOR PAPERS for the following 1984-1985 Fulbright Scholar Awards: May 7 is the deadline for proposals to Egypt - animal/plant/ soi 1 sciences present papers or organize panels for Greece - vocational agriculture, de- the Eighth Annual Meeting of the Illi- velopment training methods nois Conference of Latin Americanists. Morocco - any specialization in agri- The meeting, which will be held at the culture University of Illinois at Chicago from Sierra Leone - agronomy, agricultural November 15 to 17, will focus on mi- engineering gration to, from, and within Latin Turkey - plant sciences America and the Caribbean. Zimbabwe - animal production Send a one-page abstract of the Additional awards listed under bio- proposed presentation, your current logical sciences, chemistry, ecology address and telephone number, and a and environment, economics, education, one-paragraph resume to: UIC ICLAS sociology, and social work may also be Meeting Committee, c/o Professor Otto of interest to agriculture and veteri- Pikaza, Director, Latin American Stud- nary medicine faculty. ies, 1401 University Hall, Box 4348, CIES, 11 Dupont Circle, Suite 300, Chicago, IL 60680, or call Latin Amer- Washington, D.C. 20036, (202) 833- ican Studies at (312) 996-2445. 4950. VISITORS RECENTLY ON CAMPUS Eric Kueneman , Head of the Soybean Im- provement Program at the International

Maryevonne Cagnard , Institute Merieux, Institute of Tropical Agriculture, and Jacques Thelu , School of Medicine, Ibadan, Nigeria, discussed collabora- Grenoble, France, visited Veterinary tive programs on soybean cultivar Biosciences from February 21 to March testing and utilization with INTSOY 2 for collaborative research on malar- staff, March 27 to 31. ia vaccine development.

Peter Dorner , University of Wisconsin

Ji Lin Liu , Huazhong Agricultural Col- MUCIA campus coordinator, and Terance lege, Wuhan, China, visited the Maize Bigalke , MUCIA Assistant Director, Genetics Group in Agronomy from March visited UIUC on March 1 to discuss 12 to 14. staffing needs for the MUCIA Indonesi- an World Bank IX Education Project.

Mohammad Karim , NWFP Agricultural Uni- versity, Peshawar, Pakistan, and cur- Chin-Hsien Chiu , Taiwan Livestock Re- rently at SlU-Carbondale for post-mas- search Institute, discussed biogas ters study, discussed forage produc- production and utilization on large tion with Kenneth J. Moore and Don W. swine farms with limited crop land Graffis, Agronomy; genetic improvement with Donald L. Day and others in Agri- and production of maize with D. E. cultural Engineering, March 13 through Alexander, Agronomy; soybean produc- 19. tion with Joseph A. Jackobs and Dan R. Erickson, Agronomy; and UIUC's wheat breeding program with Henry k Jedlin- INT. AGR. CONSULTANTS ROSTER ski, Plant Pathology, March 13. The International Training Division of the Office of International Coopera-

Ibrahim Mohamed , Vice President for tion and Development, U.S. Department Administrative and Student Affairs, of Agriculture, maintains a roster of Tishriin University, Lattakia, Syria, people interested in teaching agricul- visited UIUC on March 12. He met with ture courses in the U.S. and overseas.

Upson S. Garrigus , Donald E. Becker, The courses are from two- to twelve- Richard M. Forbes, Larry L. Berger, months long and cover the physical, Neal R. Merchen, and George C. Fahey, biological, and social sciences as- Animal Science; John W. Santas, Office pects of agriculture as well as pro- of International Agriculture; Robert gram management. E. Brown, Overseas Projects and For- For additional information contact eign Visitors; Theodore L. Brown, Vice USDA OICD/ITD, Room 3541 South Build- Chancellor for Research; and Sammy J. ing, Washington, D.C. 20250, attn. Rebecca, Assistant Vice Chancellor for Lynne M. Teitelbaum; telephone (202) Administrative Affairs. 447-7881.

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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign , 61801; Bonnie Irwin, editor. Faculty and Departments are encouraged to submit Newsletter items. The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is an affirmative action/equal opportunity institution. The Zambia Agricultural Research and Extension (ZAMARE) Project strives to help the Government of the Republic of Zambia in its efforts to improve the welfare of small-scale farmers and increase national food production through the devel- opment and adaptation of relevant technology. An important aspect of the ZAMA- RE Project involves the upgrading of professional and technical skills within the Ministry of Agriculture and Water Development through advanced academic and practical training.

Pictured here with John R. Campbell, Dean of the College of Agriculture, Earl D. Kellogg, Associate Director of the Office of International Agriculture, and John W. Santas, International Agricultural Training, are: (back row, left to right) Ben Zimba and Enoch K. Sikapande; (front row) Agnes R. Kasaro, George Simakando, Edward M. Sakufiwa, and Merinas N. Nyendwa. Of the 24 ZAMARE train- ees currently studying in ten U.S. universities, these six are enrolled at UIQC.

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INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES ciation of International Agricultural Education during the founding meeting April 6. The Roy K. Simons , Horticulture, attended in Washington, D.C., on the International Dwarf Fruit Tree As- objective of the Association is to sociation annual meetings, March 3 to strengthen agricultural education as 7, Grand Rapids, Michigan. part of development programs in devel- oping countries.

Henry H. Hadley , Agronomy, planted

broom corn nurseries in Torreon and Margo De Ley , Office of Women in In- Hermosillo, Mexico, March 19 to 23, as ternational Development, was a consul- part of a project supported by the tant to Southern Illinois University Broom and Mop Division of the American at Carbondale's Office of Internation- Brush Manufacturers Association. al Education, April 10 and 11. Dr. De Ley spoke at workshops planned to sen-

David H. Baker , Animal Science, lec- sitize faculty and administrators to tured on protein and amino acid nutri- issues related to women in interna- tion and metabolism at the University tional development. of Guelph, Ontario, Canada, March 13

to 16. On April 3 Dr. Baker address- Thomas A. McCowen , Office of Interna- ed the Canadian Feed Manufacturers tional Agriculture, left April 16 for Association on the use of crystalline four weeks in Pakistan to continue lysine in low protein diets. work on the Pakistan Agricultural Education, Research, and Extension Two UIUC faculty participated in the Project National Institute of Agricultural En-

gineers meeting at Cambridge Univer- John W. Santas , Office of Internation-

sity, England, April 1 to 5 : Sidney al Agriculture, was in Pakistan the

L. Spahr , Dairy Science, presented a last two weeks of April to interview poster display on collection and anal- staff members of the Northwest Fron- ysis of milk production and conductiv- tier Province Agricultural University, ity data in real time; and Marvin R. Peshawar, who were nominated for sponsorship Paulsen , Agricultural Engineering, training in the U.S. under presented a paper. Dr. Paulsen also of the Pakistan Agricultural Educa- visited the Federal Research Institute tion, Research and Extension Project. of Cereal and Potato Processing at Dr. Santas will be in Colombo, Sri Detmold, West Germany. Lanka, May 5 to 8, to help plan the Soybean Utilization Workshop for Asia, Peraden- Burton E. Swanson , Agricultural Educa- scheduled for January 1985 in tion and INTERPAKS, was elected Chair- iya. The workshop will be sponsored person of the newly established Asso- by the Sri Lanka Soybean Project and .

INTSOY in collaboration with UNDP, US- firms will study and discuss microeco- AID, UNICEF, and CARE. nomic impact of the European Communi- ty. The program will include visits

Barbara A. Yates , Comparative Educa- to EC institutions in Germany, Luxem- tion and Office of Women in Interna- borg, Belgium, and France. tional Development, will participate Dr. Hill will be in Tokyo, Japan, in a workshop on the Rwanda Farming from May 3 to 20 to develop export Systems Project, University of Arkan- markets and marketing procedures for sas, Fayetteville, May 8 and 9. higher quality corn.

James B. Sinclair , Plant Pathology, Scott Jeckel , a senior in Agricultural will give an invitational paper enti- Economics, will live with a family in tled "Opportunities to Study Diseases England for four months this summer Overseas that Are of Concern to the- while working on a commercial farm op- U.S." at a workshop on exotic diseases eration. This trip was arranged sponsored by the USDA Plant Disease through the Ohio State University In- Research Laboratory, Frederick, Mary- ternational Intern Program. land, May 8 and 9.

Richard E. Ford , Plant Pathology, will VISITING RESEARCHERS AND TRAINEES lead a delegation of plant patholo- gists and entomologists to China, May Two FAO-sponsored scholars arrived at

8 to 28. The trip is organized by the UIUC in April: Rajinder Nanda , Indian Citizen Ambassador Program of People- Agriculture Research Institute, New to-People International. Delhi, is working with Joseph T. Wool- ley, Agronomy, on plant physiology;

Joseph A. Jackobs , Agronomy, will be and He Zhihong , Soybean Research In- in Antalya, Turkey, May 9 to 18, to stitute, Heilongjiang Academy of Agri- assist in a training course on soybean cultural Sciences, China, has a nine- production. month fellowship to work with Henry H. Dr. Jackobs will then travel to Hadley, Agronomy, on soybean genetics Khartoum, Sudan, to serve as a consul- and breeding. tant on soybean production to the Arab

Authority on Agricultural Investment Li Shaoshi , Diseases and Insect Pests Development of Crops Forecasting Station, Chang- sha, China, arrived in March for a

Sam H. Johnson , Agricultural Econom- one-year program with William G. Rue- ics, will present a paper entitled sink, Agricultural Entomology, on mod- "Impact of Sedimentation on Income eling and forecasting of insect pests. from Fishing Activities: Nam Pong Ba-

sin, Northeast Thailand" at the Work- Yang Jiu-sherng , Department of Botany, shop on Management of River and Reser- National Chung-Hsing University, Tai- voir Sedimentation in Asian Countries. wan, is working with Jack M. Widholm, The Workshop will be held at the East- Agronomy, on protoplast fusion and West Center, Honolulu, May 14 to 19. soybean cell pathogen interactions. Dr. Yang will be here through August.

Lowell D. Hill , the L. J. Norton Pro- fessor of Agricultural Marketing, was selected as a Fellow in the Third De- VISITORS RECENTLY ON CAMPUS velopment Seminar of the Institute of

European Studies, Freiburg, West Ger- Toyohiko Yoshihara , a veterinarian many, June 4 to 20. Twenty partici- with the Japan Racing Association, pants from U.S. universities and in- visited Miodrag Ristic, Veterinary

dustry, and executives from European Pathobiology , on April 5 and 6 to discuss research on the control of activities with College of Agriculture equine hemotropic diseases. faculty on March 28 and 29. Dr. Sgar- avatti met with D. E. Alexander, Rich- L. Bernard, Randall L. Nelson, Lyuben Glogov , N. Poushkarov Research ard Institute, Sofia, Bulgaria, and Chris - Gerald L. Ross, Danny R. Erickson, and Joseph A. Jac- to Mermerski , Agricultural Attache, Charles A. Smyth, Embassy of Bulgaria, Washington, D.C., kobs, Agronomy, William L. George, discussed corn physiology, metabolism, Horticulture, and Harold E. Kauffman, and agroeclogical considerations with INTSOY. He also visited Illinois Frederick E. Below and John J. Hes- Foundation Seeds. keth, Agronomy; tillage practices and farm structures with John C. Siemens Seaton Baxter , Head of the School of and Arthur J. Muehling, Agricultural Surveying and Construction Engineer- Engineering; and toured the swine ing, Robert Gordon Institute of Tech- progeny testing unit with Leif H. nology, Aberdeen, Scotland, spent Thompson, Animal Science, April 6. March 29 to April 2 at UIUC. He met with Arthur J. Muehling of Agricultur- and Stanley E. Curtis, Masato Suzuki , Japanese Institute of al Engineering Agricultural Mechanization, Omiya, Animal Science. discussed research on grain harvesting and instrumentation with Donnell R. Eliakim Kaaya , Financial Director, Na- Hunt and John W. Hummel, Agricultural tional Agriculture and Food Corpora- Engineering, April 9 through 11. tion, Tanzania, visited UIUC from April 1 through 4 for a program ar- of International Ademir Henning , seed pathologist at ranged by the Office the National Soybean Research Center Programs and Studies. Mr. Kaaya met (EMBRAPA/CNPSoja), Londrina, Brazil, with Delmar F. Wilken, Jean M. Due, visited UIUC from April 9 to 11. Dr. Allan G. Mueller, and Kathryn A. May- Henning presented a seminar and met bury, Agricultural Economics, and John with James B. Sinclair, C. Machado, W. Santas, OIA. and J. Bowman, Plant Pathology, Wil- liam N. Thompson, Office of Interna- Eight representatives of the Spanish tional Agriculture, Joseph A. Jackobs feed industry spent April 3 in a semi- and Richard L. Bernard, Agronomy, and nar given by Animal Science faculty. Marcos Kogan, Agricultural Entomology. The seminar covered state-of-the-art information on nutrition and breeding information Walter J. Brown , Marketing Research of swine and poultry, and Analyst for J. G. Boswell Co., Los An- dissemination to the livestock indus- geles, visited UIUC in mid-April to try. Elanco Products Company sponsor- complete an analysis of world cotton ed the group. market trends for the ZAMARE project.

The USAID Steering Committee for the NEW ZAMARE SUNFLOWER AGRONOMIST INTERPAKS Research Project met with INTERPAKS faculty on April 26 and 27. Val Jon Eylands will join the Zambia The steering committee members are: Agriculture Research and Extension sunflower agron- Marshall Godwin and Phil Church , Of- project in May as the W. Roath, fice of Agriculture, Don Anderson , Of- omist. He replaces William fice of Multisectional Development, who was on loan to the ZAMARE project State and Douglas Caton , consultant to AID. for two years from North Dakota University/ USDA, Fargo. Dr. and Mrs. in mid-May be- E. Sgaravatti , Seed and Plant Material Eylands will visit UIUC

Exchange Officer, FAO, Rome, Italy, fore traveling to Mt . Makulu Central discussed soybean and maize breeding Research Station. SEMINARS Yang Feng, President, and Li Shifen, Associate Professor of Rice Breeding, May 2 Farming System Development in Sichuan Agricultural College, China, the Dominican Republic - David Will- will visit UIUC from May 8 to 18 spon- mot, Agronomy. sored by the China Education Exchange 4:00 p.m., 426 Mumford Hall. Program. Their visit is being ar- (International Agriculture Seminar) ranged by Harold E. Kauffman, 113 Mum- ford Hall, 333-6422. May 21 Erosion and Soil Fertility - Michael Stocking, University of East Clifton Wharton, President of the Anglia, Norwich, England. State University of New York and in-

1:00 p.m., 204 Agr. Eng. Sci . Bldg. ternational agricultural development (Agricultural Engineering Seminar) specialist, will be awarded an honor- ary degree by the University of Illi- nois on May 13. VISITORS COMING TO CAMPUS WORKSHOP FOR INTERNATIONAL WOMEN Michael Stocking, University of East Anglia, Norwich, England, will visit "Homeward Bound: International Women UIUC on May 21 and 22, and present a Prepare Themselves" is the theme of a seminar (see listing above). Dr. Development Workshop for International Stocking has extensive experience in Women which will be held May 12 in Africa, especially Zimbabwe, and South Room 209 Illini Union. Contact Margo America. His schedule is being ar- De Ley or Romy Borooah, WID Office,

ranged by J. Kent Mitchell, 332-P Agr. 3022 Foreign Languages Bldg. , 333- Eng. Sci. Bldg., 333-4913. 1977, for further information.

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INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES ras, Guatemala, and Costa Rica for the American Soybean Association in coop-

Dean John R. Campbell , College of eration with USDA, April 30 to May 4. Agriculture, and Dean Joe R. Burnett

and Hercules C. Kazanas , College of Wayne L. Banwart , Agronomy, presented Education, visited Jamaica for four a poster and chaired a session on dif- days in mid-April. They discussed the ferential cultivar responses to air possible development of agricultural pollution at the XVI Air Pollution education programs between UIUC and Workshop, Banff, Alberta, Canada, the College of Agriculture, Jamaica. April 30 to May 4. They also met with representatives of

the U.S. Embassy, the USAID mission to Stanley E. Curtis , Animal Science, Jamaica, the Ministry of Youth and spoke at the International Minerals

Community Development, the Human Em- Symposium on Stress, May 3 to 7 , Puer- ployment and Resource Training to Viallarta, Mexico. (H.E.A.R.T.) Trust, and Agro-21, a

private agricultural enterprise. Earl D. Kellogg , Office of Interna- tional Agriculture, discussed World

Errol D. Rodda , Agricultural Engineer- Food Day activities with FAO and USAID ing, will be at the USAID mission in personnel, Washington, D.C., May 7-9. New Delhi, India, for two months, Dr. Kellogg will present an invited where he will help plan projects for lecture entitled "Internationalizing the processing and use of soybeans, the Agriculture Curriculum" at the an- and processing and storage of fruits nual conference of the National Asso- and vegetables. ciation of Colleges and Teachers of Agriculture, Washington State Univer-

Miodrag Ristic and Mark A. James , Vet- sity, Pullman, June 19.

erinary Pathobiology , visited the In-

stitute Merieux in Lyon, France, and Andrew J. Sofranko , Agricultural Eco-

the Serum Institute in Copenhagen, nomics, and Russell T. Odell , Agrono- Denmark, regarding joint research on my, were members of an evaluation team malaria. They also traveled to The for the MUCIA project at the Institute Hague, Netherlands, to meet with the of Agriculture and Animal Science publishers of the proceedings of the (IAAS), Rampur, Nepal, from May 10-30. Second International Conference on

Malaria and Babesiosis, which was held Jean M. Due , Agricultural Economics, in France last year. discussed farming systems research and on-farm trials with agricultural econ-

Gilbert R. Hollis , Animal Science, omists at CIAT (Centro Internaciona

presented seminars in Mexico, Hondu- de Agricultura Tropical) , May 12-19, Cali, Colombia. Dr. Due was accompa- of a World Bank development project, nied by Jeremiah Rugambisa , a graduate May 30 to June 16. student in Agricultural Economics from

Tanzania. Carolyn M. Pribble , Earl D. Kellogg ,

Thomas A. McCowen , and William N.

Davis L. Thomas and Leif H. Thompson , Thompson , Office of International Animal Science, were in Bulgaria from Agriculture, will participate in the May 12 to 23 as part of a cooperative 20th AUSUDIAP (Association of United Bulgarian Government/ UTUC sheep re- States University Directors of Inter- search project. national Agricultural Programs) Meet- ing, Washington State University,

Michael E. Irwin , Agricultural Ento- Pullman, June 26 to 28. The theme of mology, will be in South America from the program is "Implementing Technical May 21 to June 15 as a consultant for Assistance Projects." CICP (Consortium for International

Crop Protection). He will develop an John E. Bowman , recent Ph.D. in Plant integrated crop protection plan for Pathology, has accepted a postdoctoral Ecuador and expand an integrated crop fellowship in the wheat program at protection plan for Peru. CIMMYT (Centro Internacional de Mejor- Dr. Irwin will also visit the Cen- amiento de Maiz y Trigo), El Batan, tro Internacional de Agricultura Trop- Mexico, beginning in July. ical (CIAT), Cali, Colombia, to meet with INTSOY plant breeder Luis H. Marcia White , Ph.D. student in Agri- Camacho. cultural Economics, will be in St. Lucia, Barbados, and Antigua from May

William N. Thompson , Office of Inter- through February 1985 to collect data national Agriculture, spent two weeks for her Ph.D. thesis entitled "Alter- in Pakistan during May working on the native Paths to Economic Development USAID project at the Northwest Fron- in the Eastern Caribbean Islands." tier Province Agricultural University,

(NWFP-AU) , Peshawar. Jean M. Baker , junior in Agricultural

Jane S. Johnson , INTERPAKS, is in Communications, will study rural Pakistan to assist in the development journalism at the Western Australian and expansion of the library at the Institute of Technology (W.A. I.T.), NWFP-AU, May 23 to June 3. Ms. John- Perth, from July through December. son will also examine the computerized information system and the library Participating in the International 4-H collection at the Agricultural Exten- Youth Exchange (I.F.Y.E.) are: Robert sion and Rural Development Centre at F. Owens , Vermilion County Assistant the University of Reading, England, Agricultural Extension Agent, in Swe- June 4 and 5. den from April through October; Peter

Gary L. Johnson , Agricultural Eco- J. Irwin , junior in Agricultural Eco- nomics and Institute for Environmental nomics from Sangamon County, in Germa- Studies, is currently in Pakistan to ny from June through December; Debra design the computer system for the D. Sarver , junior in Retailing from NWFP-AU. Dr. Johnson will also travel Macon County, in Italy from June to Thailand to discuss computer train- through December; and Kimberly D.

ing for NWFP-AU faculty at the Asian Smith , junior in Agricultural Communi- Institute of Technology. cations from Wayne County, in Norway from June through December.

David H. Baker , Animal Science, is in

Budapest, Hungary, to study animal Lowell D. Hill , Agricultural Econom- production systems, feed milling oper- ics, received a research grant from ations, and rendering plants as part Exxon Corporation and the Institute for European Studies (IES) to study as a stable isotope tracer on N remo- and compare the methods used by Euro- bilization within soybeans. He is pean markets to measure grain mois- supported by an FAO fellowship. ture.

Benoit Cote , a doctoral candidate at Laval University, Quebec, Canada, ar- NEW CAMPUS MDCIA OFFICER rived at UIUC in May for a six-month project on symbiotic nitrogen fixation

T. John Kim , Urban and Regional Plan- and nitrogen cycling in forests and ning and Civil Engineering, is the new tree plantations. Mr. Cote is working MUCIA Liaison Officer and Associate in the laboratory of Jeffrey 0. Daw- Director of the Office of Internation- son, Forestry. al Programs and Studies (OIPS). Since its inception in 1964, the Midwest Hamdani Nasution , Institut Pertanian Universities Consortium for Interna- Bogor, Indonesia, will spend May 28 to tional Activities (MUCIA) has support- June 6 working with faculty in Agri- ed work in more than 100 countries, cultural Communications. This visit primarily in developing areas. Cur- is part of a six-week U.S. study pro- rently the University of Illinois is gram in rural communications sponsored lead university in three MUCIA proj- by the University of Wisconsin's Indo- ects: Bangladesh Business Management, nesia project. Dr. Nasution received Education, and Training Project; Indo- his Ph.D. in Animal Science from UIUC nesia Accountancy Education Training in 1983. Project; and Indonesia Technical Assistance for the University of North Sumatra. Contact Dr. Kim at 3010 For- VISITORS RECENTLY ON CAMPOS eign Languages Bldg. , 333-1993, for more information about MUCIA projects. John G. Bruce , regional pedologist, New Zealand Soil Bureau, discussed loess distribution and loess soils in VISITING RESEARCHERS AND TRAINEES New Zealand and the U.S. with Joe B. Fehrenbacher, Ivan J. Jansen, and

Heriberto Rodriguez , Department of others of the Agronomy pedology staff, Histology and Embryology, College of April 8 to 10. Medicine, Montevideo, Uruguay, has re- cently started his terra as a George A. Maude Knuttson , Sweden, discussed cur- Miller Fellow in Veterinary Clinical rent research with faculty in the Nu- Medicine. Dr. Rodriguez will develop trition Division of Dairy Science on a project on uterine motility in the April 13. postpartum cow and dog. His fellow- ship is cosponsored by the Departments Nathalie Laurent , Institute Merieux, of Veterinary Clinical Medicine and Lyon, France, visited the laboratories Veterinary Biosciences. of Miodrag Ristic, Veterinary Pathobi- ology, April 16 to 20, to learn tech-

J. D. S. Panwar , Indian Agricultural niques for Babesia bovis research. Research Institute, New Delhi, arrived The Institute Merieux and Veterinary at UIUC in mid-May for a four-month Medicine are collaborating on several postdoctoral research position with research projects. James E. Harper, USDA/ Agronomy. Dr.

Panwar will study soybean plants to Yang Feng , President and professor of evaluate the effect of source-sink animal science, and Li Shifen , profes- manipulations on nutrient mobilization sor of agronomy, Sichuan Agricultural and senescence, and work on a hydro- College, Yaan, China, visited UIUC May ponic study involving the use of 15N 9 through 11. They met with Dean John R. Campbell, Harold E. Kauffraan, INT- USAID/Pakistan, visited UIUC from May SOY, Benjamin A. Jones, Agricultural 22 to 25. He met with College of Experiment Station, William R. Osch- Agriculture staff to assist in preira- wald, Cooperative Extension Service, plementation activities on the North- William L. George, Resident Instruc- west Frontier Province Agricultural tion, Earl D. Kellogg, OIA, Upson S. University project. Garrigus and Aldon H. Jensen, Animal Science, and Loyd M. Wax, L. Frederick Welsh, Emerson D. Nafziger, and Jack VISITORS COMING TO CAMPUS M. Widholm, Agronomy. They also toured the Agronomy- PI ant Pathology The ZAMARE (Zambia Agricultural Re- South Farm, the Animal Research Farm, search and Extension) project adminis- and Moorman Farms. trative working group, comprised of representatives from UIUC, University

Leen Davidse , Agricultural University, o'f Maryland-Eastern Shore, Southern Wageningen, Netherlands, presented a Illinois University at Carbondale, and seminar on the biochemical mechanism the University of Hawaii, will meet at of action of acylalanine fungicides UIUC on June 4 and 5. and met with Jack D. Paxton, Plant Pa- thology, May 17 and 18. D. V. Singh , Department of Agronomy and Soils, Central Institute of Medic-

Ngalisame M. Bieme , General Manager of inal and Aromatic Plants, Council of the Cooperative de Plateau de Bateke Scientific and Industrial Research (COPLABAT), Kinshasa, Zaire, visited (CSIR), Lucknow, India, will visit UIUC on May 15 and 16 sponsored by an UIUC from June 5 to 8 to confer with Eisenhower Exchange Fellowship. Mr. soil scientists in Agronomy and Horti- Biame discussed corn and soybean pro- culture. He will present a seminar on duction with M. M. Pyndji, Plant Pa- June 5 at 1:15 p.m. in W-115 Turner thology, and D. E. Alexander, Danny R. Hall entitled "Development of Technol- Erickson, Marshall D. McGlamery, and ogy for Medicinal and Aromatic Emerson Nafziger, Agronomy. Plants." Dr. Singh is sponsored by the CSIR-NSF scientific exchange pro- N- Felix Manuel Cirio , advisor to the gram. Theodore R. Peck, Agronomy, Minister of Agriculture, Argentina, 121 Turner Hall, 333-9486, is arrang- visited UIUC from May 16 to 19 as part ing his schedule. of a 30-day U.S. tour sponsored by the

U.S. Information Agency. Mr. Cirio Vojin Anastasijevic , Livestock Re- discussed farm management and exten- search Institute, Beograd, Yugoslavia, sion with Royce A. Hinton, Philip Gar- will visit the Animal Science Depart- cia, Richard P. Kesler, and Earl R. ment from July 1 to 15, sponsored by Swanson, Agricultural Economics, and USDA/OICD. Upson S. Garrigus, 328 William R. Oschwald, Cooperative Ex- Mumford Hall, 333-0124, is arranging tension Service. He also visited the his schedule. Eric Rund farm in Pesotum and Ken-o- Kaw Farms in Sullivan. Upcoming visitors to Dairy Science

include: Juha Siik , Manager of the

H. deWet and Alan Penderis , National farmer's cooperative Hankkija, Oulu, Cooperative Dairies, South Africa, Finland, to view the use of microcom- discussed computer application on puters and the computer services dairy farms with Dairy Science facul- available to farmers, June 12 and 13;

ty, May 18. S. Hoekstra and G. v. d. Waay , Stichting Koppeling Me lkcont role-

J. Raymond Carpenter , Deputy Chief, Veevoeding; N. Benedictus , National Agriculture and Rural Development, Government Advisory Offcier; S. de ,

- SCHOLAR-IN-RESIDENCE PROGRAM Jong , dairy specialist; and G. Wissin kand and A. Ensing , forage laboratory directors, Netherlands, to review November 1, 1984, is the deadline for least-cost dairy rations and dairy receipt of proposals for the 1985-1986 feeding technology, July 5. Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence pro- Details of their schedules are gram. Through this program, a scholar available from Michael F. Hutjens, 315 from abroad can lecture for one year Animal Sciences Laboratory, 333-2928. at a U.S. academic institution. Addi- tional information and proposal forms may be obtained from the Council for INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS AT UIUC International Exchange of Scholars, 11 Dupont Circle, N.W., Washington, D.C., The Tenth International Congress on 20036. Animal Reproduction and Artificial In- semination will be held at UIUC from June 10 to 14. More than 1,000 scien- tists from 50 countries are expected FULBRIGHT SCHOLAR PROGRAM 1985-1986 to attend. William C. Wagner, Veter- inary Biosciences, is general secre- June 15 is the deadline for applica- tary for the congress and Glenn W. tions for Australasia, India, Latin Salisbury, professor emeritus of Dairy America and the Caribbean; and Septem- Science and former Director of the ber 15 is the deadline for Africa, Agricultural Experiment Station, will Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. preside over the congress. The local Awards in agriculture and related organizing committee includes Borje biological sciences include: Gustafsson and Gary Johnson, Veteri- Austria - microbiology nary Medicine, and Philip J. Dziuk, W. Bangladesh - rural development Reginald Gomes, and Charles N. Graves Brazil - agricultural economics from the College of Agriculture. The Cameroon - microbiology congress offers nearly 30 hours of Denmark - membrane physiology continuing education credit for regis- France - microbiological engineering trants. Additional information can be India - rural management, botany obtained from Dr. Wagner, 3526 Veteri- Ireland - botany nary Medicine Basic Sciences Bldg. Jamaica - aquaculture - 2001 S. Lincoln Ave., Urbana , IL Malawi plant pathology 61801; telephone (217) 333-2506. Malaysia - vocational education Morocco - applied sciences New Zealand - rural sociology IICA AGREEMENT SIGNED Portugal - rural development Romania - agronomy The University of Illinois recently Rwanda - all subfields of sociology signed a General Agreement for Techni- Sierra Leone - agronomy cal Cooperation with the Inter-Ameri- Turkey - horticulure, viniculture, can Institute for Cooperation on Agri- food processing and technology culture (IICA). The Agreement pro- Yugoslavia - wheat breeding vides for the International Soybean Zambia - agricultural engineering Program (INTSOY) to participate in Zimbabwe - crop production, soil sci- technical exchange and cooperative ence or physics, veterinary med. activities to develop and use soybeans More than 400 additional awards in 38 in IICA's 29 member countries. Harold countries are not restricted by disci- E. Kauffman, INTSOY Director, 113 Mum- pline. ford Hall, 333-6422, is campus liaison In addition, Bahrain, India, Roman- officer. ia, Sudan, Syria, Turkey, Yugoslavia, and the USSR will accept any speciali- tute, Budapest, Hungary; Khanyisile zation in the biological sciences. F. Mabuza, Ministry of Agriculture, Prospective applicants should Mbabane, Swaziland; Dulce Maria Munoz-

consult the Fulbright booklet and Perez , Mexico; Guillerrao Reyes V., contact the Program Officer at CIES PRESA S. A., Panama; Eduardo I. Moli- before submitting an application. na, Mexico; and Kyong-soo Hwang, Information booklets are available Korea. Conducted by L. S. Wei, this from the Fellowship Office, 107 Coble is the eighth time the course has been Hall, 333-0036, and Bonnie Irwin, OIA, held at UIUC. 113 Mumford Hall, 333-0264.

SEMINARS INTSOY SOYBEAN PROCESSING COURSE June 5 Development of Technology for The seven-week INTSOY short course, Medicinal and Aromatic Plants - D. V. "Soybean Processing for Food Uses," Singh, Central Institute of Medicinal began on May 14 with 10 participants: and Aromatic Plants, Lucknow, India.

Ileana Granados , CARE, Costa Rica; 1:15 p.m., W-115 Turner Hall. Eleanor Lungu Muzyamba, Provincial (Agronomy lecture) Home Economics Officer, Lusaka, Zam- bia; Scholastica Mabuya, Zambia Col- July 13 Politics vs. Technology in lege of Agriculture, Monze; Akmal World Hunger - Norman Borlaug, 1970 Khan, National Agricultural Research Nobel Peace Prize winner. Centre, Islamabad, Pakistan; Balint 3:00 p.m., 426 Mumford Hall. Czukor, Central Food Research Insti- (L. J. Norton Seminar)

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INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES Alvin L. Neumann , Animal Science pro- fessor emeritus, consulted with sheep and cattle producers in Australia and Jean M. Due , Agricultural Economics, will serve for three years on the Dis- in the Christchurch area of New Zea- cipline Screening Committee for Ful- land, April 26 to May 14. While in bright scholar awards in economics. Australia Dr. Neumann participated in The committee evaluates all applica- the annual meeting, show, and sale of tions in economics and agricultural the New England Angus Breeders Associ- economics for U.S. and overseas ation, Tamworth, New South Wales. awards.

Robert M. Skirvin , Horticulture, pre- seminars on biotechnology in Vickie A. Sigman , recent Ph.D. in sented Agricultural Education, will work woody crop plants, and discussed pos- with international and domestic pro- sible cooperative research with scien- grams as Assistant Specialist in Agri- tists in Montpellier, Orsay, Paris, cultural Development and Communica- Toulouse, and Versailles, France, tions, College of Tropical Agriculture April 27 to May 15. Dr. Skirvin's and Human Resources, University of trip was sponsored by the French For- Hawaii. eign Office.

is collecting Thomas Gillard-Byers , recent Ph.D. in Sandra Brown , Forestry, Agricultural Economics, has accepted a soil samples in Venezuela, June 6 to position on the Western Sudan Agricul- July 7. Dr. Brown will analyze the tural Research Project, Kadugli Re- samples to determine the effects on search Station, Kordofan. This Wash- soil organic matter of forest conver- ington State University project is sion to agriculture. funded by USAID through the Consortium

for International Development (CID). William G. Ruesink , Agricultural Ento- mology, left on June 9 for four weeks In England he presented Robert H. Beck , Agronomy, and Deirdre in Europe. seminars on pest management modeling Birmingham , graduate student in Agron- omy, visited the International Fertil- and systems approach at the London izer Development Center (IFDC) in Mus- School of Hygiene and Tropical Medi- cle Shoals, Alabama, on March 12 and cine, the Rothamsted Experiment Sta- 13. Ms. Birmingham presented a semi- tion, and Imperial College, Si lwood nar based on her M.S. thesis entitled Park. Dr. Ruesink also discussed the "An Evaluation of the Phosphorus Sta- use of simulation modeling and comput- tus of Some West African Soils." IFDC erized information delivery for pest helped sponsor her collection of soils management with faculty at the Agri- in Nigeria and Niger. cultural University, Wageningen, .

Netherlands, and pest forecasting in the Cape York Peninsula of Austral- practices in Germany with researchers ia, July 17 to August 4. at the Institut fur Pf lanzenschutz in Obstbau. Harold W. Gonyou , Animal Science, will attend the International Congress on

Thomas A. McCowen , Office of Interna- Applied Ethology in Farm Animals, tional Agriculture, attended a meeting Kiel, West Germany, August 1 to 4. En of the Association of International route Dr. Gonyou will visit research Education Administrators, Denver, institutions at Reading and Babraham, Colorado, June 10 and 11. England.

Dorthea Bedigian , graduate student in Howard L. Whitmore , Veterinary Clini- Agronomy, was an invited participant cal Medicine, delivered six lectures at the Sumerian Agricultural Group on bovine reproductive problems at the Working Session at Trinity College, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexi- London, England, on June 29 and 30. co, Mexico City, and two lectures at Torreon, Mexico, in a program for vet-

Donald W. Graffis , Agronomy, will par- erinary practitioners and faculty mem- ticipate in the National Alfalfa Im- bers,' June 21 to July 1. provement Conference, Letherbridge, Canada, July 15 to 21. VISITING RESEARCHERS AND TRAINEES

Marcos Kogan , Agricultural Entomology,

was chosen to participate in the 1984 Deborah J. Gascoyne , Grassland Re- Soybean Research Tour sponsored by ICI search Institute, Maidenhead, England, Americas Inc. and the American Soybean is working with Robert B. Hespell, Association, July 15 to 25. Award re- Dairy Science, from June 1 through cipients will visit public and private July 31 on the effects of xyitol (a research facilities in the U.S. and sugar) on rumen microbial populations. Great Britain. Ms. Gascoyne will also learn anaerobic microbial techniques.

Harold E. Kauffman , INT SOY, Joseph A. - Jackobs , Agronomy, and Michael E. Ir Marion Zareba , Senior Assistant, De- win , Agricultural Entomology, will partment of Agricultural Economics, attend the Asian Soybean Network Moni- Warsaw Agricultural University, Po- toring Tour and Meeting in Indonesia, land, will begin a one-year program of July 16 to 22. The meeting, sponsored study in Agricultural Economics on by INTSOY, IRRI (International Rice August 1. Dr. Zareba will prepare a Research Institute), and AVRDC (Asian comparative analysis of the management Vegetable Research and Development and production efficiency of farms in Center), will formalize cooperative Poland and the Corn Belt of the U.S. soybean research activities among Asian countries and international Masahiro Ito , pathologist at the Naga- centers. saki University Medical School, ar- rived at UIUC in March for a two-year Benjamin A. Rasmusen , professor emeri- program in Food Science. He will work tus in Animal Science, will preside at with Fred A. Kummerow on heart disease the 19th International Conference on research. Animal Blood Groups and Biochemical

Polymorphisms, July 17, Gottingen, Tijana Knezevic , Maize Research Insti- Germany tute, Zemun, Yugoslavia, began a six- month program in June in Agronomy on

Theodore Hymowitz , Agronomy, will col- corn tissue selection and protoplast lect seeds of wild species of Glycine culture. .

Hsin-sheng Tsay , Senior Agronomist, tory, 208 N. Romine Street, Urbana, Taiwan Agricultural Research Insti- Illinois, 61801, 333-0536. tute, Taichung, will spend nine months at UIUC beginning in June sponsored by SEMINARS a National Science Council of Taiwan fellowship. Dr. Tsay will conduct re- July 12 Solving World Food Problems search on anther culture for the pro- Through Plant Genetics - Norman Bor- duction of haploids from corn and soy- laug, 1970 Nobel Peace Prize winner. beans . 8:00 p.m., Krannert Center for the Performing Arts Colwell Playhouse Tae Sakamoto is a visiting scientist Theater, 500 S. Goodwin Ave., Urbana. for one year in Veterinary Biosci- (L. J. Norton seminar) ences. She is working with Steven P. Swanson on the identification of cer- July 13 Politics vs. Technology in tain toxic metabolites, their secre- World Hunger - Norman Borlaug, 1970 tion, and their distribution. Nobel Peace Prize winner. 3:00 p.m., 426 Mumford Hall.

William John Brown , University of Sas- (L. J. Norton seminar) katchewan, Saskatoon, Canada, will join the Agricultural Economics De- July 25 Natural Resources in Develop- partment on July 1 for one year as a ing Countries - Theodore Panayotou, Visiting Assistant Professor. He will Harvard Institute for International specialize in farm management and farm Development finance. 3:30 p.m., 426 Mumford Hall. (Agricultural Economics seminar)

VISITORS COMING TO CAMPUS SOYBEAN PRODUCTION COURSE Fourteen Hungarian feed industry man- agers will visit Animal Science and Sixteen participants are enrolled in Dairy Science on July 2 and 3. Their INTSOY's short course entitled "Tech- visit is being arranged by Central nical and Economic Aspects of Soybean Soya. Production": U Tun Thein and Nyunt

Nyunt Wai , Agriculture Corporation,

Theodore Panayotou , Harvard Institute and Shirley Smellie , Agricultural Re- for International Development and for- search Institute, Burma; Wang Peiying merly Agricultural Development Council and He Zhihong , Heilongjiang Academy Associate at Kasetsart University, of Agricultural Sciences, China; Bangkok, Thailand, will visit Agricul- Eduardo J. Mata M. and Luis Ricardo tural Economics and present a seminar Quiros U. , CARE, Costa Rica; Yehia on July 25. Sam H. Johnson, 45 2c Mum- Soliman Gayed , Ministry of Agricul- ford Hall, 333-0753, is arranging his ture, Egypt; Titis Adisarwanto , Malang schedule. Research Institute for Food Crops, In-

donesia; Toru Kawakami , Japan Interna- tional Cooperation Agency; Arsene Williams Randriamamonjy and David INT. WATER RESOURCES ASSOCIATION Rakotoal ivao , MAMISAO Enterprise,

Madagascar; Mir Hatam , Northwest Fron- The Executive Director's office of the tier Province Agricultural University,

International Water Resources Associa- Pakistan; Shu-Ching Wu , Provincial tion was transferred to UIUC from Department of Agriculture, Taiwan;

Washington, D.C., in mid-June. Glenn Supon Thanooruk , Department of Agri- E. Stout, Executive Director, can be cultural Extension, Thailand; and at contacted 2535 Hydrosystems Labora- Stanislous Nkumbula , Magoye Regional .

Research Station, Zambia. This is the Mwanza discussed cooperative activi- ninth time the 12-week course has been ties associated with the Zambia Agri- held at UIUC. cultural Research and Extension (ZAMA- RE) project with Office of Interna- tional Agriculture staff. VISITORS RECENTLY ON CAMPUS

Jake Halliday , NifTAL Project, Univer-

Lionel Sheridan , Allflex Internation- sity of Hawaii, visited UIUC on June 4 al, Palmerston North, New Zealand, met and 5 and participated in discussions with Sidney L. Spahr, Dairy Science, on the ZAMARE project in Zambia with and toured the dairy automation facil- University of Maryland, Eastern Shore, ities on May 16. Southern Illinois University at Car- bondale, and UIUC personnel.

Jacques Grail , Chief Agricultural Edi- tor of Le Monde, Paris, France, toured S. C. Gupta , Department of Botany, Illinois Foundation Seed and met with University of Delhi, India, visited Donald A. Holt, Agricultural Experi- the laboratory of Jack M. Widholm and ment Station, Charles M. Brown, Agron- met with other Agronomy staff from omy, and James F. Evans and Robert G. June 13 to 17. Dr. Gupta's visit to Hays, Agricultural Communications, May UIUC was part of a U.S. tour sponsored 29. His trip was sponsored by the by the National Science Foundation. U.S. Information Agency (USIA)

Paul Maina , director of Farming Sys-

Gonzalo Juambeltz , Uruguay Ministry of tems-Kenya, Nakuru, visited UIUC on Agriculture and currently an M.S. de- June 18. He discussed UIUC's Title gree student in international agricul- XII project on microbial conversion of ture at Cornell University, discussed wastes into fuel and feed with the Latin American agricultural develop- principal investigators, Donald L. ment with Daniel Gianola, Animal Sci- Day, Agricultural Engineering, and ence, and Darrel L. Good, Frederick C. Marvin P. Steinberg, Food Science. Fliegel, and Earl R. Swanson, Agricul- tural Economics, May 30. He also vis- Donald J. Minehart , National Agricul- ited the Latin American and Caribbean tural Research Centre, Islamabad, Pa- Studies Center. kistan, was at UIUC on June 18 and 19 for discussions on development of ex-

Abdul Farooq Lodhi , Chairman of the perimental farms at the Northwest Department of Horticulture, and S. Ba - Frontier Province Agricultural Univer- sit Ali Shah , Dean of the Faculty of sity, Peshawar, and the provincial Animal Husbandry, Northwest Frontier agricultural research system. Province Agricultural University, Peshawar, Pakistan, spent six weeks at The International 4-H Youth Exchange UIUC and Southern Illinois University- (IFYE) and the Professional Rural Carbondale as part of a 16-week U.S. Youth Leader Exchange (PRYLE) are con- study tour sponsored by USAID. Dr. ducted by the National 4-H Council to Lodhi studied research and extension support 4-H programs of the Coopera- programs in Horticulture and Dean Shah tive Extension Service. These visi- examined research and extension pro- tors will live with farm families in grams in dairy and animal science, and Illinois and visit the 4-H program at agricultural administration policies. UIUC: Masilokwa Lubasi , Provincial Youth Extension Officer, Limulunga,

Jacob M. Mwanza , Vice-Chancellor , Uni- Zambia, PRYLE at UIUC on June 20; versity of Zambia, Lusaka, was a visi- Roger Chi-Chiao Lo , tea farmer in Tai- tor to the College of Agriculture and wan, IFYE at UIUC from June 20 to 23; other UIUC units on June 3 and 4. Dr. Monica Smith, teacher trainee at Han- .

over, Jamaica, IFYE at UIUC from June INT. CONFERENCE ON FOOD AND WATER

26 to 28; Terry Clarke , Air Traffic Controller and 4-H Leader in St. Mi- "Water and Water Policy in World Food chael, Barbados, IFYE at UIUC on June Supplies" is the theme of the Interna-

20; and Antonino Raffin , farmer from tional Conference on Food and Water, Cordenos, Italy, IFYE at UIUC on June sponsored by Texas A&M University, May 22. 26 to 30, 1985. Topics will include: Thirteen Danes between the ages of world development, 1985-2000; con- 18 and 22 will visit Illinois during straints to increasing world food sup- July sponsored by IFYE. They will plies; water as a constraint to world spend the four weeks with two host food supplies; irrigation and drainage families in the world; new technology related Contact Ann Rund, State 4-H Office, to water and water policy; engineer- 1901 University Inn (campus mail), ing and water management; the role and 333-0910, for more information about choice of water policy; making insti- these visitors. tutions work in water management, pol- icy development, and food production; Peter Speck of Galactina, Ltd., Belp, the role of national governments, in- Switzerland, discussed soy beverages ternational agencies, bilateral agen- and soybean utilization with L. S. cies, the private sector, and univer- Wei, Food Science, on June 19. sities in international water and agricultural development. Conference programs and registra- NEW INTSOY PUBLICATION tion forms are available from: Con- ference Registration, International International Soybean Variety Experi- Conference on Food and Water, Texas ment, Eighth Report of Results, 1980- A&M University, College Station, Tex- 1981, by J. A. Jackobs, C. A. Smyth, as, 77843. and D. R. Erickson (INTSOY Series Num- ber 26) is now in print. Copies are available from 113 Mumford Hall, 333- 6422. FARMING SYSTEMS SYMPOSIUM

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INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES New Jersy, June 25 to 28. Dr. Bahr presented a symposium paper on

Marlowe D. Thome , Agronomy, has ovarian function in the domestic hen returned to campus upon completing and Dr. Johnson an abstract on regula- an eighteen-month MUCIA (Midwest tion of ovulation. Universities Consortium for Interna-

tional Activities) assignment at the Sam H. Johnson . Agricultural Econom-

Institute for Agriculture and Animal ics, and Thomas A. McCowen . Office Sciences, Tribhuvan University, of International Agriculture, visited Rampur, Nepal. Dr. Thorne served as the offices of the Consortium for team leader. International Development (CID), Tucson, Arizona, June 6 and 7, to

Roy K. Simons . Horticulture, present- finalize plans for the India Irriga- ed an invited paper entitled "Graft tion Training and Research Project. Union Characteristics as Related to UIUC, Colorado State University,

Dwarfing in Apple ( Malus domestica University of Arizona, and Develop- Borkh)" at the International Society ment Alternatives, Inc., are bidding for Horticulture Science Symposium, together on this project. Dr. Montpellier, France, May 20 to 30. Johnson assisted in proposal writing, Ft. Collins, Colorado, June 17 to 19.

Thomas L. Frev . Agricultural Dr. Johnson will present a paper Economics, was in Charlottetown and on the economic impact of erosion on Summers ide, Canada, from June 7 to fish production in the Nam Pong Ba- 17. He presented a two-day workshop sin, Northeast Thailand, at the Ameri- for extension staff and agricultural can Agricultural Economics Associa- creditors on farm financial informa- tion meeting, Cornell University, tion management and analysis, and Ithaca, New York, August 6 to 8. spoke at the annual meeting of the

Atlantic Committee on Extension, Shashidhara Kolavalli , graduate Education, and Economics. student in Agricultural Economics, collected data on the economics of

Miodrag Ristic . Veterinary Pathobiolo- deep tube wells in the Asian gy, met with USAID officials in subcontinent from World Bank, USAID, Washington, D.C., June 12 to 14, to and the Ford Foundation in Delhi, discuss the malaria research network. India, and from the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), Los

Janice M. Bahr and Patricia Johnson , Banos , Philippines, July 7 to 31. Animal Science, participated in the

International Avian Endocrine Meeting Darrell A. Miller , Agronomy, partici- at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, pated in the 29th National Alfalfa , , .

Improvement Conference, Letherbridge Protection) board meeting, Berkeley, Alberta, Canada, July 15 to 20. California, July 24 to 26.

L. . Vickie Jarrell Animal Science, Frank J. Stevenson . Agronomy, attended the Sixth European Colloqui- attended the Second International um on Cytogenetics of Domestic Conference of the International Humic Animals in Zurich, Switzerland, July Substances Society, July 23 to 28, 16 to 20, and the XIX International Birmingham, England, where he Conference on Animal Blood Groups and presented a paper on reductive Biochemical Polymorphisms, Gottingen, degradation of humic substances. West Germany, July 22 to 27.

Joseph A. Jackobs . Agronomy, will be Carolyn M. Pribble and Carolyn M. in Guyana from July 29 to August 10 Sands . Office of International as a consultant for FAO on soybean

Agriculture, Mary A. Keith . Foods and production.

Nutrition, T. Randall Fortenberv .

Agriculture Experiment Station, and Jeffrey 0. Dawson . Forestry, will

Sam H. Johnson . Agricultural Econom- edit the proceedings of an ics, participated in the Farming international conference entitled " Systems Research/Extension Training Frank ia and Actinorhizal Plants," Workshop, Southern Illinois Universi- to be held August 5 to 8 at Laval ty, Carbondale, July 16 to 20. Dr. University, Quebec, Canada. Keith conducted a session entitled

"Meeting the Nutritional Needs of the George F. Sprague . Emerson D

Limited Resource Farm Household," and Naf ziger . and John W. Dudley . Agron- Dr. Johnson a session entitled omy, will attend a symposium on inte- "Necessary and Sufficient Conditions grating the maize research of U.S. for Institutionalizing Farming universities with international agri- Systems Research/Extension." cultural research centers. The sympo- sium will be held at CIMMYT (Interna-

Burton E. Swanson . INTERPAKS tional Maize and Wheat Center), participated in a planning workshop Mexico, August 9 to 14, sponsored by on technology transfer, July 17 and CIMMYT and University of Minnesota. 18, Washington, D.C.

Robert W. Howell . Agronomy, will

Earl B. Russell . Vocational and assist in a review of an FAO project Technical Education, and Burton E. to strengthen the Soybean Research

Swanson . INTERPAKS, attended the Institute, Heilongjiang Academy of African Agricultural Education Agricultural Sciences, China, in late Conference in Yaounde, Cameroon, from August. It is Dr. Howell's third July 23 to 27. Dr. Swanson presented trip to China on this FAO project. the keynote paper at the opening session and Dr. Russell was a Jack D. Paxton and Kevin Simcox . panelist. Enroute home, they met Plant Pathology, will participate in with W. D. Maalouf, Head of the the International Conference on Agricultural Education and Extension Molecular Basis of Plant Disease, Service at FAO (Food and Agriculture August 19 to 23, University of Organization) in Rome, Italy. California, Davis.

Richard E. Ford . Plant Pathology, and

Michael E. Irwin . Agricultural VISITING RESEARCHERS AND TRAINEES Entomology and Illinois Natural

History Survey, attended the CICP Saeedul Hassan Siddiqi . Associate (Consortium for International Crop Professor of Plant Breeding and Genetics at the Northwest Frontier August 15 and 16. The group will be Province Agricultural University, hosted by Stanley E. Curtis, Animal Peshawar, Pakistan, arrived at UIUC Science, Richard P. Kesler, Agricul- on July 6 for a three-month U.S. tural Economics, and Arthur J. study tour. Dr. Siddiqi will study Muehling, Agricultural Engineering. techniques and equipment used to screen germplasm for protein quality with cytogenetic researchers in Agronomy and the USDA. In addition, VISITORS RECENTLY ON CAMPOS he will also work at Purdue Universi-

ty, University of Wisconsin-Madison, S. C. Gupta . Department of Botany, and Kansas State University. University of Delhi, India, discussed tissue culture techniques with Martin

Jae-Young Son , a veterinarian and M. Meyers, Horticulture, June 15. parasitologist in the Department of

Animal Sciences, Yeungnam University, Chris Back . Muresk Agricultural Col- Gyeongsan, Korea, arrived in mid-June lege, Australia, discussed teaching to spend two and a half months visit- programs with James F. Evans, Agricul- ing faculty and laboratories in Veter- tural Communications, and Lawrence inary Pathobiology. Dr. Son's pro- Apps, June 21 and 22. Mr. Apps is gram was arranged by Kenneth S. Todd. on study leave at UIUC from the West- ern Australian Institute of Technol- ogy (WAIT), where he coordinates the VISITORS COMING TO CAMPUS rural journalism degree program offer- ed cooperatively by WAIT and Muresk.

Roger A. Farrow . Principal Research Scientist, CSIRO, Canberra, Sixteen participants in Purdue Australia, will visit Illinois from University's Integrated Pest July 30 to August 2. An entomologist Management Short Course visited the working on insect movement, Dr. Illinois Natural History Survey and Farrow will meet with entomologists the College of Agriculture on July and meteorologists in the Pests and 10. They met with Economic Entomol- Weather Group of the Illinois Natural ogy and Agricultural Entomology History Survey, Illinois State Water staff, and toured the Soybean Insect Survey, and UIUC. Michael E. Irwin, Research Information Center (SIRIC) 172 Natural Resources Building, and the International Soybean 333-1963, is arranging his schedule. Arthropod Collection (ISAC).

Thomas Henderson . Professor and Direc- Masilokwa M. Lubasi . Provincial Youth tor of Agricultural Extension at the Extension Officer, Limulunga, Zambia, University of the West Indies at visited UIUC on July 12 as part of Trinidad, will visit INTERPAKS facul- an Illinois visit sponsored by the ty from August 8 to 18. Contact Professional Rural Youth Leader Burton E. Swanson, 113 Mumford Hall, Exchange (PRYLE) of the National 4-H 333-4350, to meet with Dr. Henderson. Council. Mr. Lubasi met with Samuel F. Ridlen and Upson S. Garrigus,

John A. Patterson . USAID representa- Animal Science, Jean M. Due, Agricul- tive in Zambia, will be on campus tural Economics, Emerson D. Nafziger, August 16 and 17 for discussions on Agronomy, Donald E. Kuhlman, Illinois the Zambian Agricultural Research and Natural History Survey and Agricul- Extension (ZAMARE) project. tural Entomology, and Carolyn M. Pribble, John W. Santas, J. B. Claar, A group of 17 Swedish farmers will and Earl D. Kellogg, Office of visit the College of Agriculture on International Agriculture. I. F. Martin , Department of Primary Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics), Industries, Kairi, Australia, met Hyderabad, India, met with Bruce L. with the Agronomy maize breeding Vasilas, Agronomy, John J. Hesketh group on July 12. and Doyle B. Peters, USDA/Agronomy, and John S. Boyer and Idupulapati M. Recent visitors to the laboratories Rao, Plant Biology, July 20. of Miodrag Ristic, Veterinary

Pathobiology , include Georg Wei land , Twenty-two participants in the Seed University of Munich, West Germany, Improvement Course offered by to discuss programs on Babesia and Mississippi State University and USDA

Plasmodium . July 14 to 21; and visited UIUC from July 23 to 31. A.

Jacques Armand . Director of Research W. Burger coordinated the agronomy at the Institute Merieux, Lyon, program from July 23 to 27, and John France, to discuss joint research H.Behrens coordinated the agricultur- projects, July 25 and 26. al communications program on July 30 and 31. The group was accompanied

Ray Richardson . Internacional Equipa- by C. Hunter Andrews, technical mentos Agricolas Ltd., and Tsuneo leader and agronomy professor at MSU.

Takamura , Tukasa Tomonaga . Wilson T.

Suruwatari . and Ninoru Suzuki . Mitsui Theodore Panavotou . Associate of the

Fertilizer S.A., Dourados , Brazil, Agricultural Development Council visited laboratories in Plant Patholo- (ADC), New York, and currently on gy and toured the Agronomy-Plant sabbatical leave from Harvard Univer- Pathology South Farm, July 15. sity, met with Agricultural Economics staff and presented a seminar on Ten U.S. soybean researchers and environmental and resources con- extension specialists visited straints to sustainable agricultural Illinois on July 18 as part of a tour growth in Thailand, July 25. of major public and private soybean research facilities in the U.S. and Arnold T. Tschanz , plant pathologist Great Britain. The tour is part of at the Asian Vegetable Research and an annual recognition program spon- Development Center (AVRDC), Taiwan, sored by the American Soybean discussed soybean research with Association and ICI Americas, Inc. Harold E. Kauffman, INTSOY, Richard Marcos Kogan, Agricultural Entomology E. Ford and James B. Sinclair, Plant and Illinois Natural History Survey, Pathology, Joseph A. Jackobs, was one of the award participants. Agronomy, Richard L. Bernard, USDA/ The Illinois portion of the tour was Agronomy, and Michael E. Irwin, arranged by Gary E. Pepper, Agronomy. Agricultural Entomology and Illinois Natural History Survey.

Katsuhiro Mizuguchi . Osamu Kimura . and Yushiro Noh-hata . Nisshin Feed Four agriculturalists from the North-

Co., the largest soybean processer west Frontier Province. Pakistan , in Japan, met with Aldon H. Jensen, discussed farmer education with J. Carl M. Parsons, Larry L. Berger, and B. Claar, INTERPAKS, and soybean Upson S. Garrigus, Animal Science, production, marketing, and utiliza- and Jimmy H. Clark and Sidney L. tion with William N. Thompson, Thomas Spahr, Dairy Science, on July 19. A. McCowen, and Harold E. Kauffman, They were escorted by Karl Sera, Office of International Agriculture, American Soybean Association, Japan. Joseph A. Jackobs, Danny R. Erickson, and Emerson D. Nafziger, Agronomy,

N. P. Saxena . plant physiologist in Sam H. Johnson, Agricultural Econom- the Pulses Program at ICRISAT ics, and S. W. Yeh, Wilmot Wijeratne, (International Crops Research and Alvin I. Nelson, Food Science, July 27 and 28. Their trip was paign 61820. Off-campus requests sponsored by the U.S. Department of should include $1.00 for handling. State's Narcotics Reduction Program. The directory lists University of Illinois faculty with international research willing to Delv Gapasin , Director of the Crops experience or Research Department, Philippine Coun- speak to organizations. Topics are cil for Agriculture and Resources diverse and include most disciplines Research and Development (PCARRD), studied at the university. met with INTSOY and Agronomy Depart- ment staff on July 30 and 31 to dis- cuss the Philippine soybean program. OFFICE OF INTERNATIONAL AGRICULTURE DOCUMENT CENTER

The Office of International NEW OIPS DIRECTOR Agriculture maintains a pamphlet collection of information on interna- donor agencies, world James R. Millar , professor of econom- tional centers, ics and an expert on the Soviet hunger, and foreign countries. Union, was recently appointed Direc- Materials include newsletters, annual tor of the Office of International reports, proceedings of conferences, Programs and Studies (OIPS) and Asso- and agricultural information of ciate Vice Chancellor for Academic international interest. Affairs. Currently the University You are encouraged to use this has 78 institutional agreements collection, which is kept in room 204 around the world for various types Forest Science Laboratory. If you or other of exchanges , and another 27 agree- have brochures, pamphlets, ments are in the inquiry stage. items to donate, contact Bonnie J. An external advisory committee of Irwin, 333-0264. business executives was appointed last year to advise on international program development and fund raising to support international research and CONFERENCE ON IRRIGATION AND DRAINAGE education at UIUC. "The Development of Irrigation and Drainage in the American Countries: Problems and Solutions" is the theme DO TOU NEED A SPEAKER? of the First Regional Pan American Conference, which will be held in The new edition of the "World Affairs Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, October 15 Service Directory" is now available to 19, 1984. The conference program from the Office of Continuing Educa- and registration forms are available tion in International Affairs, 205 from Bonnie Irwin, 113 Mumford Hall, Arcade Bldg., 725 S. Wright St., Cham- 333-0264.

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INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES At CIMMYT (Centro Internacional de OCT 1 1 ; Mejoramiento de Maiz y Trigo) , Mexico,

Adnan Sulong . recent Ph.D.uiiotJi^li'ryi ILLINC ifee worked on a cooperative project Science, has rejoined the Fye61t

James R. Karr . Forestry and Ecology, Ethology, and Evolution, is on leave UIUC and the Illinois Natural History of absence to work on tropical forest Survey were well represented at the ecology at the Smithsonian Tropical World Soybean Research Conference III, Research Institute, Balboa, Panama. Ames, Iowa, August 12 to 17. Partici-

Dr. Karr's mailing address is c/o pants included: Loren E. Bode . the Smithsonian Tropical Research Agricultural Engineering; John

Institute, APO Miami 34002. W . Humme . Agricultural Engineering/

USDA; U. Barwale . R. Caro . Danny R.

Adeyinka I. Cole , graduate student Er ickson . L. Gray . P. M. Hanson . S.

in Veterinary Pathobiology , was in A. Harrison . Robert W. Howell .

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, from July 13 Theodore Hymowitz . S. Lin . Joseph A.

to August 6. Mr. Cole worked with Jackobs . C . Moots . Emerson D.

a U.S. Army team performing serology Nafziger . Cecil D. Nickell . J. D. S_j_

tests on patients with Rickettsia Panwar . Gary E. Pepper . S. Rogers .

sennetsu and malaria. S. A. Sebastian . J. R. Smith . Charlie

A. Smyth . R. Stahlhut . David Willmot .

Dennis A. Lawn and Edward J. Sikora . and L. Frederick Welch , Agronomy;

Plant Pathology, and Gregory R. Noel . Richard L. Bernard . James E. Harper .

Plant Pathology/USDA, participated John D. Hesketh . Randall L. Nelson .

in the First International Congress William L. Ogren . Doyle B. Peters .

of Nematology, Guelph, Ontario, Edward W. Stoller . Loyd M. Wax , and

Canada, August 6 to 9. Mr. Lawn Joseph T. Woolley . Agronomy/USDA;

presented a paper entitled "Monozenic Tzu-Suan Chu . Dan Fischer . Charles

Culture of Pratylenchus scribneri on G. Helm . Gail Kampmeier . Jenny Kogan .

Carrot Discs" and Dr. Noel a paper and Marcos Kogan . Agricultural entitled "Multilines and Aldicarb for Entomology/Economic Entomology;

Control of the Soybean Cyst Nematode." Lun-Shin Wei . Food Science; Harold

E. Kauffman . INTSOY; Kevin J.

Johannes M. J. deWet . Agronomy, was Cavanaugh . Lawrence E. Datnoff .

in Mexico and England during August. Richard E. Ford . C. Caio Machado . Juiu . , . t

B. Manandhar , Mukishi M. Pyndii , and for Low Energy Consumption in Storage

James B. Sinclair . Plant Pathology, and Processing, and will present a and Ellen Brewer , INHS paper entitled "Tempering Ventilation Air with Earth-Tube Heat Exchangers

Burton E. Swanson , INTERPAKS , was a in Swine Buildings." The paper is panelist at a Joint Committee on co-authored by Warren Goetsch, Area Agricultural and Rural Development Adviser for Regions 4 and 6, (JCARD) forum entitled "Human Resource Agricultural Engineering. Development and Training," August 13, Dr. Curtis will serve as General Washington, D.C. Reporter for the session on Animal Environments

Delmar F. Wilken , Agricultural

Economics, was the Technical Resource Robert G. Hoef , Agronomy, will Person for a group of Illinois present a paper at the International agricultural leaders on a People-to- Fertilizer Industry Association People International Goodwill Mission Seminar and the Danish Machinery to Europe and the Soviet Union, July Manufacturers Conference, Copenhagen, 16 to August 14. Denmark, September 5 to 13. Dr. Hoeft will also discuss research with

Joseph W. Stucki . Agronomy, scientists at the University of Bonn, participated in the International Germany. Symposium on Water and Solute Movement in Heavy Clay Soils, Wageningen, William C. Wagner , Veterinary Netherlands, August 27 to 31. He also Biosciences, was elected to a met with researchers in France, twelve-year term on the Executive Germany, Ireland, and England. Committee of the International Congress on Animal Reproduction and UIUC faculty who presented papers at Artificial Insemination when the the Eighth International Pig Congress met at UIUC in June. Veterinary Society Congress in Ghent, Dr. Wagner will spend a nine-month Belgium, August 27 to 31, include: sabbatical at the Federal Institute

LeRoy G. Biehl , Veterinary Patho- for Agricultural Research in Animal biology, comparison of antibiotics Breeding and Production, Mariensee, for treating swine dysentery; Lisa West Germany, beginning in

A . Lund and William C. Wagner , mid-September, supported by the Veterinary Biosciences, regulation Fulbright Exchange Program and the of prolactin in the sow; G. John Alexander von Humbolt Foundation.

Benson . Veterinary Clinical Medicine, He will continue research on data on a method to evaluate stress mechanisms regulating estrogen in cows, in pigs; and Ross P. Cowart , synthesis by the placenta Veterinary Clinical Medicine, strains examine the relationship of changes of Pasteurella multocida found in in hormone synthesis to the regulation association with atrophic rhinitis. and timing of the birth process, and investigate the regulation of prolactin in pigs. Attending the 10th International

Congress of Agricultural Engineering, Sam H. Johnson , Agricultural Budapest, Hungary, September 3 to 7 Economics, will attend a workshop on are B. Jack Butler and Arthur J. microcomputer applications in 24 Muehling , Agricultural Engineering, agricultural research, September Rice and Stanley E. Curtis , Animal Science, to 27, at the International Dr. Muehling will be General Research Institute (IRRI), Los Banos, Reporter for the session on Technical Philippines. Dr. Johnson will also Solutions in Agricultural Buildings visit AVRDC (Asian Vegetable Research 1

and Development Center), Taiwan, to and Research Conducted in the meet with Agricultural Economics Netherlands." Contact Larry graduate student Jane Gleason. G. Hansen, Veterinary Biosciences, 3609 Veterinary Medicine Basic Sciences Building, 333-6839, for VISITING RESEARCHERS AND TRAINEES seminar venue.

Aliza Meiri . Volcani Institute, Bet A group of thirteen Australian farmers Dagan, Israel, is on sabbatic leave will tour beef, swine, and dairy at UIUC working with James B. research facilities on September 12. Sinclair, Plant Pathology. They are sponsored by A. 0. Smith Harvestore Products, Inc.

Kyung-Ku Shim , Dean of the College of Agriculture, Sung Kyunkwan Ian E. Coop , professor emeritus in University, Korea, is spending a the Department of Animal Science, year's leave in the Horticulture Lincoln College, Christchurch, New Department working with John S. Titus Zealand, will be the guest speaker on seasonal changes in nitrogenous at UIUC's 1984 Sheep Expo, September compounds of ginko trees. Dr. Shim 15. On September 17 Professor Coop is supported by a Fulbright Senior will present lectures on the pastoral Research Grant. livestock industries of New Zealand and on the development of the

Mohammad Tariq . Department of Coopworth breed of sheep. Details Agricultural Mechanization at the about the seminars and Prof. Coop's Northwest Frontier Province visit are available from David L. Agricultural University, Peshawar, Thomas, 156 Animal Sciences Lab., Pakistan, is a visiting scholar for 333-0233. one year in Agricultural Engineering. A group of Argentine agronomists will

Knut Boe . Department of Building discuss minimum tillage research with Technology, Agricultural University Loyd M. Wax, Agronomy/USDA, and John of Norway, As, is a Fulbright Research W. Hummel, Agricultural Engineering/ Scholar at UIUC through December. He USDA, on September 29. The visit is is working with Stanley E. Curtis, arranged by Asgrow Seed Company, Ames, Animal Science, on swine environment Iowa. and behavior.

Andreas A. Siegerink . Animal C. Jean Weidemann . Chief of the Husbandry Department, Agricultural Institutional and Human Resources University, Wageningen, Netherlands, Division, Board for International Food is spending three months as a visiting and Agricultural Development (BIFAD), student in the laboratory of Washington, D.C., will visit UIUC on Dr. Curtis. October 3 and 4, and present a seminar on October 3. For more information on her visit and seminar details VISITORS COMING TO CAMPUS contact Romy Borooah, WID Office, 3014 Foreign Languages Building, 333-1977.

Cornelis A. Kan , a biochemist at the Spelderholt Center for Poultry Research and Extension, Beekbergen, VISITORS RECENTLY ON CAMPUS Netherlands, will visit UIUC from September 14 to 17 during a three-week Recent visitors with Michael Grossman, tour of U.S. laboratories. Dr. Kan Dairy Science, include We rne r Le id . will present a seminar entitled "Toxic University of Munich, Germany, to Substances in Farm Animals: Surveys discuss research on dairy goats, June 14, and Akke J. van der Zijpp , cooperative COTIA toured the Agricultural University, Wageningen, Agronomy-Plant Pathology South Farms Netherlands, to discuss animal with Doyle B. Peters, Agronomy/USDA, genetics, June 20. on July 31. Their tour was arranged by the Chicago Board of Trade.

Bernard Mo Hard . Societe Bourguignonne de Mecanique, Ruffey les Echirey, E. A. Heinrich . Head of the Department France, discussed environmental of Entomology, International Rice management techniques in swine Research Institute (IRRI), presented production with Stanley E. Curtis, a seminar on rice insect control Animal Science, on June 26. tactics and met with staff in Economic Entomology on August 1 and 2.

Mark Makowiak , Department of

Parasitology, Institute Merieux, Lyon, Luis Bavamo . FAO/Mozambique , discussed France, visited the laboratories of soybean production and utilization Miodrag Ristic, Veterinary with Harold E. Kauffman, INTSOY; Pathobiology, July 8 to 14, to discuss Wilmot Wijeratne, Ricardo Villota, joint work on research programs on and Sing-wood Yeh, Food Science; Errol bovine babesiosis and malaria vaccine D. Rodda, Agricultural Engineering; development. Danny R. Erickson, Randall L. Nelson, Gary E. Pepper, and Charlie A. Smyth,

G. I. Christison , Department of Animal Agronomy; Michael E. Irwin and Gail Science, University of Saskatchewan, Kampmeier, Agricultural Entomology Canada, met with Arthur J. Muehling, and Illinois Natural History Survey; Agricultural Engineering, and Stanley and James B. Sinclair, Plant Pathol- E. Curtis, Animal Science, on July ogy, August 6 to 10. Mr. Bayamo also 18 and 19 to discuss swine housing visited Illinois Foundation Seeds. research and development.

Faud D. Farah , an engineer with the

V. R. Naik . Head, Department of Ministry of Agriculture, Nazareth, Communication, National Institute of Israel, met with Donald L. Day and Health and Family Welfare, New Delhi, others in Agricultural Engineering India, discussed communications on August 15 to discuss swine programs and activities with feedlots, environmental quality, and Agricultural Communications, pollution control. Cooperative Extension Service, and

Rural Sociology staff, July 19 to 21. Mo zamroe 1 H . Khan , Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research, Safat, A group of 57 Japanese children visited Agricultural Engineering on arrived in Illinois on July 24 to August 9 and 10. Dr. Khan received spend one month with Illinois 4-H his Ph.D. from Agricultural families. This is part of an annual Engineering in 1979. exchange to foster intercultural understanding. K. Palaniyappan . Manager, Seeds and Pesticides, Sakthi Sugars, Ltd.,

Clair Hershey , cassava breeder at CIAT Coimbatore, India, met with Randall (Centro Internacional de Agricultura L. Nelson, Agronomy, Sheldon W. Tropical), discussed the cassava Williams, Agricultural Economics improvement program at CIAT with emeritus, Errol D. Rodda, Agricultural Edward Carey, graduate student, and Engineering, James Hitzman, Food others in Horticulture, July 26. Science, and Harold E. Kauffman, INTSOY, on August 9 and 10. A group of eight Brazilian agriculturalists associated with the Merete Hansen , teacher at Ladelund .

Landbrugsskole, Jylland, Denmark, Agriculture, 113 Mumford Hall, discussed sweet corn breeding and 333-3638, is Liaison Officer for UIUC. processing with John A. Juvik, Horticulture, William Artz, Food Science, and Pat Mosley, Illinois ZAMBIA TRAINING UPDATE Foundation Seeds, August 28 and 29. Twenty-two participants are currently enrolled in degree programs in SEMINARS U.S. universities under the Zambian Agricultural Research and Extension September 20 The U.N. Decade for (ZAMARE) project, and thus far forty Women: Lessons Learned and Strategies Zambians have been sponsored for for the Future - Kathleen Cloud, short-term nondegree training INTERPAKS conducted at U.S. universities. noon, Wahl Room, YMCA, 1001 South Numbers of both degree and nondegree Wright Street, Champaign. participants will continue to grow (WID seminar) in the months ahead.

October 3 C. Jean Weidemann, Chief of the Institutional and Human Resources Division, Board for PUBLICATIONS AVAILABLE International Food and Agricultural Development (BIFAD). "Knowledge Transfer in Developing 4:00 p.m., 426 Mumford Hall. Countries: Status, Constraints, (International Agriculture Seminar) Outlook. Proceedings of a Conference on International Extension held at Steamboat Springs, Colorado, July 1983," edited by J. B. Claar and L. WID WORKSHOP H. Watts. 59 pages, 1984. Copies are available from INTERPAKS, "Opportunities for International University of Illinois at Urbana- Women: All You Ever Wanted to Know Champaign, 113 Mumford Hall, 1301 About Working and Learning in West Gregory Drive, Urbana, IL 61801. Champa ign-Urbana - For Free, For Pay, "Characterization of Soybean For Fun" will be held on Saturday, Expansion and Consequent Agricultural September 29, from 9:00 a.m. to noon Changes in the State of Parana, in room 407 Levis Center. Breakfast Brazil, 1970 to 1980" by John E. will be served and free babysitting Bowman. Centro Nacional de Pesquisa will be provided. For further de Soja, Londrina. 53 pages, 1983. information contact the Women in Copies are available from John E. International Development Office, 3014 Bowman, CIMMYT, A. P. 6-641, Mexico

Foreign Languages Bldg., 333-1977. D.F . , Mexico. "Development Communications in the Third World. Proceedings of a Midwest SAO PAULO MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT Regional Symposium at the University of Illinois, April 15, 1983," edited UIUC, through the College of by Vickie A. Sigman. International Agriculture, has signed a Memorandum Agriculture Publications General of Agreement with the Escola Superior Series No. 2. 72 pages, 1984. Single de Agricultura 'Luis de Queiroz' of copies are available from the Office the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. of International Agriculture, The memorandum will facilitate University of Illinois at Urbana- cooperative activities. John W. Champaign, 113 Mumford Hall, 1301 West Santas, Office of International Gregory Drive, Urbana, IL 61801. ,

PAKISTAN UNIVERSITY PROJECT APPROVED negotiate the contract with USAID. The project calls for long term (two years The Northwest Frontier Province or longer) specialists in the Agricultural University, Pakistan, following professional areas: project was recently approved by institutional development and team AID/Washington and USAID/ Islamabad leader; agricultural research; and will begin on October 1, 1984. agricultural teaching; agricultural UIUC, with Southern Illinois outreach (extension); agricultural University at Carbondale engineering; rural social sciences-; collaborating, will now submit a irrigation and water management; technical and cost proposal for the learning resources; communications first four years of the project. production; dairy production; meat J. J. Kamerer, UIUC Office of Grants animal production; and research and Contracts, and Thomas A. McCowen station management. Faculty members and William N. Thompson, Office of interested in one of the positions International Agriculture, will go should contact Thomas A. McCowen, 113 to Islamabad on September 25 to Mumford Hall, 333-6420.

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William N. Thompson Retirement Recognition Activities

On September 1, 1984, William N. Thompson retired as Associate Dean and Director of International Agriculture after a full and distinguished career in the College of Agriculture. To honor his dedicated service, the College is sponsoring two events to which the public is invited: October 18 3:00 p.m. in room 180 Bevier Hall - recognition ceremony and lecture on the role of U.S. universities in international agricultural development. The keynote speaker is Lowell Hardin, professor emeritus of agricultural economics at Purdue University. October 18 5:00 p.m., second floor of the Levis Faculty Center, 919 West Illinois Street, Urbana - reception for Dr. and Mrs. Thompson.

INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES Jack M. Widholm , Agronomy, was an invited participant in the Primary

G. S. Miranpuri . National Institute and Secondary Metabolism of Plant Cell of Health fellow in the hemotropic Culture Symposium, held at Giessen, disease research laboratory in West Germany, from September 6 to 8. Veterinary Medicine, attended an

international acarology course at Ohio Larry L. Berger . George C. Fahev , and

State University, Columbus, from June Neal R. Merchen . Animal Science, 24 to July 25. The course was enti- participated in the International tled "Medical-Veterinary Entomology: Ruminant Physiology and Nutrition Ticks and Mites as Vectors." Symposium at Banff, Canada, September 9 to 12.

Deirdre Birmingham , recent graduate

from Agronomy, will work for one year Earl D. Kellogg , Office of Interna-

in Nakeru , Kenya, on an agricultural tional Agriculture, was recently development project fcr small-scale appointed to the CIMMYT/University farmers. The project is directed by International Maize Working Group and the Nakeru Laymens Association of the attended the first meeting on September Africa Inland Church. 13 and 14, University of Nebraska, Lincoln.

Burton E. Swanson . INTERPAKS,

participated in a USAID-sponsored James B. Sinclair . Plant Pathology, Technology Management workshop in was in southern Turkey from September

Washington, D .C . , September 4 to 7 14 to 24 to work with soybean . . . ,

pathologists and extension workers pre-planning of the outreach program on diagnosis and control of soybean of TIPAN. They will also meet with diseases FAO and World Bank personnel in Rome, Dr. Sinclair was invited by the Italy, to coordinate extension Government of Egypt to participate initiatives of these two organizations in the Sixth Congress of the in Pakistan.

Mediterranean Phytopathologists Union, Russell T. Odell . Agronomy emeritus, Cairo, Egypt, from October 1 to 7 is in Pakistan from September 25 to After the congress Dr. Sinclair will October 11 to consult on the visit FAO/Rome to confer about integration of the research functions collaborative INTSOY training of the NWFP Department of Agriculture activities in Turkey and Zimbabwe. with the NWFP Agricultural University.

Stanley E. Curtis . Animal Science, Jean M. Due . Agricultural Economics, is evaluating swine production systems was invited to China for five weeks and conducting workshops on management beginning September 26. Dr. Due will of young pigs in Chile, the Dominican lecture at Nankai University, Tianjin, Republic, Jamaica, Colombia, and and Beijing University. During her Venezuela from September 19 to October stay in Beijing she will be joined

4 under the auspices of the U.S. Feed by Jane Gleason , a graduate student Grains Council. in Agricultural Economics who is currently collecting Ph.D. thesis data

Earl D. Kellogg . Office of Interna- in Taiwan. tional Agriculture, met with UIUC's Dr. Due will then travel to Africa International External Advisory to consult with colleagues in Tanzania, Committee in Chicago on September 20. Kenya, and Rwanda on the Bean/Cowpea CRSP (Collaborative Research Support

Harold E. Kauffman , INTSOY, traveled Project) and meet with ZAMARE team in Asia from August 26 to September members and University of Zambia 7. He discussed long-term INTSOY researchers activities with USAID personnel in

India and Pakistan. In China Dr. Charles Chabala and Sam H. Johnson . Kauffman attended the dedication of Agricultural Economics, and Carolyn

the Soybean Research Institute at the M. Pribble . J. B. Claar , and Earl

Heilongjiang Academy of Agricultural D. Kellogg , Office of International Sciences and participated in a soybean Agriculture, will participate in the science symposium. Farming Systems Research Symposium, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Thomas A. McCowen and William N. October 7 to 10. Dr. Johnson and

Thompson . Office of International Dr. Claar will present a paper entitled

Agriculture, and J. J. Kamerer . Grants "FSR/E: Shifting the Interaction of and Contracts, are in Pakistan from Research and Extension." September 26 to October 5 to negotiate

the implementation contract for Phase David H. Baker , Animal Science, will I of TIPAN (Transformation and deliver two lectures at the Ajinomoto Integration of the Provincial Company in Japan, October 13 to 19. Agricultural Network). TIPAN is the project name for UIUC activities at Jack E. Harlan , Agronomy emeritus, the Northwest Frontier Province delivered an invited paper entitled Agricultural University, Peshawar. "Transfer of DNA from One Plant to True J. B. Claar , INTERPAKS , and Robert Another Without the Formation of

P. Bentz , Cooperative Extension Hybrids" at the 10th Phytogenetic Service, are in Pakistan from September Congress of Mexico, Aguascalientes 25 to October 6 to assist with August 27 to 31. .

The College of Agriculture and the Yose Rizal . Indonesia, animal nutri-

College of Veterinary Medicine welcome tion; Yue jin Yu , China, meat science. the following new foreign graduate students to the University of Illinois DAIRY SCIENCE at Urbana-Champaign: Mark G. Cameron , Canada, management.

AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS FOOD SCIENCE

Khalid Abdul-Rahim , Malaysia, Asbi Ali . Malaysia, food processing; environmental economics; Rubin Acedo . Darnoko . Indonesia, food processing;

Mexico, agricultural finance; Richard Lazaros T. Kakalis , Greece , food

Carew, Canada, international rural chemistry; Adela Mora-Gutierrez , development; Fructuoso Castanon . Venezuela, food chemistry; Essy F.

Mexico, poultry nutrition; Charles Sahore , Ivory Coast, food processing;

Chabala , Zambia, farm management; Susy Te jayadi , Indonesia, food

Shi-Miin Liu . Taiwan, food and processing; Kukiat Tanteeratarm . agricultural policy; R. Maria Saleth . Thailand, food processing. India, international agricultural economics; Wesley Whittaker . Jamaica, FORESTRY agricultural finance marketing; Pei-Ing Biing T. Guan . Taiwan, forest ecology;

Wu , Taiwan, natural resource economics; Mohammed Rafique Uddin , Bangladesh,

Diego Botero , Colombia, farm forest genetics and tree improvement; management Yiling Xiong , China, wood science.

AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING HUMAN RESOURCES AND FAMILY STUDIES

Xinqun Gui , China, farm power and Yu-Chev Jade Kuan . Taiwan, consumer machinery; Sulaiman Bin Mohammad Zain , economics; Patrick Walson , Nigeria,

Malaysia, farm power and machinery. economics of consumption; Vaidya Swati , India, textiles and apparel; Hanna

AGRONOMY Hanneeda . Egypt, foods and nutrition;

Patrick A. Agbu , Nigeria, soils Debbie O^Connor , Canada, nutrition; reclamation; Yue-Ie C. Hsing . Taiwan, Mohamed Sika , Morocco, nutrition; plant physiology; Mireille Khayrallah . Valerie Kolstad . England, child

Lebanon, plant physiology/genetic development; B. C. Shoba , India, engineering; Hung-Shung Lu , Taiwan, international development and child plant breeding; Khan B. Marwat , development; Kulwaradda Singha , Pakistan, crop production; Egide Thailand, human development.

Nizeyimana , Rwanda, soils; Hassan

A. Wahab , Malaysia, forages; Nihol HORTICULTURE

Welikala . Sri Lanka, soils; Jingsong Bih-Jien Shen . Taiwan, plant physiology

Ye , China, plant physiology/genetic and breeding; Meng-chun Hu , Taiwan, engineering; Urs Zanoni . Switzerland, plant breeding. plant breeding. PLANT PATHOLOGY

ANIMAL SCIENCE Karen Engst , China, diseases and

Yung-Kang Fu , Taiwan, microbiology; breeding for resistance; Suparyono .

Jih-Tay Hsu , Taiwan, ruminant Indonesia, bacteriology/mycology. nutrition; John J. Klir , Czechoslo- vakia, environmental physiology; David VETERINARY MEDICINE

E. Laurin , Canada , nonruminant Namit Ghildyal , India, veterinary nutrition; Min-Young Lee . Korea, microbiology; Chih-heng Ko , Taiwan, biotechnology; Hiroaki Nitta . Japan, veterinary clinical medicine; Young environmental physiology; Seonghee Ro Kwak , Korea, veterinary

C. Park . Korea, meat science; Tae-Jin epidemiology; Irene Munsiff , India, Rhim, Korea, nutritional biochemistry; veterinary pharmacology. . ,

VISITING RESEARCHERS AND TRAINEES sixteen-week nondegree program in biochemistry, nutrition, and laboratory

Anna Denholm . Ph.D. student in the management Department of Biochemistry, University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, is working in the laboratory of Marvin WORLD FOOD DAY ACTIVITIES P. Bryant, Dairy Science, from September 15 to November 9. World Food Day has been observed since 1981 on the anniversary of the

Hiroyuki Arai . Department of establishment of the Food and Pharmaceutical Science, Tokyo Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the University, Japan, is working with United Nations. Its purpose is to Toshiro Nishida, Food Science, for increase public awareness of world two years on enzyme systems associated food problems. with lipoprotein metabolism. Dr. Arai is located in room 102 Burns ides October 16 "Focus 580" WILL radio Research Laboratory, 333-1874. call-in show, 10:00 to 11:00 a.m. WILL's David Inge, Earl D. Kellogg,

Iqbal S. Bhandal . India, and Yong-quan Office of International Agriculture,

Guan . China, arrived at UIUC in August, and Pratap Kotamraju, visiting to work with Jack M. Widholm, Agronomy, professor, will discuss with listeners on plant physiology and genetic world food problems. engineering. October 16 Satellite teleconference of a "National Town Meeting" on the

William da Silva . Department of global food situation will be broadcast Genetics and Evolution of the from Washington, D.C., to Illini Union University of Campinas, Brazil, and Room C and other U.S. universities

John Sf akianakis , Greece, are visiting from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Panelists scholars in the Maize Breeding and include John Block, U.S. Secretary Genetics Laboratory of the Agronomy of Agriculture, Madame 'N'Alineo Tau Department. Dr. da Silva's office ambassador from Lesotho, Ruth Finney, is S-108 Turner Hall, 333-4255. FAO, Clifton Wharton, Chancellor of the State University of New York,

Omar Yousbaschi , Department of Animal Father William Byron, founder of Bread Production, Tishreen University, for the World, and Eddie Albert, Lattakia, Syria, will be at UIUC from moderator. For participation mid-October to mid-December working information contact Carolyn M. Pribble, with Paul C. Harrison, Animal Science, Office of International Agriculture, on poultry physiology. 113 Mumford Hall, 333-6337. October 16 7:00 to 9:00 p.m., Levis

Kazumo Hoshida . professor of biology, Faculty Center, panel discussion on Yamaguchi University, Japan, is taking world hunger and what to do about it his sabbatical leave at UIUC to work sponsored by the International with Kenneth S. Todd, Veterinary Colloquium. Pathobiology, on gregarine parasites October 17 International Agriculture of invertebrates. Dr. Hoshida arrived Seminar, 4:00 p.m., 426 Mumford Hall. at UIUC in August and will be here World Food Needs and U.S. Policies: through June 1985. A Third World View - Pratap Kotamraju, Visiting Professor and former

Rasool Bakhsh . Department of ambassador from India to Tunisia. Agricultural Chemistry, Northwest October 18 noon to 1:00 p.m., Paar Frontier Province Agricultural Lounge, YMCA, film entitled "Maragoli: University, Peshawar, Pakistan, arrived Voices from Africa," sponsored by the at UIUC on September 14 for a Office of Women in Development. October 18 3:00 p.m. in room 180 October 31 Biotechnology in France Bevier Hall, W. N. Thompson retirement - Robert M. Skirvin, Horticulture. lecture by Lowell Hardin on the role 4:00 p.m., 426 Mumford Hall. of U.S. universities in international (International Agriculture seminar) agricultural development. November 7 Midwest Universities Consortium for International Activities SEMINARS (MUCIA): What It Is and How It Works - T. John Kim, Office of International October 3 Ten Years of Title XII: Programs and Studies. Assessing the Past and Charting the 4:00 p.m., 426 Mumford Hall. Future - C. Jean Weidemann, Chief, (International Agriculture seminar) Institutional and Human Resources Division, Board for International Food November 14 Developing Effective and Agricultural Development (BIFAD), Teaching Strategies for Zambian Washington, D.C. Extension - John B. Claar, Office of 4:00 p.m., 426 Mumford Hall. - International Agriculture; Delbert (International Agriculture Seminar) T. Dahl, Agricultural Communications; Violet M. Malone, Extension Education. October 5 Land Reform in Central 4:00 p.m., 426 Mumford Hall. America: Effects on Economic (International Agriculture seminar) Development - John Strasma, Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin. November 28 International 11:45 a.m., YMCA Latzer Hall, 1001 Agriculture/ International Programs South Wright Street, Champaign. - James R. Millar, Associate Vice (YMCA Friday Noon Forum Series) Chancellor for Academic Affairs and Director of International Programs October 5 Economics of Land Reform and Studies. - John Strasma, Land Tenure Center, 4:00 p.m., 426 Mumford Hall. University of Wisconsin. (International Agriculture seminar) 2:30 to 4:40 p.m., 243 Commerce West, (workshop sponsored by the Department of Economics and the Department of VISITORS COMING TO CAMPUS Agricultural Economics) A Japanese Soybean Study Team will October 10 Integrating Food and Energy attend a seminar presented by Royce Systems - Donald L. Day and Errol A. Hinton, Lowell D. Hill, and Darrel D. Rodda, Agricultural Engineering, L. Good, Agricultural Economics, Robert and Marvin P. Steinberg, Food Science. W. Howell, Agronomy, Harold 4:00 p.m., 422 Mumford Hall. E. Kauffman, INTSOY, and John W. (International Agriculture seminar) Santas, Office of International Agriculture, October 4. Sponsored October 17 World Food Needs and U.S. by the American Soybean Association, Policies: A Third World View - Pratap the study team is escorted by Jack Kotamraju, Visiting Professor and Yamashita, ASA/Tokyo. former ambassador from India to

Tunisia. J. Michael Thresh , plant pathologist 4:00 p.m., 426 Mumford Hall. at the East Mailing Research Station, (International Agriculture seminar) Maidstone, Kent, England, will meet with the Pest and Weather Group of October 24 Agriculture in Kampuchea the Illinois Natural History Survey - Emerson D. Nafziger, Agronomy. and the Illinois State Water Survey 4:00 p.m., 426 Mumford Hall. on October 15. His schedule is being (International Agriculture seminar) arranged by Michael E. Irwin, Economic .

Entomology and Agricultural Entomology, of Crop Science, University of

172 Natural Resources Bldg., 333-1963. Zimbabwe, Harare; Sergio B . Marquez-

Berber , Mexico; Peter 0. Oyekan . A People"s Republic of China International Institute of Tropical Agricultural Colleges Instructional Agriculture, Ibadan, Nigeria;

Planning and Management Delegation R. K. Pandey , International Institute will visit the College of Agriculture of Tropical Agriculture scientist from October 22 to 26 as part of a stationed at the International Rice U.S. tour to view instructional Research Institute, Manila, teaching programs. Their trip is Philippines, S. T. Sanogho , soil sponsored by IDEALS (Institute of microbiologist, ZAMARE Project, Lusaka,

International Development and Education Zambia; Chandra B. Singh , in Agriculture and Life Sciences), J. N. Agricultural University,

Beltsville, MD. Jabalpur, India; M. D. Tedia , Director, M.P. State Oilseed Growers Cooperative

Federation, Bhopal , India;

VISITORS RECENTLY ON CAMPUS J. R. Tattersf ield , Head of Research and soybean breeder at the Seed Company

Recent visitors with the Agronomy Maize of Zimbabwe, Harare; Tran Tuong Tuan . Breeding Group include: Jean-Paul Director, Beans Research Center,

Fevre . Rustica Bio-Recherches , Domaine University of Cantho, Vietnam; Nelson de Manaut, France, August 8; Mario R. Vasquez F , Centro Nacional de

D. Cela . Morgan de Santa Ursula S.A., Tecnologia Agricola, San Salvador,

Buenos Aires, Argentina, August 25; El Salvador; Wang Jinling , Northeast

0. Doelstra . Foundation for Plant Agricultural College, Harbin, China;

Breeding, Wageningen, Netherlands, Ren-tse Wang , Director of Research,

August 30 and 31; Drs . Genov and Mitov , Paolita Company, Taipei, Taiwan; Wang

Maize Research Institute, Kreja, Yumin . Du Weinang , and Wang Lianzheng , Bulgaria, September 4 to 8. Heilongjiang Academy of Agricultural Visitors to the College of Agriculture Sciences, Harbin, China; Jose Tadashi and the Illinois Natural History Survey Yorinori , plant pathologist at the after the World Soybean Research National Soybean Center, Londrina,

Brazil; Herbert Zurita 0. , Centro de Conference III, Ames, Iowa, August Investigacion Agricola Tropical, Santa

12 to 17 include: Osman A. A. Ageeb , Cruz, Bolivia. Gezira Research Station, Wad Medani, Sudan; Emilio Rizzo Bonato and Amelio Mr. Liu and Mr. Yao discussed corn

Dall^Agnol . Centro Nacional de Pesquisa research with L. Fred Welch and met de Soja, EMBRAPA, Brazil; William E. with College of Agriculture Dean John

Collett and George Hutchison , R. Campbell on August 22 as part of Commercial Farmers Union, Harare, a Liaoning, China, delegation visit Zimbabwe; Franke Diikstra and Harry to the State of Illinois and UIUC.

H. van der Vliet , F. T. Pesquisa e Their program was arranged by Robert

Sementes , Ponta Grossa, Brazil; Joke E. Brown, Office of International Dinakin, National Cereals Research Programs and Studies. Governor James Institute, Ibadan, Nigeria; Louis Thompson recently signed a "Sister

Jackai , . entomologist with the State/Province" agreement with Liaoning International Institute of Tropical Province and plans to open a permanent Agriculture, Ibadan, Nigeria; Jiang Illinois trade office in Liaoning.

Xingcun . Institute of Genetics,

Academia Sinica, Beijing, China; Nguyen Masuro Yamaguchi , University of Osaka

Dong Khoi . Institute of Biology, Prefecture, Kikuo Kumazawa , Yoshiharu

National Center of Scientific Research, Maruyama . and Yasuhiro Arima . Tokyo

Hanoi, Vietnam; Clive Levy , Department University, and Takuji Ohyama , Niigata . . .

University, Japan, discussed symbiotic Jimmy H. Clark, Dairy Science, John nitrogen fixation of soybeans with A. Milner, Food Science, John W. James E. Harper, USDA/Agronomy, and Santas, Office of International Richard H. Hageman and Bruce Agriculture, and Borje K. Gustafsson, L. Vasilas, Agronomy, from August 27 A. G. Schiller, and Howard L. Whitmore, to 29. Their visit vas part of a Veterinary Clinical Medicine. US-Japan cooperative science program exchange Albrecht Kistner . National Chemical Research Laboratory, Pretoria, South Nine research scientists from the China Africa, met with Dairy Science faculty

Academy of Railway Science . Beijing, and presented a seminar on growth and visited the wood science research metabolism of insoluble cellulose and facilities of the Forestry Department plant cell walls by rumen cellulolytic and the College of Engineering on bacteria grown in continuous culture, August 30. They were guests of the September 7. Association of American Railroad (AAR) and were accompanied by Al Reinschmidt, Anthony Gbani . Agronomy Department, Technical Director of AAR, and Ernest University of Sierra Leone, Njala J. Barenberg, Departmemt of Civil College of Agriculture, spent September Engineering at UIUC 10 to 14 in the Agronomy Department involved in a program on experimental

Ph. Gouet . Director of the Microbiology design and data analysis. The program

Laboratory, and G. Fontv . Center for was arranged by Robert D. Seif. Dr. Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Gbani completed his M.S. degree in Research, INRA, Thieux, France, visited Agronomy at UIUC in 1972. the Microbiology Division of Dairy

Science on September 3 and 4. Kyung Lee . Director for the American Soybean Association/Korea, Young Shin

Dan Ben-Ghedalia . The Volcani Center, Kim , Yun Hap News Agency, Young Hyun

Institute of Animal Sciences, Bet Kang . Korea Economic Daily, and Jun

Dagan, Israel, met with faculty in Ryun Wang . Korea Food Development Dairy Science and presented a special Center, visited UIUC on September 11 seminar entitled "Research in the Field in a program arranged by the American of Lignocelluloses in Israel," Soybean Association. They attended September 4 and 5. lectures and product demonstrations on soybean nutrition and utilization

Peter Buttery and Chris Bartram . presented by Lun-Shin Wei, Patricia Department of Applied Biochemistry V. Johnston, Sing-Wood Yeh, and Wilmot and Food Science, School of Wijeratne, Food Science. Agriculture, University of Nottingham,

England, met with Jimmy H. Clark, Dairy William W. Roath . USDA/ARS North Dakota Science, on September 17. State University, Fargo, recently completed a two-year assignment on

Kalle Hemmi and I Imp Aronen . Raisio the ZAMARE (Zambian Agricultural Factories, Finland, met with Jimmy Research and Extension) project as H. Clark, Michael J. Hutjens, and Gene sunflower agronomist stationed at the

C. McCoy, Dairy Science, Sept. 19. Mt . Makulu Central Research Station. Dr. Roath visited UIUC on September

Wieslaw Bare i . Department of Animal 12 and presented a seminar on the Physiology, Agricultural University project of Warsaw, Poland, visited Veterinary

Medicine and Agriculture on September Mohamed M. Abdallah . Professor of 5 and 6. He met with Larry L. Berger, Agronomy, Assiut University, Egypt, and Peter J. Bechtel, Animal Science, met with Joseph A. Jackobs, Agronomy, Alvin I. Nelson, Food Science, and Agriculture, and Earl D. Kellogg and Harold E. Kauffman, INTSOY, on Harold E. Kauffman, Office of September 13 and 14. Professor International Agriculture, to discuss Abdallah's trip was sponsored by USAID exchange agreements between Sichuan through the New Mexico State University Agricultural College and UIUC's College Major Cereals Improvement Project. of Agriculture, September 24. They also viewed maize production research

Zheng Zhi Shan , State Forestry College, at the Agronomy-Plant Pathology South Zhejiang University, China, discussed Farm with Emerson D. Nafziger, and new developments in wood and forest toured the swine research facilities science with Poo Chow and other with Leif H. Thompson and Robert Forestry faculty, September 19. A. Easter, Animal Science.

Rodney Mackie . Animal and Dairy Science Research Institute, Pretoria, South LANGUAGE SKILLS SURVEY Africa, visited UIUC and presented a seminar on nitrogen metabolism in A short quest ionnarie on your language the rumen, September 21. skills in French and Spanish will be sent to you during October. The survey

Ye Zhenve . Vice President, and Fu is being prepared by the Title XII Danru, Chairman of Agronomy, Sichuan Office to ascertain language needs Agricultural College, China, met with by faculty and staff interested in Edwin L. Goldwasser, Vice-Chancellor international development work. We for Academic Affairs, John R. appreciate your cooperation in filling Campbell, Dean of the College of out this questionnaire.

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Rabel J. Burdge . Institute ?8¥ 13. Dr. Hock organized and chaired Environmental Studies and the a workshop on English as the language Department of Agricultural Economics, of science in developing countries. was a Resident Professor in the

Department of Western Sociology at Janice M. Bahr « Animal Science, the Agricultural University, presented an invited seminar on Wageningen, the Netherlands, from May reproductive physiology of the domestic through August 1984. He taught two hen to representatives from the courses in environmental sociology International Minerals and Chemicals and participated in joint research Company, Terre Haute, Indiana, on on the impact of recreation resource September 13. development

Frederick C. Fliegel . Agricultural

Dean Richard E. Dierks , Veterinary Economics, assisted USAID in conducting

Medicine, and Miodrag Ristic , an agricultural sector assessment in Veterinary Pathobiology, attended the Belize, September 17 to October 1. official opening of the Laveran

International Foundation, Annecy, Alan I. Brightman . Susan A.

France, September 7. The purpose of McLaughlin , and Lloyd C. Helper . the Foundation is to contribute to Veterinary Clinical Medicine, attended research, training, and distribution a meeting of the International Society of information on the prevention and of Veterinary Ophthalmologists on control of malaria and babesiosis. September 19 in Hamburg, West Germany. Dean Dierks was named to the Board Dr. Brightman and Dr. McLaughlin of Directors and Dr. Ristic was presented papers. The meeting was appointed Vice President of the held in conjunction with the World Foundation. A second office of the Small Animal Association Meeting. Foundation will be established in Dr. Helper also attended and Urbana under the direction of Dr. presented two papers at the Cataract Ristic. Symposium, September 28, in Toulouse, France.

Zarina M. Hock and Sheila A. Ryan .

Agricultural Publications, participated Jack E. Harlan . Agronomy emeritus, in the joint international meeting presented a paper entitled "Problems of the Council of Biology Editors and of Merging Populations and Counterfeit the European Association of Science Hybrids" at a conference on Infraspecif ic Variation at the York. Participants discussed the University of Oxford, England, ecology and management of submersed September 26 to 28. He then went to aquatic plants in rivers and streams. Sweden to deliver the Nilsson-Ehle lecture for 1984 at the University Sidney L. Spahr , Dairy Science, is of Lund and a seminar at Svalov. The participating in a series of mastitis Nilsson-Ehle lecture was entitled "Some seminars in Japan from October 24 to Questions About Fertilization Biology November 3. He will present reports in Higher Plants" and the seminar was on trends in mastitis control in the on the origin of maize. Dr. Harlan USA and electrical conductivity of also reviewed the work of the Nordic milk for detection of intramammary Gene Bank in Sweden, Norway, and infection at seminars in Sapporo, Finland. Tokyo, and Fukuoka. The seminars are sponsored by the Eisai Co., National

Jack D. Paxton . Plant Pathology, Association for Improvement of Milk presented invited lectures at the Quality, National Agricultural University of Gottingen, Germany, and Insurance Association, and Japan met with researchers at the University Veterinary Medical Association. of Zurich, Switzerland, and The

Agricultural University, Wageningen, Roger R. Yoerger , Agricultural Netherlands, October 7 to 25. Engineering, will participate in the First Pan-American Conference on

Earl R. Swanson , Agricultural Agricultural Engineering, October 28 Economics, is a visiting professor to November 2, Caracas, Venezuela. in the Department of Economics and Statistics of the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, October 8 to December 21. SEMINARS

Mary A. Keith . Foods and Nutrition, November 7 Midwest Universities spoke on world food problems at the Consortium for International Activities Fairbury, Illinois, Presbyterian (MUCIA): What It Is and How It Works Church, on October 14. - T. John Kim, Office of International Programs and Studies.

Nicanor Liquido . William G. Rues ink , 4:00 p.m., 426 Mumford Hall.

William 0. Lamp , and Michael E. Irwin , (International Agriculture seminar) Agricultural Entomology and Illinois Natural History Survey, David J. November 14 Developing Effective

Voegtlin . Faunistics Section of the Teaching Strategies for Zambian Illinois Natural History Survey, and Extension - John B. Claar, Office of

L. Keith Hendrie and Robert W. Scott , International Agriculture; Delbert Illinois State Water Survey, T. Dahl, Agricultural Communications; participated in the International Violet M. Malone, Extension Education. Conference on the Movement and 4:00 p.m., 426 Mumford Hall. Dispersal of Biotic Agents, Baton (International Agriculture seminar) Rouge, Louisiana, October 17 to 19. Dr. Irwin presented two papers. November 28 International Agriculture/ International Programs - Vice Richard E. Sparks , Aquatic Biology James R. Millar, Associate Section of the Illinois Natural History Chancellor for Academic Affairs and Survey, was an invited participant Director of International Programs in an international workshop on and Studies. submersed macrophytes in lotic systems, 4:00 p.m., 426 Mumford Hall. October 18 to 20, Lake George, New (International Agriculture seminar) VISITORS RECENTLY ON CAMPUS September 27. They met with Royce A. Hinton, Agricultural Economics,

Norio Murato . Tokyo University, Japan, M. Gene Oldham and Marshal D. visited the laboratory of Constantin McGlamery, Agronomy, and John C. A. Rebeiz, Horticulture, August 28. Siemens, Agricultural Engineering.

ArvJHd Singh arrived in Illinois on G.v.d. Waav . Stichting Koppeling

September 19 as a participant from Melkcontrole- Veewoeding; S. de Jong , India in the International 4-H Youth dairy specialist; G. Wis sink and A.

Exchange Program. He met with Ann Ensing . forage laboratory directors;

Rund , Mary K. Munson , and Gerald G. and N. Benedictus . National Government Gast, 4-H; Robert P. Bentz, Cooperative Advisory Officer, the Netherlands, Extension Service; Thomas A. McCowen, met with Sidney L. Spahr, Gerhard International Agriculture; Emerson W. Harpestad, and Michael F. Hutjens, D. Nafziger, Agronomy; Sheldon W. Dairy Science, Hoyle B. Puckett, Williams, Agricultural Economics USDA/Agricultural Engineering, and emeritus; and Gary E. Ricketts, Animal Nelson L. Buck, Agricultural Science. Mr. Singh will be staying Engineering, September 27. Their with 4-H host families throughout the visit, originally scheduled for July state until December 15. 5, was arranged by Dr. Hutjens.

Herman Heege . Department of David G. Rudder forth . Hector Celano ,

Agricultural Engineering, University Ramon Zorraquin . Jose Carlino Juninsho . of Keil, Germany, discussed develop- Cristian Ferrevra . Juan Carlos Morales , ments in livestock mechanization with and Ernesto Liesezarro . farm managers Hoyle B. Puckett, USDA and Agricultural and equipment dealers from Argentina, Engineering, on September 24. visited the INTSOY program and Illinois Foundation Seeds, Inc., September 27. A group of 33 Argentine farmers and farm equipment dealers visited campus Abdullah M. Nassib . Head of Food Legume on September 26. They spent two hours Research, Field Crops Institute, and

in a question and answer session on M. Nabil A.L.A.A. El-Din . Chief of farm machinery and tillage equipment Soil Microbiology, Institute of Soils with John C. Siemens, Agricultural and Water Research, Giza, Egypt, Engineering. visited the Farm Progress Show on September 27 and the College of

Manuel Alegre de Melo Duarte , member Agriculture on September 28. They of Parliament, and Jose Carlos met with Joseph A. Jackobs , Agronomy,

Vasconcelos . editor of "0 Jornal," James B. Sinclair, Plant Pathology, Portugal, discussed issues related Michael E. Irwin, Agricultural to Portugal's involvement in the Entomology and Illinois Natural History European Economic Community with Survey, Sing Wood Yeh, Food Science, Stephen C. Schmidt, Agricultural and Randy Stover, Urbana Laboratories. Economics, September 27. They were accompanied by Ken Comer of Casey, Rodrigo Gamez . Cellular and Molecular Illinois, and a U.S. State Department Biology Research Center at the escort. Their trip was sponsored by University of Costa Rica, San Jose, the USIA (U.S. Information Agency) and Costa Rica's representative to and arranged by the Visitor Program the Organization of American States Service of Meridian House (OAS) and the Nature Conservancy, International, Washington, D.C. visited UIUC and the Illinois Natural History Survey from October 1 to 4. Twenty Argentine farmers visited UIUC Dr. Gamez presented a seminar on Costa following the Farm Progress Show on Rica's natural areas and access to them as research sites. His schedule Continental Grain Company, Chicago; was arranged by Michael E. Irwin, William Fugate, farmer, Fairbury; Bruce Agricultural Entomology and Economic L. Kirkpatrick, Abbott Laboratories, Entomology. Long Grove; Phyllis McPherron, Clinical Coordinator for the Community Health

Michel Desmars . Associate Head, Energy Improvement Center, Decatur; Lyle G. Mission, Ministry of Agriculture, Reeser, agricultural consultant, France, discussed small scale Peoria; Willard Severns, farmer, production of fuel alcohol with Errol Moweaqua; James M. Spata, food D. Rodda, Agricultural Engineering, scientist, Montgomery, Ohio; Wilbert on October 2. Stevenson, farmer, Streator; and Richard A. Vogen, Illinois Department

Xiao Jiaiie . Food Fermentation of Agriculture, Springfield.

Institute, Lei Bojun and Xu Bao .

Soybean Institute, Ma Xiyuan . Cereal

Institute, Yu Shouvang . Harbin Medical INTERPAKS SHORT COURSE

College, Xue Zhongtian . Plant

Physiology Institute, Liu Chang jiang . In mid-October participants received Heilong jiang Food Industry Corporation, certificates for completing the

Pan Qi , China Association of Science extension short course sponsored by and Technology, and Shao Qiquan . China INTERPAKS. Seven people attended the Genetics Society, China, visited UIUC course entitled "Organization and on October 8. They met with Harold Operation of Agriculture Extension E. Kauffman, INTSOY, Lun-Shin Wei, Services in the International

Food Science, and Theodore Hymowitz, Setting": Nitvananda Trivedi . Joint Agronomy. Director of Agriculture, India; Carlos

Schlottfeldt . special advisor to the

Ejaz Rahim . Ghulam Dastgir Akhter . President of the Brazilian national

Mir Laiq Shah . Syed As if Shah . Habib extension system; Paulo Ebling

Ullah Khan , and Mahmood Khan . Northwest Rodrigues . Technical Director of the Frontier Province, Pakistan, visited Subsidiary in the state of Rio Grande

UIUC on October 8 and 9, sponsored do Sul, Brazil; Abbas Sesav . Acting by the U.S. Department of State Assistant Chief Agriculturist of the

Narcotics Reduction Board. They met government of Sri Lanka; Viiav Nath . with William N. Thompson and Thomas Ministry of Primary Industries, Fiji;

A. McCowen, International Agriculture, and Laurien Ngirabanzi . Director of Philip Garcia and Susan E. Offutt, the Integrated Rural Development Agricultural Economics, Harold E. Project, Rwanda. Kauffman, INTSOY, Joseph A. Jackobs, Held at UIUC from September 17 to Emerson D. Nafziger, and D. E. October 19, the course was coordinated Alexander, Agronomy, James A. Smith, by J. B. Claar, Director of INTERPAKS. oil seed processing consultant, Marvin Faculty from INTERPAKS, cooperative G. Weinbaum and Stephen C. Cohen, South extension, and other units in the Asia Program, J. B. Claar, INTERPAKS, College of Agriculture served as and William T. McNamara , Cooperative instructors. During the short course Extension Service. participants visited the Farm Progress Show, extension offices and farmers in Effingham County, the Stuttgart INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE Research and Extension Center in Arkansas, the Tennessee Valley The International Agriculture Advisory Authority Research Center at Muscle Committee will meet at UIUC on November Shoals, Alabama, and the Alabama 28. Committee members are: Richard Cooperative Extension Service Feltes, Director of Crop Research, International Center for Aquaculture. .

OFFICE LOCATIONS FOR INT. AGR. STAFF Timothy Koehnen . graduate student, INTERPAKS, 226 Agr. Eng. Bldg., We are moving around and the dust 333-5838. hasn't settled yet. The mailing Karen Russon . TIPAN project, 104 address for everyone in the Office Agr. Eng. Bldg., 333-5868. of International Agriculture is 113 Carolyn Sands , graduate student, Mumford Hall, 1301 West Gregory Drive, INTERPAKS, 237 Agr. Eng. Bldg., Urbana, IL 61801. However, offices 333-5838. are located at: Burton E. Swanson . Associate Director, INTERPAKS, 230 Agr. Eng. Bldg., Mumford Hall 333-5834.

Lynn Blakenev . Secretary, Training William N. Thompson . Senior Adviser, and Visitors, 438 Mumford Hall, TIPAN project, 107 Agr. Eng. Bldg., 333-3638. 333-5869.

Dee Buchanan . Secretary, OIA, 438 Mumford Hall, 333-6337.

Diana K. Glasgow . Accountant, OIA, JAMAICA SCHOOL OF AGRICULTURE PROJECT 434 Mumford Hall, 333-4350.

Judy A. Hans ens . Secretary, INTSOY, UIUC , through the Division of 434 Mumford Hall, 333-6422. Agricultural Education and the Office

Harold E. Kauffman . Director, INTSOY, of International Agriculture, plans 434a Mumford Hall, 333-6422. to submit a proposal with Purdue

Earl D. Kellogg . Associate Director, University and Florida A&M University OIA, 440 Mumford Hall, 333-6337. for the Jamaica Agricultural Education

Thomas A. McCowen . Assistant Director, Project. This four-year institution OIA and INTSOY, 113 Mumford Hall, building project will require 333-6421. short-term faculty assignments in

Carolyn M. Pribble . International agricultural engineering, agricultural Agriculture Development Specialist, economics, agronomy, animal science, OIA, 436 Mumford Hall, 333-6337. agricultural extension, and integrated

John W. Santas , Assistant Director, pest management, as well as in support Training and Visitors, OIA, 438 Mumford areas such as college administration, Hall, 333-3638. library development, curriculum

Deanna Taeger . Secretary, OIA, 113 development, and evaluation. Faculty Mumford Hall, 333-6420. interested in this USAID-sponsored project should contact Leon A. Mayer, Agricultural Engineering Building 355 Education Building, 333-2775, or

J. B. Claar . Director, INTERPAKS, 241 Burton E. Swanson, 113 Mumford Hall, Agr. Eng. Bldg. ,333-5831 333-5834.

Kathleen Cloud . Research Associate, INTERPAKS, 228 Agr. Eng. Bldg., 333-5832. NEW SOYBEAN PUBLICATIONS AVAILABLE

Jeanne C. Hoefling . Secretary, INTERPAKS, 245 Agr. Eng. Bldg., "International Directory of Soybean 333-5837. Entomologists" is organized by country

Bonnie J. Irwin . Librarian/ and provides names, addresses, and Publications, OIA, 246 Agr. Eng. areas of specialization. Bldg., 333-5835. "A Bibliography of Three

Barbara E. Jauhola . Secretary, Lepidopterous Pod Borers - Etiella

INTERPAKS, 245 Agr. Eng. Bldg., zinckenella . Leguminivora

333-5837. glycinivorella . and Matsumuraeses

Jane S. Johnson . Information phaseoli - Associated with Soybean Specialist, INTERPAKS, 242 Agr. and Other Legumes" was compiled by Eng. Bldg., 333-5836. Yalian Qu and Jenny Kogan. Single copies of these publications For registration details contact are available free of charge from the the Office of Continuing Education Soybean Insect Research Information in International Affairs, 205 Arcade Center (SIRIC), 172 Natural Resources Bldg., 725 South Wright Street, Building, 607 East Peabody Drive, Champaign, IL 61820, 333-1465. Champaign, IL 61820, 333-6784.

WID FILM IOWA-ILLINOIS WORLD FOOD CONFERENCE November 15 "3900 Million and One." The Iowa-Illinois World Food Set is rural southern India, the film Conference: Third World Development, examines population and food problems From Food Deficiency to Food faced by individuals and the Sufficiency will be held at the government. Blackhawk Hotel, Davenport, Iowa, on Noon, Paar Lounge, YMCA, 1001 South November 9 and 10. The conference is Wright Street, Champaign. open to the public. Sessions will cover: food aid as an instrument of development; the need MEMORANDUM WITH HUNGARY for developing countries to provide economic incentives for their farmers; UIUC recently signed a Memorandum of methods for reducing third world Understanding with the Central Food dependency on foreign oil; the role Research Institute, Budapest, Hungary, of women in development; the blending to cooperate on soyfood research. of development and humanitarian goals; Harold E. Kauffman, INTSOY Director, and a workshop on influencing public 113 Mumford Hall, 333-6422, will serve policy on developmental issues. as campus liaison officer.

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INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES Scott R. Robinson , Wildlife Research Section of the Illinois Natural

Eun Woo Park t recent Ph.D. in Plant History Survey, spent two months this Pathology, is now Assistant Professor summer in Manu National Park, located in the Department of Agricultural in the Amazon basin in southeastern Biology, Seoul National University, Peru, taking a census of the birds Suweon, Korea. and studying the role of interspecific aggression in habitat selection. The

Daniel Gianola , Animal Science, was research was funded through a National recently elected Honorary President Science Foundation grant to Princeton of the Association pour 1' Analyse des University. Caracteres Descretes (ANCADI), an international organization concerned Peter B. Bavley r Aquatic Biology with the analysis of categorical data Section of the Illinois Natural in animal genetics. ANCADI is based History Survey, participated in an in Toulouse, France. evaluation of the aquatic environment and fisheries of Paraguay from Octo-

Mahmood A . Khan , Foods and Nutrition, ber 22 to November 3. The evaluation was a U.S. delegate to the will form a part of an environmental International Conference on Catering profile of the country being prepared Technology and Catering Systems held by the International Institute of during September in Harrogate Environment and Development (IIED) England. Dr. Khan gave an invited through a grant from USAID. paper on the use of infrared process- ing in food service systems and was Marcos Koean r Illinois Natural History a speaker in a forum on future develop- Survey and Agricultural Entomology, ments in the food service industry. presented an invited paper entitled "Plant Defense Strategies and Host

Janice M. Bahr , Animal Science, spent Plant Resistance" at the 40th Annual September 21 to October 20 at the Meeting of the Entomological Society Poultry Research Centre, Edinburgh, of Manitoba, Canada, Nov. 9 and 10. Scotland, establishing a laboratory technique on receptor assays for avian Burton E. Swanson. INTERPAKS, has been pituitary hormones. While in Europe, appointed to the Steering Committee Dr. Bahr presented an invited lecture on Agricultural Education and on reproduction in the domestic hen University Building for Africa. This at the Institute of Animal Husbandry committee, which held its first and Animal Behavior at Mariensee, and meeting in Washington, D.C., on visited the Institute of Poultry November 8, will advise USAID on major Research in Celle, Germany. new programs and priorities to , ,

strengthen agricultural education Kyoto, Japan, November 19 to 21. He institutions in Africa. presented a paper on crop improvement Dr. Swanson, Chair, Association through tissue culture selection. for International Agricultural

Education, will preside over the Harold E. Kauffman . INTSOY , attended semi-annual meeting of the Association the International Agricultural in New Orleans, LA, on December 4. Centers' Meeting of the Consultative Group for International Agricultural W. John Santas and Lvnn Blakenev , Research (CGIAR) , Washington, D.C., Office of International Agriculture, November 5 to 7. attended a conference for staff of From November 13 to 16, Dr. universities and other organizations Kauffman discussed collaborative that carry out training programs under INTSOY programs in Colombia with staff contracts with USAID. Organized by at CIAT (Centro Internacional de USAID' s Office of International Agricultura Tropical) and ICA Training, the conference was held in (Instituto Colombiano Agropecuario)

Washington, D.C., on Nov. 1 and 2. Palmira, Colombia.

Stanley E. Curtis , Animal Science, Thomas A. McCowen and John W. Santas , spoke about swine environment and International Agriculture, traveled behavior at the Saskatchewan Swine to Pakistan in late November to Symposium, Canada, November 7. coordinate programmatic and logistic aspects of the TIPAN (Transformation Fred A. Kiin^ier-ny, Food Science, spent and Integration of the Provincial one month at the East German Academy Agricultural Network) project. of Sciences as a participant in the On the trip home, Dr. Santas National Research Council Visitor discussed soybean training and Exchange Program. While in Europe conferences with Agricultural Research Dr. Kummerow attended the IV Institute staff, Antalya, Turkey, and International Colloquium of Lipid FAO/INTSOY activities with FAO staff Metabolism and Its Pathology, where in Rome, Italy. he presented a paper on the relationship of oxidized lipids to Donald L. Dav . Agricultural atherosclerosis, November 17 to 25 Engineering, presented a paper Lisbon, Portugal. entitled "Biogas from Biomass in Kenya" at the International Conference Donald E. Kuhlman and John K. on Biogas Transfer and Diffusion,

Bouseman f Agricultural Entomology and Cairo, Egypt, in mid-November. the Section of Economic Entomology Sponsored by the Egyptian Academy of of the Illinois Natural History Scientific Research and Technology, Survey, are in Zambia from mid- the Egyptian National Research Center,

November to mid-December to complete USAID , and the National Academy of the second phase of entomology Sciences, the conference addressed consulting on the ZAMARE project. alternative energy needs for develop- They are working with personnel in ing countries. While in Egypt, Dr. the Zambia Ministry of Agriculture Day met with research collaborators and Water Development and the ZAMARE at the Agricultural Research Center, project on insect pests at planting Giza. Dr. Day then traveled to Kenya time in the Central Province. to plan laboratory and field research that will produce alternative sources

Jack M. Widholm . Agronomy, was an of energy for Kenyan agriculture. invited speaker at the First Kyoto Dr. Day, along with Egyptian and Symposium on Bioscience: Prospects Kenyan scientists, is participating in Plant Cell Science and Technology, in a USAID-sponsored project on ,

biological conversion of biomass into (July 1 to August 14, 1985) seminars fuel, feed, and fertilizer for on "South America Today" for 20 U.S. developing countries. professors of Latin American studies. Finally, Dr. Day visited Israel Seminar I participants will visit to coordinate a US-Israel Binational Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador, and Agriculture Research and Development Colombia, and Seminar II participants (BARD) proposal on microbial and will visit Brazil, Peru, and Uruguay. electrochemical methods to renovate Spanish- and Portuguese-language agricultural wastewater. Marvin P. comprehension is required. For

Steinberg , Food Science, is co- information and application forms investigator on all these projects. contact the Council for International Exchange of Scholars, Suite 300, 11

Earl D. Kellogg . International Dupont Circle, Washington, D.C. 20036, Agriculture, is in Zambia from Novem- telephone (202) 833-4955. ber 27 to December 21 to meet with team members of the ZAMARE (Zambian Agricultural Research and Extension) NEW INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS project, and prepare for the mid-project review in 1985. The College of Agriculture and the College of Veterinary Medicine welcome

Glen L. Hartman f graduate student in the following new international Plant Pathology, will conduct thesis graduate students to the University research on Pyrenochaeta leafspot of of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: soybeans at the Mt. Makulu Central Research Station, Zambia, beginning EXTENSION EDUCATION

December 9- He is sponsored under Asmatullah Khan . Pakistan, extension the special studies program of the education and vocational and technical

ZAMARE project. education; Naftali Mollel , Tanzania, agricultural extension; Enoch

Sam H. Johnson , Agricultural Sikapande , Zambia, general agriculture Economics, will attend the Farming and crop production; Heather Young. Systems Support Project Technical New Zealand, horticulture education. Advisory Committee Meeting in Washington, D.C., December 16 and 17, and will meet with staff at USAID and SUB-SAHARAN COOPERATIVE PROGRAM the World Bank to discuss on-going research programs. January 1 and September 1 are the Dr. Johnson will participate in deadlines for proposals to the a meeting of the International National Science Foundation (NSF) for Committee of the American Agricultural the Sub-Saharan Cooperative Science Economics Association during the Program. Activities considered for Association's annual meetings, Decem- support include: ber 28 to 30, Dallas, Texas. - cooperative research projects - research-oriented workshops

conferences , and seminars FULBRIGHT SEMINARS ON SOUTH AMERICA - visits to or from the cooperating country to carry out discrete February 1, 1985, is the application cooperative research activities deadline for 1985 Fulbright Summer - doctoral dissertation improvement Seminars on "South America Today." projects The Fulbright Commissions in A more detailed program announcement Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, is available from the Office of Peru, and Uruguay, and the USIA Post International Agriculture, 113 Mumford in Bolivia, are sponsoring two 45-day Hall, attention Bonnie Irwin. VISITORS RECENTLY ON CAMPUS Klaus Frohberg f International Institute for Applied Systems

Edris Bird , Resident Tutor of the Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria, University of the West Indies, discussed collaborative research with Antigua, visited UIUC from September Stephen C. Schmidt, Agricultural

25 to October 1 . Dr. Bird discussed Economics, on October 22. Dr. continuing education and staff Frohberg also presented a seminar on development with Violet M. Malone, a world food and agriculture model Extension Education, and other faculty developed by the Institute. and students.

Rov D. Morev . Chief, Division of Asia

N. R. Shalash r Chair of the Department and the Pacific, United Nations of Animal Reproduction and Artificial Development Programme, New York,

Insemination, National Research visited UIUC on November 1 and 2 for Centre, Cairo, Egypt, visited Charles a program arranged by Robert E. Brown, N. Graves, Dairy Science, October 6. Overseas Projects and Foreign Visitors. Dr. Morey met with A delegation representing the Tianjin Frederick M. Wirt, Political Science; Commercial Shrimp Research Center, Charles O'Morchoe, College of China, visited the Kinmundy Field Medicine; Peter Schran, Center for Station of the Illinois Natural Asian Studies; John A. Shadduck, History Survey from October 16 to 20. Veterinary Pathobiology; Borje Members of the delegation, including Gustafsson, Veterinary Clinical

Jiang Huj Sheng, Jjan Zhang , Yao Chang Medicine; and Earl D. Kellogg, Burton

Hai f Zhang Zhi Ming , and Wu Xiu Lan . E. Swanson, and Harold E. Kauffman, discussed commercial production of Office of International Agriculture. the freshwater prawn, Macrobrachium

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INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES R. William Seiders . State 4-H Office, participated in the first of five

Luis H. Camacho r Agronomy/INTSOY plant Kellogg Foundation/Partners of the breeder stationed in Cali, Colombia, Americas Fellowship in International spent three weeks in El Salvador in Development seminars, held November October as a consultant for the World 24 to December 2 in the Dominican Food Program on production of basic Republic. Forty Fellows from the grains (corn, beans, sorghum, and United States, Central and South rice) by small-scale farmers. America, and the Caribbean met to Dr. Camacho reviewed a bean/cowpea study leadership in development. CRSP project at the Panamerican School

of Agriculture, November 21 to 24. John M. Gerber . Horticulture, visited The project deals with development commercial greenhouse operations and of disease resistant bean cultivars controlled environment research for small-scale farmers. facilities in England and Holland from November 6 to 15. In Holland he dis-

John Pt Campbell i Dean of the College cussed hydroponic vegetable production of Agriculture, visited India from with scientists at Proefstation in November 17 to 30 with five other Naaldwijk, and at IMAG, Wageningen. deans of land-grant colleges of Dr. Gerber also visited the Glasshouse agriculture. Invited by the Government Crops Research Institute in of India and co-sponsored by the Littlehampton, England, to discuss U.S. Department of State, the nutrient management in controlled delegation visited colleges of environment food production systems. agriculture, agricultural research

institutes, and the Indian Council Mary A. Keith . Foods and Nutrition,

for Agricultural Research. Dean Donald L. Dav . Agricultural Campbell will present a seminar about Engineering, and Everett Hatfield. his trip on February 6 at 1:00 p.m. in Animal Science emeritus, spoke at the room 126 Mumford Hall. Iowa-Illinois World Food Conference: Third World Development, From Food

Mohamed A. Mehaia r Food Science, Deficiency to Food Sufficiency, presented a paper on use of food November 9 and 10, Davenport, Iowa. processing and agricultural wastes Attending from UIUC were: Ned M. by fermentation at the First Arab Gulf Birkey, Mary Ann Block, Sharon Y. Conference on Biotechnology and Hart, W. Mike Sager, and Pamela E. Applied Microbiology, held in Riyadh, Woodard, Cooperative Extension; Harold Saudi Arabia, November 12 to 15. The E. Kauffman and Earl D. Kellogg, paper was cc— authored by Munir Office of International Agriculture; Cheryan, also in Food Science. Frances M. Magrabi, Family and ,

Consumer Economics; Emerson D. Violet M. Malone T Extension Education,

Nafziger, Agronomy; Alvin I. Nelson, and Donald Smucker , MUCIA Caribbean Food Science; B. Jean Peterson, Human Agricultural Extension Project, will Development and Family Ecology; and conduct three two-day workshops for students Adenuga 0. Atewologun, Nalini extension staff in Belize from Ayya, David Kenny, Richard H. Kodl, January 4 to 16. The workshops will Nobumasa Haccho, Jade Kuan, James strengthen the teaching skills of O'Connor, Timothy Rocke, Susan Ann local staff. Rocke, Arbali Sukanal, Mohammad Tariq, and Patrick A. Walson. Carolvn M. Pribble. Office of International Agriculture, will attend Miodrag Ristic. Sonia Montenegro- the Development Advisory Team (DAT)

James , and Pedro Aso . Veterinary Workshop at Iowa State University,

Pathobiology, participated in the Ames , from January 7 to 11. annual Conference on Hemotropic

Diseases of Domestic Animals, held Harold E. Kauffman . INTSOY, will November 26 to 29 at the University discuss INTSOY projects with USAID of Zulia, Maraeaibo, Venezuela. and government officials in India, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, and

L. Fred Welch , Agronomy, presented Thailand from January 9 to 24. While a paper entitled "Identifying Limiting in Sri Lanka he will attend the Factors for High Corn Yields" at the opening sessions of the Soybean Annual Meeting of the Ontario Plant Utilization Workshop. Food Society of Guelph, Ontario, Canada, December 10 to 12. VISITING RESEARCHERS Agronomy Department students and faculty who attended the North Central Mohamed El-Azab . Zagazig University, Weed Control Conference, Winnepeg, Zagazig, Egypt, is studying therio- Manitoba, Canada, December 3 to 6, genology with Howard L. Whitroore, included: Carol Diane Anderson Veterinary Clinical Medicine, from

Thomas H. Beckett . Elierv L. Knake. October 1984 through August 1985.

Mark M. Loux . James L. Llovd . Marshall Dr. El-Azab is sponsored by the

D. McGlamerv . Randv A. Mvers. Mjcbael AMIDE AST program.

Orfanedes . David B, Pj,ke, Edward W. Stoller. and Loyd M. Wax. Nazeer Ahmad . Head of the Department of Soil Science, University of the Stephen C. Schmidt. Agricultural West Indies, will be in the Agronomy Economics, attended a meeting of the Department for six months beginning International Trade Research in March. Dr. Ahmad will teach a Consortium, held at the Asilomar course on the genesis, classification, Conference Center, Pacific Grove, and management of tropical soils, and California, December 16 to 20. will be available to consult with faculty and students.

Alvin I. Nelson . Lym-Shin Wei, and Wilmot Wiieratne. Food Science, will present lectures and assist in TROPICAL SOILS COURSE AT UIUC: laboratory activities at the Soybean SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT Utilization Workshop in Peradeniya, Sri Lanka, January 14 to 25. The "Genesis, Classification, and workshop is sponsored by the Sri Lanka Management of Tropical Soils" Department of Agriculture and INTSOY, (Agronomy 300, two hours credit) will in collaboration with UNDP, FAO, be taught by Nazeer Ahmad , Head of UNICEF, CARE, and USAID. the Department of Soil Science, ,

University of the West Indies, SEMINARS beginning the week of March 4 (second half of the semester). Dr. Ahmad, January 30 Recent Events in Plant who has worldwide experience with Breeding in Brazil - William da Silva, tropical soils and agriculture, taught Department of Genetics and Evolution, this course at UIUC in 1982. University of Campinas, Brazil, and currently a visiting professor in Agronomy. VISITORS RECENTLY ON CAMPUS 4:00 p.m., 426 Mumford Hall. (International Agriculture Seminar) Yong Seop Kim and Yvl Chyl Choi, National Agricultural Cooperative February 6 Interesting India - John

Federation, Chung Sam Chung , R. Campbell, Dean of the College of Agriculture and Fishery Development Agriculture.

Corporation, and Hvun Ki Baik r 4:00 p.m., 426 Mumford Hall. Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, (International Agriculture Seminar) Korea, discussed soyfoods with Harold E. Kauffman, INTSOY, and Alvin I. February 13 Impressions of a Brief Nelson, Lun-Shin Wei, and S. W. Yeh, Visit to China - Jean M. Due, Food Science, on November 29. Agricultural Economics. Sponsored by the American Soybean 4:00 p.m., 426 Mumford Hall. Association in cooperation with the (International Agriculture Seminar) Foreign Agriculture Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, they were escorted by Say Young Jo, WID CURRICULUM GUIDES American Soybean Association, Korea. Multidisciplinary curriculum guides Andrzei M. Bernacki, Warsaw on topics related to women and Third Agricultural University, Poland, World countries are available from visited Agricultural Economics on the Office of Women in International November 27 to discuss on farm Development. Prepared under a grant transfers, farm business analysis, from the U.S. Department of Education, farm record-keeping, land appraisals, these guides include outlines for new and the Department's international courses and special modules for use activities. He met with Chester B. in general international courses. Baker, Royce A. Hinton, Richard P. Topics include consumer economics Kesler, John T. Scott, Stephen C. family ecology, women in agriculture Schmidt, and Wesley D. Seitz. and urban employment, gender relationships in cultural context, Muhammed Seif Khatib. Pius Michael and foods and nutrition for women and

Ml owe , Deodatus Mtasiwa. and JLU_£aJab children. For more information and

Juma . Tanzania Youth Organization, order forms contact the WID Office, visited UIUC from December 9 to 12. 3022 Foreign Languages Bldg., They discussed the 4-H program with University of Illinois, 707 South Ann Rund, David D. Pyle, Mary K. Mathews Avenue, Urbana, Illinois Munson, Gerald G. Gast, and R. William 61801, telephone 217/333-1977. Seiders. While in Illinois they visited the Vermilion County Extension Office and attended some local 4-H AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH POLICY SEMINAR club meetings. Sponsored by the Irternational Visitor Program of the The 1985 Agricultural Research Policy U.S. Information Agency, their Seminar will be held April 15 to 25 itinerary was arranged by the at the University of Minnesota, St. African- American Institute. Paul. Designed for project directors and coordinators and chiefs of party 203 Huff Hal], 1206 South Fourth of agricultural development projects, Street, Champaign, IL 61820, telephone the seminar will examine research (217) 333-1824. policy issues and evaluate methods for planning long- and short-term research projects. Information about SPANISH FOR AGRICULTURE the seminar and registration is available from Delane E. Welsch, A set of materials on "Spanish for College of Agriculture, 277 Coffey Agriculture" is available from the Hall, 1420 Eckles Avenue, St. Paul, Language Learning Laboratory, G70 Minnesota 55108, 612/373-1498. Foreign Languages Building, 333-9776. Suitable for classes or for individual study, the materials consist of a MARINE SEA GRANT EXTENSION PROJECT Basic Manual, Audio Manual with audio cassettes, Video Manual with video The Illinois-Indiana Marine Sea Grant cassettes, a reading course on the Extension Project is part of the PLATO system, and supplementary network that produced a one-hour slide-cassette lessons for the documentary entitled "Farmers of the language laboratory. These materials Sea." The program, which was recently do hot cover introductory Spanish- broadcast as part of the NOVA language study. television series, examines the Free use of the audio and video worldwide business of aquaculture. recordings is available to anyone on Suitable for adult and high school the UIUC campus. Copies of all audiences, the film may be rented or materials may be purchased from the bought. More information on the film Language Learning Laboratory, G70

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INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES 1983, supported in part by the Norton Chair, Dr. Laubscher did research at

Raymond A. Woodis . Agricultural UIOC to complete his Ph.D. from the Communications, recently returned to University of the Orange Free State. campus following a two-year assignment with the Caribbean Agricultural James F. Evans f Agricultural Extension Project (CAEP). Primarily Communications, presented an invited funded by USAID, CAEP is a joint paper on patterns and new trends in effort of the University of the West disseminating information related to Indies (UWI), the Midwest Universities human resource development in agricul- Consortium for International ture at a Symposium on Education for Activities (MUCIA), and the Agriculture, November 12 to 16, Los agricultural ministries of Antigua, Banos, Philippines. The symposium was Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Montserrat, sponsored by the Committee on Science St. Kitts-Nevis, St. Lucia and and Technology in Developing St. Vincent, and the Grenadines. Countries, the Asian Association of Mr. Woodis was attached to the UWI Agricultural Colleges and Universities Department of Agricultural Extension of Agriculture, and the International in St. Augustine, Trinidad, where he Rice Research Institute. helped to establish a Regional

Extension Communication Unit to John W. Courter . Horticulture, provide support for extension systems presented invited talks to the in participating countries. He also Strawberry Growers Association of worked with individual ministries of Manitoba, Canada, during the Manitoba participating countries to help Horticultural Industry Days, November develop national agricultural 14 to 16. Topics presented were: information units. pick-your-own customers and farm trade area; principles of direct marketing;

Jean M. Due , Agricultural Economics, and the role of an association in received an award on December 5, 1984, advertising and promotion. from UIUC's Extension Education Program for identification, J. B. Claar f INTERPAKS, represented recruitment, and support of UIDC's College of Agriculture in international students. Brazil from November 23 to December 1 for the signing of a Memorandum of

Jacobus M. Laubscher , M.S. 1976, UIUC, Agreement. The United States and became the first recipient of the Brazil have agreed to pool their Maize Board Chair in Farm Management skills and resources to help Third at the University of the Orange Free World nations with agricultural State, Bloemfontein, South Africa. In development. Ten U.S. universities (UIUC, Purdue, Mississippi State, Egypt, from January 26 to February 2 Texas A&M, Southern Illinois, Michigan to discuss cooperative programs with State, University of Florida, the Ministry of Agriculture. University of Wisconsin, University of Arizona, and Ohio State) will work with EMBRAPA, the Brazilian VISITING RESEARCHERS agricultural research organization,

Ta-jammal . under USAID contracts to assist Hussain t Northwest Frontier developing countries. Province Agricultural University (NWFP-AU), Peshawar, Pakistan, arrived

Herbert J. Hopen . Horticulture, at UIUC on January 20 for six-months participated in the North Central Weed of post-doctoral study in Foods and Control Conference, Winnipeg, Canada, Nutrition. Sponsored by UIUC's TIPAN from December 3 to 6. Dr. Hopen Pakistan project, Dr. Hussain is chaired the Hort Crops Section of the preparing to serve as head of the meeting and presented a paper on newly formed Department of Human brassica weed control. Nutrition at the NWFP-AU.

Tim Rocke . a graduate student in Harman Cetin . an agricultural engineer Agricultural Economics, and Susan with PINAR (an integrated meat and

Rocke . are spending nine months in animal feed company) in Kemalpasa, Tanzania working on the Bean/Cowpea Turkey, is a visiting scholar in CRSP. Mr. Rocke will be supervising Animal Science until June 30. data collection for his M.S. thesis Mr. Cetin will be involved in research and for the CRSP research. and study on livestock feeding and management, sponsored by OICD/USDA.

Sam H. Johnson . Agricultural

Economics, is studying the economics Kazuhiko Kurata f Faculty of of small-scale agricultural water Agriculture at Niigata University, lifting devices in Indonesia for the Japan, will be visiting Agricultural International Rice Research Institute Engineering until May 30 to study (IRRI), January 16 to February 13. agricultural machinery systems with While in Asia Dr. Johnson will also Donnell R. Hunt. visit IRRI headquarters in the Philippines and the Asian Vegetable Research and Development Center VISITORS RECENTLY ON CAMPUS (AVRDC) in Taiwan.

Hsiu-Ching (Chen) Yu . specialist in

L. Fred Welch . Agronomy, presented an agricultural development and technical invited paper entitled "Identifying assistance from Taiwan, visited UIUC

Limiting Factors for High Corn Yields" from December 1 to 7 as a participant at the Quebec Plant Food Society in the new Home Economics and Human meeting, held in Montreal, Canada, Nutrition Expansion Education program January 31 to February 1. sponsored by the USDA. She investi- gated the organization, development,

William N. Thompson . TIPAN Pakistan and implementation of home economics project, will be in Pakistan during extension programs in Illinois. February and March to assist with the

implementation phase of the TIPAN G. Ramchandani . Centre of Advanced project at the Northwest Frontier Studies in Agricultural Province Agricultural University. Communications, G. B. Pant University, India, met with faculty in

Borle Gustafsson . Veterinary Clinical Agricultural Communications, the Medicine, was at Cairo University, Communications Research Institute, 3

Advertising, Communications Library, the YMCA cafeteria. and INTERPAKS from December 11 to 13. •WID Seminar

Georges de la Taille . communication February 27 Adaptive Research Trials specialist with the Centre Technique with Women Farmers in the Lilongwe Interprofessionel des Oleagineux Rural Development Project, Malawi - Me tropoli tains (CETIOM), Paris, Craig Smith, Agronomy. France, discussed ways to more 4:00 p.m., 426 Mumford Hall. effectively disseminate research-based •International Agriculture Seminar information to farmers with Raymond Woodis, Marilyn Upah-Bant, Gary L. March 6 Utilizing Ag Byproducts for Beaumont, Edwin W. Vernon, and others Fuel and Feeds in Egypt and Kenya - in Agricultural Communications, Folke Donald L. Day, Agricultural Dovring and Delmar F. Wilken, Engineering. Agricultural Economics, and M. Gene 4:00 p.m., 426 Mumford Hall. Oldham, Agronomy, January 14 to 18. •International Agriculture Seminar

Michel Debatisse . Institut de Gestion March 1 Building Communications Internationale Agroalimentaire (IGIA), Support in the Caribbean Agricultural France, and currently on sabbatical Extension Project - Raymond A. Woodis, leave at the University of Maryland, Agricultural Communications. visited Agricultural Economics on 4:00 p.m., 426 Mumford Hall. January 21 and 22. While at UIDC •International Agriculture Seminar Dr. Debatisse presented a seminar and a lecture to students. March 20 Cereals Marketing in Western Burkina - Mahir Saul, Anthropology. 4:00 p.m., 426 Mumford Hall. SEMINARS •International Agriculture Seminar

February 6 Interesting India - John March 21 Women Executives in R. Campbell, Dean of the College of International Perspective - Norihiko Agriculture. Suzuki and Vijaya Narapareddy, 4:00 p.m., 426 Mumford Hall. Department of Business Administration. •International Agriculture Seminar 12:00 noon, Paar Lounge, YMCA, 1001 South Wright Street, Champaign. You February 13 Impressions of a Brief may bring your lunch or purchase it at Visit to China - Jean M. Due, the YMCA cafeteria. Agricultural Economics. •WID Seminar 4:00 p.m., 426 Mumford Hall. •International Agriculture Seminar March 27 Adventures of Two Entomologists in Zambia - Donald E. February 20 Birds of Amazonian Peru - Kuhlman and John K. Bouseman, Scott R. Robinson, Illinois Natural Agricultural Entomology and Economic History Survey. Entomology, Illinois Natural History 4:00 p.m., 426 Mumford Hall. Survey. •International Agriculture Seminar 4:00 p.m., 426 Mumford Hall, •international Agriculture Seminar February 21 Training Women for Agricultural Production in Papua-New April 10 Long Term Rural Development Guinea - Golie Jansen, School of in the Third World - Paul M. Social Work. Hanselman, President, International 12:00 noon, Paar Lounge, YMCA, 1001 Farming Systems, Wheaton, 111. South Wright Street, Champaign. You 4:00 p.m., 426 Mumford Hall. may bring your lunch or purchase it at •International Agriculture Seminar FUNDING AVAILABLE American Spanish, Portuguese, or Amerindian languages. Candidates March 8 is the application deadline should submit applications through for Tinker Field Research Grants for their departments to the Center for graduate students and junior faculty. Latin American and Caribbean Studies The Center for Latin American and by February 28. Awards will be Caribbean Studies is allocating funds announced on March 22. for six to 14 weeks' research in Application information is Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking Latin available from the Center, 1208 West America, Spain, and Portugal during California Street, room 250, 333-3182. 1985. Disciplines and topics are welcomed from any unit on campus. Previous area specialization is not WID STUDENT WORKSHOP required. Application instructions are "Gender Issues on the Social and available from the Center, 1208 West Economic Development of Nations" is California Street, room 250, the title of the WID (Women in

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JOHN J. NICHOLAIDES NEW DIRECTOR OF INTERNATIONAL AGRICULTURE

John J. Nicholaides, III, became the new Associate Dean and Director of International Agriculture at the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign on March 1. Dr. Nicholaides comes to UIUC from North Carolina State University (NCSU), where he has coordinated the Tropical Soils Research Program since 1977. In 1969-1970 he served as a soil scientist with the Peace Corps in Panama. After receiving his Ph.D. in 1973, Dr. Nicholaides joined the Soil Science Department at NCSU, where he led a soil fertility program in Costa Rica and Nicaragua. In 1975 and 1976 he was the coordinator for academic affairs in the Soil Science Department at NCSU. We extend a warm welcome to Dr. Nicholaides. His office is in 113 Mumford Hall, telephone 333-6420. UIUC's Office of International Agriculture is widely recognized for its successful agricultural development programs. On-going projects include the International Soybean Program (INTSOY), the International Program for Agricultural Knowledge Systems (INTERPAKS), Transformation and Integration of a Provincial Agricultural Network (TIPAN) in Pakistan, the Zambia Agricultural Research and Extension (ZAMARE) project, and participation in MUCIA's Caribbean Agricultural Extension Project.

INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES participated in research on sunflower oil fuels for diesel tractors. The of the sabbatical Barrv A. Eisnebere and Jack Gruber f second half was Horticulture, participated in the spent in the Agricultural Engineering International Plant Propagator's Department of the University of Natal, meeting, Indianapolis, Indiana, Pietermaritzburg, where he

December 1 1 participated in research on diesel fuels. Dr. Goering also spent a week

Carroll E . Goering. Agricultural in Zimbabwe working with Cephas Msipa Engineering, recently returned from a in the Zimbabwean Institute of year's sabbatical leave in South Agricultural Engineering. Mr. Msipa Africa. For the first six months of received his B.S. and M.S. degrees 1984, Dr. Goering was attached to the from UIUC. Division of Agricultural Engineering of the South Africa Department of Alfred G. Harms . Agricultural Agriculture, Pretoria, where he Economics, returned to UIUC in January following a thirty-month assignment Scholarship. Located at Itabuna, in Zambia with the Zambia Agricultural Bahia, Dr. Fliegel will investigate Research and Extension (ZAMARE) the adoption of technology and prepare project. The ZAMARE project is funded a case study for INTERPAKS project. by USAID through a contract with UIDC,

Southern Illinois University at Carolyn M. Pribble r International Carbondale, and the University of Agriculture, chaired a session on Maryland at Eastern Shore. USAID' s financial management policies Dr. Harms served as the farming at the Title XII BIFAD Regional systems economist on the adaptive Development and Training Seminar, research planning team, located at the Pennsylvania State University, January Kabwe Regional Research Station. The 30 to February 1. Earl D. Kellogg, team conducted farmer surveys, farm International Agriculture, attended experiments, and extension training the January 30 sessions before for traditional and small-scale (fewer participating in the Farming Systems than 15 acres) commercial farmers. Support Project meetings in Gainsville, Florida.

Paul G. Risser . Chief of the Illinois

Natural History Survey, visited the Mukishi Pvnd1i f who passed his grasslands of Argentina as part of a M.S. examination in Plant Pathology on seven-person team of U.S. grassland February 5 , will work on diseases of ecclogists, January 2 to 12. legume crops at the Zaire National Sponsored by the National Science Institute for Agricultural Research. Foundation, the visit was designed to develop comparative studies of South Thomas L. Frev . Agricultural and North American grasslands. Economics, presented a keynote address, two workshop sessions, and a

Miodrag Ristic . Veterinary summary of conference activities at Pathobiology, spent the month of the Farm Management Challenges '85 January in India on behalf of USAID. Conference in Halifax, Nova Scotia, He prepared a research and training Canada, February 9 to 12. program to develop control measures for diseases of food producing animals John W. Courter . Horticulture, spoke caused by blood protistas. The at the annual meeting of the North diseases selected for this study were American Strawberry Growers bovine theileriosis, babesiosis, and Association and acted as marketing anaplasmosis. The program will be program chair, February 10 to 12, sponsored by the Indian Council for Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Agricultural Research and USAID. Attending the national conference

James E. Corbin . Animal Science, "International Agricultural Programs addressed the South African Veterinary and Agricultural Communications: Association, Johannesburg, on dog Partners for International nutrition in mid-January. His trip Development" were Delbert T. Dahl and also included a visit to the Animal James F. Evans . Agricultural

Science Department of the University Communications, Earl D. Kellogg . of Pretoria, the South African Police International Agriculture, and Anita

Dog Training Institute, and the A. Povich . Agricultural Publications. Premier Milling Company. The conference was held in St. Louis, Missouri, from February 13 to 15.

Frederick C. Fliegel . Agricultural Economies, arrived in Brazil at the James B. Sinclair. Plant Pathology, end of January for a six-month left in mid-February for a three-week sabbatical leave funded by a Fulbright trip to Zambia, Zimbabwe, and England. Dr. Sinclair will review the research Alvin I. Nelson . Food Science, and program of Glen Hartman, Plant Harold E. Kauffman . INTSOY, will Pathology graduate student in Zambia, discuss the expansion of soybean discuss soybean research for the utilization with government, private ZAMARE project, plan a nematology industry, and USAID officials in project and a soybean workshop in Zimbabwe and Zambia, March 9 to 18. Zimbabwe, and meet with Tropical Both countries are eager to use more Development and Research Institute soybeans for human food. Dr. Kauffman representatives in London. will also discuss East African regional soybean activities with USAID

John M. Gerber . Horticulture, officials in Nairobi, Kenya. presented a paper entitled "Nutrient Solution Management for Optimum Plant Joseph A. Jackobs and Emerson D. Growth" at the Hydroponics Worldwide Nafzicer . Agronomy, Michael E. Irwin . Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, February Agricultural Entomology and Illinois 18 to 22. UIDC was one of several Natural History Survey, and Sheldon W. university sponsors of the conference. Williams , Agricultural Economics, will lecture at the Soybean Technology

Burton E. Swanson . INTERPAKS, attended Training Program in Islamabad, a JCARD panel on human capital Pakistan, March 18 to 26. The course development at DSAID in Washington, is a cooperative project between D.C., on February 15, and a meeting of INTSOY and the Pakistan Agricultural the African Agricultural Education Research Council (PARC), funded by Steering Committee, also for USAID, on USAID. Harold E. Kauffman . INTSOY, February 22 in Washington, D.C. will participate in the opening of the Dr. Swanson will present a paper on training course. the contribution of U.S. universities in training foreign agricultural Michael F. Hut lens . Dairy Science, scientists at the Symposium on will speak about nutritional American Scientific Enterprise, compromises of feeding for high Lexington, Kentucky, March 4 to 6. production at the West-Central Ontario Dairy Days, St. Jacob, Walker ton, and Earl D. Kellogg. International Atwood, Canada, March 26 to 29. Agriculture, will act as farming systems economist on the Zambia Agricultural Research and Extension (ZAMARE) project's mid- term NEW INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS evaluation, February 28 to March 23, Lusaka, Zambia. The College of Agriculture and the College of Veterinary Medicine welcome

Joseph A. Jackobs . Agronomy, will the following new foreign graduate attend a meeting of IRRI students to the University of Illinois (International Rice Research at Urbana-Champaign. Institute) and IITA (International Institute of Tropical Agriculture) Agricultural Economics scientists to discuss future Jose M. Albiac. Spain, international cooperative programs, March 5 to 9 at marketing and agricultural prices; IRRI, Los Banos, Philippines. From Luis Antonio Gavbor . Ecuador, rural March 10 to 15, Dr. Jackobs will community development. discuss the formation of the International Soybean Improvement Agronomy Network (ASIN) and the role of All M. Gheddi. Somalia, plant soybeans in Asian farming systems at a genetics; Paigham Shah . Pakistan, crop meeting in Phitsanulok, Thailand. production. Animal Science 4:00 p.m., 426 Mumford Hall.

Mauricio Bunge f Argentina, beef. •International Agriculture Seminar

Dairy Science March 13 Building Communications

Joel Pore . France, dairy microbiology; Support in the Caribbean Agricultural

Eve-Karen Finkelstein r Canada, Extension Project - Raymond A. Woodis, lactation; Hongxue Zhao . China, dairy Agricultural Communications. microbiology. 4:00 p.m., 426 Mumford Hall. •International Agriculture Seminar Family and Consumer Economics

Jin Hwa Jung . Korea, family and March 20 Cereals Marketing in Western consumption economics; Youngsook Yoo f Burkina - Mahir Saul, Anthropology. Korea, family and consumption 4:00 p.m., 426 Mumford Hall. economics. •International Agriculture Seminar

Food Science March 21 Women Executives in

Suresh Karkala Rao . India, food International Perspective - Norihiko processing; Yue-Horng Yen . Taiwan, Suzuki and Vijaya Narapareddy, food engineering. Department of Business Administration. 12:00 noon, Paar Lounge, YMCA, 1001 Forestry South Wright Street, Champaign. You

Yi-tsia Liu . Taiwan, forest genetics. may bring your lunch or purchase it at the YMCA cafeteria. Horticulture •WID Seminar

Navin Sinha . India, vegetable crops. March 27 Adventures of Two Textiles, Apparel, and Interior Design Entomologists in Zambia - Donald E.

Seung Kang . Korea, Textiles and Kuhlman and John K. Bouseman, Apparel. Agricultural Entomology and Economic Entomology, Illinois Natural History Veterinary Medicine Survey.

Roberto Acosta-Galvez . Peru, 4:00 p.m., 426 Mumford Hall. veterinary pathology; Harm Hogenesch , •International Agriculture Seminar Netherlands, veterinary pathology;

Chih-heng (Jeff) Ko r Taiwan, food April 10 Long-Term Rural Development animal medicine and surgery. in the Third World - Paul M. Hanselman, President, International Farming Systems, Wheaton, Illinois. 4:00 p.m., 426 Mumford Hall, VISITING RESEARCHERS •international Agriculture Seminar

Mohamed Moustafa . Zagazig University, April 18 Korean Women: Coping with Egypt, is a post-doctoral trainee with Change - Moonja Kim, Construction Gordon J. Baker, equine section of Engineering Research Laboratory. Veterinary Clinical Medicine, from 12:00 noon, Paar Lounge, YMCA, 1001 November 1984 through October 1985. South Wright Street, Champaign. You may bring your lunch or purchase it at the YMCA cafeteria. SEMINARS •WID Seminar

March 6 Utilizing Ag Byproducts for Fuel and Feeds in Egypt and Kenya - VISITORS RECENTLY ON CAMPUS Donald L. Day, Agricultural Engineering. Fl egiPrtn g Thorup of the Institute for Animal Reproduction at the Royal Bai-Chao Zhang . Southwestern Veterinary and Agricultural Agricultural College, Beipie, Yu-nan

University, Copenhagen, Denmark, Luo . South China Agricultural

visited Animal Science from January 26 University, Guangzhou, Zi-cheng Li . to February 7 to observe and study Department of Horticulture, Shenyang,

techniques of reproductive physiology Wei Wang Hu . Central China with emphasis on embryo transfer in Agricultural College, Wuhan, Jin Ping

swine. He will use the information to Chen , Northwestern College of help establish embryo transfer as a Agriculture, Wugong, and Xue-Xiu Wang. method of introducing new swine Nanjing Agricultural University, genetic material in Danish herds. Jiangsu, all members of the Food Mr. Thorup, who was hosted by Philip Science Education and Research Dzuik, gave a seminar during his Delegation from the People's Republic visit. of China, visited Food Science from

February 25 to March 1 . Their

Shiv R. Singh . Director of the Grain schedule was arranged by L. S. Wei. Legume Program at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Ibadan, Nigeria, discussed INTERPAKS REVIEW cooperative soybean projects with Harold E. Kauffman and John W. Santas, The Project Advisory Committee for INTSOY, Alvin I. Nelson, Food Science, the INTERPAKS research project on Joseph A. Jackobs, Agronomy, and Technology Development, Transfer, and Marcos Kogan and Michael E. Irwin, Feedback Systems in Agriculture, Agricultural Entomology and Illinois sponsored by USAID, met in Chicago on Natural History Survey, February 8-9. February 20th. The USAID Project Management Team from Washington, D.C.,

Arnulf R. Persson . Agricultural also attended. Representing INTERPAKS University of Norway at Aas, spent were: Burton E. Swanson, project February 10 to 26 in Horticulture director, J. B. Claar, INTERPAKS discussing vegetable production. Director, Kathleen Cloud and Jane S. Johnson, INTERPAKS, Sam H. Johnson,

Fred Anderson . General Manager of the Agricultural Economics, and Earl Jamaica Soya Products Industries Ltd., D. Kellogg, International Agriculture, visited UIUC on February 24. He all members of the research team. discussed constraints to soybean production in Jamaica with INTSOY staff. FUNDING AVAILABLE

Dieter Ordolff . Federal Dairy Research March 8 is the application deadline Centre, Kiel, Germany, discussed for Tinker Field Research Grants for automatic teat cup attachment systems graduate students and junior faculty. with Hoyle B. Puckett, USDA and The Center for Latin American and Agricultural Engineering, Sidney L. Caribbean Studies is allocating funds Spahr, Dairy Science, and Nelson L. for six to 14 weeks 1 research in Buck, Agricultural Engineering, Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking Latin February 25 and 26. Dr. Ordolff also America, Spain, and Portugal during presented a seminar on dairy 1985. Disciplines and topics are automation in Germany. welcomed from any unit on campus. Also visiting at the same time were Previous area specialization is not

Wim Ros3ing . Agricultural Engineering required. Institute, Wageningen, Netherlands, Application instructions are

and Mr. Montalescot and Mr. Mlchineau . available from the Center, 1208 West France. California St., room 250, 333-3182. ZAMARE TRAINING UPDATE Studies, 1208 West California Street, room 250, Urbana, IL 61801, telephone Sponsored by the Zambia Agricultural (217) 333-3182. Research and Extension (ZAMARE) project, 23 trainees are currently South Asia enrolled in degree programs at U.S. Application deadline: March 18. universities. Nine students have Details are available from the Program completed degree training and 50 in South and West Asian Studies, 381 Zambian scientists have received Lincoln Hall, 702 South Wright Street, specialized nondegree training. Now Urbana, IL 61801, (217) 333-0796. at the midpoint of the project, most of the training objectives have been met. WID STUDENT WORKSHOP

"Gender Issues on the Social and Economic Development of Nations" is WORLD AFFAIRS CONFERENCE the .title of the WID (Women in International Development) workshop "The Persian Gulf and World to be held on Thursday, March 7, from Stability: The Arc of Crisis" is the 2:00 to 4:40 p.m. in rooms 269-273 of title of the Central Illinois World the Illini Union. The workshop will Affairs Conference, March 15 and 16, provide a forum for both men and women Peoria, Illinois. Registration and to discuss the possibility of a conference information is available "minor" in international development from the Office of Continuing at either the graduate or Education in International Affairs, undergraduate level. For details University of Illinois, 205 Arcade contact the WID Office, 3014 Foreign Building, 725 South Wright Street, Languages Building, 333-1977. Champaign, IL 61820, telephone (217) 333-1465. INTERNATIONAL VISITORS IN 1984

The Office of International Agriculture coordinated itineraries 1985-1986 FOREIGN LANGUAGE AND AREA for 166 visitors from 31 countries in STUDIES FELLOWSHIPS 1984. This total does not include the many scientists who directly contacted Applications are invited for Title VI faculty members in the College of National Resource Fellowships for Agriculture. graduate-level language and area study during the academic year 1985-1986. Applicants must be U.S. citizens and graduate students at UIUC. EXTENSION'S INTERNATIONAL ROLE

Africa A national conference called "The Application deadline: March 18. International Role of Extension: Details are available from the African Future Directions" will be held from Studies Program, 1208 West California March 31 to April 2, 1985, at Michigan Street, Urbana, IL 61801, telephone State University, East Lansing. The (217) 333-6335. conference is sponsored by the USDA's Extension Service and the National Latin America Association of State Universities and Application deadline: April 5. Land-Grant Colleges (NASULGC) in Details are available from the Center cooperation with Michigan State for Latin American and Caribbean University. Contact Myrtle F. Jones, Conference Coordinator, Lifelong Research and Training Institute, and Education Programs, Michigan State the International Agricultural Devel- University, East Lansing, Michigan, opment Service (IADS), all private, 43324-1022, telephone (517) 353-9407, U.S. development organizations, have for registration information. announced their merger to form the Winrock International Institute for Agricultural Development. Headquar- 1985 AWID CONFERENCE ters will be located in Morrilton, Arkansas, with a subsidiary office in "Women Creating Wealth: Transforming Washington, D.C. Economic Development" is the title of the second conference sponsored by the Association of Women in Development (AWID), April 25 to 27, 1985, Washington, D.C. The conference will AFRICAN AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT focus on the relationships between CONFERENCE human, natural, and capital resources and their different effects on women The International Conference on and men. Registration information is African Agricultural Development: available from the AWID Conference Technology, Ecology, and Society will Coordinator, c/o NASULGC, Suite 710, be held May 28 to June 1, 1985, at One Dupont Circle, Washington, California State Polytechnic D.C. 20036, telephone (202) 833-1848. University, Pomona. Conference information is available from: African Agricultural Development Conference, NEW INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FORMED California State Polytechnic University, 3801 West Temple Avenue, The Agricultural Development Council Pomona, California 91768, telephone (ADC), Winrock International Livestock (714) 598-0580.

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INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES Rov K. Simons . Horticulture, presented a paper on apple rootstock development Carolvn M. Pribble left the Office of at the International Dwarf Fruit Tree International Agriculture at the end Association annual meeting, February of February to become the 23 to March 2, Yakima, Washington. International Programs Manager of the Executive Development Center in the Thomas I. Frey» Agricultural College of Commerce and Business Economics, was a visiting professor Administration. We wish Carolyn at the University of Guelph, Ontario success in her new position. Agricultural College, Canada, from March 4 through 13, at the invitation Edward Carev completed the of the School of Agricultural requirements for a Ph.D. degree in Economics and Extension Education. Horticulture and has accepted a

postdoctoral fellowship in the Cassava John A. Juvik f Horticulture, presented Improvement Program at CI AT (Centro an invitational seminar on his Internacional de Agricultura research results at the International Tropical), Cali, Colombia. Dr. Carey Plant Research Institute, San Carlos, is working as a plant breeder. California, March 11.

John M. Gerber . Horticulture, has been John W. SaPta9> Burton E. Swanson. appointed to the Advisory Board of the and Timothy Koehnen . International International Center for Special Agriculture, attended the 1985 Studies in Honolulu, Hawaii. International Science and Education Dr. Gerber will advise the Center on Council Training Conference entitled the development of a research and "Training in an Interdependent World: education center for controlled Sharing Our Ideas," March 11 to 13, environment food production to be Washington, D.C. Dr. Santas spoke built on the island of Oahu. at a session on DSAID participant training and administration, and

Kenneth R. Robertson , Botany Section Dr. Swanson was a moderator at a of the Illinois Natural History session on methods of evaluating Survey, collected samples of the rose training programs. family and wild representatives of the Dr. Santas also attended a pome subfamily in Mexico during conference sponsored by the Office of February. His trip was funded by a International Training of DSAID, March National Science Foundation grant to 14, and visited the University of study the generic limits of the pome Maryland, Eastern Shore, to coordinate subfamily. training on the ZAMARE project. Jean M. Due . Agricultural Economics, Agriculture, will be in Peshawar, was a member of a team that evaluated Pakistan, from early April to mid-May the use of Title XII Strengthening as acting team leader on the TIPAN Grant funds at Louisiana State (Transformation and Integration of a University, Baton Rouge, March 12 to Provincial Agricultural Network) 16. Dr. Due was also a team member of project. the Bean/Cowpea CRSP Technical Raymond G. Craele . Dairy Science,

Committee, which evaluated three-year Errol D. Rodda . Agricultural Engineer- grant extensions to cooperating ing, R. William Seiders . 4-H Youth institutions. The team met at East Extension Specialist, and Martin

Lansing, Michigan, March 17 to 20. Waananen . Assistant Dean for Resident Instruction, Washington State Univer- Kathleen Cloud. INTERPAKS, gave an sity, will be the first four resident International Agriculture Seminar at staff members on the TIPAN project at Purdue University on women's produc- the Northwest Frontier Province tivity in agricultural households, Agricultural University, Peshawar, March 12, and spoke about food issues Pakistan. Dr. Cragle will serve as at an International Relations Sympo- research program specialist; Dr. Rodda sium sponsored by Yale University and as institution development specialist the League of Women Voters, Hartford, and team leader; Dr. Seiders as Connecticut, March 19. On April 9, outreach program specialist; and Ms. Cloud will lead a case study Dr. Waananen as teaching program seminar at Princeton University's specialist. Woodrow Wilson School on the Indonesia At the request of the NWFP Family Planning and Nutrition Project. Agricultural University, Dr. Rodda and Dr. Waananen will travel to Peshawar

Thomas A. McCowen . International for short assignments prior to

Agriculture, and J. J. Kamerer . beginning their resident service. The Assistant Director of Business Affairs team is expected to assemble in at UIUC, presented a seminar to senior Peshawar before the fall term. administrative staff of the University of Idaho, Moscow, on USAID contract Jane S. Johnson . INTERPAKS, will work negotiation experiences, March 19. with library personnel at the National Agricultural Library and Documentation John J. Nicholaides. International Centre (NALDOC) at the invitation of Agriculture, traveled to Washington, the Bangladesh Agricultural Research D.C., March 18 and 19> to meet with Council (BARC), for the first three USAID bureau staff and to discuss weeks in April. She will develop a procedures for developing a joint computerized bibliographic database memorandum of understanding with the and key word classification system for University of Maryland, Eastern Shore. irrigation water management material, and advise NALDOC personnel on access Peter B. Bavlev. Aquatic Biology and use of major library holdings in Section of the Illinois Natural irrigation water management. At the History Survey, presented the end of April Ms. Johnson will travel introductory principal lecture, known to Sri Lanka to tie together the as the Pentelow Lecture, at the Fourth activities of NALDOC in Bangladesh British Freshwater Fisheries with those of the International Irri- Conference, Liverpool, England, April gation Management Institute in Kandy.

1 to 3. The title of his paper was "Sampling Problems in Freshwater Sam H. Johnson. Agricultural Econo- Fisheries." mics, will work with the Bangladesh Agricultural Research Council from to help define Thomas A. McCowen . International March 24 to April 24 the optimal mix of ground water B. Jean Peterson . Human Development lifting devices. At the end of April and Family Ecology, recently won a Dr. Johnson will exchange information Fulbright award for overseas with scientists at the International research. Dr. Peterson will collect Irrigation Management Institute, data to compare commercial vegetable Kandy, Sri Lanka, and during the first farming and subsistence farming house- week of May he will work in India with holds in Banguet Province, Philip-

Shashi Kolavalli . a Ph.D. student in pines, from late April to late July. Agricultural Economics who is collecting data for his dissertation. James B. Sinclair . Plant Pathology, arranged for approximately 240 volumes Frank J. S tevenson, Agronomy, will of agricultural books and journals to consult with scientists at the Hebrew be sent to the library of the University in Jerusalem and other University of Zambia, Lusaka. The academic institutions in Israel on the volumes were donated by faculty in the UIUC BARD research project, March 30 College of Agriculture. If you have to April 16. books to donate for distribution to libraries in developing countries,

Gary E. Pepper . Agronomy, will present contact Dr. Sinclair at N-519 Turner one-day workshops for extension staff Hall, 333-6588. on field demonstrations for crop production and elementary statistical procedures useful in field plot research at several locations in VISITING RESEARCHERS Belize, April 8 to 17. Dr. Pepper's trip is sponsored by USAID through Nazeer Ahmad , Head of the Department MUCIA'S Caribbean Agricultural of Soil Science, University of the Extension Project (CAEP). West Indies, will be in the Agronomy Department until September. Dr. Ahmad

Ramona Nowak f Animal Science, will is teaching a course on the genesis, present a seminar entitled "Early classification, and management of Pregnancy Factors" at an international tropical soils, and is available to workshop in Mariensee, Germany, and consult with faculty and students. also will visit the laboratory of He can be contacted c/o Robert L. Brian Heap at Babraham, England, April Jones, N-415 Turner Hall, Agronomy, 15 to 30. 333.9490.

Presenting papers at the 1985 AWID Richard Whale , a cattle ranch manager (Association of Women in Development) with the New South Wales Department of Conference on "Women Creating Wealth: Agriculture, Trangie, Australia, is Transforming Economic Development," visiting the Animal Science Department April 25 to 27, Washington, D.C., are for the spring semester. Mr. Whale G. Golieda Jansen t Social Work, Sally. was awarded the trip for winning the Gordon . Human Development and Family Australian Angus Society Judging

Ecology, and Kathleen Cloud , INTER- Contest.

PAKS. Frances M. Maerabi . Family and

Consumer Economics, will give a panel Violette Ducruet . INRA, Dijon, France, presentation coauthored with Navaz arrived at UIUC in January to work

Bhavnaeri , Elementary and Early with Edward G. Perkins, Food Science, Childhood Education. Also attending on the isolation, characterization, is Barbara A. Yates . Educational and chemistry of food flavors. Policy Studies and Director of UIUC's Dr. Ducruet can be contacted at the Office of Women in International Burnsides Research Laboratory, Development. 333-1874, through June 1985. .

S. Iabal Shah , animal scientist, April 17 Life on the Frontier: Northwest Frontier Province Agricul- Impressions of the TIPAN/Pakistan tural University, Peshawar, Pakistan, Project - William N. Thompson, senior began a six-month post-doctoral project adviser, and Errol D. Rodda, program on March 31, sponsored by the team leader. TIPAN project. Dr. Shah will spend 4:00 p.m., 426 Mumford Hall. seven weeks at DIUC and Southern •International Agriculture Seminar Illinois University, Carbondale, before traveling to the University of April 18 Korean Women: Coping with Nebraska to work with the program on Change - Moonja Kim, Construction nonconventional food stuffs. Engineering Research Laboratory. 12:00 noon, Paar Lounge, YMCA, 1001 South Wright Street, Champaign. You SEMINARS AND OTHER EVENTS may bring your lunch or purchase it at the YMCA cafeteria. April Q Agriculture in Sri Lanka - •WID Seminar Welikala Nihal, Agronomy. 12:00 noon, W-109 Turner Hall. April 24 International Agriculture: •Agronomy 400 Soils Seminar Past- Experience and Vision for the Future - John J. Nicholaides, III, April 10 Long-Term Rural Development Director and Associate Dean, Office of in the Third World - Paul Hanselman, International Agriculture, UIUC. President, International Farming 4:00 p.m., 426 Mumford Hall. Systems, Wheaton, Illinois. •International Agriculture Seminar 4:00 p.m., 426 Mumford Hall. •International Agriculture Seminar

April 10 The Problems of Food VISITORS RECENTLY ON CAMPUS Production in Africa: A Panel Discussion. Jean Fitamant and Claude Bosser. 7:30 p.m., Latzer Hall, YMCA, 1001 agriculture students from France South Wright Street, Champaign. attending Illinois State University at •African Students Association Seminar Normal, visited Ralph V. Johnson, Dairy Science, on February 11. They April 11 Yugoslavia Today: Problems were accompanied by Donald Meyer, and Prospects - Rasio Dunatov, Slavic McLean County Extension Adviser. Languages and Literatures. 12:00 noon, 329 Davenport Hall. Fernando Haaland . Mogiana Alimentos, •International Programs and Studies Campinas, Brazil, met with James E. Corbin, Animal Science, on February April 12 USDA-ERS Research on Africa 12 and 13. They discussed nutrition and the Middle East and Employment and processing of pet foods. Opportunities in USDA-ERS - Cheryl

Christensen, United States Department Ludmilla Marin , a consultant for IITA of Agriculture, Economic Research on crop utilization, discussed soybean Service uses and women in development issues 2:00 p.m., 422 Mumford Hall. with Harold E. Kauffman and Alvin •Agricultural Economics Seminar I. Nelson, INTSOY, and Kathleen Cloud, INTERPAKS, March 27. April 12 The African Food Crisis:

Some Solutions - Cheryl Christensen, A. K. Jairath . managing director, USDA-ERS. Rakshak Farm Aids Ltd., Hyderabad, 3:00 p.m., 210 Illini Union India, visited UIUC in early March to •African Students Association Seminar discuss nutrition topics with faculty in the College of Agriculture. S. Q. UangantUeke and

Mr. Jairath met with Munir Cheryan, S. Seneviratne f Department of Food Science, Michael F. Hutjens, Agricultural Engineering, University Dairy Science, and Richard M. Forbes, of Perideniya, Sri Lanka, visited UIUC Sorab P. Mistry, and James E. Corbin, on March 25 as part of a U.S. tour Animal Science. arranged by USAID's Bureau of Science and Technology. They are working on Takashi Naiki. Gifu University, the feasibility of promoting an visited the Plant Pathology Department indigenous vegetable oil as a fuel on March 4 and 5. Dr. Naiki presented substitute for diesel engines in Sri a seminar on vegetable pathology in Lanka, and met with Carrol E. Goering, Japan, discussed soil related Agricultural Engineering. pathology research with graduate students, and visited the turf grass Luis H. Camacho , Agronomy/ INTSOY research program directed by Henry soybean breeder stationed at CIAT T. Wilkinson. (Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical), Cali, Colombia, discussed

Pedro Vega . Dean of the College of his research with INTSOY, Agronomy, Agronomy at the Central University of and International Agriculture staff on Venezuela, Aragua, met with Robert P. March 21. Bentz, Cooperative Extension Service, A. W. Burger, Darrell A. Miller, and D. E. Alexander, Agronomy, John W. Santas, International Agriculture, HOW DO WE COMPARE? Upson S. Garrigus and Daniel Gianola, Animal Science, and Donald A. Holt, The campus international student tally Agricultural Experiment Station, March of 1,776 for the 1985 spring semester

6 to 8. Mr. Vega's U.S. trip was breaks the previous record of 1 ,763 sponsored by the U.S. Information set last fall. Eighty-nine percent of Agency and his program at UIUC was these are graduate students, and 11$ arranged by International Programs and are undergraduates. They come from 91 Studies. countries. We in the College of Agriculture

Leopoldo Casal . Rector, National host about 11$ of the degree-seeking University of La Pampa, Santa Rosa, foreign student population on campus.

Pedro Gonzalez , Rector, National Our thanks to the Office of University of the South, Bajia Blanca, International Student Affairs for and Hugo Medici , Rector, National these statistics. University of San Juan, Argentina, discussed agriculture and marketing with William L.George, Resident Number of Instruction, and Harvey J. Schweitzer, UIUC CamDus Unit Students Philip Garcia, and Lowell D. Hill, Liberal Arts and Sciences 554 Agricultural Economics, March 12 and Engineering 431 13. Their visit was coordinated by Commerce 220 International Programs and Studies, Agriculture 197 UIUC. Fine and Applied Arts 116 Education 114

Toshio Ishieuro and Sei.1l Kitamura . Applied Life Sciences 35 Nippon Pet Food Ltd., Japan, discussed Communications 31 the nutrition of dogs, cats, and Veterinary Medicine 25 exotic birds with Julia Van Briggle Law 22 and James E. Corbin, Animal Science, Aviation 2 March 15. other units 29 COURSE FOR SIERRA LEONE ADMINISTRATORS AFRICA WEEK 85

INTERPAKS and the Office of Interna- The African Students Organization is tional Agriculture are hosting five pleased to announce the activities for senior administrators from the Africa Week '85. These are open to Ministry of Agriculture and Natural UIUC students, faculty, and staff, and Resources, Sierra Leone, for a three- to the general public. week training seminar, March 23 to April 12. Participants will study Wednesday. April 10 Panel discussion the agricultural research and exten- on the problem of food production in sion programs in Illinois, Georgia, Africa. Florida, and Louisiana. 7:30 p.m., Latzer Hall, YMCA, 1001 South Wright Street, Champaign.

Friday. April 12 The African Food WIO SPRING WORKSHOP Crisis: Some Solutions - Cheryl Christensen, USDA-ERS. The Women in International Development 3:00 p.m., 210 Illini Union. Office is sponsoring a spring workshop for international women and U.S. women Saturday. April 1~3 Traditional with international interests. African banquet featuring African Entitled "Women and Work in an delicacies. Tickets are $5.00 and can International Context: A Workshop on be purchased from Valentine Yapi, Opportunities and Skill Development," 328-5273; Thaddeus Menang, 328-2508; it will be held May 4, 1985, in room and Lena Roberson 328-1148. 322 Illini Onion from 8:30 a.m. to 7:00 p.m., St. Patricks Parish Center, 3:30 p.m. Refreshments and free 704 West Main Street, Urbana. babysitting will be provided. The morning sessions will cover employment opportunities, and the afternoon sessions will deal with resume writing and interviewing skills. Cosponsored SPANISH FOR AGRICULTURE by the YWCA, the workshop is free and open to all UIUC women. For Spanish 141 "Elementary Spanish for registration information contact the Agriculture and Related Fields I" will WID Office, 3022 Foreign Languages be offered during the fall semester in Building, 333-1977. 1985 for students in agriculture and related fields interested in acquiring Spanish-language competence for work, travel, or study. The course may be taken for humanities credit in the AFRICAN AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT CONF. College of Agriculture or to satisfy the foreign language requirement in The International Conference on the College of Liberal Arts and African Agricultural Development: Sciences. Spanish 142 will be taught Technology, Ecology, and Society will in the spring. The course is open to be held May 28 to June 1, 1985, at students with no prior study of California State Polytechnic Univer- Spanish or with one to two years of sity, Pomona. Conference information Spanish in high school. Faculty and is available from: African Agricultur- graduate students are welcome as al Development Conference, California auditors if space allows. For more State Polytechnic University, 3801 information contact Margo De Ley, 3022 West Temple Avenue, Pomona, California Foreign Languages Building, 333-5287, 91768, telephone (714) 598-0580. or 333-1977. STUDENT PAPER COMPETITION (OAS) fellowships for research in any field except medicine. Fellowships May 1, 1985, is the deadline for sub- are granted for periods ranging from mission of papers written by students three months to two years and are on topics related to Women in Interna- tenable in any of the member countries tional Development. One $150 prize of OAS. Applications submitted by will be awarded by the Office of Women April 30, 1985, will be reviewed in in International Development. For June; applications submitted by August topics of past winning papers and 31, 1985, will be reviewed in October. further information about the competi- Application information is available tion contact the WID Office, 3022 from the Campus-Wide Research Services Foreign Languages Building, 333-1977. Office, 128 Observatory, 901 South Mathews Avenue, 333-0284.

1986-1987 RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS IN INDIA FSSP ASSISTANTSHIPS June 15, 1985, is the application deadline for 1986-1 987 Advanced Students initiating master's or Research Fellowships in India. Twelve doctoral-level programs at the Univer- long-term (6-10 months) and nine sity of Florida with an emphasis on short-term (2-3 months) awards are farming systems are eligible for being offered. Awards are available assistantships. Recipients will minor in all academic disciplines, and in farming systems while majoring in scholars with limited or no previous one of the academic departments of the experience in India are especially Institute of Food and Agricultural encouraged to apply. Application Sciences. Research may be conducted forms and further information are in Florida or overseas. Inquiries available from the Council for about assistantships should be sent International Exchange of Scholars, to: Farming Systems Assistantships, attn: Indo-American Fellowship International Programs, Institute of Program, 11 Dupont Circle, Suite 300, Food and Agricultural Sciences, Washington, D.C., 20036-1257, University of Florida, 3028 McCarty telephone (202) 939-5472. Hall, Gainesville, Florida 32611, telephone (904) 392-1965.

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INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES Organization, and the Pan American Health Organization, March 10 to 12, John R. Campbell. Dean of the College Caracas, Venezuela. of Agriculture, accompanied Illinois Governor James Thompson on a trade Douglas B. Bauling. Agricultural mission to Hong Kong, China, and Experiment Station, was a member of a Japan, March 7 to 23. While in China, team that developed plans for an In- an agreement was signed to exchange structional Farm at the University of plant and animal germplasm. In Japan San' a, Yemeni Arab Republic, March 20 they met with representatives of the to April 2. The project is sponsored corn starch and feed milling indus- by DSAID and managed by the Consortium tries. Japan is the number one im- for International Development (CID). porter of Illinois agricultural goods,

j maf!hft and both China and Japan are good Luia H. C 7 T Agronomy, visited customers of agricultural products. the International Institute of Trop- ical Agriculture's regional soybean Mukiahi M. Pvndli completed the program in Goianla, and met with requirements for an M.Sc. degree in researchers at the National Soybean Plant Pathology in March and returned Center in Londrina, Brazil, the week to Zaire to work as a soybean of March 25. pathologist in the INERA National Legume Program, Mulungu. Joseph A. Jackobs. Agronomy, examined the possibilities for soybean

Howard L. Whitmore . Veterinary production in Jamaica, April 8 to 12. Clinical Medicine, was in Egypt from

January 4 to February 2 to represent Mareo De Lev . Women in International OIOC on a research project with the Development, chaired a panel and University of Alexandria. The project presented a paper at the annual deals with reproductive herd health meeting of the Latin American Studies programs for cattle in small villages. Association, April 18 to 20, in While is Egypt, Dr. Whitmore also Albuquerque, New Mexico. Coauthored visited and lectured at the veterinary by Priscilla Handy, Sociology, Dr. De schools in Cairo and Asuit. Ley's paper was entitled "Women's Kinship and Friendship Networks:

Sonia Montenegro-Jamea , Veterinary Their Role in Undocumented Migration Pathobiology, was an invited from Mexico." participant in the Workshop on Tropical Diseases, which was Burton E. Swanson. Timothy Koehnen. cosponsored by the government of Robert Raab. Mohamed Samv. and Carolvn

Venezuela, the World Health Sands , INTERPAKS, attended the first annual meeting of the Association of Lusaka, is working for six months with International Agricultural Education, Doyle B. Peters, Agronomy and USDA, on April 2H to 26, Washington, D.C. response of divergent maize cultivars Dr. Swanson served as founding chair to water stress. of the Association and also served as conference chairperson. Mr. Koehnen Jezie Alix Acorda. College of presented a paper on intermediate Veterinary Medicine, University of the agricultural education in Asia, Philippines, and Arturo Somatiza

Africa, and Latin America. Arganosa , Livestock Research Depart- ment of the Philippine Council for

Richard E. Ford f Plant Pathology, will Agriculture and Resources Research study and conduct research on seed and Development (PCARRD), arrived on transmission of plant viruses at the campus April 22 for a six-week program Virology Laboratory, Canada Department on cattle reproduction. They will of Agriculture, Vancouver, British work with Charles N. Graves, Dairy Columbia, May 1 to October 31, as part Science, and Darrel J. Kesler and of his sabbatical leave. Philip J. Dziuk, Animal Science.

Marv Frances Picoiano. Foods and Chen Zhao-vine. Beijing Agricultural

Nutrition, and John A. Milner . Food University, China, will spend one year Science, will participate in an studying and conducting research in international workshop on Composition the College of Veterinary Medicine. and Physiological Properties of Human Dr. Chen is interested in medical Milk, May 29 to June 1, Kiel, Germany. imaging technology and also has done Dr. Picciano will present an invited some work in acupuncture. lecture entitled "Form and Distribution of Selenium in Human Goran G. Anstrom. College of Veteri- Milk: Factors Exerting an nary Medicine, Swedish University of Influence." After the conference they Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, is a both will lecture and meet with visiting professor for two months in scientists at Warsaw's Agricultural Veterinary Clinical Medicine. University, Poland. Dr. Milner will Dr. Anstrom will participate in speak on dietary arginine and mastitis research programs. pyrimidine biosynthesis, and on selenium and carcinogenesis, and Gregorio B. Begonia . University of the Dr. Picciano on folacin and selenium Philippines, Los Banos, is doing post- nutrition during lactation and doctoral research under the direction infancy. of John D. Hesketh, Agronomy, until April 1986.

Imre Kadar f Research Institute for VISITING RESEARCHERS Soil Science and Agricultural Chemis- try, Budapest, Hungary, arrived at

Benet Erlinasson . Swedish University UIUC in mid-April to study under of Agricultural Sciences, Ultuna, Theodore R. Peck, Agronomy. Funded by arrived in mid-March for a two-month a Fulbright Fellowship, Dr. Kadar will stay in Agricultural Economics. be here until August 1985. Mr. Erlingsson is performing a comparative study of marketing Jullen Berthaud . ORSTROM, France, alternatives for Swedish and American arrived at UIUC in March to spend at hog and grain producers. a year in Agronomy's Crop Evolution Laboratory working on various aspects

Kabal S. Gill . School of Agricultural of molecular plant systematics and Sciences, University of Zambia, genetic engineering. SEMINARS Andreas Popischil. College of Veterinary Medicine, University of

Mav 1 Results of the ZAMARE (Zambia Munich, Germany, and currently a Agricultural Research and Extension) visiting scientist at the National Project Evaluation - Earl D. Kellogg, Animal Disease Center, Ames, Iowa, Office of International Agriculture. visited the College of Veterinary 4:00 p.m., 426 Mumford Hall. Medicine on April 15 and 16, and •International Agriculture Seminar presented a seminar on rotaviruses.

Mav 2 Natural Resources and Economic Max Lawrence . Bureau of Agricultural Development: The Persistent Legacy of Economics, Australia, visited UIUC on Colonialism - Daniel W. Bromley, April 23 as part of a U.S. tour and Department of Agricultural Economics, year in Washington, D.C. While on University of Wisconsin. campus he presented a seminar compar- 3:30 p.m., 426 Mumford Hall. ing Australian and U.S. approaches to •Sponsored by Agricultural Economics, economic policy making. Economics, International Agriculture, International Programs and Studies, and Miller Committee. VISITOR ON CAMPUS Mav 3 Discussion on effects of colonialism on natural resources and Mohamed Mahmoud El Saved. Centre for economic development - Daniel Agricultural Management Development in W. Bromley, Department of Agricultural the Egyptian Ministry of Agriculture, Economics, University of Wisconsin. is spending the week of April 29 at 3:45 p.m., Levis Faculty Center Music UIUC. His schedule is being arranged Room, 919 West Illinois Street, by Robert E. Brown, International Urbana. Programs and Studies, 3017 Foreign •International Colloquium Seminar. Languages Building, 333-1990.

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Ram Singh and Matthew Morev. Illinois The Women in International Development State University, presented a seminar Office is sponsoring a workshop for entitled "The Economic Contribution of international women and U.S. women Rural Children in Polygynous Families: with international interests. Some Evidence from an African LDC" on Entitled "Women and Work in an April 11 to faculty in Family and International Context: A Workshop on Consumer Economics. Opportunities and Skill Development," it will be held May 4, 1985, in room

Yukio Yamamoto . Horticultural Science 322 Illini Union from 8:30 a.m. to and Plant Physiology Department, 3:30 p.m. Refreshments and free Nagoya University, Japan, and Takafumi babysitting will be provided. The

Tezuka . also from Nagoya University morning sessions will cover employment and currently on a two-year exchange opportunities, and the afternoon at Cornell University, discussed ni- sessions will deal with resume writing trogen metabolism in plants, nitrogen and interviewing skills. Cosponsored succession, and bioengineering with by the YWCA, the workshop is free and James E. Harper, Agronomy and USDA, open to all UIUC women. For Richard H. Hageman, Agronomy, and registration information contact the Walter E. Splittstoesser, WID Office, 3022 Foreign Languages Horticulture, April 13 to 17. Building, 333-1977. STUDENT PAPER COMPETITION students with no prior study of Spanish or with one to two years of May 15, 1985, is the deadline for sub- Spanish in high school. Faculty and mission of papers written by students graduate students are welcome as on topics related to Women in Interna- auditors if space allows. For more tional Development. One $150 prize information contact Margo De Ley, 3022 will be awarded by the Office of Women Foreign Languages Building, 333-5287, in International Development. For or 333-1977. topics of past winning papers and further information about the competi- tion contact the WID Office, 3022 1986-1987 RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS IN INDIA Foreign Languages Building, 333-1977. June 15, 1985, is the application deadline for 1986-1987 Advanced SPANISH FOR AGRICULTURE Research Fellowships in India. Twelve long-term (6-10 months) and nine Spanish 141 "Elementary Spanish for short-term (2-3 months) awards are Agriculture and Related Fields I" will being offered. Awards are available be offered during the fall semester in in all academic disciplines, and 1985 for students in agriculture and scholars with limited or no previous related fields interested in acquiring experience in India are especially Spanish-language competence for work, encouraged to apply. Application travel, or study. The course may be forms and further information are taken for humanities credit in the available from the Council for College of Agriculture or to satisfy International Exchange of Scholars, the foreign language requirement in attn: Indo-American Fellowship the College of Liberal Arts and Program, 11 Dupont Circle, Suite 300, Sciences. Spanish 142 will be taught Washington, D.C., 20036-1257, in the spring. The course is open to telephone (202) 939-5472.

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THE TIPAN PROJECT

In November 1984, the U.S. Agency for Inter- fjf. p83mg$ttm^^^p(& national Development (USAID) awarded UIUC the implementation contract for a major institu- tion development project in Pakistan. Southern Skip ii flyP'iKi!! Illinois University at Carbondale (SIUC) is col- Mi iilli 1 :

ect is located at the Agricultural University, Pe- shawar, Northwest Frontier Province, Pakistan. I^SPB^^^H Designed to be completed in eleven years, TI-

PAN is divided into three phases. UIUC's con-

tract is for the first four years (phase 1). Pakistan. TIPAN is the largest contract ever awarded NWFP Agricultural University, Peshawar, the College of Agriculture and among the largest at UIUC. Funded by USAID, the $15.2 million • University faculty members will work at NWFP- budget for phase 1 will be augmented by addi- AU as specialists on long- and short-term assign- tional support from USAID for physical plant ments. development and by substantial funding from the • Faculty from NWFP-AU will pursue M.S. or government of Pakistan. Ph.D. degrees and nondegree training at UIUC, History of UIUC's Involvement. From April SIUC, other U.S. universities, and international agricultural research centers. 1983 to October 1984, twenty-six UIUC and • Textbooks, journals, reference material, supplies SIUC faculty members participated in designing for teaching and research, and equipment to de- TIPAN. The project was a collaborative effort velop the experimental farm and outreach pro- with the Northwest Frontier Province Agricul- gram will be purchased for NWFP-AU under the tural University (NWFP-AU); the architectural commodity procurement provisions of the con- and engineering firm of Skidmore, Owings, and tract. Merrill; and USAID's Mission to Pakistan. The Before the fall semester, four of the eleven goal is to create a dynamic, problem-solving, long-term team members will be in Peshawar. farmer-oriented center of teaching, research, and The four team members are: Errol D. Rodda, outreach that will link together to support agri- agricultural engineering at UIUC, team leader cultural development in the Northwest Frontier institution development specialist; Raymond Province. Geographically almost three-quarters and G. Cragle, dairy science at UIUC, research pro- the size of Illinois, the province has a population gram specialist; R. William Seiders, 4-H exten- of about 1 3 million people. sion at UIUC, outreach specialist; and Martin Implementation. UIUC, with SIUC and other Waananen, Assistant Dean for Resident Instruc-

cooperating universities, is responsible for carry- tion at Washington State University, teaching ing out three types of activities. program specialist. Several long-term positions are yet to be filled: For more information about TIPAN call irrigation and water management, agricultural William N. Thompson at 333-5869, or Thomas mechanization, dairy production, rural social sci- A. McCowen at 333-6420. The mailing address ences, learning resources center, communications for both is 113 Mumford Hall, 1301 West Gre- gory Drive, Urbana, Illinois production, and research station management. 61801. There will be as many as 88 short-term assign- ments in Pakistan for consultants and to super- vise the theses and dissertations of Pakistani students.

TIPAN and NWFP-AU. Through TIPAN, the faculty of NWFP-AU will receive advanced train- ing. The curriculum will be revised to give stu- dents practical experience in agriculture and the campus will be expanded. The new library, com- puter center, and communications production unit will form the Learning Resources Center, which will serve teaching and research needs as well as support a mass media outreach program. Furthermore, the agricultural research staff of the NWFP Department of Agriculture will be merged with the Agricultural University and there will be major changes in administrative structure and procedures.

Pakistan and the world community. Pakistan occupies an important geopolitical position in South Asia. It is in the forefront of international Arabian Sea attempts to obtain the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan. A member of the Is- lamic community, Pakistan advocates peaceful resolution of conflicts in the Middle East and Persian Gulf. Improved living standards and a growing economy are prerequisites for Pakistan's continued ability to contribute to peace and sta- bility in the region. Adapted from Rand McNally.

INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL the Workshop on Animal Breeding, University of

Guelph, Ontario, Canada, April 1 and 2. In late April, Gregory R. Noel, Plant Pathology, surveyed nematode problems on sunflowers, soy- The Association of Applied Biologist's workshop beans, corn, tobacco, pineapple, and bananas in on New Developments in Techniques for Virus Zambia, and made plans for Dennis Lawn, grad- Detection was held April 9 to 12 in Cambridge, uate student in Plant Pathology, to conduct dis- England. Cleora J. D'Arcy, Plant Pathology, pre- sertation research as part of the ZAMARE proj- sented a poster on her luteovirus work at the ect. While in Africa Dr. Noel visited the Farming workshop and also visited the Rothamsted Exper- Systems Kenya Project, which aids small-scale imental Station. and subsistence farmers. Miodrag Ristic, Veterinary Pathobiology, at- Charles L. Henderson, Animal Science, pre- tended a meeting at the Laveran Foundation in sented an invited paper on methods for deter- Annecy, France, from April 10 to 12. During the mining genetic variance within a population at meeting, participants made plans for the 1986 International Congress on Malaria and Babesiosis. ducers in Jamaica on integrated pest manage- Dr. Ristic participated in the International Asia ment practices. and Pacific Conference on Malaria, Honolulu, Hawaii, from April 21 to 27. John C. Siemens, Agricultural Engineering, will discuss machinery needs for soybean harvesting Raymond A. Woodis, Agricultural Communica- with officials of Jamaica Soy Products Industries, Kingston, 3 to 7. tions, spent April 22 to May 1 1 at the University June of the West Indies, where he presented a work- shop for communication technicians from the Joseph A. Jackobs, Agronomy, will visit soybean CAEP (Caribbean Agricultural Extension Project) test sites in Colombia and discuss cooperative soybean activities with Luis H. Camacho, INT- countries. This was the second in a series of an- agronomist stationed in Colombia, nual workshops. SOY CIAT (Centro Internacional de Agriculture Tropical), ICA (Instituto Colombiano Agropecuario), and Stanley E. Curtis, Animal Science, was an in- IITA (International Institute for Tropical Agri- vited speaker at the Roche Nutrition Symposium, culture) scientists, June 3 to 7. which is held in conjunction with the Guelph Nutrition Conference, Toronto, Canada, on The Department of Biochemistry of the Swiss April 30. Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, has in- While in Europe in June, Dr. Curtis will lec- vited Sorab P. Mistry, Animal Science, to spend ture on animal welfare and environmental man- the month of June at the Institute as a visiting agement at the Institute of Building Technology, professor. Dr. Mistry will give lectures on meta- Agricultural University of Norway, As; present a bolic regulation and will continue research on lecture entitled "Pig Environment: Prescription membrane proteins. and Design" at the European Workshop on In- tensive Pig Production; and visit the Animal Attending the Fifth World Congress on Water Husbandry Department at the Agricultural Uni- Resources in Brussels, Belgium, from June 9 versity, Wageningen, Netherlands. to 15, are: David E. Chicoine and Sam H. Johnson, Agricultural Economics, Glenn E. The first INTERPAKS case study and field test Stout, Institute of Environmental Studies, W. H. for the USAID research project on technology C. Maxwell, Civil Engineering, and John R. Ad- development, transfer, and utilization will be ams, Nani G. Bhowmik, and Krishnan P. conducted in Malawi this summer. Burton E. Singh, Illinois State Water Survey. Dr. Stout, Swanson, INTERPAKS, traveled to Nairobi, who is Executive Director of the International Kenya, and Lilongwe, Malawi, in May to prepare Water Resources Association, and Dr. Chicoine for the study. were involved in program planning.

Two May graduates of the College of Agricul- Aslam S. Hassan, Veterinary Biosciences, is ture will spend six month abroad beginning in spending a month at the Department of Pharma- June. James Behrends will go to Switzerland and ceutical Biochemistry, University of Uppsala, David Riecks will go to India as IFYE (Interna- Sweden, to study techniques related to bile acid tional 4-H Youth Exchange) participants. metabolism.

The Illinois 4-H Ambassador Program will send James E. Corbin, Animal Science, attended the two College of Agriculture undergraduates to Mexican Pet Food Nutrition Conference, visited Europe for six weeks this summer: Janice But- pet food plants, and lectured to veterinarians in ler, Textiles, Apparel, and Interior Design, will Mexico from May 18 to 27. travel in the Netherlands and Connie Schneider, Agriculture, will travel in the United Kingdom. The Consortium for International Crop Protec- tion (CICP) has asked Michael E. Irwin, Agricul- Randall S. Ott, Veterinary Clinical Medicine, will tural Entomology, to meet with government offi- deliver seminars on breeding soundness examina- cials in Ecuador to help implement a national tion of bulls at the Laboratoire pour le Controle plan for integrated pest management, June 2 to des Reproducteurs, Maisons-Alfort, France, June 6. En route, Dr. Irwin will advise soybean pro- 15 to 26. Harold W. Gonyou, Animal Science, will present culture, Michael A. Hudson, Agricultural Eco- a paper at the annual meetings of the Canadian nomics, and Gene C. McCoy, Dairy Science. The Society of Animal Science, Prince Edward Island, participants will live with 4-H host families June 23 to 29. throughout Illinois until July 15.

The NATO Advanced Study Institute on Iron in A dairy team from the Bureau of State Farms, Soils and Clay Minerals will be held in Bad China, visited the Department of Dairy Science on April 17 sponsored by the American Soybean Windsheim, Germany, July 1 to 13. Joseph W. superovulation, Stucki, Agronomy and Director of the Advanced Association. They discussed em- bryo recovery and transfer, and micromanipula- Study Institute, will present a paper on iron in tion of embryos with Charles N. Graves and Joel non-micaceous 2:1 phyllosilicates. Also attending A. Lawitts, and toured the Dairy Research Farm from Agronomy are Robert G. Darmody, Alvin with Sidney L. Spahr. H. Beavers, and Paul Lear. The conference is sponsored by NATO with support from UIUC Bharati K. Patel, Chief Agricultural Research Of- and NSF. ficer in the Ministry of Agriculture and Water Development, Zambia, visited UIUC from April

29 to May 2. Dr. Patel is directly involved in the VISITING RESEARCHERS implementation of the ZAMARE (Zambian Agri- cultural Research and Development) project. She Meiling Shen, a postdoctoral research associate met with faculty and graduate students in from the PRC, is working with Diego Segre, Vet- Agronomy, Animal Science, Plant Pathology, the erinary Pathobiology, from February 1985 to African Studies Program, Agricultural Experi- February 1986. ment Station, Cooperative Extension Service, Of- fice of International Agriculture, and Women in Mohamed A. Mehaia, King Saud University, Ri- International Development Office. yadh, Saudi Arabia, is a visiting professor in Food Science from May to September, working M'Baye Kane Diaw, registrar, University of the with Munir Cheryan. Dr. Mehaia received his Ivory Coast, and Mande Fofana, personnel ser- Ph.D. from in 1983. UIUC vice, Ivorian Civil Service, discussed the recently concluded ten-year training project between the Sponsored by an International Atomic Energy Office of International Agriculture and the Ivory fellowship, K. Y. Agency Florence Kobusingye Coast Ministry of Agriculture with OIA staff on of Uganda is visiting Veterinary Pathobiology for April 30. Sponsored by the African-American In- six research training the practical months of on stitute, their itinerary at UIUC was arranged by application of radioimmunoassay in studies of an- Overseas Projects and Foreign Visitors. imal production. Takio Yamada, Director of the LABO Interna- Joachim von Bulow, Universidade de Brasilia, tional Exchange Foundation, Tokyo, Japan, vis- Brazil, arrived at UIUC in May to work for one ited Ann L. Rund, State 4-H International Pro-

year with Johannes M. J. de Wet, Agronomy, on gram Leader, on April 30 and May 1. The maize genetics. LABO Foundation is sending 60 youths to Illi- nois for the month of July as part of the Illinois- Japan 4-H exchange program. VISITORS RECENTLY ON CAMPUS Vincent Lokrou and Berte Kama, administrators Three International 4-H Youth Exchange (IFYE) at the Ecole Nationale Superieure de Agrono- participants visited campus from May 8 to 10: mique, Abidjan, Ivory Coast, discussed possible Martin W. Baer, West Germany, Gina Laan, UIUC involvement in reorganizing the curricu- Netherlands, and Oswald R. Thomas, Antigua. lum which leads to the Ingenieur Agronome de- They met with David D. Pyle, Ann L. Rund, gree with James L. Robinson, Dairy Science, and Gerald G. Gast, and Mary K. Munson, Coopera- staff in the Office of International Agriculture tive Extension Service, James C. Schmidt, Horti- on May 3. .

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Sidney L. Spahr, Dairy Science, hosted a live- DAIRY SCIENCE INTERNATIONAL RECEPTION stock trade group from China on May 16. The group included Li Zhenqing, China National Faculty and staff are invited to the International Animal Breeding Import and Export Corpora- Reception of the 80th Annual Meeting of the tion, Beijing, Chen Shutian, Ministry of Agricul- American Dairy Science Association. The recep-

ture, Beijing, Wu Shuoxian, senior veterinarian, tion will be held on Tuesday, June 1 1, from 4:00 and Liu Guojiang, livestock specialist, Sichuan to 5:30 p.m. in room 210 Illini Union.

Province. The group was sponsored by Ag The meetings, which run from June 9 to 1 World Exports, Bloomington, Illinois. on the UIUC campus, are open to everyone with

an interest in dairying. More than 1 ,800 partici-

William J. Mantanyani, general manager, and pants from the United States and abroad are ex- David Hanyana, soybean specialist, Lint Com- pected to attend and present approximately 500 pany of Zambia, met with Agricultural Eco- papers. The Fourth North American Symposium nomics, Agronomy, Office of International Agri- on Cytogenetics and Cell Biology of Domestic culture, and College of Commerce faculty on Animals will be held concurrently with the dairy

May 22 and 23. Mr. Mantanyani is in the United science meetings. States for three months as an Eisenhower Ex- For program details call Michael F. Hutjens at change Fellow. 333-2928.

VISITORS COMING TO CAMPUS PUBLICATIONS OF NOTE

On June 6 and 7, Zoltan Kiraly, Director of the A limited number of the conference proceedings Plant Protection Institute, Hungarian Academy "Third World Development: From Food Defi- of Sciences, will discuss the biotechnological as- ciency to Food Sufficiency," (Iowa-Illinois World pects of creating cultivars resistant to diseases Food Conference, November 1984, Davenport,

with College of Agriculture staff. Sponsored by Iowa) are now available from J. Terry Iversen, FAO, Dr. Kiraly's schedule at UIUC is being ar- Continuing Education and Public Service. Cam- ranged by Jack D. Paxton, Plant Pathology, pus mail requests should be sent to 105 Illini N-519 Turner Hall, 333-4864. Hall and off-campus requests to 205 Arcade Building, 725 South Wright Street, north wing, Ollie Noren, Vice President and Senior Principal Champaign, Illinois 61820; telephone (217) 333- Research Officer, Swedish Institute of Agricul- 1465. tural Engineering, Uppsala, Sweden, will visit the

Agricultural Engineering Department on July 5. African Women Link is a new development

His major interest is improving conditions for op- newsletter aimed at linking individuals, groups,

erators of farm machinery. Arthur J. Muehling, organizations, and agencies concerned with de- 332-E Agricultural Engineering Sciences Bldg., velopment and, in particular, African women's

333-9313, is arranging his schedule. development. Available in English and French editions, AWL is produced with support from the Pathfinder Fund. To inquire about a subscription NEW WID ACTING DIRECTOR write to Ms. Elizabeth Okwenje, P.O. Box 50795, Nairobi, Kenya. Barbara A. Yates, Educational Policy Studies, stepped down from the directorship of the Office of Women in International Development (WID) BOOKS FOR CHINA on May 15 to resume full-time teaching and re-

search. Dr. Yates has built a strong program The Foundation for Books to China, 60 1 Califor- since she became the first WID Director at nia Street, San Francisco, California, 94108, tele- UIUC in 1980. UIUC's WID Office is currently phone (415) 765-0664, will arrange to send edu- ranked among the top five in the United States. cational material to the People's Republic of Frances M. Magrabi, Family and Consumer Eco- China. Anyone wishing to contribute material

nomics, will be Acting Director for the 1985- should call the Foundation. The donor is asked 1986 academic year. to pay mailing costs to California. BOOKS FOR ZAMBIA 700 grants for university lecturing abroad, open- ings in more than 100 countries, stays from Faculty in Agricultural Engineering and Food three months to a full academic year in duration, Science have donated books and journals to the and multi-country research possibilities in several Library at the University of Zambia, Lusaka. If regional programs. you have material to donate to libraries in devel- Some countries have awards which are not re- oping countries, call James B. Sinclair, Plant Pa- stricted by discipline. India, Ireland, Nigeria, and thology, at 333-6588, N-519 Turner Hall. Romania have requested agriculture but have not specified a field. Other requests for agricul- ture include: 1986-1987 FULBRIGHT SCHOLAR PROGRAM Australia — entomology Greece — agricultural education or extension Application deadlines for the 1986-1987 Ful- India — agricultural economics, rural develop- bright Scholar Program have been announced: ment June 15, 1985, for Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, New Zealand — agricultural business, agricul- Papua New Guinea, India, Latin America, and- tural cooperatives (farm management) the Caribbean; September 15, 1985, for Africa, Norway — floriculture, agronomy Europe, and other countries in Asia; November Sudan — rural economics

1, 1985, for Junior lectureships to France, Ger- Taiwan — agricultural extension many, Italy, and Spain; December 31, 1985, for Thailand — agronomy of cooperatives NATO Research fellowships; and February 1, Uruguay — management 1986, for Spain research fellowships, France and Yugoslavia — wheat genetics Germany travel, and supplementary awards. For more information write or call the Council

The 1986-1987 program includes opportuni- for International Exchange of Scholars, 1 1 Du-

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INTERPAKS • Research and surveys. INTERPAKS conducts special studies in cooperation with national pro- INTERPAKS, the International Program for Ag- grams and international agencies as a basis for ricultural Knowledge Systems, is an educational improving agricultural knowledge systems. and technical assistance program in the Office of • Information about agricultural knowledge sys- International Agriculture, College of Agricul- tems. INTERPAKS has established a computer- ture, UIUC. Established in 1982, the purpose of ized, worldwide literature base on agricultural INTERPAKS is to support agricultural develop- knowledge systems and technology development ment by improving the transfer and utilization of and transfer. As well, there is a newsletter and a knowledge in developing countries. growing series of publications. INTERPAKS brings a holistic approach to the processing, transfer, and use of agricultural International recognition. INTERPAKS has knowledge and technology through a unique rapidly gained recognition for its international combination of academic disciplines from three extension work. In 1983, the Food and Agricul- colleges and schools. At present, about twenty- ture Organization (EAO) of the United Nations five faculty members participate on a regular ba- asked INTERPAKS to revise the FAO Extension sis in the research and instructional programs. Manual. Also in 1983 the Farming Systems Sup- Primary fields involved are agricultural commu- port Project at the University of Florida asked nications, agricultural economics, agricultural ed- INTERPAKS to join it in developing a set of ucation, extension administration and education, guidelines for integrating the research and ex- library and information science, and rural sociol- tension functions in farming systems projects. In ogy. INTERPAKS taps the strengths and per- 1983 and 1984, members of the INTERPAKS spectives of other disciplines and programs as faculty engaged in forty-two months of technical needed to produce an integrated approach in ag- service, ranging from brief consultations to a ricultural development. two-year assignment on a USAID project in the Caribbean.

What INTERPAKS can do. INTERPAKS spe- Contract for Improved Technology Develop- cializes in four areas: ment and Transfer Model. In February 1984, • Technical assistance for the transfer and use of INTERPAKS signed a five-year, US$1.7 million agricultural information. This involves interna- contract with USAID to create a model to evalu- tional activities such as improving extension ser- ate and improve agricultural technology develop- vices, vocational agricultural programs in schools, ment, transfer, and feedback. The model in- library and information services, and links with volves both conceptual and emperical activities. research and private-sector organizations. Around the world there are different systems, • Teaching programs and services. This includes circumstances, philosophies, and goals. INTER- tailored, interdisciplinary degree programs, and PAKS staff theorize that a comparative examina- nondegree study such as short courses at UIUC tion of some of these systems will contribute to or in other countries. the creation a diagnostic tool that will be useful to national research and extension practitioners, INTERPAKS publications. To encourage and policy makers, international donors, and farmers. disseminate research and to create a world Burton E. Swanson, Associate Director, leads the forum for the discussion and exchange of ideas, project, aided by the INTERPAKS research team INTERPAKS publishes items about international at UIUC and an external advisory committee of agricultural extension. These include: representatives from U.S. universities. The Cooperative Extension Service — An — Contract activities in- Adaptable Model for Developing Countries by •'' ' ""•-. '-. B. Claar, D. Dahl, L. Watts / " elude conducting six to J. T and (INTER- eight worldwide case stud- PAKS Series No. 1)

ies, advisory seminars, and The Role of the Information Specialist in the an international conference Dissemination of Agricultural Information by to evaluate tentative A. Sattar and F. W. Lancaster (INTERPAKS Se- ries No. models for improved tech- 2) Facing National Agricultural Exten- nology development and Problems tension in Developing Countries by V. A. Sigman transfer. The first case and B. E. Swanson (INTERPAKS Series No. 3) study of national systems Knowledge Transfer in Developing Coun- of agricultural technology tries — Status, Constraints, Outlook, Proceed- development and transfer ings of a Conference on International Extension will be carried out in Ma- held at Steamboat Springs, Colorado, July 1983. lawi in August. The INTERPAKS newsletter, INTERPAKS Malawi is the site of the first INTERPAKS case study. Interchange, is issued three times a year. Its pur-

pose is to share information with leaders of Educational Activities. Short courses are knowledge transfer systems in other countries given both on campus and overseas. In 1984, and to establish a dialogue for enhancing agricul- eight administrators from six countries attended tural development through more effective exten- a five-week short course held at UIUC entitled sion systems. There are nearly 1 ,000 names on

"Organization and Operation of Agricultural Ex- the mailing list, most of them from overseas. tension Services in the International Setting." The course will be given again in October 1985. INTERPAKS today. Priority activities include In cooperation with the Zambian Ministry of Ag- the USAID contract with its worldwide case riculture and USAID, INTERPAKS taught an studies and on-going educational programs, in- intensive, one-week course covering new exten- cluding informal courses overseas and degree sion methods and teaching and communications and short-course programs on campus. will skills at two locations in Zambia in 1984. The Beginning in July, John L. Woods be the course was attended by provincial and national new Director of INTERPAKS. Dr. Woods has extensive overseas experience and has published extension personnel and college faculty. widely on rural development, particularly from Representatives of INTERPAKS at UIUC and the perspective of agricultural communications of international extension at Colorado State Uni- and technology transfer. He replaces John B. versity held a conference in July 1983. Topics Claar, who has served as INTERPAKS Director discussed included the latest theories in knowl- on a half-time basis since its inception. (Eldon L. edge transfer, theoretical capabilities of an ideal Johnson, University of Illinois Vice President technology transfer model, and constraints to emeritus, was Director of INTERPAKS for ten success as experienced around the world. months while Dr. Claar was Acting Dean of the Graduate students at UIUC are involved in College of Agriculture.) Dr. Claar will continue interdisciplinary degree INTERPAKS through working in INTERPAKS on technical assistance programs encompassing extension education, ag- and academic matters relating to extension. ricultural education, agricultural communica- tions, and rural sociology. At present, seven For copies of INTERPAKS publications or graduate students in extension education and ag- more information about INTERPAKS contact ricultural education are working on degrees John B. Claar or, after July 21, John L. Woods at focusing on technology transfer, and another 113 Mumford Hall, 1301 West Gregory Drive, dozen are in related programs. Urbana, Illinois 61801, telephone 333-5831. NOTES FROM THE DIRECTOR tional Activities) project in Belize continue to op- erate well. My first one hundred days in the Office of Inter- elapsed national Agriculture (OIA) have just and Future projects. Through MUCIA, and in co- the time has gone more quickly than I could operation with the College of Veterinary Medi- It enjoyable time have imagined. has been an cine, we responded to a request for proposals for productive one. doubt, the Office and a Without a new collaborative research and training pro- of International Agriculture at UIUC and its gram in India. We also expressed interest in a programs are among the best in the country. proposal to establish a Central American College This is due to the excellent work by the faculty of Agriculture for the Humid Tropics, which and administration in the College of Agriculture will be based in Costa Rica. Before my arrival, and the strong foundation and dedicated staff interest was expressed in a Jamaican agricultural assembled by William N. Thompson, former di- education program. This proposal is being pre- rector. These two components are the basis for pared under the direction of the Division of Ag- future success. ricultural Education, Department of Vocational First, a report on my activities. To obtain an and Technical Education. overview of programs and faculty resources in It may be well to point out that there are agriculture, I have met with most of the heads of many proposals on which we do not bid, some in departments, offices, and divisions as well as OIA spite of repeated requests for our participation. staff, collaborating faculty, and the administra- In the past several weeks, we declined requests tion. To reach out to the state, I contacted forty- for our participation in agricultural development eight agricultural or commodity groups and ex- programs in Bolivia, Niger, Saudi Arabia, and pressed a willingness to discuss the establishment Senegal. felt these proposals lacked of mutually beneficial programs. About a dozen We potential have responded, some activities have taken place for long-term research involvement of our fac- and others are being planned. ulty or were simply requests from USAID for I've received good advice from both the Interna- short-term consultants. tional Agricultural Policy Committee and the Inter- national Agricultural Advisory Committee, espe- Staff developments. It is my pleasure to an- cially regarding their roles and future directions. nounce that the title for John W Santas was offi- We continue to have strong ties with Southern cially changed to Assistant Director of Interna- Illinois University-Carbondale (SIUC) and the tional Agriculture for Training to reflect his University of Maryland-Eastern Shore (UMES), increased responsibilities in the past several both of whom collaborate with us on interna- years. Dr. Santas' activities as Training Officer

tional projects. I made two trips to SIUC and have been regarded, both nationally and interna- one to AID offices in Washington, D.C., with tionally, as one of the keys to our success in UMES staff. A Joint Memorandum of Under- international agriculture. standing and a Program Support Grant with We are also pleased to announce that John L. UMES are being developed. Woods will join us on July 21 as Director of INTERPAKS. Dr. Woods has had a very success- Current programs. Our ZAMARE (Zambia ful career with the United Nations Development Agricultural Research and Extension) project re- Program in Thailand and we look forward to ceived an excellent rating at its three-year (mid- having John, his wife Char, and their children program) review. Errol D. Rodda, the team Van (age 1 3) and Sheri (age 1 0) with us. John B. leader and institution development specialist of Claar will continue working with us as giver of the (Transformation Integration of a TIPAN and sage advice and counsel (and humor). Provincial Agricultural Network) project, is on- site in Peshawar, Pakistan, and the specialists for We are at an exciting time in our program. research, outreach, and teaching will arrive this Let's keep working together to make it even summer with their families. INTERPAKS (Inter- more exciting and productive. I invite you to call national Program for Agricultural Knowledge me at 333-6420 to discuss our programs and Systems), INTSOY (International Soybean Pro- role in the College. gram), and our participation in the MUCIA

(Midwest Universities Consortium for Interna- John J. Nicholaides, III INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES Lowell D. Hill, Agricultural Economics, and

John J. Nicholaides, International Agriculture, Extension Service Jackson County Office has attended a meeting with Illinois exporters spon- been involved in several international programs sored by the Illinois Department of Agriculture, recently. May 9, in Springfield. • Ombo Jim Lawson, Ph.D. student in agricul- tural education at Southern Illinois University- D. Homer Buck, Aquatic Biology Section of the Carbondale (SIUC), completed an International Illinois Natural History Survey and Animal Sci- Extension Student Internship with the office. Mr. ence, was in Israel from May 14 to 20 to meet Lawson spent one day per week during the with co-investigators on a project to study the spring semester with Robert W. Frank, Exten- use of stable isotopes of carbon as naturally oc- sion Adviser-Agriculture, observing extension curring tracers in the aquaculture food web. The service program planning and execution. Before study is funded by a BARD (Bi-National Agricul- coming to the U.S., Mr. Lawson worked for fif- tural Research Development) grant. While in Is- teen years in the extension service in Nigeria. In rael, Dr. Buck also visited the Institute of Animal ten the past years, eight international students Sciences at the Volcani Center, Bet Dagan, and have participated in the internship with program the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. the Jackson County Extension Service. • Yi-Yi Lin, Section Chief, Investigation and Re- Attending the AUSUDIAP (Association of U.S. search Division, Price Supervisory Commodity University Directors of International Agricultural Board, Ministry of Economic Affairs, Taiwan, Programs) meeting, May 29 to 31, Athens, Geor- studied grain marketing at SIUC last semester. gia, were John J. Nicholaides, Earl D. Kellogg, The Jackson County Extension Service took Mr. Thomas A. McCowen, Harold E. Kauffman, Lin to visit river grain terminals, a farm, a grain and William N. Thompson, Office of Interna- elevator, and a soybean processing plant. tional Agriculture, and Sam H. Johnson, Agri- • The Jackson County Extension Service ar- cultural Economics. Dr. Kellogg presented a pa- ranged for Cedric Sicard and Yves de Solages, per entitled "Important Issues Related to Public Illinois State University students from France, to Education on University Involvement in Interna- visit three farms in Jackson County. The students tional Agriculture Activities," and Dr. Kauffman were gathering information for a report on the a paper on building development assistance net- potential for wheat production in Illinois. works. Dr. Johnson presented a paper on applica- • A delegation of ten provincial Education De- tions of new technology systems to international partment directors from China visited SIUC and programs in a session chaired by Mr. McCowen. Jackson County in March. The Jackson County Extension Service arranged for the group to Stephen M. Ries, Plant Pathology, participated visit a local farm and home. In addition, in the Sixth International Conference on Plant Glenn Seeber, Extension Adviser-Youth, dis- Pathogenic Bacteria, College Park, Maryland, cussed the functions of the cooperative extension June 2 to 7. service and its educational programs.

Sandra Brown, Forestry, and Mark Scheffel, Jean M. Due, Agricultural Economics, presented graduate student in Forestry, will collect wood a paper entitled "Women Made Visible: Their logs in forests Contributions to Farming Systems and House- samples from decomposing and hold Incomes in Zambia and Tanzania" at the pastures in Costa Rica from June 9 to July 3. Association for Women in Development meeting, The work is part of a study to measure decom- Washington, D.C., April 25 to 27. position rates of woody debris for a project funded by the U.S. Department of Energy enti- At the invitation of The Chicago Farmers, John tled "Role of Tropical Forests in the Global Car- bon Cycle." J. Nicholaides, International Agriculture, partici- pated in their annual meeting on May 4. Also attending were the Secretary of Agriculture for At the request of the Jamaica Soy Products In- the European Economic Community and Clayton dustries, Marshall D. McGlamery, Agronomy, Yeutters, newly appointed U.S. Trade Represent- visited Jamaica from June 10 to 14 to advise on ative. weed control in soybeans. Nelson L. Buck, Agricultural Engineering, par- Darrel J. Kesler, Animal Science, will present an ticipated in the International Conference on Soil invited paper entitled "Prolonged Release of Dynamics, Auburn, Alabama, June 16 to 19. Gonadotropin Releasing Hormone Enhances Subsequent Pituitary and Ovarian Responses of Earl D. Kellogg, Office of International Agricul- Postpartum Anestrous Ewes" at the International ture, gave an invited paper on the effect of in- Controlled Release Society meetings, Geneva,

creased agricultural production on agricultural Switzerland, July 1 to 18. imports in developing countries at the quarterly meeting of the Advisory Committee on Volun- The American Soybean Association has asked tary Food Aid, Minneapolis, Minnesota, June 27. Gilbert R. Hollis, Animal Science, to serve as a Dr. Kellogg is an invited participant in the consultant in swine nutrition and management in African Food Crisis Round Table, June 30 to Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Ja- July 6, Nairobi and Mombasa, Kenya. Sponsored maica, Peru, and Venezuela from July 6 to 26. by the Eastern and Southern African Manage- Dr. Hollis will present seminars and make farm ment Institute in collaboration with USDA and visits. USAID, the round table will be attended by sec- retaries from ministries of agriculture, economic The Office of Women in International Develop- planning, and finance, and other agricultural spe- ment (WID) was awarded a Fulbright-Hays cialists. The group will prepare strategies to group travel grant for a WID team to spend six

overcome the current African food crisis and weeks, beginning July 1 1 , in India developing devise ways to avoid future occurences. The curriculum material on women in development. invitation to participate is an honor both to Frances M. Magrabi, Family and Consumer Eco- Dr. Kellogg and UIUC. nomics, is the group leader. Other team mem- bers are Navaz Bhavnagri, Elementary and Early Poo Chow, Forestry, will present an invited pa- Childhood Education, Berenice A. Carroll, Polit- per on characteristics and chemical properties of ical Science, Sharon Hart, Cooperative Exten- four-year-old tropical tree species at the Ninth sion Service, Ellen Johnson, Anthropology, and World Forestry Congress in Mexico City, Mexico, Barbara A. Yates, Educational Policy Studies.

July 3 to 9. The paper is coauthored by E. B. Lucas, University of Ibadan, Nigeria. Also at- Ann F. Rund, Cooperative Extension Service, tending the conference are Sandra Brown and will tour Japan with twenty-six Illinois 4-H mem-

Mark Scheffel, Forestry. bers, ages 1 2 to 18, from July 20 to August 22. Illinois 4-H will host sixty Japanese children dur- The 1985 American Society of Interior Design- ing the same period. This exchange program ers' Education Foundation scholarship was with Japan began in 1974. awarded to M. Allison Carll, Textiles, Apparel, and Interior Design. Dr. Carll, chosen from inte- James E. Corbin, Animal Science, will address rior design educators throughout the United the Korean Feed Manufacturer's Association an- States, will study the architecture and contents of nual meeting, July 29 to August 2, in Seoul. Dr. thirty historic houses in England during a sum- Corbin, who is representing the American Soy- mer research course given by Attingham School, bean Association, will discuss nutrition in dogs July 4 to 22. Among the houses to be visited this and the utilization of soy protein by dogs. year are Arundel Castle, the Royal Pavilion at Brighton, Hardwick Hall, and Kedleston Hall. AUSUDIAP RECOGNITION The Midwest Universities Consortium for Inter- national Activities (MUCIA) has selected Michael William N. Thompson, recently retired Director E. Irwin, Agricultural Entomology and Illinois of International Agriculture, was presented with Natural History Survey, to serve as a short-term a Distinguished Service Award at the AUSU- consultant in plant protection at the North Su- DIAP (Association of U.S. University Directors matra University Technical Assistance Project in of International Agricultural Programs) meeting,

Medan, Indonesia. His assignments are for five May 29 to 31, Athens, Georgia. The award is weeks in June and July 1985, and eleven weeks given for demonstrated public service, innovative in 1986. contributions, and length of service in interna- tional work and in AUSUDIAP. During the ence and Education, USDA, and former Dean of awards ceremony, Dr. Thompson was cited for the College of Agriculture, was presented with his leadership of the International Soybean Pro- the Alumni Association's 1985 Distinguised Ser- gram (1973-1981) and the Office of Interna- vice Award during the graduation ceremony on tional Agriculture (1978-1984). "During his ten- May 19. While on campus Dr. Bentley met with

ure . . . (UIUC's) international agriculture faculty and friends in the College. program has been widely recognized as one of the premier programs of its type in the United A group of nine international students from States." Dr. Thompson now works on the TIPAN Burma and Equatorial Guinea currently en- (Transformation and Integration of the Provin- rolled at Western Illinois University visited the cial Agricultural Network/Pakistan) project on a Office of International Agriculture, the Agricul- part-time basis. tural Experiment Station, and the university re- search farms on June 5. They were particularly interested in the research and international di- VISITING RESEARCHERS mensions of the College of Agriculture. The group was escorted by Juanita M. Bryan, adviser Zou Sixiang, Nanjing Agricultural College, to AID agricultural students in the College of Nanjing, China, will be a visiting scholar con- Applied Sciences at WIU. ducting research under the direction of Bruce L. Larson, Dairy Science, from May 1985 through Richard Gibbins, Quidhampton Farm Ltd., May 1986. The research is on the biosynthesis of Overton, Basingstoke, Hampshire, England, dis- milk. cussed the use of crop residue as livestock feed from June 11 to 13 with Larry L. Berger, Ani- Amil Kumar Sharma will study soybean produc- mal Science, S. Iqbal Shah, visiting scholar in tion and extension programs with INTSOY staff Animal Science, Jay R. Brown, Cooperative Ex- and other College of Agriculture soybean scien- tension Service, Victor N. Smith, Region 5 (Ma- tists from July 1 to 26. Mr. Sharma is sponsored comb) Extension Specialist-Livestock, and Jack by the Cooperative League of the USA Wok, Jersey County farmer. Mr. Gibbins also vis- (CLUSA). ited farms in Sigel and Greenville and a feedlot in Taylorville, Illinois. Eva Zdarkova, entomologist at Polytechna Pzo,

Czechoslovakia, is working on flight energy utili- Andrzej Tabiszewshi, Deputy Director, Branch zation of aphids in the laboratory of Michael E. Division for Mechanization of Crop Production, Irwin, Agricultural Entomology and Illinois Nat- Institute for Agricultural Construction, Mechani- ural History Survey, until December 1985. zation, and Electrification, Poland, discussed farm safety and crop production equipment with Ayse Kaypmaz, Istanbul University, Aksaray- Donnell R. Hunt, Robert A. Aherin, and John Istanbul, Turkey, arrived at UIUC in June to W. Hummel, Agricultural Engineering, and spend one year working with Eric Vimr, Veteri- Harold E. Kauffman, INTSOY, on June 12.

nary Pathobiology, on a study of Escherichia coli. Two agro-industrialists from St. Gallen, Switzer- land, Albert H. Traber and Christoph Kaufmann, VISITORS RECENTLY ON CAMPUS visited campus on June 1 2 and toured swine re- search farms with Aldon H. Jensen and Robert Bernard Charley, a veterinarian in the Depart- A. Easter, Animal Science. ment of Virology and Immunology, Institut Na- tional de la Recherche Agronomique, Paris, Jeronimo Rodriguez, an International 4-H France, visited Keith W. Kelley, Animal Science, Youth Exchange participant from Portugal, at- from May 17 to 19. Dr. Charley presented a tended an Illinois 4-H Conference and met with seminar entitled "Nonspecific Immunity in TGE Ann F. Rund and Mary K. Munson, Cooperative Infections: Porcine Natural Killer Activity and its Extension Service, from June 19 to 21. Mr. Rod- Modulation." riguez will live on an Illinois farm until July 15.

Orville G. Bentley, Assistant Secretary for Sci- Brian May, Head of Silsoe College, Bedford, England, visited the Department of Agricultural technical proposal to USAID for the Jamaica Ag- Engineering on June 20. He was accompanied by ricultural Education Project. Written by Leon A. William Harriott, past president of the American Mayer, Vocational and Technical Education, and Society of Agricultural Engineers. Burton E. Swanson, Agricultural Education, the proposal will involve faculty in the College of Education and College of Agriculture. There are VISITORS COMING TO CAMPUS opportunities for several short-term consultants. For more information call or write Leon A. Five Italian farm youths, Paola Bedini, Manuela Mayer, 355 Education Building, 1310 South Buratti, Stegano Rigoni, Glauco Soresina, and Wright Street, Champaign, IL 61820, telephone Maurizio Zacomer, will arrive in Illinois on July 333-2775, or Burton E. Swanson, 113 Mumford 9 to participate in the 4-H Ambassador Program. Hall, 1301 West Gregory Drive, Urbana, IL Ann L. Rund, Cooperative Extension Service, 61801. will spend several days with them on campus be- fore sending them to host families in Illinois for a month's stay. CONFERENCE ON GENDER ISSUES IN FSR/E NEW INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS An interdisciplinary conference entitled "Gender The College of Agriculture welcomes the follow- Issues in Farming Systems Research and Exten- ing new foreign graduate students to the Univer- sion" will be held in Gainesville, Florida, from sity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: February 26 to March 1, 1986, sponsored by the Women in Agriculture Program of the Univer- AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS sity of Florida. Conference sessions will address Graciela Berta-Brun, Argentina, production eco- the theory, methods, and policy related to farm- nomics; Rajasekar Mariappan, India, finance. ing systems research and extension, comparing African, Latin American, and other regional ex- AGRONOMY periences. Information about the conference is Patrick Agbu, Nigeria, soil reclamation; Rex available from Dr. Marianne Schmink, Center for Bernardo, Philippines, corn breeding. Latin American Studies, 319 Grinter Hall, Uni- versity of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, ANIMAL SCIENCES telephone (904) 392-0375. Sean F. Arkins, Ireland, reproductive physiology.

FAMILY AND CONSUMER ECONOMICS Sang Hee Cha, Korea, family consumption eco- NEWSLETTER SURVEY nomics; Kasmir Ihee, Nigeria, family consump- Thanks to all of you who so promptly returned tion economics. the questionnarie on the International Agricul- HORTICULTURE ture Newsletter. We appreciate your comments and questions, and will respond to some of them Siti Hassan, Malaysia, vegetable production; in future issues. Maurice Jangulo, Zambia, seed physiology and To summarize, 30% of you read the newsletter plant breeding; Haibo Liu, China, turf grass; cover to cover, 59% glance through the entire Tsai-Mu Shen, flower physiology, Taiwan. issue, 7% glance at certain sections, and 4% PLANT PATHOLOGY throw it away without opening it. The section Liu Zonglin, China, seed pathology. found most useful was International Activities, which received 91% yes votes. Other sections and their yes votes are: Seminars, 88%, Upcom- JAMAICA AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION ing Conferences, 84%, Visiting Researchers, PROJECT 79%, Visitors Coming to Campus, 77%, Fellow- ship and Grant Opportunities, 77%, Visitors Re- UIUC, in collaboration with Purdue University cently on Campus, 66%, and New International and Florida A and M University, has submitted a Students in Agriculture, 62%. The International Agriculture Newsletter is published monthly by the Office of International Agriculture, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 113 Mumford Hall, 1301 West Gregory Drive, Urbana, 61801; Bonnie J. Irwin, editor. Faculty and departments are encouraged to submit Newsletter items. Contact the Office of International Agriculture to receive your own copy of this Newsletter. The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is an affirmative action/equal opportunity institution.

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August 1985, No. 87 ZAMARE

In a recent Agency for International Develop- ment report, the Zambia Agricultural Research and Extension (ZAMARE) project received a

high rating on its mid-project evaluation. UIUC

is the lead institution in this five-year project. Southern Illinois University-Carbondale (SIUC) and the University of Maryland, Eastern Shore (UMES), collaborate. Supported by the Govern- ment of Zambia and the U.S. Agency for Inter-

national Development (USAID), ZAMARE is im- plemented by Zambian and U.S. scientists. ZAMARE will assist the Government of Zam- bia in its efforts to improve the welfare of small- scale farmers and increase national food produc- tion the adaptation of through development and Ronald G. Dedert at Kabwe Research Station, Zambia. technology. Activities are designed to increase the effectiveness of the extension service and demand for agricultural products. Drought con- strengthen the agricultural research capacity of ditions from 1979 to 1984 and inadequate ex- the Ministry of Agriculture and Water Develop- pansion of food production have led to increased ment (MAWD). food imports. Zambia has the highest rate of urbanization Zambia today. The development of copper (40% to 45%) of any country in tropical Africa. and cobalt mining, the basis of Zambia's econ- In the past, government policy was directed to- omy and source of 95% of Zambia's foreign ex- ward satisfying the food requirements of the ur- change, has overshadowed agricultural develop- ban sector through subsidized food prices. This ment in terms of foreign and domestic resource had a negative effect on economic growth in ru- investment. However, declining world copper ral areas. More recently, subsidies were removed prices and mining reserves have resulted in from some commodities and farm gate prices higher priority being given to agricultural devel- increased. opment, especially in the small farm sector. Principal crops in Zambia are maize, sugar- Commodity research teams (CRT) have been cane, cassava, millet, cotton, and sorghum. Live- developed by MAWD for most crops grown in

stock production includes cattle, sheep, goats, Zambia. Research is conducted primarily at agri- pigs, and poultry. In recent years, agricultural cultural research stations and focuses on im- production has only grown at a rate of 1% per proved cultivars, management practices, and year while population has grown at an annual yield constraints. rate of 3.1%. The World Bank estimates that MAWD requested that ZAMARE staff work agricultural production will need to grow at an with CRT's in cereals (maize) and oilseeds (soy- annual rate of at least 4% to keep ahead of the beans and sunflowers). ZAMARE team members are Paul T. Gibson, SIUC, maize breeder;

Jagmohan Joshi, UMES, soybean breeder; Val J. Eylands, UIUC sunflower agronomist; and Seydou Sanogho, University of Hawaii's NifTAL project, soil microbiologist. National cultivar test- ing systems were initiated for these crops and three cultivars were released in 1984.

Adaptive research planning teams (ARPT) in MAWD link research, extension, and farmers. They work with Zambia's extension personnel on Zambia problems related to specific geographical areas and help bridge the gap between research and extension. MAWD requested ZAMARE assistance in staff- ing the ARPT for Central Province. ZAMARE members are Robert E. Hudgens, SIUC, agrono- mist, and Ronald G. Dedert, UIUC, research ex- degree programs in U.S. universities and eleven tension liaison officer. (Alfred G. Harms, farming have completed their studies and returned to systems economist from UIUC, finished his two- Zambia to participate in ZAMARE. Eleven are and-a-half year tour early in 1985 and a replace- currently enrolled in short-term training and ment is being arranged to bring the team up to fifty-nine have completed specialized training full strength.) They developed a program for programs. These research and extension person- farm-level testing which includes experiments on nel will make significant contributions to the bet- crop management practices. In 1984, approxi- terment of Zambian agriculture. mately 2,400 people were reached through ex- ZAMARE supports special studies by graduate tension training programs conducted at district, students and consultants. For example, graduate regional, and national levels. Field days and students from UIUC are studying Pyrenochaeta meetings for farmers, extension workers, and leaf spot on soybeans. Yield losses of up to 50% government leaders have been the most effective have been reported from some fields. Other stu- in-service training tool and the most cost effective. dents are studying the noneconomic factors af- fecting decision-making by farmers. Support is also given to students and faculty at the Univer- Team leader James F. Ragin from UMES sity of Zambia for research. works closely with the research and extension directors in MAWD. He also serves as the com- Zambia and ZAMARE. ZAMARE staff work munications link between the Government of with Zambian colleagues and are integrated into Zambia and USAID about ZAMARE activities. MAWD's research and extension organization. Building on what already has been established, Training and workshops. An important aspect an excellent base of research and information is of ZAMARE involves the upgrading of staff ca- emerging. pability within MAWD through advanced aca- Excellent progress has been made toward achiev- demic and technical training. Long-term aca- ing the objectives of the project. Most notable is in institutions, demic training U.S. short-term training. Originally, 50 months of nondegree train- technical training and study tours, and in-service ing were planned. At the mid-point, more than training are all components of this program. 102 months of nondegree training have been pro- Workshops on teaching and communication vided to Zambian scientists. The success of the skills held in provincial exten- were Kabwe for project has led to activities and involvement be- sion officers and in Lusaka for college and uni- yond the scope of the design paper. versity faculty who teach potential extension em- ployees. For more information about ZAMARE call Zambia's research and extension staff have Earl D. Kellogg at (217) 333-6337, or Thomas helped identify Zambians for both short-term A. McCowen at (217) 333-6421. The mailing ad- technical and long-term academic training pro- dress for both is 113 Mumford Hall, 1301 West grams. Twenty-one participants are enrolled in Gregory Drive, Urbana, IL 61801. NICHOLAIDES' NOTES Staff developments. TIPAN long-term team members and their families are assembling in As many of you have noted, we recently broad- Pakistan. Errol D. Rodda, team leader and insti- ened the content of the newsletter to include a tution development specialist, arrived in June; feature article and response has been favorable. Raymond G. Cragle, research program specialist, This feature will continue, not only for project and R. William Seiders, outreach specialist, ar- overviews, but also for coverage of related devel- rived in July. Martin Waananen, teaching pro- opments in the College and the University. gram specialist, will arrive in August. We wish all best. We invite all of you to submit items for the them the newsletter. Some people indicated that their de- We are pleased to announce that on Septem- partments do not receive adequate coverage. ber 1, John A. Becker, USAID Agriculture De- velopment Officer in Burkina Faso, will join us This is due to lack of information, not preferen- for a as Illinois' first tial culling. We have several contacts in each unit year Reverse Joint Career of the College who work diligently to give us Corps participant. John will work through the news items, but these people cannot know every- Department of Agricultural Economics. thing. Give us the news and we will use it. This is especially important for visitors coming to Research developments. Theodore Hymowitz, campus so that those interested can meet them. Agronomy, and Richard L. Bernard, Agronomy/ The International Agriculture Newsletter is USDA, recently announced the development of primarily an internal document for Agriculture three soybean lines which are free of the Kunitz and Veterinary Medicine. Of the 2,200 copies trypsin inhibitor. Trypsin is an important diges- printed, about 200 are distributed outside the tive enzyme produced in the pancreas. Soybean Colleges. Printing and distribution cost per copy cultivars currently available cannot be fed raw to is 17 cents. poultry and swine because they produce sub- stances that inhibit trypsin. Other media plans. Just as the International The new lines may eliminate an expensive part Agriculture Newsletter serves an internal pur- of the processing of soybeans for animal feed. pose, there also is a need for a newsletter for This could save U.S. soybean producers between collaborators in the U.S. and abroad, including $100 million and $500 million annually, accord- funding agencies and USAID offices overseas. ing to Bill Tiberend, Executive Secretary of the Beginning in early 1986, we will be publishing a Land of Lincoln Soybean Association. quarterly newsletter for external distribution. The soybean used to develop the new lines We are also preparing two brochures: one to was collected in Korea and maintained in the recruit students with international interests to U.S.D.A. soybean germplasm collection. This de- the College and the other to describe the Col- velopment would not have been possible without lege's international activities. the exchange of germplasm afforded by our in- ternational involvement nor without state sup- port supplied by funding from the Illinois Soy- How do I get involved? In response to the bean Program Operating Board. large number of you who asked this question, a The lines are being released to public and pri- symposium to discuss ways of becoming involved vate soybean breeders for the development of internationally will be held on Friday, September new soybean cultivars adapted to regions in the 13, 1985, from 8:30 a.m. to 12:00 noon in room U.S. Seed is available for research purposes from 426 Mumford Hall. Everyone is encouraged to R. L. Bernard, Department of Agronomy. attend.

A list of UIUC courses with international per- spectives is available from the Office of Resident International exchange. Other agricultural

Instruction, 104 Mumford Hall. The list was improvements will be possible due to the new prepared by Steven M. Banks, a graduate stu- agreements with the Chinese for exchange of dent in Agricultural Economics. Steve also pre- soybean, maize, and swine germplasm obtained pared a list of more than 200 companies with by Dean John R. Campbell and Governor James international employment opportunities. Avail- Thompson during their visit to China in March able in early autumn from the Office of Resident 1985.

Instruction, the list should be especially useful to graduating students. John J. Nicholaides INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES B. Claar and Kathleen Cloud, INTERPAKS, Burton E. Swanson, Agricultural Education and

Safi S. Korban, Horticulture, spent May 12 to INTERPAKS, Andrew J. Sofranko, Agricultural 21 in Egypt visiting scientists and facilities at Economics, C. James Kaiser, Dixon Spring Agri- Cairo University, Menoufia University, and Tanta cultural Center, and Earl D. Kellogg, Interna- University as the U.S. counterpart in a USAID tional Agriculture. project on production of fruit tree nurseries in

Egypt. Clemson University is the lead institution Johannes M. J. de Wet, Agronomy, will discuss on this project. cooperative research on a sorghum breeding project and review the cereal breeding programs The International Agricultural Centre, Agricul- at ICRISAT (International Crops Research Insti- tural University of the Netherlands, Wageningen, tute for the Semi-Arid Tropics), Patancheru, In- awarded Rabel L. Burdge, Agricultural Eco- dia, in mid-August. On this same trip, Dr. de nomics and Institute for Environmental Studies, Wet will also discuss a cooperative project on a fellowship for study at the Institute from June genetic engineering in maize with researchers at 20 to July 4. While in the Netherlands Dr. the University of Cologne, Germany. Burdge presented a paper entitled "The Useful- ness of Social Impact Assessment in Planning for In August, James E. Hixon, Veterinary Biosci- Economic Growth in Developing Countries" at ences, will begin a nine-month sabbatical leave at the meeting of the International Association for the Agricultural and Food Research Council, In- Impact Assessment, Utrecht, June 26 to 29. stitute of Animal Physiology, Babraham, Eng- Transportation to Europe was provided by land. Dr. Hixon will work on factors associated UIUC's Scholars Travel Fund. with the maintenance of early pregnancy in cat- tle and sheep.

James F. Evans, Agricultural Communications, returned July 3 from a three-week study trip to Donald R. Smucker, Piatt County Extension Ad- England, Ireland, and Scotland. Dr. Evans and viser in Agriculture, returns to UIUC in August Delmar Hatesohl, University of Missouri, visited after spending two years in Belize with MUCIA's agricultural organizations and media centers to Caribbean Agricultural Extension Project. Wil- assess the feasibility of a field study tour for agri- liam L. Flinn, executive director of MUCIA cultural communications students. (Midwest Universities Consortium for Interna- tional Activities) wrote to William Oschwald, Di- Robert A. Easter, Animal Science, was a consult- rector of Cooperative Extension at UIUC, that

ant for the American Soybean Association in "Don . . . has provided outstanding leadership, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico, excellent extension skills, and has developed in- July 9 to 27, where he presented seminars in terpersonal relationships with all his counter- Spanish on the use of soybean products in swine parts. The project, largely through his efforts, diets. has been highly successful. He will leave behind a legacy of trained professionals and a more effi-

Congratulations to James E. Harper and Ed- cient extension system. . . . He represents the ward W. Stoller, Agronomy/USDA, for winning type of individual who has contributed to MU- the 1985 Soybean Researchers' Recognition CIA's success and the good international reputa- Award. They will join eight other U.S. soybean tion of Illinois." researchers on a ten-day tour of soybean re- search facilities in the United States and Eng- land, July 21 to 30, sponsored by the American INTERNATIONAL INVOLVEMENT Soybean Association and ICI Americas, Inc. The group will visit UIUC on July 23 for a program On September 13, 1985, in room 426 Mumford prepared by Gary E. Pepper, Agronomy. Hall, 8:30 a.m. to 12:00 noon, the Office of In-

ternational Agriculture is sponsoring a sympo- in An INTERPAKS team leaves on August 1 1 for sium to present ways for faculty and staff the Malawi to begin the first case study for the proj- Colleges of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine ect on Technology Development and Transfer to become involved in international programs. Systems in Agriculture. Team members are: John Everyone is invited to attend. INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES W. Geisting, Animal Sciences, will participate in the Thirteenth International Congress on Nutri- Loren E. Bode, Agricultural Engineering, pre- tion, Brighton, England, August 18 to 23. Dr. sented a paper entitled "Use of a Laser Imaging Berger will present an invited paper entitled System for Agricultural Spray Analysis" at the In- "Animal Response to Various Ionophores" and ternational Conference on Liquid Atomization and Mr. Geisting will present a paper co-authored Spray Systems, London, England, July 8 to 11. with Dr. Easter entitled "Evaluation of Fumaric Acid with Different Diet Types for Weanling Michael F. Hutjens, Animal Sciences, partici- Pigs." pated in the First International Conference on Milk Production sponsored by the Mexican Hol- Kenneth R. Olson, Agronomy, will present a pa- stein Friesian Association, July 4 and 5, Mexico per entitled "Pore Distribution in Fine-Textured City, Mexico. He presented a paper on feeding Soils" at the Romanian National Society of Soil the high producing cow. Science, University of Timisoara, Romania, Au- gust 26 to 31. Speakers at the International Symposium on Po- tassium in Agriculture, July 7 to 10, Atlanta, Representing UIUC at the International Associa- Georgia, included Evelyn J. Weber, Agronomy/ tion of Agricultural Economics, August USDA, and L. Frederick Welch, Agronomy. 26 to September 4, Malaga, Spain, are Chester B. Donald A. Holt, Illinois Agricultural Experiment Baker, Harold D. Guither, Lowell D. Hill, Station, is on the editorial committee of the sym- Susan E. Offutt, Franklin posium. J. Reiss, Steven T. Sonka, and Earl R. Swanson, Agricultural Eco- Sally Gordon, Human Development and Family nomics. Dr. Sonka will present an invited paper Ecology, presented a paper entitled "Sex Role entitled "Computer-Aided Farm Management Variation in Household Economic Strategies Systems: Will the Promise be Fulfilled?," Dr. Over the Adult Life Span" at the Annual Meet- Baker will chair a session on interdependence be- ing of the Association of Caribbean Studies, tween agencies implementing rural development, Trinidad, July 28 to 30. Dr. Swanson will lead two sessions, and Dr. Hill will participate in a poster session with a presen- Henryk Jedlinski, Plant Pathology/USDA, and tation co-authored by Wojciech Florkowski, Agri- Charles M. Brown, Agronomy, participated in cultural Economics graduate student. the Second International Oat Conference, Uni- versity College of Wales, Aberystwyth, July 14 to 18. Dr. Brown chaired a session, and Dr. VISITING RESEARCHERS Jedlinski presented a paper.

Ira Bhattacharya, India, began a postdoctoral Animal Sciences was well represented at the research project in Food Science in April. She is Eighteenth Annual Meeting of the Society for working with John A. Milner on the influence of the Study of Reproduction, McGill University, selenium on carcinogen metabolism and activa- Montreal, Canada, July 22 to 25. Presenting pa- tion through December 1985. pers were Janice M. Bahr, "Steroidogenesis by the Theca Layer in the Domestic Hen," Romana A. Nowak, "Secretion of a Gonadotropin Releas- Run Zian-Zhang, director of the Shihezi Veteri- ing Hormone (GnRH)-like Factor by the Rabbit nary Medicine Station, China, is visiting Veteri- Fetal Placenta and Changes in Placental Concen- nary Medicine until October 1985. His wife, Liu tration Throughout Pregnancy," and Larry K. Feng-Jie, is a visiting scholar with Kenneth S. Ritzhaupt, "FSH Receptors in Chicken Granu- Todd, Veterinary Pathobiology. losa Cells at Various Times Before Ovulation." As part of the (Transformation Attending were Philip J. Dziuk, who is Presi- TIPAN and Inte- dent-elect of the society, Jennifer L. Hesson, gration of the Provincial Agricultural Network) Patricia Johnson, Suzanne Moenter, and project in Pakistan, Abdul Rauf Khattak, Stephen S. Palmer. Jehangir Khan Khattak, and Habibur Rehman arrived at UIUC in late June for three months Larry L. Berger, Robert A. Easter, and Donald of nondegree, post-masters training. A. R. Khattak, Director of the Sugar Crops of Keith W. Kelley, Animal Science, and pre- Research Institute, Mardan, will study sugar crop sented a seminar on mechanisms of action of a production at universities and research sites in fibroblast growth factor, June 22 to 25. California, Louisiana, Florida, and Hawaii. His first and last weeks will be spent at UIUC with Jean Peret, Research Director, Centre de Re- Agronomy and TIPAN administrative staff. cherches sur la Nutrition, Meudon, France, met Science Sci- J. K. Khattak, professor and chair of the De- with scientists in Food and Animal partment of Soil Science, Northwest Frontier ences, June 25 to 27. He presented a seminar Province (NWFP) Agricultural University, Pesha- entitled "Regulation of Gluconeogenesis: Com- war, will study soil chemistry and computer appli- parison Between Starvation and Consumption of cations to soil science research at UIUC, Auburn a High Protein Diet." University, Stanford University, University of Ar- izona, Eastern New Mexico State University, and Recent visitors to Food Science include Jose Colorado State University. Miguel Aguilera R., Department of Chemical H. Rehman, NWFP Department of Agricul- Engineering, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de ture, Research Division, participated in an eight- Chile, Santiago, July 1 , to discuss the effect of week course sponsored by Auburn University processing on food microstructure; and Profes- and USDA on soil testing and fertilizer manage- sor Nojima, Tokyo University and Teikyo Uni- ment. He will also visit UIUC, University of Cal- versity, Japan, who discussed the chemistry of ifornia-Riverside, University of California-Davis, phosholipids with Toshiro Nishida, on July 8. South Dakota State University, and Montana Both visitors presented seminars. State University for work on saline/alkaline soils. A group of twenty-two international scientists Sponsored by USAID through Purdue Univer- visited UIUC on July 5 as part of a tour of sity, Jorge Colaco, Aura Antunes Colaco, and North American agriculture organized in con- Fernando Macedo, all from Villa Real, Portugal, junction with the International Symposium on will be visiting scholars in Animal Sciences for Potassium in Agriculture (July 7 to 10, Atlanta, twelve to sixteen months. Dr. Jorge Colaco will Georgia) and the Fiftieth Anniversary Celebra- work with Daniel Gianola on genetic evaluation tion of the Potash & Phosphate Institute (PPI). of cows; Dr. Macedo will work with Daniel While in Illinois, the group toured university Gianola on statistical methodology; and Dr. Aura farms, private farms, and agricultural businesses. Colaco will work with Keith W. Kelley on immu- The Illinois tour was arranged by Harold F. nophysiology. They will arrive on campus on Au- Reetz, Southcentral Director for PPI and collab- gust 21. orator in Agronomy. L. Frederick Welch, Agron- omy, coordinated the visit at UIUC.

VISITORS RECENTLY ON CAMPUS Arnold Tschanz, Plant Pathologist at AVRDC (Asian Vegetable Research and Development Recent visitors to the Department of Forestry to Center), Taiwan, met with James B. Sinclair, discuss short-term rotation wood production for Plant Pathology, Theodore Hymowitz, Agron- energy include Peter Sandell, Conservation omy, and Harold E. Kauffman, INTSOY, during Commission of the Northern Territory, Alice his visit on campus July 9 and 10. Springs, Australia, May 7 to 10; and S. D. Khanduja, Botanical Research Institute, Luck- A round table discussion entitled "Agricultural now, India, June 4 to 12. Strategies to Help Illinois Farmers Weather the Next Economic Storm" was arranged by the Of- A private soy food producer, Charles Chiu, Car- fice of International Agriculture on July 12 for anavi Ltd., La Paz, Bolivia, discussed INTSOY's Hugh Martin, President, and William Ramsey utilization work with Harold E. Kauffman, INT- of The Chicago Farmers. Participating from the

SOY, and Alvin I. Nelson and Sing-wood Yeh, College of Agriculture were: Chester B. Baker, Food Science, on June 21. David L. Chicoine, John B. Claar, Thomas L. Frey, Donald A. Holt, Sam H. Johnson, Earl D.

Pierre Mormede, INRA, Bordeaux, France, and Kellogg, David A. Lins, John J. Nicholaides, currently on sabbatical leave at the Salk Insti- Susan E. Offutt, John T. Scott, Wesley D. Seitz, tute, San Diego, California, visited the laboratory and Jack M. Widholm. Keith W. Steele, Leader, Microbiology and Nu- PUBLICATION OF NOTE trient Cycling, Ruakura Soil and Plant Research Station, Hamilton, New Zealand, visited corn 1985 Association of Women in Development and soybean farms on July 1 8 in a program ar- Conference Proceedings are available from ranged by Renin L. Smith, Piatt County Agricul- AWID, c/o SECID, 1612 K Street, Suite 704, tural Advisor. On July 19, Mr. Steele discussed Washington, D.C. 20006, for $20.00 plus $2.50 nitrogen cycling with Bruce L. Vasilas, L. for postage and handling. Frederick Welch, Richard M. Vanden Heuvel,

Frank J. Stevenson, Richard L. Mulvaney, and L. Touby Kurtz, Agronomy and James E. Harper, INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL FUNDS Agronomy/USDA.

October 1, 1985, is the next deadline for inter- Peter Gregory, Department of Soil Science, Uni- national travel funds available to University of versity of Reading, England, met with Doyle B. Illinois faculty and staff through MUCIA (Mid- Peters, Kabal S. Gill, and M. B. Russell, Agron- west Universities Consortium for International omy, and presented a seminar on root growth Activities) and the Office of the Vice President and water use by crops in arid environments, for Academic Affairs. Grants of up to $1,000 are July 19. available to support international travel which will result in the development or enhancement Twenty-eight international participants in the of international programs at the University of Mississippi State/USDA Seed Improvement Illinois. Matching funds must be secured from Course visited UIUC, agribusinesses, private institutional sources. Deadlines for 1986 are Feb- farms, and the Illinois Department of Agricul-

ruary 1 and October 1 . Guidelines and request ture from July 22 to 26 during a program orga- forms are available from T. John Kim, MUCIA nized by A. W. Burger, Agronomy. Liaison Officer, 311 Coble Hall, 801 South Wright Street, Champaign, IL 61820, telephone Hortense Ratsimandresy, Director of Madagas- (217) 333-1993. car's Soybean Milk Factory Project and Deputy Director of Madagascar's National Investment Fund, discussed soybean utilization activities in

Madagascar with Alvin I. Nelson and Lun-Shin BOOKS FOR ASIA Wei, Food Science, Joseph A. Jackobs, Agron- omy, and Harold E. Kauffman, INTSOY, on July The Asia Foundation, P.O. Box 3223, San Fran- 25 and 26. cisco, California, 941 19, will arrange to send ed- ucational material to Asia. Anyone wishing to contribute material should contact the Founda- SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL tion. The donor is asked to pay mailing costs to EXCHANGE PROGRAM/USDA California.

The Scientific and Technical Exchange Program of USDA's Office of International Cooperation INTERNATIONAL WATER RESOURCES and Development (OICD) promotes international ASSOCIATION cooperation through short-term (one to six weeks) activities in foreign countries. OICD The International Water Resources Association shares travel, per diem, and some miscellaneous was formed in 1972 to confront the challenges costs with a participant's sponsoring institution of managing water resources systems around the and provides administrative support. This is a world and to promote communications, collabo- grant program and does not pay overhead costs, ration, and support of international water re- salary reimbursement, costs of sabbaticals, or at- sources programs. IWRA invites professionals of tendance at international meetings. For more in- all disciplines to participate in the advancement formation call or write Richard F. Rortvedt, U.S. of water resources management and technology Department of Agriculture, OICD/STE Room on an international level. For more information 3132 Auditors Building, Washington, D.C. about IWRA write to Glenn E. Stout, Executive 20250, telephone (202) 382-8006 or (202) 475- Director, International Water Resources Associa- 4185. tion, 208 North Romine, Urbana, IL 61801, USA. SPEED-UP URGED FOR AFRICAN AID fected countries in southern Africa in the cur- rent "lean season" before the main harvest. For In June 1985, FAO Director-General Edouard the Sahel countries and Sudan, deliveries are im- Saouma called for a speed-up in the delivery of portant in the next weeks before seasonal rains food aid pledged to African countries. Aggregate make remote settlements inaccessible by road. food aid requirements of the twenty-one nations Overall, FAO reports the food situation continues

still affected by the drought are now estimated at to be most critical in Chad, Mali, and Niger in 7 million tons, of which 6.3 million tons has the Sahel, and Ethiopia and Sudan in East Af- been pledged. However, only 2.7 million tons rica. had been delivered by early May. Mr. Saouma Mr. Saouma also warned that the World Food noted logistical bottlenecks affecting food deliv- Programme's cash resources were depleted to eries in some countries but said more could be the point of eroding the flexibility of its opera- done by both donors and recipients through bet- tional capability and that the level of commit- ter planning. ments to development projects this year could be The most recent FAO Food Outlook reports one-quarter lower than in 1984. (From FAO at that immediate aid deliveries are vital for af- Work, May/June 1985)

The International Agriculture Newsletter is published monthly by the Office of International Agriculture, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 113 Mumford Hall, 1301 West Gregory Drive, Urbana, 61801; Bonnie J. Irwin, editor. Faculty and departments are encouraged to submit Newsletter items. Contact the Office of International Agriculture to receive your own copy of this Newsletter. The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is an affirmative action/equal opportunity institution.

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INTERNATIONAL TRAINING ing in an institution building project. The project sup-

ports their training and it is the goals of the project

The presence of students from other countries is a that are considered when participants are chosen and well-established tradition on our campus. The first training programs are designed. graduating class of the University of Illinois included Institution building and work with international stu- an agriculture student from Japan. A survey taken of dents is not new to UIUC faculty. The College of Agri- departments in the College of Agriculture revealed that culture has been involved in major institution building twenty-five percent of the graduate students were from projects in India, Jordon, Peru, Sierra Leone, and Sri foreign countries and that nine out of ten foreign stu- Lanka. Our current projects are located in Zambia and dents were from developing countries. Furthermore, Pakistan (see map). nearly one-third of the graduate degrees granted by In support of the Zambia Agricultural Research and U.S. land grant colleges of agriculture are awarded to Extension (ZAMARE) project, for example, more than foreign students. one hundred people have received training. Degree-

Looking ahead, it appears that U.S. universities will training was arranged for thirty-eight people and the educate continually increasing numbers of students balance have attended specialized technical short from developing countries. There is a tremendous need courses. Upon returning to Zambia, they will more ef- for training and U.S. universities will play a vital role fectively carry out their responsibilities as part of Zam- for many years. In addition, most development assist- bia's agricultural research and extension system. ance agencies and donor organizations recognize that Our project in Pakistan, Transformation and Integra- third world countries lack trained people and effective tion of the Provincial Agricultural Network (TIPAN), agricultural institutions. The response, particularly will develop an agricultural university that can serve from the U.S. Agency for International Development farmers and all sectors of agriculture throughout the (USAID), has been to emphasize "institution building" Northwest Frontier Province. Nearly one hundred peo- projects. Human resource development and personnel ple will be brought out for training during the first five training to staff the institutions being created or up- years. To date, fourteen professors and research scien- graded are integral parts of institution building. It is, tists have come to the U.S. for post-masters or post- after all, people who shape the institutions and subse- doctoral training programs. Another sixteen Pakistanis quently energize their nation's future. are placed in advanced degree programs at UIUC and Donor and development assistance organizations de- other U.S. universities. pend heavily on their relationships with universities to implement institution building projects. Universities are Short courses. Consistent with this institution build- particularly effective in institution building projects be- ing focus, programs such as the International Soybean cause large numbers of people usually must be trained Program (INTSOY) and the International Program for as part of the personnel-upgrading plan. We can pro- Agricultural Knowledge Systems (INTERPAKS) were duce the scientists and administrators who will establish established at UIUC to serve a specific international and operate the new institutions. Educating people is a clientele. As part of INTSOY's effort to establish and primary function of universities. The objective is to expand soybean industries in the developing world, 203 establish the enthusiastic, committed, and well-trained scientists from more than sixty countries have been staff that any emerging institution must have. trained through soybean processing and production short courses held at UIUC. More than 200 others Project orientation. The Office of International Ag- have attended region-specific and country-specific work- riculture (OIA) assists with the education and training shops and training sessions held in Colombia, Ecuador, of foreign students in support of our on-going agricul- India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Peru, Sri Lanka, and Turkey. tural development projects, programs, and contractual INTERPAKS' mission is to upgrade institutions in- commitments. We often call it "participant training" volved in the development, transfer, and utilization of because these students are or will be actively participat- agricultural technology and to improve the ties among these institutions. The training focus of INTERPAKS ing is more difficult and demanding than shipping in concentrates on the in-service educational needs of tons of fertilizer. Similarly, some recipient countries high-level administrators, particularly those responsible would prefer to use the funds for showcase projects for extension services. A five-week course, taught at such as dams, factories, airports, hotels, super highways, UIUC, was initiated in 1984 for administrators. Enti- and machinery. tled "Organization and Operation of Agricultural Ex- India is a country that invested heavily in training tension Services in the International Setting," it is of- people and building institutions for agricultural educa- fered annually. tion and research. There were deliberate government policies to get people overseas for training and to de- Degree programs. Another example of OIA training velop universities and research stations. In the 1950's and 1960's the University of Illinois and other U.S. activity is the administration of graduate degree pro- grams for ministries of agriculture or other sponsoring universities were deeply involved in India's agricultural organizations. A training project with the Ivory Coast university development and education programs. India's investment in education training is divi- Ministry of Agriculture, in operation from 1975 to and paying dends. 1985, resulted in sixty Ivorians trained to the masters- In some developing countries the shortage of trained degree level in agriculture at more than twenty U.S. personnel is so severe that people sent for training universities. A smaller project used OIAs management often end up as administrators, not scientists or profes- services to train scientists from Zaire to the masters- sors. These countries are not yet at the stage where degree level. they can reproduce their agricultural leadership.

Training outside the U.S. We also give seminars, role. The Office of International Agricul- conferences, short courses, and workshops, lasting from UIUC'S ture at UIUC is able to draw upon a wide range of one to four weeks, abroad. Topics are selected on the educational resources to design training programs basis of local or regional needs. INTSOY, INTER- which capitalize on our experience and meet unique PAKS, and ZAMARE have sponsored programs in a needs of scientists, administrators, educators, and pol- score of countries and several languages. icy-makers from countries in various stages of develop- ment. We have a successful record in human resource Training is an investment. In spite of the compel- development and continuing education in agriculture. ling rationale that can be built for training, some donor agencies have refrained from making heavy investments in human resource development. The management of For more information about our training activities training programs is complex and labor intensive, and call or write John W. Santas, 113 Mumford Hall, 1301 sometimes many years pass before measurable results West Gregory Drive, Urbana, IL 61801, telephone are seen. The use of development resources for train- (217) 333-3638. NICHOLAIDES' NOTES in quantitative genetics and statistics at the University Institute of Vila Real, Portugal, June 24 to July 17. We are excited about our September 13 special sympo- While in Portugal Dr. Gianola presented a seminar at sium entitled "How Do I Get Involved in International the Escola Superior de Medicina Veterinaria, Lisbon, Agriculture?," the details of which are provided on the on sire evaluation and its feasibility in Portugal. back page of the newsletter. We look forward to seeing all interested faculty, staff, and students there. Exten- Charles N. Graves, Animal Sciences, presented two in- sion personnel are especially encouraged to attend. vited papers and participated in a round table discus-

Also, we are enthusiastic about the fall presentations sion at the Ninth Annual Conference on Animal Re- in our International Agriculture Seminar Series, to be production held at Venado Tuerto, Argentina, from held every Wednesday beginning on September 1 1 at June 26 to 30. The papers were entitled "Factors Influ- 4:00 p.m. in room 426 Mumford Hall. See the seminar encing Reproductive Efficiency in the Female" and list on page 7 for titles. "Factors Influencing Reproductive Efficiency in the Thanks are in order to the committees who orga- Male." nized the special symposium and the seminar series, both chaired by John W Santas, Assistant Director of In July, John C. Thurmon, Veterinary Clinical Medi- the Office of International Agriculture. cine, spoke on "Teaching, Service, and Research: The We would like more students to receive the Interna- Clinician's Juggling Act" at the annual meeting of the tional Agriculture Newsletter and encourage depart- Canadian Veterinary Medical Association, Penticton, ments to send appropriate names and addresses to British Columbia.

Bonnie J. Irwin, editor, 113 Mumford Hall. Your interest in our activities is appreciated and com- Food Science faculty and graduate students attending ments and suggestions are welcome at any time. the Fourth International Congress on Engineering and Food in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, July 7 to 10, in- clude Munir Cheryan, Robert Hagan, James Hawkes, and Ricardo Villota Dr. Cheryan presented a paper J. J. Nicholaides III and chaired a round table discussion on the problems of technology exchange between developed and devel- oping countries. Dr. Villota presented four papers deal- ing with basic research on heat and mass transfer as INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES applied to food processing.

David B. Dickinson, Horticulture, presented a paper at Welcome to Laurian J. Unnevehr, Assistant Professor the International Pollen University of of Prices and Outlooks, Agricultural Economics, and Symposium, Massachusetts, Amherst, 10 12. Gerald C. Nelson, Visiting Assistant Professor, Agricul- July to tural Economics, who arrived at UIUC in August from Jeffrey O. Dawson, Forestry, will spend August through the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), Philip- April in the Forestry pines. Department, Australian National University (ANU), Canberra, as part of his sabbatical leave. Dr. Dawson received a visiting fellowship from Mark J. Wetzel, Faunistic Surveys and Insect Identifica- to conduct research on symbiotic nitrogen fixa- tion Section of the Illinois Natural History Survey, was ANU tion by Casuarina tree species. part of a six-person team in Peru collecting aquatic Oligochaeta from various habitats, May 28 to June 18. Dennis Lawn, graduate student in Plant Pathology, will The expedition was sponsored by the Institute of spend the next twelve months in Zambia conducting Ocean Sciences, Sidney, British Columbia, Canada. research on soybean nematodes for his Ph.D. thesis. Luis R. Zavaleta, Agricultural Entomology/Economic This research is supported by the special studies pro- gram of the Zambia Agricultural Research and Exten- Entomology, Illinois Natural History Survey, and Agri- sion (ZAMARE) project. Glen L. Hartman, graduate cultural Economics, returned to campus in August after student in Plant Pathology, recently returned from serving for nineteen months as the agricultural econo- Zambia to UIUC to continue his studies for a Ph.D. mist on a North Carolina State University project in Peru. degree. Mr. Hartman was in Zambia for eight months gathering data on pyrenochaeta leaf blotch of soybeans. At the request of Purdue University and USAID, He also was sponsored by the special studies program Daniel Gianola, Animal Sciences, served as an adviser of the ZAMARE project. Marvin P. Steinberg, Food Science, and Donald L. James B. Sinclair, Plant Pathology, will visit Zambia Day, Agricultural Engineering, will present a paper en- and Zimbabwe from September 15 to 27 to discuss titled "Biogas from Biomass in Developing Countries" collaborative research on pyrenochaeta leaf blotch and at the International Symposium on Sustainable Devel- to plan a soybean technology training course for south- opment of Natural Resources in the Third World, Sep- ern Africa, which will be held in Harare, Zimbabwe, in tember 3 to 6, at Ohio State University. The paper is February 1986. co-authored by Clifford B. Fedler and Randall A. Alvin I. Nelson, Food Science and leader of the INT- Hartwig, Agricultural Engineering. SOY utilization program, will visit Zambia from Sep- tember 17 to 22 and Zimbabwe from September 22 to Mark A. James and Sonia Montenegro-James, Veteri- 27 to discuss cooperative work on expanding the use of nary Pathobiology, participated in the Eleventh Confer- soybeans to meet nutritional needs of people in these ence of the World Association for the Advancement of countries. Veterinary Parasitology, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August Harold E. Kaufman, INTSOY Director, will be in 5 to 9. Dr. James chaired a plenary session on patho- Madagascar from September 17 to 24 to discuss coop- genesis of animal parasitism and Dr. Montenegro-James erative soybean research activities with USAID and presented a paper entitled "Bovine Babesiosis: Vaccina- Madagascar government officials. He will spend Sep- tion with Culture-derived Exoantigens." tember 25 to 27 in Nairobi, Kenya, discussing soybean research activities in East Africa. in From September 24 to 28, Arthur J. Muehling, Agri- Luis H. Camacho, INTSOY Agronomy stationed cultural Engineering, will participate in the Interna- Colombia, Michael E. Irwin, Agricultural Entomology tional Society of Agricultural Engineering Section II and Economic Entomology, Illinois Natural History Sur- meeting on "Agricultural Buildings in Hot Climates" in vey, Joseph A. Jackobs, Agronomy, Harold E.

Catania, Italy. Dr. Muehling is starting his second five- Kauffman, INTSOY, Alvin I. Nelson, Food Science, year term on the Board of Section II. and James B. Sinclair, Plant Pathology, will present papers and participate in the Tropical Soybean Work- D. Homer Buck, Aquatic Biology Section of the Illinois shop at the International Institute of Tropical Agricul- Natural History Survey and Animal Sciences, is an in- ture (IITA), Ibadan, Nigeria, September 30 to October 4 vited participant in the Aquaculture of Carp and Re- lated Species Symposium, Paris, France, September 2 to 5. Dr. Buck will co-chair a session on aquaculture, mod- INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE erate a round table discussion, and prepare a summary of the discussions and poster sessions for the proceedings. International Nutrition (Foods and Nutrition 422) meets Tuesdays and Thursdays from 10:00 a.m. to 12 Through an agreement between the International Ex- noon in room 372 Bevier Hall. Call the instructors for ecutive Service Corps (IESC) and the Asociacion de more information: Mary Frances Picciano (333-2289) Ganaderos del Litoral (a coastal livestock association), or John S. Willis (333-0974). Guayaquil, Ecuador, W. Michael Sager, Woodford County Extension Adviser in Agriculture, will spend Microcomputer Applications in LDC's (Agricultural the month of October in Ecuador. Mr. Sager will, in Economics 49 Id) meets Tuesdays from 2:00 p.m. to Spanish, conduct seminars and give advice on the 4:00 p.m. or Wednesday nights from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 administration of beef and dairy cattle herds and gen- p.m. in room 199 Bevier Hall. Call the instructors for eral livestock farm operations. more information: Sam H. Johnson (333-5512) or Jane S. Johnson (333-5836).

INTSOY Activities SPANISH FOR AGRICULTURE

From September 1 to 15, Joseph A. Jackobs, Agron- Fields omy, will visit soybean cultivar trials and discuss germ- Elementary Spanish for Agriculture and Related 24, plasm exchange programs at six locations in China. His I (Spanish 141), will welcome visitors on September internal travel expenses in China are funded through a 25, 26, and 30 when class work will feature "la MUCIA (Midwest Universities Consortium for Interna- economia agricola de Colombia." Class is held in room tional Activities) grant. Dr. Jackobs will then travel to G-30 of the Foreign Languages Building at 3:00 p.m. Pakistan and Turkey to discuss cooperative soybean re- Visitors are encouraged to call Margo De Ley at search activities and plans for a regional soybean con- 333-1977 beforehand. Visits at other times can also ference to be held in Turkey in September 1986. be arranged. VISITING RESEARCHERS 28 to 29, to discuss research in dairy technology; Jan Nilsson and Einar Matthaison, Department of Food Dharam Pal, National Dairy Research Institute, Kar- Engineering, Lund University, Lund, Sweden, July 19,

nal, Haryana, India, is studying membrane technology to review research in membrane technology; and and milk processing with Munir Cheryan, Food Science, Pierre Aimar, Universite Paul Sabatier, Toulouse,

from August 15 to December 30. Dr. Pal is sponsored France, July 18, to discuss bioprocess technology by FAO. research.

Kim Sung-Hoon, Sunjin Livestock and Meat Co., Ltd., Twenty participants in Purdue University's interna- Korea, will begin a six-week program in swine breeding tional integrated pest management short course viewed and management in the Animal Sciences Department in the resistance and virus-vector soybean research of Ag- early September. USDA's Office of International Coop- ricultural Entomology and Economic Entomology, Illi-

eration and Development is sponsoring Mr. Kim. nois Natural History Survey, on July 12. They also vis- ited the two entomological data bases, Soybean Insect

Agricultural Entomology and Economic Entomology, Il- Research Information Center (SIRIC) and International linois Natural History Survey, are hosting two visiting Soybean Arthropod Collection (ISAC). researchers. Hassam Oloumi-Sadeghi, Associate Profes- sor of Entomology, University of Tehran, Iran, will Mansura Begum and Minhaj Ahmed, National Agri- work on field crop pest management from August cultural Library and Documentation Centre, Bangla- 1985 to August 1986. Katsumi Togashi, Ishikawa For- desh, visited the College of Agriculture Library from est Experiment Station, Tsurugi, Japan, will arrive in July 14 to 20. Carol Boast, Agriculture Librarian, ar- early October to spend twelve months working with ranged for them to visit libraries around the state. James E. Appleby on insect vectors of pine wilt disease. Sponsored by USAID, the librarians also visited the National Agricultural Library, Cornell University, and

New visiting researchers in Agronomy include J. N. Kansas State University. Sfakianakis, Cereal Institute, Thessaloniki, Greece, Under the direction of L. Frederick Welch, Agronomy, who is working with D. E. Alexander; and Samuel approximately forty-five visitors from Moreshet, Volcani Institute, Rehovot, Israel, for one Canadian Que- bec toured the Agronomy-Plant Pathology South Farm year to work with John D. Hesketh on water stress and leaf physiology. on July 17. They discussed fertilizer, seed, and growth of crop plants.

Meir Broza, insect pathologist, University of Tel Aviv, VISITORS COMING TO CAMPUS Israel, met with Joseph V. Maddox and Marcos Kogan,

Agricultural Entomology and Economic Entomology, Il- H. Schon, head of the Agricultural Institute at linois Natural History Survey, on July 21 during a pro- Braunschweig-Volkenrode, Germany, will discuss gram arranged by Edward J. Armbrust. UIUC's dairy automation research with Arthur J. Muehling and Hoyle B. Puckett, Agricultural Engineer- Karl Weingartner, food utilization scientist for the soy- ing, and Sidney L. Spahr, Animal Sciences. Prof. Schon bean program at the International Institute of Tropical will present seminars on September 4 and 5 (see semi- Agriculture (IITA), Ibadan, Nigeria, reviewed village nar listing for details). and home-level processing techniques for soybeans with INTSOY and Food Science staff, July 28 to August 9. Jun-ichi Okumura, Faculty of Agriculture, Nagoya University, Japan, will discuss protein and amino acid C. Sullay Kamara, Agronomy Department, Njala Uni- metabolism with David H. Baker, Animal Sciences, and versity College, Freetown, Sierra Leone, visited UIUC John A. Milner, Food Science, on October 1 and 2. To and the Agronomy Department during the month of meet with Mr. Okumura call Dr. Milner at 333-4177. July. Dr. Kamara was interested in soils research.

Fifty-two students from Nihon University, Japan, VISITORS RECENTLY ON CAMPUS toured UIUC's Veterinary Medicine Teaching Hospital on August 2. Part of an international relations program Recent visitors to the laboratory of Munir Cheryan, to introduce students to U.S. culture, they spent four Food Science, include: R. D. Verma and R. K. Kohli, weeks at UIUC studying English before traveling National Dairy Research Institute, Karnal, India, June throughout the U.S. Escorted by Paul L. Raymer, Georgia Agricultural Ex- WID SEMINAR SERIES periment Station and UIUC graduate in Agronomy, Halis Arioglu, University of Cukurova, Adana, Turkey, The Women in International Development seminar se- visited UIUC on August 5 and 6. Mr. Arioglu discussed ries this fall will feature the topic "Women in India," soybean production and protection with Harold E. with presentations by UIUC WID scholars returning Kauffman, INTSOY, Danny R. Erickson, Joseph A. from India. The seminars will be held on the third Jackobs, Cecil D. Nickell, and Gary E. Pepper, Agron- Thursday of the month in the Friendship Lounge of omy, James B. Sinclair, Plant Pathology, and Gail E. the YMCA, 1001 South Wright Street, Champaign, at Kampmeier and Marcos Kogan, Agricultural Entomol- 12:00 noon. ogy and Economic Entomology, Illinois Natural History Survey.

On August 6, Vernon R. Fowler, Rowett Research In- INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL FUNDS: stitute, Aberdeen, Scotland, presented a seminar for Animal Sciences entitled "ARC vs NRC: Why Nutrient OCTOBER 1 DEADLINE Requirements of Pigs Differ." October 1, 1985, is the next deadline for international available University of Illinois faculty Fernando Ajudarte Neto, Birigui, Brazil, Rodolfo L. travel funds to Rossi and Daniel Novoa, Venado Tuerto, Argentina, and staff through MUCIA (Midwest Universities Con- International Activities) the Office Africa, all sortium for and of and W. J. Van Der Welt, Silverton, South Affairs. Grants of corn breeders with Asgrow Seed Company, discussed the Vice President for Academic up to are available to support international travel diseases of corn and corn breeding with Donald G. $1,000 will result in the development or enhancement White and James M. Perkins, Plant Pathology, and D. which of international programs at the University of Illinois. E. Alexander, Agronomy, on August 7. They were ac- Matching funds must be secured from institutional companied by Jerry Arnold, Asgrow Seed Company. sources. Deadlines for 1986 are February 1 and Octo-

ber 1. Guidelines and request forms are available from San S. Korban, Horticulture, recently arranged pro- T. John Kim, MUCIA Liaison Officer, 3 1 1 Coble Hall, grams for two groups of Egyptian scientists who were 801 South Wright Street, Champaign, IL 61820, tele- visiting UIUC. On August 8, M. Sadek El-Banasoury, phone 333-1993. Barakat Ahmed, and Kamal Abdel Rahman, Menoufia (217) University, Saied Mahmoud, Tanta University, and A. Abdel Iatif Zaki and M. El-Ashry, Ain Shams Univer- sity, discussed animal nutrition with Larry L. Berger and Philip D. George, Animal Sciences, William C. INTERNATIONAL VETERINARY CONFERENCE Wagner, Veterinary Biosciences, and Borge K. Gustafsson, Veterinary Clinical Medicine. M. Fouad, More than 135 registrants from around the world at- Cairo University, M. Sadek El-Banasoury, Menoufia tended the Conference on Infectious Rickettsial Blood University, and A. Bondoh, Ain Shams University, all Diseases of Man and Animals held at UIUC's College part of a USAID project on production of fruit tree of Veterinary Medicine from July 14 to 16. The con- nurseries, met with Dr. Korban and other faculty in ference was sponsored by the U.S. Army Medical Re- Horticulture from August 6 to 9. Both groups also met search and Development Command, National Institutes with Earl D. Kellogg and John W. Santas, Office of of Health, and the College of Veterinary Medicine. International Agriculture.

Hidetaka Hakahara, manager of Oils and Fats, Foods discussed research Division, Mitsubishi Company, Japan, IPS OPEN HOUSE on breeding corn with a high oil content with D. E. Alexander, Agronomy, on August 8. The International Programs and Studies Office cor- dially invites you to attend the open house of their new From August 15 to 18 Sumikiro Korenaga, Dean of facilities located on the the Faculty of Economics, Hokkaido University, dis- cussed modern farming and marketing strategies with third floor of Coble Hall faculty in Agricultural Economics. Dr. Korenaga's pro- 801 South Wright Street, Champaign, IL 62820 grams was arranged by the International Programs and Wednesday, September 1 1 through Studies Office. Friday, September 13, 1985. SEMINARS

September 4 Work Safety, Mechanization in Dairy October 9 On the International Front: Projects and Husbandry, Tractor Use, and Other Research at the Programs of the American Soybean Association — Agricultural Institute at Braunschweig-Volkenrode, Kenneth Bader, Chief Executive Officer, ASA. Germany — H. Schon, Head of the Agricultural 4:00 p.m., 426 Mumford Hall. Institute. International Agriculture Seminar 10:30 a.m., 204 Agricultural Engineering Sciences Bldg. Agricultural Engineering Seminar October 16 World Food Day Program — check the October International Agriculture Newsletter for a September 5 Dairy Mechanization Research — complete listing of World Food Day activities. H. Schon, Head of the Agricultural Institute at Braunschweig-Volkenrode, Germany. October 17 Women in India series — WID scholars. 1001 South 12:00 noon, 426 Mumford Hall. 12:00 noon, Friendship Lounge, YMCA, Animal Sciences Seminar Wright Street, Champaign. WID Seminar

September 11 In the Beginning . . . Early Agricultural 23 (Midwest Universities Consortium Engineering in India — Ralph C. Hay, professor emeri- October MUCIA International Activities) Project at the Institute of tus in Agricultural Engineering. for Nepal — 4:00 p.m., 426 Mumford Hall. Agricultural and Animal Sciences, Rampur, emeritus, Agronomy. International Agriculture Seminar Marlowe D. Thorne, professor 4:00 p.m., 426 Mumford Hall.

September 13 How Do I Get Involved in Interna- International Agriculture Seminar tional Agriculture? — College of Agriculture staff. Instructional 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon, 426 Mumford Hall. October 30 The Development of an International Agriculture Seminar Farm in North Yemen — Douglas B. Bauling, Illinois Agricultural Experiment Station. September 18 Visions of the TIPAN (Transformation 4:00 p.m., 426 Mumford Hall. and Integration of the Provincial Agricultural Network) International Agriculture Seminar Project — S. Iqbal Shah, Abdul Rauf Khattak, and Curriculum Jehangir Khan Khattak, TIPAN participants. November 6 Lessons Learned: Developing — 4:00 p.m., 426 Mumford Hall. Materials for Women in International Development International Agriculture Seminar panel discussion with participants of the 1985 WID team to India (tentative). September 20 Women in India — WID scholars. 4:00 p.m., 426 Mumford Hall. 12:00 noon, Friendship Lounge, YMCA, 1001 South International Agriculture Seminar Wright Street, Champaign. WID Seminar November 13 A Look at Belize: MUCIA'S Caribbean Agricultural Extension Project — Donald R. Smucker,

September 25 Increasing Production Potential for Illi- Cooperative Extension Service. nois Farms: The U.S. -China Swine Germplasm Ex- 4:00 p.m., 426 Mumford Hall. change — John R. Campbell, Dean of the College of International Agriculture Seminar Agriculture, and John F. Rundquist, Montgomery County Swine Producer. November 20 Beef and Dairy Production in Coastal 4:00 p.m., 426 Mumford Hall. Ecuador — W Michael Sager, Woodford County Coop- International Agriculture Seminar erative Extension Service. 4:00 p.m., 426 Mumford Hall. October 2 Dateline Malawi: Report on the INTER- International Agriculture Seminar PAKS (International Program for Agricultural Knowl- edge Systems) Case Study — Kathleen Cloud, November 21 Women in India series — WID scholars. INTERPAKS. 12:00 noon, Friendship Lounge, YMCA, 1001 South 4:00 p.m., 426 Mumford Hall. Wright Street, Champaign. International Agriculture Seminar WID Seminar How Do I Get Involved in International Agriculture?

A symposium open to all faculty, staff, and students September 13, 1985 426 Mumford Hall

8:00 a.m Coffee and Registration 8:15 a.m. Symposium Format — John W. Santas, Chair 8:25 a.m. Programs, Projects, Staff in International Agriculture John Nicholaides, and — J. Director of International Agriculture 8:45 a.m. The Dean's Perspective — John R. Campbell, Dean of Agriculture 9:05 a.m. International Courses in Agriculture and Human Resources and Family Studies — Charles E. Olson, Resident Instruction 9:15 a.m. Involvement through Government Agencies, Private Organizations, and University Contracts — Earl D. Kellogg, Associate Director 9:45 a.m. Break 10:00 a.m. TIPAN, Transformation and Integration of a Provincial Agriculture Network, Paki- stan — William N. Thompson, senior advisor 10:15 a.m. ZAMARE, Zambia Agricultural Research and Extension project — Earl D. Kellogg, campus coordinator 10:30 a.m. INTERPAKS, International Program in Agricultural Knowledge Systems — John L. Woods, director 10:45 a.m. INTSOY, International Soybean Program — Harold E. Kauffman, director 11:00 a.m. MUCIA, Midwest Universities Consortium for International Activities — T John Kim, UIUC liaison officer 11:15 a.m. Publications — Bonnie J. Irwin, publications and information 11:25 a.m. Training — John W. Santas, training officer Projects John Nicholaides, Director of International Agriculture 11:35 a.m. on the Horizon — J. 11:40a.m. Open Discussion 12 noon Adjourn

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-r- October 1985, No. 89 <* WORLD FOOD DAY je Where do we find hunger? Hunger and malnutrition can * be found is every country, including the United States and

World Food Day is observed on October 16, the anniversary other highly developed nations. In terms of protein and ca- of the establishment of the Food and Agriculture- Organiza- loric deprivation, the most severely affected areas of the tion (FAO) of the United Nations. Its purpose is t'6 increase world are Africa and south and east Asia. Latin American public awareness of the world food situation and to develop and the Caribbean also have hunger problems. national and international support for the struggle against poverty, hunger, and malnutrition. What is the difference between hunger and malnutrition?

World Food Day will be observed at UIUC through activi- Hunger occurs when there is a lack of food for a relatively ties such as: participation in a national teleconference, semi- short period of time. Malnutrition occurs when hunger is nars, displays, and food collection (see the activity list on especially severe or when it becomes a chronic condition. page 6 for details). Some evidence suggests that a single episode of hunger may not cause significant damage. Malnutrition, on the other

Why should the U.S. be involved in world food problems? hand, is a complex interaction between nutrient needs and

The most obvious answer is humanitarian. Malnutrition and health, and is highly detrimental to physical and mental well- hunger create extreme hardships for millions of people. Esti- being. mates of the number of people affected by hunger range from one hundred million to one billion. FAO estimates that What are the effects of malnutrition? Malnutrition is over five hundred million people suffer from severe malnutri- harmful to both children and adults, although children under tion. More than seventy-five percent of the world's popula- five years old are at special risk. Malnutrition is responsible tion live in the less developed countries where food problems for low birth rates, slower body growth, delayed maturation, are a major concern. shorter stature, and restricted physical activity. Mental retar- World food problems affect all of us. The world is becom- dation can occur if a child undergoes severe food deprivation ing increasingly interdependent both politically and economi- during critical periods of development. cally. North-South dialogues, food security conferences, and Serious, and sometimes fatal, diseases are caused by malnu- developing country debt summit conferences are important trition. Kwashiokor can occur in children between the ages of parts of the world political agenda. Hunger, malnutrition, one and three. Abnormal skin and hair and a bloated stom- poverty, and high food prices lead to political unrest and ach are characteristic symptoms. Marasmus, characterized by instability. As a world power, the U.S. cannot avoid dealing severe wasting, occurs when a child consumes insufficient ca- with these concerns. lories. Other conditions resulting from malnutrition include A third reason is economic self interest. There can be no anemia (lack of iron), blindness (lack of vitamin A), and goi- enduring economic prosperity in the U.S. without sustained ter and cretinism (lack of iodine). growth in the Third World. agricultural economic The U.S. These conditions can be prevented or treated by supplying sector, heavily dependent on export sales, has a particularly the nutrient or element lacking in the diet and by ensuring important stake in the improvement of conditions in develop- that the total caloric intake is sufficient for good health. Pure ing countries. These countries are a major market for ex- drinking water in adequate quantities and proper sanitation ports and the most likely future growth markets. Forty per- are also necessary to maintain and protect health. cent of U.S. agricultural exports now go to developing countries. In addition, Americans consume over $16 billion Is there enough food to feed the world? If the world food in agricultural imports each year, most of which come from supply is examined from the standpoint of available calories developing countries. per person, with food distributed equally, there appears to be enough food for every individual. However, the unequal dis- What causes hunger? The primary cause of hunger is pov- tribution of resources throughout the world makes it impossi- erty. Poverty is an almost inevitable condition for the major- ble for every individual to obtain enough food. Even though ity of people suffering the effects of natural disasters, general the possibility exists that enough food is available to feed the world recession that reduces a country's balance of payments world, poor countries and poor families cannot compete for and limits its ability to import food, political upheaval and available food supplies. war, lack of rural infrastructure for movement of food into

the countryside, and national policies which fail to support agricultural production of domestic food crops. These prob- What is the outlook for the future? Although there has lems are characteristic of developing countries. been a steady increase in world food production over the past twenty-five years, during the last ten years the rate of in- Every developed and many developing nations have govern crease has slowed to 1.7 percent annually. An increased de- ment-supported aid agencies working to alleviate hunger. The mand of about 3 to 4 percent yearly is anticipated in the U.S. Agency for International Development is the primary future as population and per capita incomes increase in devel- U.S. governmental agency dealing with world hunger prob- oping countries. Since the middle of the 1970's, developing lems. countries have increased food production more rapidly than Many U.S. universities have development programs in third developed countries. Even so, population growth in develop- world countries and almost every land-grant university has an ing countries has caused per capita food production to in- office of international agriculture. At UIUC, the Director of crease slowly or, in some cases, decline. the Office of International Agriculture is one of four associ- ate deans in the College of Agriculture.

The ability of a nation to feed itself is critical to world

peace, economic development, and sustained well-being. Hun- 1 How serious is Africa's food deficit? African per capita ger cannot solved it eradicated food production has declined while the rest of the world's be by charity, nor can be by world per capita food production has increased. At the same time, agricultural solutions alone. Ending hunger ultimately pays dividends to people everywhere, including here at home. Africa's population growth rate is the highest in the world. It was 2.9 percent in 1984, compared to 1.7 percent for the For more information about World Food Day activities at world as a whole and 2.4 percent in Latin America, the next UIUC call or write Leon A. Mayer, Agricultural Education, highest growth area. It is estimated that from sixteen to 338 Education Building, 1310 South Sixth Street, Cham- thirty percent of Africa's population has less than the critical paign, 61820, telephone 333-2775. Much of the minimal level of caloric intake for normal growth and devel- IL (217) opment. material in this article was excerpted from the 1984 World Food Day Study Packet.

What can we do? Since World War II there have been determined efforts by the U.S., other nations, the UN, and many other national, regional, and international organizations to alleviate and solve the problems of hunger. Within the UN, four organizations are concerned with food: Food and Agriculture Organization, World Food Pro- gram, International Fund for Agricultural Development, and World Food Council. The World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, and other financial institutions provide loan capital for devel- opment projects. Private and voluntary organizations, such as CARE and OXFAM, are actively working in developing countries. Their activities include operating food aid programs and carrying out development education activities. Religious organizations are also deeply committed to aid programs. Activities range from missionaries supported by large programs such as the Catholic individual churches to Canned goods will be collected on October 16 from 9:00 a.m. to Relief Services. 4:00 p.m. in the south foyer of the Illini Union.

NICHOLAIDES' NOTES We are pleased to announce that UIUC is one of three finalists in the Jamaica Agricultural Education Project. The faculty in the College of Education The symposium "How Do I Get Involved in International proposal was prepared by Agriculture" was attended by approximately sixty people and and the College of Agriculture, in cooperation with Purdue well received, judging from comments following the sympo- University and Florida A&M University. Because UIUC was project, and sium. We were delighted that a visit to UIUC by Erven Long, listed as the lead institution in the USAID Ja- Director of USAID's Office of Research and University Rela- maican agricultural officials visited Illinois in late September tions, allowed his participation in the symposium. His com- for further evaluation. Congratulations to Leon A. Meyer ments and those of our Dean, John R. Campbell, were espe- and Burton E. Swanson, who led the efforts in developing the cially pertinent and added substantially to the symposium. We proposal. will be contacting those of you who attended and filled in the registration form. People who were unable to attend but would like to have their name on file for future projects at 333-5837. John Xicholaides, III should call Pamela J. Woodard (217) J. INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES sonnel in the Public Works Department in Jakarta, met with officials of the Asian Development Bank in Manila, Philip- The new farming systems economist on the ZAMARE pines, and presented a paper at the Agroecology Workshop at

(Zambia Agricultural Research and Extension) project is the East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawaii. His paper was enti-

Mesfin Bezuneh. Dr. Bezuneh's address is c/o Kabwe Re- tled "Incorporating Concerns for Productivity, Stability, and gional Research Station, RO. Box 80908, Kabwe, Zambia. Sustainability into Farming Systems Research."

Joseph Marion has accepted a two-year assignment as Re- James E. Corbin, Animal Sciences, spoke at a feed manufac- search and Demonstration Station Development Specialist at turer's meeting in Sao Paulo, Brazil, during the first week of the Northwest Frontier Province Agricultural University, Pes- September. In early October Dr. Corbin will lecture to veteri- hawar, Pakistan, as part of the TIPAN (Transformation and nary students and a milling association in Buenos Aires, Ar- Integration of the Provincial Agricultural Network) project. gentina. Recently retired from the Nevada Cooperative Extension Ser- vice, Mr. Marion served previous overseas assignments in Ni- Jean M. Due, Agricultural Economics, was in Tanzania from geria and Brazil. August 31 to September 23 to attend a bean workshop at Mr. Marion and his wife, Enid, were briefed on the project Sokoine University of Agriculture and to plan future cooper- at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale from September ative research on beans with Tanzanian colleagues. From Sep- 16 to 25. They visited UIUC from September 17 to 19 for tember 23 to 26, Dr. Due consulted with the OAT (Centro discussions with TIPAN participants and Thomas A. Internacional de Agricultura Tropical, Cali, Colombia) bean McCowen, John W. Santas, and William N. Thompson, Inter- team on ongoing research in Rwanda. national Agriculture. The Marion's address is NWFP Agricul- tural University, Peshawar, NWFP, Pakistan. Robert A. Aherin, Agricultural Engineering, was a member of a four-person team on a study tour of Austria, England, Won-Hyung Yoo completed his Ph.D. in Horticulture in Au- Germany, Norway, and Sweden from September 7 to 28. The gust and has been appointed Assistant Professor in the De- objectives of the tour were to develop stronger lines of com- partment of Horticulture, Jung Ang University, Seoul, Korea. munications on agricultural safety and health concerns be- tween European and U.S. agricultural safety professionals, K. K. Shim was recently appointed Vice-President for Aca- discuss international agricultural safety research needs, and demic Affairs at Sung Kyun Kwaan University, Suweon, study European agricultural safety systems for ideas that Korea. Dr. Kim received his Ph.D. in Horticulture at UIUC could be applied in the U.S. The trip was primarily spon- in 1972 and was a visiting professor here during the 1984- sored by farm machinery companies. 1985 academic year. The Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture

David J. Williams. Horticulture, discussed nursery produc- (IICA) has asked James B. Sinclair, Plant Pathology, to view tion problems with researchers at East Mailing Experiment soybean diseases in the field in Veracruz, Mexico, and recom- Station, Merrist Wood College, and several commercial pro- mend control measures, October 19 to 29. duction nurseries in England, July 16 to 20. IN TERPAKS, the International Program for Agricultural Mahmood A. Khan, Foods and Nutrition, is taking a six- Knowledge Systems, received a subcontract from the Farming month sabbatical leave at the Hotel and Catering Research Systems Support Project (FSSP) to conduct a one-week work-

Center, Huddersfield Polytechnic, Huddersfield, England, shop in Zambia, October 27 to November 1. Entitled from August through February. "Research-Extension Linkages in Farming Systems Pro- grams," the workshop will be attended by people from Zam- Taking sabbatical leave in England from August 1985 bia and Malawi. Instructors from UIUC are Sam H.John- through February 1986 is Marilyn M. Dunsing, Family and son, Agricultural Economics, John L. Woods, IN TERPAKS, Consumer Economics. Dr. Dunsing is studying the consump- and John B. Claar and Earl D. Kellogg, International Agri- tion levels of families in Great Britain and their perception of culture. The ZAMARE (Zambia Agricultural Research and these levels. She will consult with faculty at universities and Extension) project will be involved through the Zambian par- government personnel. ticipants.

Leif H. Thompson, Animal Sciences, lectured on progeny testing with offspring generated in heterospermic litters at swine testing stations in Denmark and Sweden and attended a INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES two-day conference at Uppsala, Sweden, on freezing boar se- men, August 17 to 27. Thomas W. Fermanian, Horticulture, presented a paper on sand topdressing of bentgrass greens at the Fifth Interna- In early September, Sam H. Johnson, Agricultural Eco- tional Turfgrass Research Society Conference, Avignon, nomics, discussed water management in Indonesia with per- France, and participated in a preconference tour, July 1 to 9. Attending the International Meeting on Chloroplast Develop- and Lowell P. Hager, James H. Nichols, and Lisa M. ment, Rhodes, Greece, July 14 to 20, were Constantin A. Shamansky, Biochemistry. Before the conference Dean Rebeiz and Carole Rebeiz, Horticulture. Constantin Rebeiz Dierks and Dr. Ristic attended the Board Meeting of the presented a symposium paper on chloroplast biosynthesis and Laveran International Foundation. chaired the symposium on plant pigment biosynthesis and Carole Rebeiz presented a poster session on chloroplast devel- Burton E. Swanson, Agricultural Education and INTER- opment. Following the conference Constantin Rebeiz lectured PA KS, and John L. Woods, INTERPAKS, attended a confer- at Rhone Poulenc Co., Lyon, and Roussel Co., Marseilles, ence entitled "Investing in Rural Extension: Strategies and France, on photodynamic herbicides. Goals," held at the Agricultural Extension and Rural Devel- opment Centre, University of Reading, England, September "Measurement Error and Curvilinear Model Estimation" was 15 to 21. the title of the invited paper that George Z. Gertner, For- estry, presented at the International Union of Forestry Re- Daniel Gianola, Animal Sciences, participated in the 36th search Organization's Meeting on Statistical Methods, Mathe- meeting of the European Association of Animal Production matics, and Computers, Gottingen, West Germany, August 13 in Thessaloniki, Greece, and developed a joint program in to 17. In addition, Dr. Gertner attended a conference on discrete multivariate analysis in genetics with researchers inventorying and monitoring endangered forests, Zurich, from France and Germany, September 27 to October 4. Switzerland, August 19 to 23. Dr. Gianola's trip was supported in part by a grant from MUCIA (Midwest Universities Consortium for International "Animal Responses to Various Ionophores" was the title of Activities). the invited paper that Larry L. Berger, Animal Sciences, presented at the International Nutrition Conference, Brigh- ton, England, August 18 to 25. Also attending were Mary VISITING RESEARCHERS Frances Picciano, Adria Sherman, and Mohammed Sika, Foods and Nutrition. Dr. Picciano presented two papers on Bruria Heuer, Volcani Center, Bet Dagan, Israel, is taking the form of selenium in human milk from mothers delivering her sabbatical leave at UIUC to work with Archie R. Portis, term and pre-term infants, Dr. Sherman presented a paper Agronomy/USDA, on rubpcarboxylase activity determina- and invited workshop presentation on aspects of iron status tion. Dr. Heuer can be reached at S-215 Turner Hall, tele- and immune response, and Mr. Sika presented two poster phone 333-4370. sessions on the effect of dietary protein and phosphorous on growth and mineral content. For one year beginning in August 1985, Minoru Honda, Nagasaki University Medical School, Japan, will work with Attending the Workshop on Papillomaviruses, Molecular and Fred A. Kummerow, Food Science, on the relationship of diet Pathogenic Mechanisms, Kuopio, Finland, August 25 to 29, to coronary artery thickness. were John P. Sundberg, Veterinary Pathobiology, and Kerry O'Banion, Microbiology. Dr. Sundberg was chair of the ani- Jean-Louis Foulley, INRA, Jouy-en-Jouas, France, is a mal papillomavirus section and gave the introductory lecture George A. Miller Visiting Scholar in Animal Sciences until entitled "Animal Papillomaviruses — Basis and Clinical Con- August 1986. He is working with Daniel Gianola on multivar- cepts." With Mr. O'Banion and Manfred E. Reichmann, Mi- iate analysis of discrete data in genetics. crobiology, he also gave three poster sessions: "Domestic Rab- bit Oral Papillomavirus: Characterization and Comparison to Wei Zhen Yao, Agricultural Engineering Department, North- Cottontail Rabbit Papillomavirus," "Squamous Cell Carcino- East Agricultural College, Harbin, China, arrived at UIUC in mas Associated with Canine Papillomaviruses," and "Papillo- early September for a one-year stay as visiting professor in mavirus Induced Lesions in Wild and Exotic Animals of Agricultural Engineering. He will study methods and facilities North America." used in researching animal and plant environmental engineer- From October 3 to 5, Dr. Sundberg will speak on animal ing. models for papillomavirus research at a meeting in Bonn, Germany, on Viruses in Human Tumors. Following the meet- Working with Eugene B. Himelick, Plant Pathology and Sec- ing he will lecture at the Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, tion of Botany and Plant Pathology of the Illinois Natural Heidelberg, Germany, and complete a collaborative project History Survey, is Abdol G. Ebrahimi, College of Natural on the cytopathology of animal papillomaviruses at the Pas- Resources, University of Mazandarin, Gogan, Iran. teur Institut in Paris, France. Dr. Ebrahimi arrived in September to work for one year on a cooperative research project on resistant varieties and species Attending a three-day conference in late August at the Lav- of elm to the Dutch elm disease fungus. eran International Foundation, Annency, France, on hemo- tropic diseases were Richard E. Dierks, Dean of the College Won Jib Shin, Assistant Professor of Reproductive Physiol- at National University, Chonju, Korea, is a vis- of Veterinary Medicine, Cynthia J. Holland, Mark A. James, ogy Chonbuk Philip Animal Sciences, until Sonia Montenegro-James, Ibulaimu Kakoma, Federico J. iting scholar with J. Dziuk, Montealegre, and Miodrag Ristic, Veterinary Pathobiology, August 1986. VISITORS RECENTLY ON CAMPUS future studies and activities. INTERPAKS team members for the Malawi case study were Kathleen Cloud, Earl D. Kellogg, Ren-tse Wang, director of the Research Laboratory, and and John B. Claar, International Agriculture, C.James Kaiser,

Chieng-Liang Wang, director of the Research and Develop- Dixon Springs Agricultural Center, Andrew J. Sofranko, Ag- ment Division, Paolyta Co., Ltd., Taipei, Taiwan, discussed ricultural Economics, and Burton E. Swanson, Agricultural extrusion cooking and breakfast foods with Food Science fac- Education and INTERPAKS.

ulty, August 19 to 23. Following their visit to UIUC,

L. S. Wei, Food Science, accompanied them on a visit to INSTA PRO in Des Moines, Iowa. INTERPAKS SHORT COURSE AT UIUC Kanjana Bhudasamai, Division of Seed and Postharvest Phys- iology, and Preecha Surin, Oil Crops Diseases Section, Minis- Classes began on September 15 for the eleven participants in try of Agriculture, Thailand, visited UIUC from August 28 the INTERPAKS short course entitled "Organization and to 30 as part of a US study tour of Macrophomina phaseoli. Operation of Agricultural Extension Services in the Interna- They spent most of their time in the laboratory of James B. tional Setting." The participants are Joseph B. Abdulai, As- Sinclair, Plant Pathology, and also met with Sam H.Johnson sistant Chief Agriculturalist, Ministry of Agriculture and Nat- and Melvin M. Wagner, Agricultural Economics, Harold E. ural Resources, Sierra Leone; Rana Fatshsingh Jambha, Kauffman, INTSOY, and John L. Woods, INTERPAKS. Subject-Matter Specialist, Gujarat, India; B. S. Ganesh Kumar, Principal Agricultural Officer, Karnataka, India; H. D. Fernando, University of Peradeniya, Sri lanka, visited Kanta Kapur, Senior Home Economist, Directorate of Exten- the Agricultural Engineering Department from September 3 sion, India; Edward Mezazem, Head, National Extension Ser- to 6 to learn techniques for doing research on alternative vice, Ministry of Agriculture, Cameroon; Ngong-Nassah, In- fuels and engines. stitute of Agricultural Research, Cameroon; Isaac Cimpiko Nkhungulu, Chief Horticultural Officer, Department of Agri- culture, Lusaka, Zambia; Valentin Nlend, Provincial Delegate Visiting Animal Sciences on September 5 and 6 was Malcolm of Agriculture, Ministry of Agriculture, Cameroon; Joseph F. Fuller, Rowett Research Institute, Aberdeen, Scotland. Dr. Nkwain Sama, Professor of Agricultural Science, University Fuller presented a seminar on protein metabolism in the pig. Center, Dschang, Cameroon; K. Vijayan, Subject-Matter Spe-

cialist, Kerala, India; Suranimala Wirasinghe, Additional Carlos Silva, Research Division, and Jose Fonseca, Plan- Da Deputy Director, Agricultural Extension, Department of Ag- ning Department, Guinea Bissau Ministry of Agriculture, vis- riculture, Sri Lanka. ited UIUC on September 6 to discuss cooperative projects Course coordinator is John B. Claar, assisted by John W. with INTSOY. They met with Harold E. Kauffman, INTSOY, Santas, Carolyn Sands, and Pamela J. Woodard. Approxi- Danny R. Erickson, Agronomy, Alvin I. Nelson, Food Sci- mately thirty university, World Bank, and other officials will ence, and W. Santas, International Agriculture. John teach during the five-week course. Because of increased inter- est, INTERPAKS hopes to offer the course more frequently Ten representatives of John Deere Intercontinental Ltd. vis- and teach the course overseas. ited the College of Agriculture on September 10. They dis- cussed soybean cultivar experiments and minimum and zero tillage for soybeans and other crops with Harold E. Kauffman, INTSOY, Danny R. Erickson, Agronomy, John C. PUBLICATIONS OF NOTE Siemens, Agricultural Engineering, John W. Hummel, Agri- cultural Engineering and USDA, and Royce A. Hinton, Agri- Annotated Bibliography on Development and Transfer of cultural Economics. The group also viewed experimental Agricultural Technology, Volume 1, compiled by Jane S. plots and farm machinery. Johnson, was published in August 1985. It is the first of several publications for the project on Technology Develop- Infor- Cheng Jian Qiu, President, Jinlin Zhao, Director of ment and Transfer Systems in Agriculture, a part of INTER- Re- mation Institute, Wenyi Zhang, Director of Sorghum PAKS (International Program in Agricultural Knowledge Sys- search Institute, Jiren Mei, sorghum seed specialist, and tems). The ninety-seven page publication has 271 annotated Foreign Affairs, Liaoning Acad- Huajin Xin, Deputy Chief of entries and author, title, and subject indexes. Single copies emy of Agricultural Sciences, Shenyang, China, visited UIUC may be obtained by writing to INTERPAKS, University of with R. from September 19 to 22. They met Dean John Illinois, 113 Mumford Hall, 1301 West Gregory Drive, Ur- Campbell, D. Eugene Alexander, Johannes M.J. DeWet, bana, IL 61801, USA. Henry H. Hadley, and Russell T. Odell, Agronomy, Isabel Wong, East Asian Exchange Programs, and John W. Santas, The three-volume Proceedings of the Fifth World Congress International Agriculture. on Water Resources, held in Brussels, Belgium, June 9 to 15, 1985, and sponsored by the International Water Resources

Wendell E. Morse and Donald E. Anderson, USAID, were Association (IWRA), is available for $75 plus $15 for han- on campus September 27 to review the recently completed dling and mailing costs from: IWRA, University of Illinois, Malawi case study with the INTERPAKS team and discuss 208 North Romine Street, Urbana, IL 61801, USA. SEMINARS AND WORLD FOOD DAY ACTIVITIES October 23 Another Green Revolution? Old Models and All activities are open to the public. New Solutions for Africa's Meeting Food Crisis — Thomas J. Bassett, Geography. month of October exhibit on world hunger — display case 12:00 noon, 1038 Foreign Languages Building. outside the Agriculture Library, 226 Mumford Hall. African Studies Brown Bag Seminar month of October reading material on world hunger — reserve desk in the Agriculture Library, 226 Mumford Hall. October 23 MUCIA (Midwest Universities Consortium for International Activities) Project at the Institute of Agricul- October 2 Dateline Malawi: Report on the INTERPAKS tural and Animal Sciences, Rampur, Nepal — Marlowe D. (International Program for Agricultural Knowledge Systems) Thorne, professor emeritus, Agronomy. Case Study — Kathleen Cloud, INTERPAKS. 4:00 p.m., 426 Mumford Hall. 4:00 p.m., 426 Mumford Hall. International Agriculture Seminar International Agriculture Seminar October 24 Daily Activities in Households: Village Life in Gujarat, India — Sharon Hart, Cooperative Extension Ser- October 4 International Colloquium meeting. vice, and Frances M. Magrabi, Family and Consumer Eco- Levis Faculty 4:00 p.m., 405 Center, 919 West Illinois Street, nomics. Urbana. 12:00 noon, Friendship Lounge, YMCA, 1001 South Wright Street, Champaign. October 8 Impact of Technology on Rural Society: The Ca- Women in International Development Seminar cau Region in Southern Bahia, Brazil — Frederick C. Fliegel, Agricultural Economics. October "30 Report on a Trip to Malawi — INTERPAKS 12:00 noon, 1040 Foreign Languages Building. case study team members. * Latin American Studies Brown Bag Series 12:00 noon, 1038 Foreign Languages Building. African Studies Brown Bag Seminar

October 9 On the International Front: Projects and Pro- October 30 The Development of an Instructional Farm in grams of the American Soybean Association — Kenneth North Yemen — Douglas B. Bauling, Illinois Agricultural Ex- Bader, Chief Executive Officer, ASA. periment Station. 4:00 p.m., 426 Mumford Hall. 4:00 p.m., 426 Mumford Hall. International Agriculture Seminar International Agriculture Seminar

October 16 World Food Day. Theme: Combatting Hunger November 1 International Colloquium meeting. in Sub-Saharan Africa. 4:00 p.m., Levis Faculty Center Reading Room, 919 West

9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Collection of canned goods by the Illinois Street, Urbana. Agriculture Council for local distribution. November 6 Lessons Learned: Developing Curriculum Ma- South foyer, Illini Union. terials for Women in International Development — panel dis- 1 1:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. National teleconference, third floor, cussion with participants of the 1985 Women in International Levis Faculty Center, 919 West Illinois Street, Urbana. Development team to India. 4:00 p.m., 426 Mumford Hall. 1 1:00 a.m. — 12:00 noon, panel discussion with Barbara Huddleson, Chief, Food Security and Information Service, International Agriculture Seminar FAO/Rome; Marie Angelique Savane, Director, Association of African Women and Research and Development, Dakar, November 9 Open Borders: The Movement of People and Senegal; Hon. Paul Simon, senator from Illinois; and M. Ideas in the Ivory Coast and Beyond — African Studies Fall Peter McPherson, Administrator, U.S. Agency for Interna- Round Table. Details in the November newsletter. tional Development (USAID). November 13 A Look at Belize: MUCIA'S Caribbean Agri- 12:00 noon — 1:00 p.m., local panel discussion with Earl cultural Extension Project — Donald R. Smucker, Coopera- D. Kellogg, International Agriculture, Mary A. Keith, tive Extension Service. Foods and Nutrition; Lyle Reeser, agricultural consultant; 4:00 p.m., 426 Mumford Hall. Nicholaides, International Agriculture, moderator. John J. International Agriculture Seminar 1:00 p.m. — 2:00 p.m., teleconference open line nation- wide to national panel. November 14 Wood Decomposition in Tropical Environ- ments — Sandra Brown, Forestry. International Agriculture Seminar. Combatting Hunger in 12:00 noon, W-109 Turner Hall. Sub-Saharan Africa. Forestry Seminar 4:00 p.m., 426 Mumford Hall.

International Colloquium. Hunger in Africa: Long-Term Solu- November 15 International Colloquium meeting. tions — panel discussion by graduate students and faculty. 4:00 p.m., 405 Levis Faculty Center, 919 West Illinois Street, 7:30 p.m., Levis Faculty Center, W. 919 Illinois Street, Urbana. Urbana. November 20 Beef and Dairy Production in Coastal Ecua- FOODS AND NUTRITION dor — W. Michael Sager, Woodford County Cooperative Ex- M. Vida Revilla, Philippines, food service systems. tension Service. 4:00 p.m., 426 Mumford Hall. FORESTRY International Agriculture Seminar Ahmed A. Shukri, Ethiopia, forest ecology. HORTICULTURE November 21 Social Forestry in Southeast Asia — Guil- lermo Mendoza, Forestry. Spencer Bloomfield, Zambia, vegetable production; 12:00 noon, W-109 Turner Hall. Geunwon Choi, Korea, growth regulators in vegetables; * Forestry Seminar Yau-Jan Chyan, Taiwan, mineral nutrition of trees: Hee Jae Lee, Korea, tree physiology; Illias Mohd. Khir, Malaysia, November 21 Educational Issues: Village Life in Gujarat, vegetable production: Ahmad Montazer-Zouhoor, Iran, pho- India — Barbara A. Yates, Educational Policy Studies. tosynthesis. 12:00 noon, Friendship Lounge, YMCA, 1001 South Wright HUMAN DEVELOPMENT AND FAMILY ECOLOGY Street, Champaign. Arathi Narayan, India, human development. Women in International Development Seminar PLANT PATHOLOGY December 6 International Colloquium meeting. Hanafy Fouly, Egypt, plant virology; Ingyu Hwang, Korea, 4:00 p.m., Levis Faculty Center Reading Room, 919 West epidemiology. Illinois Street, Urbana. TEXTILES, APPAREL, AND INTERIOR DESIGN Jin-Feng Tsai-Hwang, Taiwan, Textiles and Apparel; NEW INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS Xinggong Liu, Taiwan, Textiles and Apparel; Nobuko Tanaka, Japan, Textiles and Apparel; Ren-Yueh Wang, Taiwan, Textiles and Apparel. The College of Agriculture and the College of Veterinary following new foreign graduate stu- Medicine welcome the VETERINARY BIOSCIENCES dents to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: Robert Wong-Pack, Canada, toxicology. AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS VETERINARY CLINICAL MEDICINE Syed Hussain, Pakistan, farm management and production Chih-Huan Yang, Taiwan, anesthesiology. economics: Asi Napitupulu, Indonesia, marketing and agri- cultural prices: Jae Sun Roh, Korea, natural resource eco- nomics; Alfonso Ruiz-Guinazu, Argentina, farm manage- ment and production economics. AFRICA RESEARCH GRANTS AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING October 21 is the application deadline for research grants James Stuart Birrell, Zimbabwe, engines and fuels; Nitin from the African Studies Center. Students and faculty may Manelkar, India, food engineering: Ysuuf Mohamoud, So- apply. The grants, which may be used for travel or applied to malia, soil and water conservation. other research needs, range from $50 to $500. Application ANIMAL SCIENCES procedures are available from the African Studies Center, 1208 West California Street, room 101, Urbana, IL 61801; Claudio Bellaver, Brazil, swine nutrition; Teresita Camacho, telephone (217) 333-6335. Costa Rica, swine management; Shu Wen Chen, Taiwan, re- productive physiology: Yang Da, Taiwan, genetics; Jose A. Gomez, Panama, ruminant nutrition: M. Alanna Kerr, Can- ada, animal breeding; Yong-Pil Kim, Korea, reproductive SHORT COURSE OFFERED BY SIUC physiology. NEW

AGRONOMY February 1, 1986, is the application deadline for a new course being offered by Southern Illinois University, Carbon- Liang-Jwu Chen, Taiwan, tissue culture. dale, entitled "Tractor and Machinery Maintenance, Adjust- FAMILY AND CONSUMER ECONOMICS ments, and Operation." The course will be held at SIUC gov- Musaddak Alhabeeb, Iraq, consumption economics; from May 19 to June 13, 1986. Educators, agronomists, Christopher Walson, Nigeria, consumption economics; ernment officials, and supervisory personnel from developing Young-Sook Yoo, Korea, consumption economics. countries who are responsible for the selection, purchasing, maintenance, and utilization of machines for food production FOOD SCIENCE will find the course beneficial. Details about the course are Rafiullah Khan, Pakistan, food processing; Laulhati available from Howard H. Olson, Director of International Salvador, Philippines, food processing engineering: Fatou Agriculture, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL Sanneh, Gambia, sovbean processing. 62901, USA; telephone (618) 536-7727; telex 9109962540. INTERPAKS ASSOCIATES WANTED nois, 208 North Romine Street, Urbana, IL 61801, USA, telephone (217) 333-6275. John L. Woods, who assumed the directorship of the Interna- tional Program for Agricultural Knowledge Systems (INTER- PAKS) in July, is interested in meeting faculty, staff, and grad- SCIENTISTS PLEDGE INTERNATIONAL uate students who might want to be associated with future COOPERATION INTERPAKS activities. One of the functions of INTERPAKS

is to be a link between the university community and interna- Members of the American Phytopathological Society (APS) tional involvement. Broadly speaking, INTERPAKS deals passed this resolution during their annual meeting, August with extension, library science, communications, management, 1985: "Recognizing that the continuing increase in the sociology, and other related subjects. The development of world's human population and concomitant need to increase new INTERPAKS programs will depend on faculty interest. food production and availability are major problems con- To find out more about INTERPAKS, call or write Dr. fronting mankind, the APS reaffirms it commitment to en- Woods at (217) 333-5831, 113 Mumford Hall, 1301 West courage plant health research and education, particularly in Gregory Drive, Urbana, IL, 61801. developing countries. The APS urges its members to make available their knowledge and expertise in plant disease con- trol to countries affected by food shortages. Further, the APS INTER-BASIN WATER TRANSFER SEMINAR pledges to provide technical guidance and rapid transfer of information to the international community and supports all The International Water Resources Association (IWRA) has efforts to' increase food supplies in developing countries. issued a call for papers and preliminary announcement for However, the APS further recognizes that the earth has a the Seminar on Inter-Basin Water Transfer, to be held June finite carrying capacity for the human species, and that im- 15 to 19, 1986, in Beijing, China. The seminar is sponsored provements in agricultural technology cannot be expected to by IWRA and the Chinese Society of Hydraulic Engineering. cope indefinitely w-ith the needs of constantly increasing pop-

More information is available from IWRA, University of Illi- ulations."

The International Agriculture Newsletter is published monthly by the Office of International Agriculture, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 113 Mumford Hall, 1301 West Gregory Drive, Urbana, 61801; Bonnie J. Irwin, editor. Faculty and departments are encouraged to submit newsletter items. Contact the Office of International Agriculture to receive your own copy of this newsletter. The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is an affirmative action/equal opportunity institution.

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1W1SUI jacent training facility contains twenty-one cooking units that can accommodate thirty trainees at a time. Since the establishment of the International Soybean INTSOY utilization work in Peru from 1977 to 1981 Program (INTSOY) at UIUC in 1973, its purpose has was part of a project with the Instituto Nacional de been to improve human nutrition around the world Desarrollo Agro-Industrial in Lima. The project concen- through the use of soybeans. Cooperating with national, trated on product identification and development of regional, and international organizations, INTSOY soyfoods. In 1979, a Spanish-language cookbook was works toward this goal through research, training published with eighty recipes based on whole soybeans, courses and study programs, regional and international soybean cake, and soy flour. INTSOY also worked with conferences, publications, feasibility studies, and testing industry on the introduction of three soybean products: and breeding programs. Activities are directed toward a beverage in both liquid and powdered form, soy-forti- developing countries in the tropics and subtropics fied bread, and soy-fortified noodles. in the benefits from which, in the past, have not shared UIUC has been involved in the utilization of whole soybeans. soybeans for food since 1969. Scientists in the Depart- The United States Agency for International Develop- ment of Food Science developed processing methods core for ment (USAID) provides funding INTSOY. that can be used commercially and in the home for a (Food and Special grants from the Agency, CARE, FAO wide variety of products, including drum-dried flakes, Agriculture Organization), IBPGR (International Board canned soybeans, dairy product analogs, and snack Rockefeller Founda- for Plant Genetic Resources), the foods. tion, UNDP (United Nations Development Program), The new soybean utilization program will be a three- and UNICEF (United Nations Children's Fund) have phase endeavor. First will be the research at UIUC to supported a range of projects. develop new soy products and processes from whole soybeans. In the second phase, simple "how to" manuals New USAID contract. INTSOY recently developed a and equipment lists will be prepared for less developed new five-year collaborative agreement with USAID. countries and entrepreneurs interested in investing in Work under this contract includes developing and dis- production of soy products. During the third phase, seminating new food and feed products from whole soy- INTSOY will undertake limited, on-site technical assist- beans and, in cooperation with national and interna- ance in soybean utilization for governments and private tional agricultural research institutions, promoting the firms in less developed countries. use of soybeans through research and training activities, collaborative research on exotic diseases and insects, and The development work at UIUC is focused on five exchange of germplasm, literature, and information. areas: a simple, relatively low-cost process to produce a high quality soy beverage which has no patent restric- tions; use of extrusion cooking to produce soybean/ Utilization. The focus of the new program is on soy- grain, soybean/fruit products bean utilization. It will build on research and extension soybean/vegetable, and low- activities from two INTSOY country programs and on for weaning foods, breakfast foods, and soups; a previous utilization work at UIUC. cost farm or village level oil extraction process, which From 1975 to 1981, INTSOY scientists worked col- will give farmers two products to market; refinement of laboratively with the Government of Sri Lanka on the village and home level processes for preparing soybean Soybean Development Project. Support was provided by dishes for home consumption; and simple processes for UNDP, FAO, UNICEF, and CARE. In 1979, the Soy- combining soybean residues with other ingredients to bean Foods Research Center, which includes a pilot make animal feed. plant to develop and produce soyfoods and a training The new products and processes will be tested and facility, was opened. The Center perfects local recipes, disseminated by network cooperators in Africa, Asia, develops and processes commercial soyfoods, and advises and Latin America. The International Institute of entrepreneurs interested in marketing soyfoods. The ad- Tropical Agriculture (IITA) will serve as the regional headquarters for Africa. In Asia, regional activities will inhibitor. Trypsin is an important digestive enzyme. Soy- focus on India and Sri Lanka. bean cultivars currently available must be heated to de- stroy the trypsin inhibitor before being fed to swine and Work on exotic diseases and insects. Researchers in poultry. The new lines could save U.S. soybean produc- the program on plant protection are studying diseases ers millions of dollars annually by reducing or eliminat- and insects present in other countries which, if intro- ing an expensive part of the processing. The new lines duced to the U.S., could seriously damage the soybean were developed from germplasm collected in Korea. industry. Two diseases being studied are soybean rust and pyrenochaeta leaf blotch. Rust is the most serious Recent and upcoming training activities. One of soybean disease in Asia. Pyrenochaeta leaf blotch causes INTSOY's main functions is education and training, serious losses in central and southern Africa. which is accomplished through conferences, workshops, and short courses. Soybean germplasm exchange and biotechnology. In January 1985, the Government of Sri Lanka and INTSOY will work with the International Board for INTSOY sponsored a workshop on soybean utilization Plant Genetic Resources and national programs to col- for participants from twelve Asian and African coun- lect and preserve soybean germplasm. The U.S. now tries. The Sri Lanka soyfoods research center and pilot has less than one quarter of the world's soybean germ- processing facility served as an excellent model of how a plasm. country can introduce and popularize soyfoods. INTSOY research on biotechnology will help develop In March 1985, INTSOY, AVRDC, and IITA scien- improved techniques for transferring beneficial charac- tists conducted a training course in Pakistan on soybean teristics from wild species to the cultivated species, technology. Course objectives included raising the over- Glycine max. all level of knowledge of soybean technology among the research and extension scientists in Pakistan, and dis- Benefits from the program. Although soybeans are cussing ways soybeans can help solve Pakistan's chronic well accepted as a food source in oriental cultures, use edible oil deficit. outside the Orient is primarily for oil and meal, with In early 1986, a workshop on soybean technology will most of the meal used for animal feed. There is tremen- be held in Zimbabwe for the countries of southern Af- dous need for expanded research on uses of raw whole rica, an area where soyfoods can substantially improve soybeans and constraints to its wider acceptance as a the diets of many people. component of the human diet. The development of new small- and medium-scale processes for soy beverages, ex- New INTSOY publication. The latest volume of re- truded soyfoods, and partial expulsion of oil will intro- sults from INTSOY's international cultivar testing pro- duce millions of people in less developed countries and gram is now available: International Soybean Variety the United States to soy products. Direct consumption Experiment, Tenth Report of Results, 1983, by J. A. of whole soybean products by low and medium income Jackobs, C. A. Smyth, and D. R. Erickson (INTSOY people around the world will lead to greatly improved series number 28). nutrition among consumer groups. As well, there will be new and expanded markets for U.S. soybeans, both in For more information about INTSOY or copies of the U.S. and abroad. publications call or write Harold E. Kauffman, 113 Work on exotic pests and diseases will help protect Mumford Hall, 1301 West Gregory Drive, Urbana, IL soybean producers from the natural spread or accidental 61801, telephone (217) 333-6422. introduction of destructive organisms. Despite U.S. quarantine procedures, there are numerous cases of ac- cidental introduction of diseases and pests. An example is the corn blight epidemic of the early 1970's when a new strain of the fungus caused serious losses for mid- western and southern corn farmers. Knowledge gained in studying the organism in Asia and plant breeding work with resistant cultivars developed from foreign germplasm enabled U.S. scientists to quickly overcome the problem. Benefits from germplasm exchange are enormous. For example, UIUC and USDA scientists recently developed three soybean lines which are free of the Kunitz trypsin NICHOLAIDES' NOTES Borje K. Gustafsson, Veterinary Clinical Medicine, will be at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, from No- An interesting and informative series of events were vember 1985 through May 1986 for a sabbatical leave. held at UIUC to observe World Food Day on October He will conduct research on uterine infections in the 16. For the second year in a row, faculty and students at cow, and pain and stress-related factors in parturition in UIUC prepared the study packet distributed nationwide the cow. by the National Committee for World Food Day. Our thanks to Carolyn M. Sands, Sheldon W. Williams, Mary Ellen Mason, graduate student in Animal Sciences, is a Ann Ross, and Earl D. Kellogg for preparing this mate- graduate assistant in the Office of Resident Instruction rial. Congratulations are in order also to Leon A. Mayer and the Office of International Agriculture. Ms. Mason and his committee of Robert E. Brown, Donald E. is working on projects that will make information on international agricultural opportunities more available tc Crummey, J. Terry Iversen, Beth E. Johnston, Carolyn M. Sands, David L. Thomas, Marcia N. White, Sheldon undergraduates. W. Williams, Raymond A. Woodis, and Heather Young for organizing our observance of World Food Day. Burton E. Swanson, Agricultural Education and IN- The World Food Day/International Agriculture Semi- TERPAKS, was at the Centro Internacional de Mejora- nar entitled "Combatting Hunger in Sub-Saharan Af- miento de Maiz y Trigo (CIMMYT) in Mexico on Octo- rica" by John A. Becker, Foreign Service Officer based ber 10 and 1 1. He met with Robert Raab, doctoral with us this year on a Reverse Joint Career Corp ap- candidate at UIUC in International Agricultural Educa- pointment, drew approximately one hundred and forty tion, who is working at CIMMYT. people. A special word of thanks to John A. Becker; to our local panel during the national teleconference, Sponsored by Borden World Trade, Michael F. Nalini Ayya, Mary A. Keith, Earl D. Kellogg, Hutjens, Animal Sciences, presented seminars on calf Shashidhara Kolavalli, and Lyle G. Reeser; and to the management at Seoul, Kwang Ju, Busan, and Taegu, International Colloquium panel on famine in Africa, Korea, from October 14 through 17.

Thomas J. Bassett, John A. Becker, Kathleen Cloud, Ibulaimu Kakoma, Sue Rocke, and Lare Sissay, for help- William C. Wagner, Veterinary Biosciences, will be in ing to make this day a success. Germany from October 21 to November 9 to continue Anyone interested in the current agricultural situation collaborative research in hormone synthesis in the pla- would, I believe, benefit from reading Dean John R. centa during late pregnancy in the cow. Dr. Wagner is

Campbell's excellent speech "Agriculture is Everybody's working with scientists at the Institut fiir Tiezucht, Mar- Business," which he presented to the Peoria Area Cham- iensee, and the University of Giessen. ber of Commerce on August 20. Copies are available from the Dean's office in 101 Mumford Hall. For the first half of November, Sam H. Johnson, Agri- cultural Economics, will be in Indonesia planning an irrigation management research project funded by the John J. Nicholaides, III Asian Development Bank.

INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES INTERNATIONAL MEETINGS From August through November, Scott K. Robinson, Illinois Wildlife Research Section of the Illinois Natural History David J. Voegtlin, Faunistics Section of the Nat- Survey, will study tropical community ecology in the ural History Survey, presented an invited paper entitled Manu National Park in southeastern Peru. "Searching for the Source of the Annual Spring Mi- grants of Rhopalosiphum maidis in North America" at the As part of a People-to-People Citizen Ambassador Pro- International Symposium on Population Structure, Ge- gram, Roscoe Randell, Agricultural Entomology and netics, and Taxonomy of Aphids, Smolenice, Czechoslo- Section of Economic Entomology of the Illinois Natural vakia, September 9 to 14. History Survey, toured China with a team of twenty- seven vegetable producers and researchers, September Marvin P. Bryant, Animal Sciences, attended a meeting 20 to October 10. They visited farms, communes, and of the Trust of Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriol-

universities in three provinces, and met with members ogy, September 1 1 to 14, Stamford, England. of the Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Husbandry, and Fisheries. Keith W. Kelley, Animal Sciences, was an invited speaker at the Professional Corporation of Veterinary Sciences, October 1985 to October 1986. He will work Surgeons of Quebec annual meeting, Ottawa, Canada, on immunology and physiologic basis of behavior with September 21. His talk was entitled "Interface of Patho- Keith W. Kelley, Stanley E. Curtis, and Harold W biology and Environment: Physiological Mechanisms." Gonyou.

"Long-distance Spread and Other Aspects of the Epide- Gerhard Flachowsky, Department of Animal Nutrition,

miology of Soybean Mosaic Virus" was the title of the Karl Marx University, Leipzig, Germany, is spending

invited paper presented by Michael E. Irwin, Agricul- October 1 5 to November 1 5 in the College of Agricul-

tural Entomology and Economic Entomology Section of ture. Dr. Flachowsky is interested in ruminant nutrition the Illinois Natural History Survey, at the Association of in beef and dairy feeding and particularly the utilization Applied Biologists meeting, September 24 to 26, Read- of agricultural and industrial by-products as feed. Spon- ing, England. sored by the International Research and Exchange

Board, (IREX), his program is being coordinated by Theodore R. Peck, Agronomy, was one of fifteen in- Upson S. Garrigus, Animal Sciences, 333-0124, and vited participants in a soil testing and fertilizer recom- Arthur J. Muehling, Agricultural Engineering, 333- mendations workshop sponsored by the Institute of Soils 9313. and Fertilizers, Beijing Academy of Agricultural Sci- ences, China, October 5 to 23. Sponsored by the Indo-US Fellowship Programme,

Kanaan Nanda is working with Jack M. Widholm, On October 8, David D. Pyle, Cooperative Extension Agronomy, for ten months on somatic hybridization and Service, presented a paper entitled "Youth Development genetic manipulation in maize and soybeans. in Rural America: 4-H - A Community Based Ap- proach" at the International Youth Services Conference Jose Pereira, School of Agronomy, Universidad de Ori-

in Chicago. ente, Monagas, Venezuela, is spending his sabbatical leave with Walter E. Splittstoesser, Horticulture. They Erwin Small, Veterinary Clinical Medicine, was in Israel are conducting research on cassava. Dr. Pereira, who and Egypt with the Society of International Veterinary received his Ph.D. from UIUC's Department of Horti- Symposia, October 7 to 25. The first session of the culture in 1970, can be contacted at 201 Vegetable program was held in conjunction with the opening of Crops Building, 333-1905, until the end of the fall se- the new veterinary school at Rehovot, Israel, and the mester. second session was held with faculty of the veterinary school at Cairo University, Giza, Egypt. Dr. Small serves Geraldo L. Colnago, Veterinary Faculty, Universidad the Society as executive secretary and program coordi- Fluminense, Brazil, completed a three-month visiting nator. professorship in Animal Sciences in October. Dr. Col- nago worked with James E. Corbin in canine nutrition. As part of World Food Day activities, Kathleen Cloud, Office of International Agriculture, and Jane Gleason, Under the sponsorship of USAID, Farouk Habib graduate student in Agricultural Economics, presented a Ghobrial and Mohamed Aly Shaker, Ministry of Sup- seminar entitled "Women, Food Production, and World ply, Egypt, spent October 7 to November 1 at UIUC Hunger" at Illinois State University, Normal, October 17. for a specialized training program on soybean process- ing for food uses. The program was presented by Alvin

Margo DeLey, Women in International Development I. Nelson, Lun-Shin Wei, Sing-Wood Yeh, and Wilmot and Office of International Agriculture, will present a Wijeratne, Food Science, in cooperation with INTSOY position paper entitled "Curriculum Development to Respond to the Needs of Business, Government, and Wieslaw Barej, Deputy Rector, and Mieczyslaw Agriculture for Personnel with International Language Adamowicz, Dean of the School of Agricultural Eco- Skills" at a conference sponsored by the Illinois State nomics, Warsaw Agricultural University, Poland, visited Board of Education, Springfield, November 15 and 16. the Colleges of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine on October 15 and 16 as part of a U.S. tour. They met with Earl D. Kellogg, International Agriculture, Wesley VISITING RESEARCHERS D. Seitz, Donald L. Uchtmann, and Wojciech Flor- kowski, Agricultural Economics, Larry L. Berger, Ani- Robert Dantzer, INRA/INSERM, University of Bor- mal Sciences, John A. Milner, Food Science, Mary deaux, France, is spending a sabbatical leave in Animal Frances Picciano, Foods and Nutrition, Charles E. Ol- son, Resident Instruction, and Lloyd C. Helper and Ta- Wang Weiliang, China International Economic and tiana E. Banak, Veterinary Medicine. Dr. Barej and Dr. Technical Cooperation Consultants Inc., Beijing, Nie Adamowicz were escorted by Elinor Ford, U.S. Depart- Jiuquan and Wang Xi Cai, Liaoning Province Depart- ment of State. ment of Agriculture and Animal Husbandry, Zhao Jia- ben, Liaoning Branch of the Agricultural Bank of On October 21, Katsuya Yaguchi, an agricultural econ- China, Gao Feng Ting, Liaoning Animal Husbandry omist in the Research and Legislative Reference Depart- Industry and Commerce Corporation, and Man Le ment, National Diet Library, Tokyo, Japan, arrived at Qian, Planning Commission of Liaoning Province, UIUC as a visiting research associate in Agricultural Shenyang, China, visited campus and toured dairy re- Economics. Dr. Yaguchi will spend three months gather- search facilities on October 2 escorted by Dewayne E. ing information on agricultural structure and farm man- Dill, Animal Sciences. The Chinese team met with Dean agement in Illinois. John R. Campbell on October 3. Walter L. Keats, presi- dent of Middle West Genetics Ltd., Kenilworth, Illinois, accompanied the team. VISITOR COMING TO CAMPUS Scheduled through the 4-H International Program, Panya Hiranrusme, Dean of the School of Agricultural Roberto Rios and Jose Carrasco, young farmers from Extension and Cooperatives, Sukhothai Thammathirat Panama, arrived at UIUC on October 2 for a three day will with Open University, Bangkok, Thailand, meet visit. They are participants in the CAPS (Central Ameri- university administrators and faculty in the College of can Peace Scholarship) Program sponsored by USAID. Agriculture, November 26 to December 9, to discuss While at UIUC they met with Leif H. Thompson, Ani- implementing a graduate program at his university, mal Sciences, and Gerald G. Gast, Cooperative Exten- which currently has 10,000 undergraduate students. sion Service, in a program arranged by Ann E Rund, Call Pamela Woodard at 333-5838 to meet with this Cooperative Extension Service. Mr. Rios and Mr. Car- visitor. rasco will live on farms in Illinois until mid-February.

Chief, Research and Development VISITORS RECENTLY ON CAMPUS Masayuki Hayashi, Department, Torigoe Flour Milling Company, Fukuoka, Japan, toured Food Science facilities on October 3. From September 18 to 20, Janos Berenji, Emmerich Brandle, and Franz Kornek visited with Henry H. Hadley, Agronomy, discussing problems in broomcorn Visiting the College of Agriculture on October 1 1 was research and production. Mr. Berenji is a broomcorn Juan Vega, Director of Agricultural and Marine Sci- breeder from Petrovac, Yugoslavia, on a five-month ences, Technical Institute of Monterrey, Mexico. He met study tour of sorghum research in the U.S. Mr. Brandle with Charles M. Brown and Richard L. Bernard, and Mr. Kornek are involved in a large-scale broomcorn Agronomy, Roger L. Courson, Vocational Agriculture production project in Ethiopia for the Byars Interna- Services, and Harold E. Kauffman, Margo De Ley, and tional Company. They also visited broom factories at John L. Woods, International Agriculture. Dr. Vega was Areola and Greenup and a brokerage firm at Areola, accompanied by Gordon Rosskamp, Western Illinois and observed seed production at Ramsey. University.

M. Journet and M. Vermoret, INRA, France, met with Ambassador to the U.S. from Zambia and former Prime faculty in Animal Sciences on September 24. Dr. Minister of Zambia, Nalumino Mundia, and Alex Tubi, Journet presented a seminar on feeding nitrogen to the First Secretary for Political Affairs, visited UIUC on dairy cow. October 11 and 12. They met with university adminis- tration and faculty in the College of Agriculture, Afri- On September 24 and 25, Tamas Szundy, corn breeder can Studies, and International Programs and Studies. of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, met with the corn group in Agronomy. Deputy Director of the Asian Vegetable Research and Michael Baxter, Senior Rural Development Officer, Development Center (AVRDC), Paul Sun, discussed co- West African Projects, World Bank, lectured to the operative activities in the Asian Soybean Improvement INTERPAKS short course for senior international ex- Network with James B. Sinclair, Plant Pathology, and tension advisers, September 26. Harold E. Kauffman, INTSOY, on October 14. Leroy Hanson, president of INSTAPRO, Des Moines, November 14 Wood Decomposition in Tropical Envi- Iowa, visited UIUC on October 15 to discuss coopera- ronments — Sandra Brown, Forestry. tive research on extrusion cooking with scientists in 12:00 noon, W-109 Turner Hall. Food Science, Animal Sciences, and INTSOY. INSTA- * Forestry Seminar PRO donated an extruder to INTSOY last year. November 14 Overview of the Role of Agricultural Bo Christiansen and Kurt Nielsen, Thrige Agro Com- Technology in Changing Societies — Medea Benjamin, pany, Denmark, visited Agricultural Engineering on Oc- Institute for Food and Development Policy. tober 22 to discuss grain seeding equipment used in 12:00 noon (bring your own lunch), Latzer Hall, Illinois and in the U.S. YMCA, 1001 South Wright Street, Champaign. *YMCA/Champaign-Urbana New World Agriculture Zeng Dechao and five staff members from the Beijing Seminar Institute of Agricultural Engineering, China, visited Ag- ricultural Engineering from October 29 to November 1. November 15 Graduate Student Research in Tanza- They inspected instruction, research, and extension nia — Tim Rocke, graduate student in Agricultural work in the department and visited experimental farms, Economics, and Sue Rocke, international nutritionist. private farms, and dealers. 4:00 p.m., room 405 Levis Faculty Center, 919 West Illinois Street, Urbana. * International Colloquium Seminar

November 20 Perceptions on Agriculture in the SEMINARS U.S.S.R. — W Michael Sager, Woodford County Coop- erative Extension Service. 4:00 p.m., 426 Mumford Hall. November 1 New Directions for International Agricul- * International Agriculture Seminar ture — John J. Nicholaides, Director and Associate Dean, Office of International Agriculture, UIUC. November 21 Social Forestry in Southeast Asia — 4:00 p.m., Levis Faculty Center Reading Room, 919 Guillermo Mendoza, Forestry. West Illinois Street, Urbana. 12:00 noon, W-109 Turner Hall. * International Colloquium Seminar * Forestry Seminar

November 6 Lessons Learned: Developing Curriculum November 21 Educational Issues: Village Life in Gu- Materials for Women in International Development — jarat, India — Barbara A. Yates, Educational Policy panel discussion with participants of the 1985 Women in Studies. International Development team to India. 12:00 noon, Friendship Lounge, YMCA, 1001 South 4:00 p.m., 426 Mumford Hall. Wright Street, Champaign. * International Agriculture Seminar *Women in International Development Seminar

November 6 Peasant Households and Agrarian Change December 6 Trends and Careers in the U.S. Agency for in Africa — Claude Meillassoux. International Development John A. Becker, Foreign 7:30 p.m., room 407 Levis Faculty Center, 919 West — Service Officer. Illinois Street, Urbana. 4:00 p.m., Levis Faculty Center Reading Room, 919 *MillerComm Lecture West Illinois Street, Urbana. * International Colloquium Seminar November 9 Open Borders: The Movement of People and Ideas in the Ivory Coast and Beyond. 8:45 a.m. to 10.00 p.m., Levis Faculty Center Music Room, 919 West Illinois Street, Urbana. *African Studies Fall Round Table

November 13 A Look at Belize: MUCIA'S Caribbean SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT Agricultural Extension Project — Donald R. Smucker, Cooperative Extension Service. Yang Da, graduate student in Animal Sciences, is from 4:00 p.m., 426 Mumford Hall. the People's Republic of China. Mr. Da's home country International Agriculture Seminar was incorrectly reported in the October newsletter. SPANISH FOR AGRICULTURE of the Vice President for Academic Affairs. Grants of up to $1,000 are available to support international will result in the development or enhance- Spanish 142, Elementary Spanish for Agriculture and travel which ment of international programs at the University of Illi- Related Fields II, will be given in the spring semester. Students with one semester of college-level Spanish or nois. Matching funds must be secured from institutional application opportunity for is two to three years of high school-level Spanish may en- sources. The next 1986 October 1. Guidelines and request forms are available roll. Enrollment information is available from Margo DeLey, 324 Coble Hall, 333-1977. from T.John Kim, MUCIA Liaison Officer, 311 Coble Hall, 801 South Wright Street, Champaign, IL 61820, NEW PUBLICATIONS telephone (217) 333-1993.

The latest volume of results from INTSOY's interna- KELLOGG NATIONAL FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM tional cultivar testing program is now available: Interna- tional Soybean Variety Experiment, Tenth Report of December 31, 1985, is the application deadline for the Smyth, and D. R. 1986 Kellogg National Fellowship Program. The aim of Results, 1983, by J. A. Jackobs, C. A. Erickson (INTSOY series number 28). For a free copy the program is to assist future leaders in developing social issues, especially agricul- call or write INTSOY, 113 Mumford Hall, 1301 West skills to address broad Gregory Drive, Urbana, IL 61801, telephone (217) 333- ture, education, and health, in creative ways. The three- 6422. year program is designed for individuals who are in the early years of their careers. During the program, fellows The World Agriculture Service Society is starting a should spend approximately twenty-five percent of their newsletter for students interested in international agri- time on fellowship-related activities. Awards will not be culture and development. The first issue will be pub- made for basic research nor for the acquisition of skills lished November 10. For more information about the within the applicant's principal discipline. Information newsletter write to the World Agriculture Service Soci- on application requirements is available from depart- ety, WASS Newsletter Committee, 106 Armsby, Pennsyl- ment heads or the Office of International Agriculture, vania State University, University Park, PA 16802. 113 Mumford Hall, 333-6421. Directory of International Employment Opportunities INTERNATIONAL CONSORTIUM TO BE is available for review in the Office of Resident Instruc- tion, 108 Mumford Hall, the Office of International FORMED Agriculture, 113 Mumford Hall, and the reserve desk of the Agriculture Library, 226 Mumford Hall. This INTERPAKS (Internationa! Program for Agricultural loose-leaf notebook will be updated regularly. Knowledge Systems) of UIUC, the Agricultural Exten- sion and Rural Development Center (AERDC) of the TRAVEL FUNDS: FEBRUARY 1 DEADLINE University of Reading, England, and the International Agriculture Center of the Agriculture University in

February I, 1986, is the application deadline for inter- Wageningen, Netherlands, are forming a consortium for national travel funds available to University of Illinois organizations working with agricultural knowledge sys- faculty and staff through MUCIA (Midwest Universities tems. The group plans to meet in Wageningen in March Consortium for International Activities) and the Office 1986 to implement a collaborative agreement.

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MUTUAL AID ries don't buy food or much of anything else. The ige family income in many developing countries is In the past several months, two spectacular concert less than $300 per year. How much U.S. agricultural benefits were held. Live Aid to help starving people in products can these people buy? Africa and Farm Aid to assist economically strapped LDCs have the fastest population growth rate in the farmers in the U.S. International agricultural develop- world. Each day, 224,000 more people are added to the ment is another type of aid, Mutual Aid, because it face of the earth, roughly equal to twice the population benefits both the poor of lesser developed countries of Champaign-Urbana or fifty times the population of

(LDCs) and U.S. farmers. This article explains why it is Tuscola. In less than three years that equals the popula- not only important but vital that we continue interna- tion of the United States. Fully 90 percent of this in- tional agricultural development. creased population by the year 2000 will be in LDCs. It is paradoxical that as U.S. farmers cope with pro- Developing countries will only be able to purchase food duction surpluses and major declines in export sales for their growing populations when they have a solid (down to an estimated $32 billion in 1985 from $43.8 economic base. billion in 1981), many countries of the developing Developing countries are our fastest growing market. world are experiencing severe food shortages. Poverty From 1976 to 1982, U.S. agricultural exports to LDCs and hunger in LDCs and the decline in prosperity of increased annually by 17 percent. LDCs purchased 30 the U.S. agricultural sector are interdependent. Interna- percent of our agricultural exports in 1976; by 1984 tional agricultural development is Mutual Aid, a way to their share grew to 49 percent. help improve living standards both for people in LDCs and American farmers. Opposite end examples. Brazil is often mentioned as a developing country where increased agricultural pro- Economic Benefits to U.S. duction has had a negative effect on U.S. agricultural exports. According to a recent paper by Earl D. Kellogg, One reason sometimes cited for the economic prob- Associate Director of the Office of International Agri- lems of the U.S. agricultural sector is agricultural devel- culture, the 66 percent increase in Brazil's agricultural opment work in LDCs. Those who hold this view argue production from 1970 to 1983 was one of the fastest that by helping developing countries grow food we cut worldwide and was accompanied by rapid growth in off a market for U.S. farmers. Much evidence can be purchases of U.S. agricultural products. From 1970 to cited, however, which counters this argument. Interna- 1983, Brazilian imports of U.S. food products increased tional agricultural development in which U.S. universi- from $77 million to $471 million. During this period, ties participate has not caused the problems faced by the proportion of U.S. commercial agricultural sales our farmers. In fact, to stop international agricultural (versus U.S. government-supported export sales) in- development would result in decreased U.S. agricultural creased from 36 percent to 99.7 percent. Increased exports, the very thing our farmers and other con- commercial sales are what our farmers need. cerned citizens are trying to prevent. This is impressive, but what about soybeans? In spite LDCs, our fastest growing market. In LDCs, the de- of expansion of Brazil's soybean sector, Brazil has ac- mand for U.S. agricultural products is dependent on tually imported greater amounts of U.S. soybeans and economic prosperity. Agriculture is the largest sector in soybean products. The value of U.S. exports of soy- the economies of most developing countries. Improved beans and soybean products increased from less than $1 domestic agricultural production contributes to the de- million in 1970 to $35 million in 1982, an average velopment of non-agricultural sectors and to increased annual increase of 43 percent. Similar figures for the availability of foreign exchange. As people's incomes in- same period exist for wheat and wheat products (from crease, so do the demands for meat and value-added $41 million to $452 million, a 27 percent average an- products, much of which will be purchased from the nual increase) and corn and corn products (from $0.3 U.S. In other words, food exports to LDCs are directly million to $154 million, an 86 percent average annual related to their ability to pay. Poor people and poor increase). At the other end of the scale, Dr. Kellogg reported reliable trading partner. Producers who filled the gap that from 1970 to 1983, total agricultural production in during the embargoes still supply a large part of that Sierra Leone increased only 21 percent, about one-third market. Some U.S. government measures, no matter of Brazil's increase. Per capita agricultural production in how well-intended politically, have hurt our farm econ-

Sierra Leone declined by 1 1 percent during that period. omy. A perfect candidate for increased sales of U.S. agricul- tural exports, you might say. Look at the data. Average Other Reasons for Involvement U.S. agricultural exports to Sierra Leone were $3.5 mil- There are other important reasons why we are in- lion in 1970-1972 and $6.2 million in 1981-1983. How- volved in international agricultural development. I have ever, commercial sales decreased from 66 percent of the focused on the economic issue because international ag- total in 1970-1972 to 31 percent in 1981-1983. Cer- ricultural development is often criticized as being coun- tainly, this is not a situation which our farmers want to see. terproductive to the U.S. farm economy; the evidence Brazil and Sierra Leone reflect accurately the possibil- presented shows that this criticism is invalid. ities for U.S. agricultural exports to countries at both ends of the development scale. Dean John R. Campbell, Germplasm access. Our involvement in international in testimony before the U.S. House Agriculture Com- agricultural development makes available formerly inac- mittee in October 1983, stated that the faster the cessible crop and animal germplasm. Germplasm from growth in agricultural production in developing coun- other countries has played an important role in U.S. tries, the greater the increase in agricultural imports. agriculture. None of our major commercial crops is in- Specifically, during the 1970s and early 1980s, ten de- digenous to the United States and none of our breeds veloping countries with fast rates of growth in agricul- of livestock, except for some crosses, originated here. tural production increased their food imports by an av- Access to new germplasm can provide the key to im- erage of 68 percent, while ten developing countries with proved cultivars and breeds. For example, in 1970, the slow agricultural production growth rates increased food southern corn leaf blight devastated U.S. corn produc- imports by only 3 percent. In developing countries, ers, causing a 15 percent yield reduction. The gene in cultivars changes in per capita domestic agricultural production our new corn which now have resistance to the are positively correlated with per capita imports of agri- blight was obtained from Latin American maize lines, cultural products. unavailable without our international germplasm ex- change. Causes of Decreased Exports Recent work by Theodore Hymowitz and Richard L. Bernard (USDA) of the UIUC Agronomy Department What, then, are the causes of decreased U.S. agricul- developed three soybean lines free of the Kunitz trypsin tural exports? inhibitor. The new lines were developed from germ- • One of the most important causes is the high value of plasm collected in Korea. All presently available com- the U.S. dollar against other currencies. With a strong mercial soybean cultivars in the U.S. must be heated U.S. dollar, our agricultural products are more expen- prior to feeding to swine and poultry to destroy this sive and sales are reduced. digestive enzyme inhibitor. Cultivars, which will be de- • U.S. domestic agricultural policies result in world mar- veloped from the new lines, may eliminate or at least ket prices of some commodities being inflated, thus en- reduce an expensive part of processing soybeans for ani- couraging production and export by other countries. mal feed. This could result in an estimated savings of This reduces U.S. sales abroad. If the U.S. did not between $100 million and $500 million annually to U.S. support prices above free-market price levels, competing soybean producers. The work which resulted in the new countries might not be able to profitably produce these lines would not have been possible without funding sup- commodities. Soybeans are a good example of this rela- plied in part by the Illinois Soybean Program Operating tionship. Board and the Illinois Crop Improvement Association, • Since 1980, total world agricultural trade has declined nor would it have occurred without the exchange of due to reduced economic growth worldwide and in- germplasm afforded by our international involvement. creased indebtedness of many LDCs. A December 1 984 Realization of the magnificent potential for improved USDA report estimated that the debt problem alone has crop cultivars and animal breeds is precisely the reason led to a nearly 20 percent decline in potential U.S. Dean Campbell and Governor Thompson worked hard export sales to developing countries. for the soybean, maize, and swine exchange agreement • The European Community is producing certain com- signed with the Chinese in March 1985. There are nu- modities in excess of internal demand, and the surplus, merous potential benefits to Illinois and U.S. agriculture which is exported, is competing with U.S. exports in arising from this agreement. other countries. • Due to the Nixon and Carter embargoes on agricul- World peace and stability. Another reason to support tural products, many countries view the U.S. as an un- international agricultural development is increased world peace and stability. There is, in my opinion, no ment of those people is to help them learn how to clearer recipe for social and political turmoil than pov- produce some of their food and earn enough to pur- erty and hunger in the LDCs. We will see governments chase the rest. The security afforded by a life without change in many of these countries due to poverty and poverty and hunger is the basis for a life of hope and hunger. Some changes will come from the ballot box; dignity. others through less peaceful means. Only when people I am convinced that there is not a more caring nor can feed their families and have a chance for a better concerned group of people in the U.S. than our farm- life will we see more stability in developing countries ers. Once they understand the current situation, they and the world as a whole. will respond in a positive manner. It is only good and Humanitarian concern. This leads to the final and right that we help. The wonderful part of international most important reason for international agricultural de- agricultural development is that in helping those less velopment, our humanitarian concern. We are all hu- fortunate we also help ourselves through increases in man beings and, as such, brothers and sisters to each world peace and stability, additional exports of U.S. ag- other. Who among us cannot help but be touched by ricultural products, and increased access to the world's the horrible plight of the starving people in some areas germplasm. That is truly Mutual Aid. of Africa, regardless of the form of government under which they live? The long-term solution to the predica- — /• / Nicholaides III

NICHOLAIDES' NOTES of the association, and Glenn E. Stout, Water Resources Center, was elected secretary general.

Beginning this month. Earl D. Kellogg, our Associate

Director, is taking a leave of absence for one year to Robert M. Skirvin, Horticulture, is on sabbatical leave serve as Associate Executive Director of the Consortium in the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research for International Development (CID), based in Tucson, (DSIR), Christchurch, New Zealand, until May 1986.

Arizona. Dr. Kellogg is well known for his outstanding He is studying the genetics of a unique, tissue culture- leadership and service to the University and the com- derived thornless blackberry. munity. His contributions to the success of UIUC's Of- fice of International Agriculture are many and substan- Roy K. Simons, Horticulture, presented a paper enti- tial. It goes without saying that CID's gain is Illinois' tled "Floral Tube and Style Abscission in Prunus" at the loss. Fifth International Symposium on Growth Regulators in We wish Earl, Jan, and their family a productive and Fruit Production, Rimini, Italy, September 2 to 6. happy year and look forward to their return. Edwin C. Hahn, Veterinary Pathobiology, was an in- Nicholaides HI — J J- vited participant to the EMBO Workshop on Parvovi- ruses, Grangeneuve, Switzerland, September 16 to 19. He presented a poster session entitled "Contribution of INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES Aleutian Disease Virus to the Induction of Anti-DNA Antibody in Mink." Dr. Hahn also visited the Institute The Illinois Cooperative Coordinating Committee, for Medical Virology at the University of Heidelberg, which represents all cooperatives in Illinois, recently Germany, where he presented a seminar on cellular im- awarded John B. Claar, Office of International Agricul- munity against pseudorabies and initiated collaborative ture, their "Cooperative Friend Award for 1985." In research on the virulence of deletion mutants of herpes- making the award, the Committee noted that Dr. Claar virus. was a charter member of the group and facilitated rec- ognition programs throughout the state. The award was The keynote address at the NATO Advanced Study In- presented by Governor Thompson. stitute on Cyst Nematodes, Martina Franca, Italy, Sep- tember 21 to October 3, was delivered by Gregory R. Three UIUC faculty members were named to offices in Noel, Plant Pathology/USDA. Also attending from the International Water Resources Association. Sam H. UIUC was Barry J. Jacobsen, Plant Pathology, who lec- Johnson, Agricultural Economics, was named treasurer, tured on integrated management programs for soybean W. H. C. Maxwell, Civil Engineering, was named edi- cyst nematodes and on extension education programs in tor-in-chief of Water International and elected a fellow soybean cyst nematode control. From September 29 to October 5, Mark J. Wetzel, Sec- ber of ISAE. He also visited agricultural engineering tion of Faunistic Surveys and Insect Identification, Illi- departments in Jabalpur, Kharagpur, Allahabad, and nois Natural History Survey, participated in the Third Pantnagar. At Pantnagar Prof. Hay participated in the International Symposium on Aquatic Oligochaeta, Ham- twenty-fifth anniversary of the opening of G. B. Pant burg, Germany. During the meeting Mr. Wetzel chaired University of Agriculture and Technology. discussions on bibliographic retrieval systems and a di- rectory of international oligochaetologists. Marvin P. Steinberg, Food Science, visited Taiwan to develop cooperative research on feed and fuel from

Peter B. Bayley, Section of Aquatic Biology, Illinois feedlot biomass, October 27 to November 9. The trip Natural History Survey, presented an invited paper on was sponsored by the National Science Foundation in comparative fisheries at a UNESCO-sponsored sympo- conjunction with the American Institute in Taiwan and sium on comparative ecology of aquatic environments, the Taiwan National Science Council. Dr. Steinberg September 30 to October 4, Nairobi, Kenya. then traveled to Guangzhou, China, to present a poster Dr. Bayley's trip was supported by a National Science paper entitled "Biogas for an Integrated Farm Energy Foundation travel grant. System" at the Fourth International Symposium on An- aerobic Digestion. On the return trip he also visited the Attending the International Conference of the Ameri- East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawaii. Donald L. Day, Ag- can Association of Textile Chemists and Colorists, Mon- ricultural Engineering, is also a principal investigator on treal, Canada, October 6 to 10, was Mastura Raheel, these projects. Textiles, Apparel, and Interior Design. Lun-Shin Wei, Food Science, traveled in China from November 2 to 13. Dr. Wei discussed soyfood research, Richard E. Dierks, Dean of the College of Veterinary gave seminars on soyfood processing activities in the Medicine, was in Germany and Austria from October 6 U.S., and discussed a possible Memorandum of Under- to 18 as a consultant for the U.S. Surgeon General and standing for research and training between UIUC and the U.S. Army Veterinary Corps. the Scientific Research Institute of Food and Fermenta- tion Industries, Beijing. At the Seventh International Symposium on Atheroscle- rosis, Melbourne, Australia, October 6 to 10, Ross P. Edward G. Perkins, Food Science, presented an invited Holmes and Fred A. Kummerow, Food Science, pre- paper on new instrumentation and chaired a session at sented two poster sessions. As part of this trip, Dr. the World Conference on Emerging Technologies in the Kummerow also attended symposia in Australia and Fats and Oil Industry, Cannes, France, in early Novem- Switzerland; presented a seminar at Unilever Co., Bom- ber. Dr. Perkins also visited the INRA laboratory at bay, India; and met with researchers at the University of Dijon and the ITERG laboratory in Paris. Paris Medical School.

With Marshal Brinkman of the University of Wisconsin Steven T. Sonka, Agricultural Economics, traveled in and Don Schuchel of Quaker Oats, Charles M. Brown, agricultural trade mission, Japan as part of a U.S.-Japan Agronomy, participated in a review of cooperative oat the October 19 to November 2, sponsored by Chicago nurseries in Brazil and Argentina from November 2 to Relations. Council on Foreign 25. Many Illinois oat lines are being evaluated in these nurseries, providing valuable information about disease Paul G. Risser, Chief of the Illinois Natural History and insect resistance. Survey, presented a paper on biological data and geo- graphic information systems at the International Confer- John W. Santas, Office of International Agriculture, was ence on the Global Environment, Venice, Italy, October in Pakistan during November to meet with the nomi- 21 to 25. nees for training in 1986 from the Northwest Frontier Province Agricultural University, Peshawar. The training Jean M. Due, Agricultural Economics, lectured at the will be conducted as part of a USAID-sponsored institu- Indian Institute of Public Administration and the Indian tion building project to the University of Illinois named Council of Social Science Research, both in New Delhi, TIPAN (Transformation and Integration of the Provin- during a trip to India from October 25 to November 16. cial Agricultural Network). Enroute, Dr. Santas visited the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Bangkok, At the invitation of the Indian Society of Agricultural Thailand, to discuss the possibilities of short-term train- Engineering (ISAE), Ralph C. Hay, professor emeritus ing for TIPAN participants at AIT. in Agricultural Engineering, attended the twenty-fifth anniversary meeting of the society, held in Bhopal, In- Emerson D. Nafziger, Agronomy, was in Toronto, Can- dia, October 28 to 30. Professor Hay is a lifetime mem- ada, November 12 and 13, to participate in a seminar on intensive cereal management sponsored by Union nology Career Fellowships, a new program with Rocke- Carbide Company. feller Foundation, are designed to bring faculty mem- bers of universities in developing countries to Frederick C. Fliegel, Agricultural Economics at UIUC, laboratories in the U.S. and Howard H. Olson, Director of International Agri- Iran, is in- culture at Southern Illinois University-Carbondale, con- Hamid Mehravaran, University of Urmia, sulted on program and curriculum development at the vestigating the interaction of mycorrhizal fungi and soy- Northwest Frontier Province Agricultural University, bean plants as part of his sabbatical research in the Peshawar, Pakistan. From November 9 to December 3 laboratory of Jack D. Paxton, Plant Pathology. Professor for Dr. Fliegel met with faculty in rural social sciences, and Mehravaran arrived at UIUC in October a one year from November 25 to December 17 Dr. Olson met with visit. faculty in animal husbandry. Jorge Teivelis Filho, from Brazil, is a visiting research The new Research Extension Liaison Officer on the associate in equine medicine and surgery with Gordon J. April 1986. Zambia Agricultural Research and Extension (ZA- Baker, Veterinary Clinical Medicine, until

MARE) project is Dennis Thompson. Mr. Thompson, who is replacing Ronald G. Dedert, will spend four weeks in Zambia in November and December. In mid- SEMINAR January he will return to Zambia with his family for a resident assignment at Kabwe. December 6 Trends and Careers in the U.S. Agency for International Development — John A. Becker, Foreign Sponsored by Shur Gain Division of Canada Packers, Service Officer. Michael F. Hutjens, Animal Sciences, presented six 4:00 p.m., Levis Faculty Center Reading Room, 919 seminars in Ontario, Canada, on phase feeding for opti- West Illinois Street, Urbana. mum milk production and profit, November 18 to 21. International Colloquium Seminar

Kathleen Cloud, International Agriculture, spoke on women's roles in world food systems at the Annual In- VISITORS RECENTLY ON CAMPUS ternational Symposium of the Massachusetts League of Women Voters, Boston, November 21 and 22. She also Santiago Rodriguez and Manuel Toro, National Foun- participated in a U.S. Agency for International Develop- dation for Agricultural Research, Maracai, Venezuela, ment (USAID) workshop to evaluate USAID's imple- were on campus October 7 and 8 to renew a UIUC- mentation of the Percy Amendment (women in develop- Venezuela project on hemoparasitic diseases of cattle. ment amendment) to the Foreign Assistance Act, They met with Miodrag Ristic and Sonia Montenegro- Washington, D.C., November 24 and 25. James, Veterinary Pathobiology and members of the College of Veterinary Medicine's Hemotropic Diseases Research Group. VISITING RESEARCHERS Pam Anderson, entomologist with the University of

Jose I. Cubero, professor of genetics at the University Nicaragua, discussed research on virus epidemiology of Cordoba, and Teresa Moreno, Department of Agri- and microbial insect control with Michael E. Irwin and culture, Cordoba, Spain, arrived at UIUC in November Joseph V. Maddox, Agricultural Entomology and Eco- to work for one year in the laboratory of Johannes M. nomic Entomology Section of the Illinois Natural His- will genetic tory Survey, October 31 to November 4. J. deWet, Agronomy. They be working on transformations in maize and can be contacted in care National de la of Dr. deWet at AW-115 Turner Hall, 333-9458 On October 22, J. J. Leguay, Centre Recherche Scientifique, Physiologie Cellulaire Vegetale, The Rockefeller Foundation has awarded Seong-Mo Gif sur Yvette, France, visited Plant Pathology and pre- Kang, Department of Horticulture, Gyeongsang Na- sented a lecture on auxin modulation of the expression tional University, Chinju, Korea, a Biotechnology Career of a major peptide in soybean cells grown in culture. Fellowship to study at UIUC with John S. Titus, Horti- culture. Dr. Kang, who received his Ph.D. from UIUC Maurice Fleming, USAID Project Officer for TIPAN in 1979, will conduct research on the manipulation of (Transformation and Integration of the Provincial Agri- the nitrogen economy of plants by modifying the senes- cultural Network/Pakistan) visited UIUC and SIUC cence process. The first of his three visits to campus will from November 20 to 23. He met with senior project

be from December 1, 1985, to March 1, 1986. Biotech- staff to discuss the early implementation phase of TIPAN. Ian Sturgess, Director of the Agricultural Economics As some of our readers may have missed Dean Campbell's Unit, Cambridge University, England, visited Agricul- excellent article in the Xew York Times on September 25,

tural Economics on November 25 and presented a semi- 1985, we are reprinting it here. nar entitled "U.S.-E.C. Trade Relations and Implica- tions for EC Agricultural Policy."

Modern Farm Aid to Ease the Crisis by John R. Campbell SPANISH AND FRENCH LANGUAGE MATERIALS

The Farm Aid concert held here Sunday is expected DeLey, Office Margo of International Agriculture's For- to raise tens of millions of dollars to help ease the plight eign Language Specialist, needs technical and adminis- of financially strapped farmers. That may sound like a trative material in French or Spanish for use in foreign considerable sum, but it will hardly solve the problems language training programs. The loan of items already that beset American agriculture. in your files or material collected on upcoming trips The agricultural recession already extends well be- would be appreciated. Call or write Dr. at 333- DeLey yond farmers, and economic figures alone do not tell 324 Hall. 1977, Coble the complete story of the distress in rural America. We face an extensive, complex crisis, but there are some

small ways to begin to address it — chiefly by revising

CALL FOR PAPERS farm ' management. Many farmers have looked to Washington for solu-

January 20, 1986, is the deadline for submission of ab- tions to this crisis. There is a role for the Federal Gov- stracts for the symposium entitled "Agricultural Policy ernment to play, but universities can take the lead by and African Food Security: Issues, Prospects, and Con- improving crop research and by developing computer straints, Towards the Year 2000." Sponsored by the technology. Center for African Studies and the Office of Interna- In Thomas Jefferson's time, 90 percent of the popula-

tional Agriculture, the symposium will be held at UIUC tion were farmers, and they generated nearly all of this

from April 24 to 26, 1986. The symposium is organized country's economic output. Agriculture is still the larg- around five topics: access to food in Africa, policies of est business — about 20 percent of the gross national African governments, historical context, the role of ex- product — but less than 3 percent of the people live on ternal agencies, and the prospect of an agricultural rev- farms.

olution for Africa. Papers will be selected on the basis As a result, many Americans think little about farm-

of abstracts. For submission guidelines call or write the ing or its problems, and they take for granted the abun- Center for African Studies, 1208 West California Street, dant and inexpensive food that the farm sector pro-

Room 101, Urbana, IL 61801, telephone (217) 333-6335. vides. But agriculture is critically important to the nation's economic health. The agriculture and food in- dustries employ more than 22 million people (more FILM CENTER PROJECT than the steel and automobile industries combined) and are major exporters, contributing favorably to our bal-

The University of Illinois Film Center has translated ance of trade. eighteen videotapes on agricultural topics into Spanish Nonetheless, farmers are facing the toughest eco- as part of an investigation on the need for translated nomic times since the Great Depression. With many U.S. agricultural training material. The videos are avail- farmers in deep financial trouble, the ripple effect has able for domestic and overseas use. For an explanation also forced many rural banks and businesses to close.

of the project or a list of items contact Calvin L. Since 1979, sales of farm machinery have plunged more Owens, Director of the University of Illinois Film Cen- than 50 percent; dealerships have closed at record rates; ter, 1325 South Oak Street, Champaign, 61820, farm equipment manufacturers have laid off more than telephone (217) 333-1360. 140,000 workers; fertilizer and pesticide sales have de- clined, and agricultural processors and exporters are suf- fering serious slumps. Several large corporations that rely on the sector's business are teetering on the brink of bankruptcy. Farmers are subject not only to the vicissitudes of the weather but to social, political and economic pressures beyond their control. These include inflation, the fluc- tuating value of the dollar and plummeting land values, ILLINOIS AT URB^ which all are threatening the solvency of the family farm. More than a quarter of all farmers are experienc- make use of the specialized skills of agriculture experts. ing serious financial stress and many suffer physical and One program, for instance, can identify problems in a psychological problems as well. field of soybeans and instantly recommend appropriate

Doubtless, there is a role to be played by the Federal treatment. Others are in various stages of development. Government — in crafting a sound agricultural policy We expect these programs to produce real economic and assuring that farmers continue to have access to benefits. affordable credit — but farmers must learn to survive in We know, for example, that two-thirds of all corn is a highly competitive world economy. To do that they now sold at the lower third of the annual price range. must master new and sophisticated management skills If Illinois farmers had access to a computer that could and make use of the latest technology. The University prescribe the best marketing plan for their specific situa- of Illinois offers financial counseling to distressed farm- tion, they could reap sizable benefits. If they averaged ers, many of whom do not keep adequate records to only five cents more a bushel, it would be worth an- assess their true financial condition. However, with nually more than $32 million. training, they are capable of doing so, especially on I am not suggesting that there is an easy high-tech fix computers. for all the problems afflicting farmers. But advances in Farmers also stand to gain from the computer's ana- agricultural research and new applications of computer lytical power. The university plans to develop computer technology can play a major role in assuring economic programs to aid the state's small- and medium-sized viability for our farmers. farmers. The university's goal is to create programs that

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SHARING KNOWLEDGE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS The educational, research, extension, and international AGRONOMY: tropical soil management; response of di- programs of the university are enriched through inter* vergent maize cultivars to water stress; soybean and actions with students and researchers from overseas. EV- eforn leaf photosynthesis; molecular plant systematics and change of ideas and viewpoints contributes significantly genetic engineering; maize genetics; soybean production to improved cross-cultural understanding, a greater and extension; crop production; soil chemistry; soils; awareness of existing interdependencies among world water stress and leaf physiology; RuBP carboxylase ac- societies, and a broader perspective on the global food tivity determination; somatic hybridization and genetic and agricultural system. Now and in years to come, manipulation in corn and soybeans; genetic transforma- visiting researchers and students will provide valuable tions in maize; soil testing and plant analysis; porosity ties to overseas research institutes, universities, and gov- measurements in long-term tillage plots. ernment organizations. ANIMAL SCIENCES: livestock feeding and management; livestock judging; cattle reproduction; biosynthesis of Scientists the Visiting researchers. from around milk; genetic evaluation of cows; immunophysiology; sta- to the Urbana-Champaign campus to dis- world come tistical methodology; swine breeding and management; research with faculty staff cuss and conduct and mem- multivariate analysis of discrete data in genetics; repro- bers at UIUC and affiliated state and federal research ductive physiology; immunology and physiologic basis of organizations. for a two, others stay Some come day or behavior; ruminant nutrition in beef and dairy feeding; for more than a year. canine nutrition; nonconventional animal feeds. A count from the 1985 International Agriculture FOOD SCIENCE: isolation, characterization, and chemis- Newsletter showed that sixty-one scientists and research- try of food flavors; influence of selenium on carcinogen ers from twenty-six countries spent periods ranging metabolism and activation; membrane technology and from two weeks to sixteen months in the College of milk processing; relationship of diet to thickness of the Agriculture and College of Veterinary Medicine. Nearly coronary artery; soybean processing for food uses; lactic 25 percent of them stayed for five to six months, and acid fermentation using membrane bioreactors. almost half stayed for one year or more. While here, they learned laboratory and diagnostic techniques, FOODS AND NUTRITION: administrative procedures taught and took courses, used the library and computer and course development. facilities, and explored new areas of science. HORTICULTURE: research on cassava; manipulation of Areas of cooperative research pursued by these visit- nitrogen economy of plants by modifying the senescence ing scientists included the following: process.

AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS: comparative marketing PLANT PATHOLOGY: research on varieties and species alternatives for Swedish and American hog and grain of elm resistant to rj>utch elm disease (with the Botany producers; farm management. Section of the lllindis Natural History Survey); interac- tion of mycorrhizal fungi and soybean plants. AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING: agricultural machinery systems; research in methods and facilities used in ani- VE TERINARY CLINICAL MEDICINE: theriogenology; mal and plant environmental engineering; use of equine medicine; equine surgery; medical imaging tech- by-products as feed. nology; mastitis research; reproductive studies.

AGRlCUL'l L RAL ENTOMOLOGY AND ECONOMIC VETERINARY PATHOBIOLOGY: application of radioim- ENTOMOLOGY Sit. HON OF THE ILLINOIS NATURAL munoassay in studies of animal production; study of

HISTORY SURVEY: flight energy utilization of aphids; Escherichia coiv, immunology; public health and preven- field crop pest management; insect vectors of pine wilt. tive medicine. International student enrollment in agriculture and Home Countries of International Students in veterinary medicine. Tunetara Yamaou, a student from Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine Japan, was a member of the first graduating class of the Region and Country Number Region and Country Number University of Illinois in 1873 and the first international Asia 113 Africa 25 student to graduate in agriculture. Since then, UIUC Bangladesh 1 Egypt 1 has maintained a tradition of educating students from China 41 Gambia 2 abroad. Hong Kong 1 Ivory Coast 3

Japan 2 Morocco 1 In the fall 1985 semester, there were 204 interna- India 14 Nigeria 5 tional graduate and undergraduate students from fifty- Indonesia 4 Rwanda 1 six countries enrolled in seventeen departments in the Korea 25 Somalia 2

two colleges. Nearly 30 percent of the graduate stu- Malaysia 7 Tanzania 1 dents enrolled in agriculture and 20 percent of the Nepal 1 Tunisia 1

Pakistan 5 Zaire 1 graduate students in veterinary medicine are from for- Philippines 5 Zambia 6 eign countries. Sri Lanka 4 Zimbabwe 1 Thailand 2 Enrollment in Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine Viet Nam 1 Europe 13 College and England 1 France 1 home location Undergraduate Graduate Latin America and the Caribbean 33 Germany 2 Agriculture Argentina 4 Greece 3 United States 2,206 460 Barbados 1 Netherlands 1 International 11 171 Bolivia 1 Poland 2 Total 2,217 631 Brazil 6 Spain 1 Veterinary Medicine Colombia 2 Switzerland 2 United States 72 Costa Rica 2 International 22 Dominican Rep. 1 Middle East 11

Total 94 1 Ecuador Iran 1 Guyana 1 Iraq 2

Honduras 2 Jordan 1 Jamaica 1 Lebanon 5 International Graduate Student Enrollment in Mexico 4 Saudi Arabia 1 Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine 1 Panama Turkey 1 Number of international Peru 1 graduate students 5 Unit Venezuela North America Agricultural Economics 31 Canada Animal Sciences 29 Agronomy 25 Food Science 21 International Student Enrollment at UIUC, Fall 1985 Horticulture 17 Veterinary Pathobiology 12 Number of International Students Agricultural Engineering 8 UIUC Campus Unit total graduate undergraduate Family and Consumer Economics 8 Nutritional Sciences 7 Liberal Arts and Sciences 621 537 84 Plant Pathology 7 Engineering 433 393 40 Veterinary Biosciences 7 Commerce 256 229 27 Textiles, Apparel, and Interior Design 5 Agriculture 182 171 11 Human Development and Family Ecology 4 Fine and Applied Arts 127 97 30 Forestry 4 Education 119 108 11 Foods and Nutrition 3 Applied Life Sciences 36 32 4 Veterinary Clinical Medicine 3 Communications 20 20 Extension Education 2 Veterinary Medicine 22 22 Total 193 Law 18 18 Aviation 1 1 Other units 54 51 3 Total 1,889 1,678 211

How do we compare with other units on campus? Looking at UIUC as a whole, there were 1,889 inter-

Agriculture and veterinary medicine host about 1 1 per- national students, comprising 5 percent of the university's cent (204 individuals) of the degree-seeking interna- total enrollment of 35,997 students. Most (89 percent) tional student population on campus. international students are studying at the graduate level. NICHOLASES' NOTES International Irrigation Management Institute (IIMI) in Jakarta. Both Sam and Jane have been integral mem- bers of our team since 1981 and they will be missed.

I am pleased to announce that Thomas A. McCowen, We wish them a safe and productive year and look for- Assistant Director of the Office of International Agricul- ward to their return. The Johnsons encourage col- ture, is now serving as Associate Director while Earl D. leagues who will be traveling in Indonesia to visit them.

Kellogg is on leave of absence. In his new position, Mr. Their address is c/o IIMI, P.O. Box 435 KBY, Jakarta, McCowen will provide even more administrative and Indonesia. logistical support for the ZAMARE (Zambia Agricul- D. E. (Gene) Alexander, Agronomy, pointed out an tural Research and Extension) project. Tom will con- error in my article entitled "Mutual Aid" in the Decem- tinue to serve as campus coordinator for both ZAMARE ber newsletter. He noted that, rather than southern and TIPAN (Transformation and Integration of the corn leaf blight, I must have had the northern corn leaf Provincial Agricultural Network/Pakistan). As well, he blight model in mind. "The solution to the Southern will be responsible for Strengthening Grant reports and leaf blight outbreak was simply to return to the use of budget reports for USAID and other funding agencies. normal cytoplasms and detassel seed parents in produc- The Office of International Agriculture welcomes tion fields." Resistance to the northern corn leaf blight Danny R. Erickson as the new International Agricul- has "been found in exotic material." I do appreciate tural Development Specialist. For many years, Danny receiving this information and would welcome correc- worked for the International Soybean Program tions to anything else I write. Even though I took my (INTSOY) as Assistant Agronomist. As International information from a recent article in a respected journal,

Agricultural Development Specialist he will provide lo- I should have checked the accuracy of the statement gistical support to the ZAMARE project, continue to be with some of our outstanding scientists. active in the INTSOY program, and provide support to It will be a very busy year and we are relying on our other programs and projects. increased support from our staff and faculty, especially Two individuals committed to international agricul- for some of the technical agricultural economic informa- tural development work will be in Indonesia during tion so ably provided by Earl Kellogg. Your support 1986. Sam H.Johnson, Agricultural Economics, and during these shifts is most appreciated. We are hopeful Jane S. Johnson, INTERPAKS, are consulting for the that we will continue to enjoy your trust and counsel.

INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES crosses of Chinese and European breeds in an attempt to determine some of the reasons for the high prolifi- Congratulations to Daniel Gianola, Animal Sciences, cacy of the Chinese breeds. Institut National de la who recently was awarded a $200,000 grant from the Recherche Agronomique and UIUC's College of Agri- Bi-National Agricultural Research and Development culture jointly sponsored his study program.

(BARD) fund. The grant is for a research project to develop methods for genetic analysis of discrete traits of At the request of the Academy for Educational Devel- economic importance in U.S. and Israeli dairy cattle opment, Washington, D.C., INTERPAKS Director John populations. Project co-investigators include Rohan L. L. Woods spent November 5 to 16 in Swaziland. He Fernando and Charles R. Henderson, Animal Sciences, helped develop future directions for the Swaziland gov- and J. Weller and R. Bar-Anan, Volcani Institute, ernment's information and communications systems. Bet-Dagan, Israel. Marcos Kogan, Agricultural Entomology and Economic William H. Shoemaker, Horticulture, participated in a Entomology Section of the Illinois Natural History Sur- symposium sponsored by the International Society for vey, presented an invited paper on Heliothis in North, Horticultural Science on the timing of field production Central, and South America at the Biological Control of of vegetables. The symposium was held in Tampa, Heliothis: Increasing the Effectiveness of Natural Ene-

Florida, October 28 to November 1, 1985. mies Workshop, New Delhi, India, November 11 to 15, 1985. On the way to India, Dr. Kogan traveled to Israel Ming Che Wu, graduate student in Animal Sciences, to discuss a proposal with scientists at the University of recently returned to campus after spending three Tel Aviv and the Volcani Institute on the effects of months at the Domaine Experimental du Magneraud, drought on the susceptibility of crop plants to insect France. He conducted studies on Chinese pigs and attack. 1

John A. Becker, USAID Foreign Service Officer and PROJECT NEWS Visiting Professor in the Office of International Agricul- ture, delivered a talk entitled "The Two Fronts on the INTERPAKS (International Program for Agricultural War on Hunger: Famine and Poverty" at a dinner meet- Knowledge Systems). The external advisory committee ing of the Cosmopolitan Club, November 24, 1985. met in Chicago with the INTERPAKS research team on The theme of the meeting was the food crisis in Africa. January 3. Committee members are Vernon Ruttan, Donations from the meeting were given to OXFAM. University of Minnesota; Lowell Hardin, Purdue Uni- versity; Glenn Johnson, Michigan State University; Bryant Kearl, University of Wisconsin; and Ernest Agricultural Economics, partici- Laurian J. Unnevehr, Smerdon, University of Texas at Austin. Wendell Morse, pated in a conference given by the International Food INTERPAKS project manager for USAID/Washington, Policy Research Institute, December 9 to 13, in Annap- also attended. The group reviewed the Malawi case olis, Maryland. The conference was entitled "Seasonal study and discussed plans for future studies. Causes of Household Food Insecurity, Policy Implica- The INTERPAKS subproject on technology develop- tions and Research Needs." ment and transfer systems in agriculture will conduct its second case study in Jamaica during January. Team members include John A. Becker, USAID Officer cur- Canadian government asked Barbara P. Klein, The rently with International Agriculture; Robert P. Bentz, and Nutrition, to attend a symposium on micro- Foods Cooperative Extension Service; Frederick C. Fliegel, in the food processing industry, December 3 wave use Agricultural Economics; and Carolyn Sands and Burton to 1985, in Montreal. Dr. Klein presented a lecture 5, E. Swanson, INTERPAKS. on effects of microwave heating and processing on food quality. ZAMARE (Zambia Agricultural Research and Extension Project). Farrell Olsen, professor of field and forage crops, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale From January 3 to 23, Donald L. Day, Agricultural (SIUC), will begin a two-year resident assignment as Engineering, will be in Kenya to meet with scientists at Adaptive Research Planning Team (ARPT) agronomist Nairobi University and Egerton College. They will dis- at the Kabwe Regional Research Station on January 13. cuss cooperative research on a USAID-funded project, He replaces Robert E. Hudgens, who is returning to "Microbial Conversion of Agricultural Wastes and By- SIUC. products into Fuels, Feed, and Fertilizer." Dr. Day will

also visit scientists in Israel. Marvin P. Steinberg, Food

Science, is a collaborator on this project. VISITING RESEARCHER

Carroll E. Goering, Agricultural Engineering, will pres- Bogdan Debski, Warsaw Agricultural University, ent two papers at the International Congress of Agricul- Poland, arrived at UIUC in mid-November to work tural Engineering, Pretoria, South Africa, and discuss with John A. Milner, Food Science. Dr. Debski will be cooperative research at the University of Natal, here through September investigating forms of selenium Pietermaritzburg, in mid-January. On his trip over, in fluids and tissues. He can be reached at 333-4177. Dr. Goering will also present a lecture at the University of West Berlin.

Sandra Brown and Mark Scheffel, Forestry, will sample VISITORS COMING TO CAMPUS logs from trees downed by a hurricane in 1979 to de- termine wood decomposition rates and the factors influ- Participants in the Illinois Agricultural Leadership will visit from January 9 to 1 1 for a encing the rates in Dominica, West Indies, January 1 Program UIUC to 14. program on U.S. economic, agricultural, and interna- tional trade policy. Their program includes a greeting from John R. Campbell, Dean of the College of Agricul-

Selenium nutrition of lactating women is the topic of ture, and presentations by Martin E. Weinstein, Political two invited papers that Mary Frances Picciano, Foods Science, on political and social environment of the Far and Nutrition, will present at the International Work- East, and Peter Schran, East Asian and Pacific Studies shop on Human Nutrition, Oaxaca, Mexico, January 15 Program, on the economic environment for trade in the to 20. Far East. John Shields, Director of International Agricultural Science, Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University, Programs, California State University, Fresno, will visit Bangkok, Thailand, visited the College of Agriculture UIUC on January 16 to participate in the monthly for the week of December 2, 1985. They viewed pro- meeting of TIPAN (Transformation and Integration of grams and discussed curriculum development with Sam the Provincial Agricultural Network/Pakistan) working H. Johnson, Kathryn A. Maybury, and Wesley D. Seitz, group. California State University, Fresno, will collabo- Agricultural Economics; Jane S. Johnson and John L. rate with UIUC and SIUC in various aspects of TIPAN Woods, International Program for Agricultural Knowl- implementation. edge Systems; James F. Evans, Grear R. Kimmel, and Violet M. Malone, Agricultural Communications and Extension Education; Gary R. Varner, Champaign County Cooperative Extension Service; Earl B. Russell, SEMINARS Agricultural Education; Helen C. Peterson, Graduate College; and Daniel B. Meador and Barry A. Eisenberg, February 5 The United Nations Development System: Horticulture. Opportunities for the University of Illinois -— John L. Woods, Director of INTERPAKS. Sundar Shanmungasundaram, soybean research coordi- 4:00 p.m., 426 Mumford Hall. nator at the Asian Vegetable Research and Development International Agriculture Seminar Center (AVRDC), Taiwan, discussed soybean research with Richard L. Bernard, Henry H. Hadley, Theodore February 12 Advances in Amaranth Grain — Larry Hymowitz, and Randall L. Nelson, Agronomy, and Walters, President, World Amaranth, Naperville, Nu- INTSOY staff, December 6 to 9, 1985. Illinois. p.m., Hall. 4:00 426 Mumford Joran Kapulnik, a Fulbright Fellow at the University of International Agriculture Seminar California, Davis, from The Hebrew University, Jerusa- lem, Israel, met with Fred E. Below, D. Briskin, James 19 Public Assistance: Past Fu- February Law 480 and E. Harper, John D. Hesketh, Morris G. Huck, and ture A. Becker, Foreign Service Officer — John USAID Lawrence E. Schrader, Agronomy, on December 9. and Visiting Professor in the Office of International Ag- They discussed physiological aspects of crop riculture. productivity. 4:00 p.m., 426 Mumford Hall.

International Agriculture Seminar On December 9 and 10, Mohamed Elyamani, a gradu- ate student from Morocco at Iowa State University, vis- February 26 Research Extension Linkages in Zam- ited Henryk Jedlinski and Cleora J. D'Arcy, Plant Pa- bia — Ronald G. Dedert, Research Extension Liaison thology. They discussed research on barley yellow dwarf Officer on the Zambia Agricultural Research and Exten- virus. sion (ZAMARE) project from 1983 to 1985. 4:00 p.m., 426 Mumford Hall. International Agriculture Seminar LANGUAGE CLASSES FOR AGRICULTURE

Call Margo De Ley at 333-1977 for information about VISITORS RECENTLY ON CAMPUS these classes.

Sahlu, Financial Asnake Manager, Ethiopian Food Cor- French for Agriculture and Rural Development is poration, and Belete Beyene, Manager, FAFFA Foods being offered for the spring semester. The class is for Plant, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, discussed plans for ex- faculty, staff, and students with a basic knowledge of panding soybean utilization work with Alvin I. Nelson, French who wish to maintain and improve their lan- Yeh, Sing-Wood and Wilmot Wijeratne, Food Science, guage skills. Beginning January 28, the class will meet and Harold E. Kauffman, INTSOY, November 25 on Tuesdays from 4:00 to 5:30 p.m. and 26. Spanish 142, Spanish for Agriculture and Related Panya Hiranrustne. Dean, School of Agricultural Fields III, has openings for faculty and others who are Extension and Cooperatives, Sint Punpinij, Instructor interested in enrolling or auditing. The class will meet of Agricultural Extension in Horticulture, and Natee Mondav through Thursday afternoons at 3:00 p.m. in Khilibtong, Instructor of Agricultural Extension in Soil room 214 Davenport Hall. FULBRIGHT SEMINARS ON SOUTH AMERICA CHICAGO COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS

January 31, 1986, is the application deadline for 1986 Awards of up to $50.00 are available for UIUC faculty Fulbright Summer Seminars on South America Today. members who attend programs conducted in Chicago by The Fulbright Commissions in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations (CCFR). The Ecuador, and Peru, and the U.S. Information Agency fund was created by International Programs and Studies (USIA) posts in Bolivia and Venezuela are sponsoring to encourage participation in the functions of CCFR. two 45-day seminars for U.S. professors of Latin Ameri- Travel grant applications are available from Interna- can Studies. Seminar I participants will visit Argentina, tional Programs and Studies, 324 Coble Hall, 801 South Bolivia, Ecuador, and Venezuela; Seminar II participants Wright Street, Champaign, IL 61801; telephone (217) will travel to Brazil, Chile, and Peru. Seminar dates are 333-6104. June 29 to August 13. For more information and appli- cation forms call or write the Council for International 1986 FARMING SYSTEMS SYMPOSIUM — Exchange of Scholars, Suite 300, 1 1 Dupont Circle, CALL FOR PAPERS N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036; telephone (202) 939- 1257. May 5, 1986, is the deadline for submission of abstracts for paper and poster sessions at the 1986 Farming Sys- RESEARCH FUNDS FOR THE UNITED KINGDOM tems Symposium. With the theme of "Farming Systems Research and Extension: Food and Feed," the sympo- March 1, 1986, is the application deadline for grants to sium will be held from October 5 to 8, 1986, at Kansas study in the United Kingdom. Junior (assistant professor State University, Manhattan. Abstracts should be sent to or below) faculty members are eligible for short-term Dr. Cornelia Butler Flora, Department of Sociology, grants of up to $3,000 and doctoral students for full Waters Hall, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas year grants of up to $4,000. More information is avail- 66506, USA. able from the English-Speaking Union, attn. Diane M. Rigoni, 612 North Michigan Avenue, Room 513, Chi- cago, IL 60611; telephone (312) 642-1020.

The International Agriculture Newsletter is published monthly by the Office of International Agriculture, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 113 Mumford Hall, 1301 West Gregory Drive, Urbana, 61801; Bonnie J. Irwin, editor. Faculty and departments are encouraged to submit newsletter items. Contact the Office of International Agriculture to receive your own copy of this newsletter. The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is an affirmative action/equal opportunity institution.

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SERIALS DEPARTMENT 220S LIBRARY UNIVERSITY Of ILLINOIS AGRICULTURE LIBRARY 630 RATIONAL AGRICUif, INTERNATIONAL Jf"^ ""^ ^"^itfrTW \\^^^e AGRICULTURE ifSfcjipf NEWSLETTER College of Agriculture and College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign °^ ILLINOIS AT URB^ 113 Mumford Hall, 1301 W. Gregory Drive, Urbana, IL 61801, USA. Telephone (21 7) 333-6420; Telex 206957

February 1986, No. 93

THE INTERPAKS RESEARCH PROJECT

At the present time, one major activity of the Inter- First Case Study: Malawi. In August and September national Program for Agricultural Knowledge Systems 1985, a six-person interdisciplinary team spent five

(INTERPAKS) is a project to study the development, weeks in Malawi collecting data for the first case study. transfer, and utilization of new agricultural technology Members of the team and areas of responsibility were in national systems. Funded by the United States Earl D. Kellogg and Kathleen Cloud, policy, Burton E. Agency for International Development (USAID), the Swahson and C. James Kaiser, technology development,

project has three objectives: develop a functional model John B. Claar, technology transfer, and Andrew J. Sof- of a technology system, review and annotate the litera- ranko, technology utilization. A draft of the case has ture, and produce a series of case studies describing been completed and, after revision, will be sent to Ma- how national agricultural systems function. Because the lawi for in-country review and feedback.

model provides the framework for the case studies, it Malawi was chosen for the first study for several rea-

will be possible to compare data from several countries sons. It is an African country that, although it shares and thus increase understanding of the elements neces- the low per capita income and rapid population growth

sary for a well-functioning agricultural system. of its neighbors, has been able to feed itself and even Indicators for studying agricultural knowledge systems export a surplus of maize. At independence twenty

and a tentative model have been developed. Each indi- years ago, Malawi had very little infrastructure. Invest- cator measures one aspect that seems to be important to ments in human capital had been low; there were only an effective system. The indicators were grouped into thirty-three Malawians with college degrees, and many four categories: agricultural policy; technology develop- men were migrant workers abroad. In twenty years, ment; technology transfer; and technology utilization by with low levels of urbanization, the economy has reab- farmers. For example, indicators were established to sorbed most of the migrant workers. According to the measure such things as the percentage of agricultural World Bank, the economy has exhibited one of the fast- gross domestic product (AGDP) reinvested in agricul- est increases in per capita GDP of any low income coun- tural research and extension, relative proportion of try, 2.6 percent annually since 1960. Agriculture pres- basic, applied, and adaptive research, ratio of extension ently generates forty percent of GDP and has agents to farm households, and so forth. In all, about contributed the major share of increased production. forty such indicators are being field tested. Documenting the way in which technology development In each case study, data are gathered to provide the and transfer works in such a poor but efficient system

context for interpreting the indicators. Included is in- will be a major contribution to the INTERPAKS project formation on the geographic, economic, and historical goals. context, governmental policies affecting agriculture, and In choosing Malawi the project members also thought institutional actors in the public and private sectors. For about the size of the country, the wealth of secondary each institutional actor the case study documents the data that existed, and access to the English-speaking bu-

resources it commands, the activities it performs, the reaucracy.

types and levels of outputs it produces, where these The final consideration was that the government of outputs go, and how they get there. Some of the result- Malawi was eager to have the study done. They felt that

ing data are summarized in indicators and some are it would afford them a disinterested second opinion to discussed in greater detail. In this way, the cases provide compare with the studies of USAID and the World an integrative mechanism for combining descriptive and Bank. Because of the government's strong interest the indicator data. Moving back and forth between two team had excellent access to people and data and was kinds of data and across several systems permits descrip- able to travel throughout the country, meeting with tion of common patterns and better understanding of farmer groups and extension agents as well as scientists, their significance. administrators, and bureaucrats. International Agriculture Newsletter

Malawi's Agricultural Sectors. There are two agri- volume 1 of Annotated Bibliography on Development cultural sectors in Malawi: the smallholder sector, which and Transfer of Agricultural Technology, compiled by produces eighty percent of the agricultural GDP, and Jane S. Johnson. The bibliography lists citations from the estate sector, which produces twenty percent. In the past ten years that are concerned with technology both, the farmers are Malawian, not expatriates. The development, transfer, and utilization in agriculture and difference between the two sectors is not so much the the links between the various groups that deal with size of the holdings as the crops the farmers are permit- these functions. ted to grow, their land tenure systems, and the fact that the estate sector is served by private input and output INTERPAKS is an interdisciplinary educational and markets while the smallholder sector relies primarily on technical assistance program at the University of Illinois a government parastatal organization for input supply at Urbana-Champaign. Since INTERPAKS was formed and marketing. Tobacco and tea are the major export in 1982 it has given a number of international courses crops. Maize, pulses, roots, tubers, and groundnuts are in the organization and management of extension sys- the major food crops. Estate crops are sold privately, tems, performed substantial research on national agri- usually on the world market. ADMARC, the govern- cultural systems, provided technical assistance services to i ment parastatal organization, purchases smallholder overseas projects, and published several monographs. crops at prices high enough to encourage production. While government research serves both sectors, exten- For more information about the case studies or about sion presently serves only the smallholders. In 1978 the INTERPAKS, or for a copy of the bibliography call or country was divided into eight agricultural development write INTERPAKS, 113 Mumford Hall, 1301 West Gre- districts, which are the basic administrative units for gory Drive, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA; telephone agricultural development. These districts coordinate in- (217) 333-5837. vestments in infrastructure, such as roads and markets, as well as adaptive research, credit, and extension.

Findings. Conclusions are not yet available but much of what the INTERPAKS research team found con- firmed the characteristics of a well-functioning system as predicted by the literature. The government of Malawi gave priority to agricultural development and estab- lished clear national development objectives: self-suffi- ciency in staple crops, increased agricultural exports, and increased rural income. Capable agricultural institu- tions were developed. Consistent financial and institu- tional support was given to the achievement of the ob- jectives. Considering the constrained resources, both research and extension have received substantial invest- ments. Approximately 0.72 percent of agricultural GDP

is reinvested in research and 2.4 percent in extension. In Malawi, agricultural research is predominantly inter- disciplinary and adaptive, utilizing technology developed by the international agricultural research centers. All of the elements of the Malawian system — policy

that is supportive of production, wise allocation of scarce resources, and efficient institutions — contribute to the effectiveness of the technology system. Future case studies, including the one currently being con- ducted in Jamaica, should provide a fuller understand- Malawi was the site ing of these and other factors. The most important of the first case study. phase is yet to come: the comparative analysis across results from all cases.

INTERPAKS bibliography. As part of the case study project, a comprehensive literature search was per- formed. In August 1985, INTERPAKS published 7 International Agriculture Newsletter

NICHOLAIDES' NOTES culture portion of USAID's budget. How very sad that our Congress can do no better than this.

At this time, foremost in my thoughts is the $92 Foreign aid, which I prefer to call mutual aid, has million cut mandated by Congress from the President's never had a large constituency. Now, while commodity request for the agriculture, nutrition, and forestry por- groups are incorrectly blaming mutual aid for the prob- tion of USAID's FY'86 budget, which began on Octo- lems being experienced by the U.S. agricultural export ber 1, 1985. It appears that a good portion of the cuts sector, mutual aid for agriculture has even less public will be borne by the Science and Technology Bureau support. The result is a reduction in the type of pro- (S&T) and will have a major effect on U.S. university grams that should be increased. I contend that interna- programs funded by S&T. At UIUC we have two such tional agriculture development is just as vital to our programs, the International Soybean Program (INT- national security as armaments. I am hopeful that, in SOY), and the International Program for Agricultural the future, Congress will realize the value of mutual aid Knowledge Systems (INTERPAKS). This budget cut will and act accordingly. be compounded by the Gramm-Rudman deficit-reduc- In the North Carolina mountains where I have my tion plan approved by Congress in the waning days of roots, we have a saying that is particularly appropriate,

1985. As you would expect, we are doing everything we "Rough weather makes hard timber." There is no doubt can to protect our programs. that we are in for some rough weather. Our challenge

What I want to share with you, however, goes beyond now is to make the best use of the hard timber that will individual programs. In the year of dramatically in- follow. creased U.S. public awareness of the plight of the world's malnourished and starving people, it is incon- — J. J. Nicholaides HI ceivable that Congress would reduce the food and agri-

INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES

Gary L. Jackson, Veterinary Biosciences, was on sabbat- In January, Thomas A. McCowen, Office of Interna- ical leave in England from July through December 1985 tional Agriculture, assisted the Northwest Frontier Prov- working with researchers in the Agricultural Food Re- ince Agricultural University, Peshawar, Pakistan, in de- search Council's Research Group on Photoperiodism veloping an organizational structure to support and Reproduction, Department of Zoology, Bristol Uni- expanded program requirements. versity. Dr. Jackson studied how animals use internal biological clocks to regulate their breeding season. He Lowell D. Hill, Agricultural Economics, presented an also lectured and visited laboratories at Cambridge and invited paper entitled "Economic Determinants of Grain Edinburgh, Scotland. Storage in International Markets" at the International Conference of Agricultural Engineering, Pretoria, South Participating in the International Symposium on Agri- Africa, in mid-January. While in South Africa Dr. Hill cultural Wastes, December 16 and 17, Chicago, Illinois, met with the Maize Board in Pretoria and the Corn were Clifford B. Fedler, Arthur J. Muehling, Donald Growers Association in Bothaville to discuss grain qual- G. Jedele, Donald L. Day, and Ten Hong Chen, Agri- ity issues and compare U.S. and South African markets cultural Engineering, Ted L. Funk, Cooperative Exten- and marketing. He also spent three days at the Univer- sion Service, Effingham, and Warren D. Goetsch, Coop- sity of the Orange Free State, Bloemfontein, working erative Extension Service, Springfield. with Kobus Laubscher (M.S. 1976, UIUC) to develop cooperative research plans.

Johannes M. J. deWet, Agronomy, was at the Interna- tional Center for Research in the Semi-Arid Tropics Roger D. Shanks, Animal Sciences, lectured on sire (ICRISAT), Hyderabad, India, in January to compare evaluation and progeny testing at the Multicooperator cultivars of sorghum from Africa and India and trace Dairy Improvement Program in Venezuela, January 1 their origins. to 27. International Agriculture Newsletter

John J. Nicholaides, Office of International Agricul- VISITING RESEARCHERS ture, delivered a paper entitled "Mobilizing U.S. Uni- versities in Support of Mutual Aid" at the BIFAD/AID Roma Bell, Head of the Department of Nutrition and regional seminar, New Mexico State University at Las Dietetics at the Western Australian Institute of Technol- Cruces, January 21 and 22. ogy (WAIT), Bentley, Australia, will spend from Febru- ary 15 to April 30 in the Department of Foods and "Recent Advances in Mechanisms of Resistance in Soy- Nutrition as part of her sabbatical leave. Dr. Bell will beans" was the title of the invited paper that Marcos investigate computer based education programs for nu- Kogan, Agricultural Entomology and Economic Ento- trition and dietetics and course structure and content mology Section of the Illinois Natural History Survey, for institutional catering. presented at the Tenth Brazilian Congress of Entomol- ogy, Rio de Janeiro, January 26 to 31. Also participat- Sponsored by the Food and Agriculture Organization ing was Jenny Kogan, Soybean Insect Research Infor- (FAO), Ish Kumar Sawhney of the Indian Council of mation Center (SIRIC). Agricultural Research arrived at UIUC in mid-January for a four month program in dairy engineering. He is From February 9 to 20, John R. Campbell, Dean of the working with Munir Cheryan, Food Science.

College of Agriculture, John J. Nicholaides, Office of International Agriculture, Howard H. Olson, Director of International Agriculture at Southern Illinois Univer- sity at Carbondale (SIUC), James Tweedy, Associate LANGUAGE CLASSES FOR AGRICULTURE Dean of Agriculture at SIUC, and Morton Neufville, Dean of the College of Agriculture at the University of Call or write Margo De Ley, 324 Coble Hall, 801 South Maryland, Eastern Shore (UMES), will be in Zambia. Wright Street, Champaign, Illinois 61820, (217) 333- They are participating in an executive team visit to the 1977, for information about these classes. Zambia Agricultural Research and Extension (ZA- MARE) project, during which they will visit sites and Spanish for Agriculture and Related Fields will be of- personnel around the country. UIUC, SIUC, and UMES fered during intersession from May 27 to June 13 and is collaborate on ZAMARE. The executive team will then free for UIUC faculty, staff, and dependents. Participants visit Nairobi, Kenya, to discuss future programs with from outside the university may also attend. U.S. Agency for International Development staff.

On the trip home, Dr. Nicholaides will meet with French for Agriculture and Rural Development is

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) officers, the being offered for the spring semester. The class is for U.S. mission to FAO, and International Fund for Agri- faculty, staff, and students with a basic knowledge of cultural Development (IFAD) personnel in Rome, Italy, French who wish to maintain and improve their language to develop collaborative agreements. skills. The class meets in room 422 Mumford Hall on Tuesday from 4:00 to 5:30 p.m. Working through the Zambia Agricultural Research and Extension (ZAMARE) project, Barbara A. Yates, Educa- tional Policy Studies, and Earl D. Kellogg, Office of International Agriculture, recently sent a shipment of TINKER FOUNDATION FIELD RESEARCH books and journals to the library of the University of GRANTS Zambia. The shipment was coordinated by James B. Sin- clair, Plant Pathology. For many years Dr. Sinclair has March 21, 1986, is the application deadline for 1986 arranged for educational material to be donated to li- Tinker Foundation Field Research Grants. All disciplines braries in developing countries. and topics relating to Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking Latin America, Spain, and Portugal are welcome from graduate students and junior faculty. INTERNATIONAL VISITORS IN 1985 An informational meeting for prospective applicants will be held at the Center for Latin American and Carib-

The Office of International Agriculture coordinated iti- bean Studies on Tuesday, February 11, 1986, at 3:00 neraries for sixtyfive international visitors from twenty- p.m. For more information call or write the Center for five countries in 1985. This total does not include the Latin American and Caribbean Studies, 1208 West Cali- many international scientists who directly contacted fac- fornia Street, room 250, Urbana, IL 61801; telephone ulty members in the College of Agriculture. (217) 333-3182. International Agriculture Newsletter

SEMINARS March 4 African Women's Work Burden: A Constraint to Development — Bonnie Keller, Women's Develop-

These events are open to UILIC faculty, staff, and stu- ment Officer, Planning Division of the Ministry of Agri- dents and the general public. There is no admission culture and Water Development, Government of Zam- charge. bia. 12:00 noon, 329 Davenport Hall, 607 South Mathews Avenue, Urbana. February 5 The United Nations Development System: Women in International Development Seminar Opportunities for the University of Illinois — John L. Woods, Director of INTERPAKS. March 5 International Markets for U.S. Livestock — p.m., Hall. 4:00 426 Mumford Stephen C. Schmidt, Agricultural Economics. International Agriculture Seminar 4:00 p.m., 426 Mumford Hall. International Agriculture Seminar February 7 Understanding the United Nations Develop- ment System and Potential Opportunities John Job — March 12 Farming Household Studies in the Highland L. Woods, Director of INTERPAKS. Philippines — B. Jean Peterson, Human Development 4:00 p.m., Reading Room, Levis Faculty Center, 919 and Family Ecology. West Illinois Street, Urbana. 4:00 p.m., 426 Mumford Hall. International Colloquium Meeting International Agriculture Seminar

February 12 Advances in Amaranth Grain — Larry March 14 International Colloquium Meeting Walters, President, Nu-World Amaranth, Naperville, Illi- 4:00 p.m, Reading Room, Levis Faculty Center, 919 nois. West Illinois Street, Urbana. 4:00 p.m., 426 Mumford Hall. International Agriculture Seminar March 19 India: After 30 Years — Ralph C. Hay, pro- fessor emeritus, Agricultural Engineering. February 19 Public Law 480 Assistance: Past and Fu- 4:00 p.m., 426 Mumford Hall. ture A. Becker, USAID Foreign Service Officer — John International Agriculture Seminar and Visiting Professor in the Office of International Ag- riculture. March 21 International Colloquium Meeting 4:00 p.m., 426 Mumford Hall. 4:00 p.m, Reading Room, Levis Faculty Center, 919 International Agriculture Seminar West Illinois Street, Urbana.

February 20 Women's Studies in India: The Interna- tional Impact Berenice A. Carroll, Political Science. 12:00 noon, Friendship Lounge of the YMCA, 1001 VISITORS RECENTLY ON CAMPUS South Wright Street, Champaign. Women in International Development Seminar Manuel Pina, Head of Training and Communications at the Centro Internacional de la Papa (CIP), Lima, Peru, February 21 International Colloquium Meeting discussed the methodology developed by the INTER- 4:00 p.m, Reading Room, Levis Faculty Center, 919 PAKS knowledge systems research project with Burton E. West Illinois Street, Urbana. Swanson, Vocational and Technical Education and IN- TERPAKS, and faculty in the Office of Agricultural February 26 International Developments in Agricultural Communications and Extension Education, January 7. Law — Donald L. Uchtman, Agricultural Economics. 4:00 p.m., 426 Mumford Hall. Robert O. Butler, Washington State University, Pullman, International Agriculture Seminar visited UIUC on January 8. He met with faculty in the Office of International Agriculture and the Office of Ag- March 3 The Impact of Donor Aid on African ricultural Communications and Extension Education to Women — Bonnie Keller, Women's Development Offi- discuss plans for a workshop in Jordan in April. cer, Planning Division of the Ministry of Agriculture and Water Development, Government of Zambia. Ronald D. Hennessey, International Institute of Tropi- 8:00 p.m., 322 Illini Union, 1401 West Green Street, cal Agriculture (IITA), Cassava Outreach Project in Kin- Urbana. shasa, Zaire, was at UIUC on January 14 and 15 to talk Women in International Development Seminar about placing students from Zaire at UIUC for graduate International Agriculture Newsletter

work in entomology. Dr. Hennessey met with Marcos Ko- INTERPAKS COURSES IN 1986 gan, Agricultural Entomology and Economic Entomology Section of the Illinois Natural History Survey, Stanley The International Program for Agricultural Knowledge

Friedman, Entomology, and Harold E. Kauffman and Systems is offering three courses in 1986 for personnel John W. Santas, Office of International Agriculture. involved in agricultural extension and research programs. If you know of foreign students currently in the United Jacque Armand, Director of Research of the Institute States or people overseas who might be interested in Merieux, Lyon, France, visited with Miodrag Ristic, Vet- attending these courses you can get more information by erinary Pathobiology, on January 16 and discussed the calling or writing John L. Woods, 113 Mumford Hall, progress of joint research on the development of a ma- 1301 West Gregory Drive, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA; laria vaccine. telephone (217) 333-5831. The courses are:

A team of Indian agricultural research administrators vis- Organization and Management of Agricultural Ex- ited UIUC from January 23 to 25 as part of a tour of tension Services: A New Look at Knowledge Transfer, six U.S. land grant universities. Team members were: June 16 to July 17 and repeated September 15 to Octo-

Maharaj Singh, Deputy Director General, Indian Coun- ber 17; course coordinator, John B. Claar. This is the cil for Agricultural Research; R. P. Choudhary, Dean of third year that this course has been offered for extension Agriculture at G. B. Pant University of Agriculture arid administrators and teachers of extension or administra- Technology, Pantnagar; and B. S. Malik, Dean of the tion. The course fee of US$2,900 does not cover inter- Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Jawaharlal Nehru Agri- national travel or living expenses. cultural University, Jabalpur. While at UIUC they met with faculty and administrators in Agriculture and Veteri- Training of Trainers for Agriculture and Rural De-

nary Medicine to develop a new cooperative agenda be- velopment, June 1 6 to July 1 1 ; course coordinator, tween Indian and U.S. universities. The team was es- Violet M. Malone. Offered for the first time, this course

corted by Floyd Williams, Senior Advisor for the India is aimed at people involved in training programs for agri- Program, Winrock International, and John G. Stovall, culture extension and research, and teachers of extension! Board for International Food and Agriculture Develop- education. The course fee of US$2,500 does not cover ment (BIFAD). international travel or living expenses.

The International Agriculture Newsletter is published monthly by the Office of International Agriculture, University of

Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 113 Mumford Hall, 1301 West Gregory Drive, Urbana, 61801; Bonnie J. Irwin, editor. Faculty and departments are encouraged to submit newsletter items. Contact the Office of International Agriculture to receive your own copy of this newsletter. The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is an affirmative action/ equal opportunity institution.

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March 1986, No. 94

HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT THROUGH iWTEWATroNAL PROJECTS

APR 1 4 1986

Office International assists 11 f unt very little at- The of Agriculture (OIA) armers - Yet, '' recently, MN'ftyffl' H.|!f|WHSF with the education and training of students as part of tention was given to this group of farmers. When I go

our on-going agricultural development projects and pro- back I will work in a multidisciplinary farming systems grams. Through the Zambia Agricultural Research and research/extension (FSR/E) team. As an economist, my Extension (ZAMARE) project, thirty-eight Zambians main responsibilities will include evaluating the eco- have been enrolled in degree programs in U.S. universi- nomic feasibility of on-farm trials and conducting socio- ties and two U.S. students have conducted dissertation economic studies to better understand the farming sys- research in Zambia. tems and the problems limiting agricultural productivity he ZAMARE project assists the Government of Zam- among small-scale and traditional farmers. bia in its efforts to improve the welfare of small-scale I have worked and made contact with several profes- farmers and increase national food production through sors here at the University and in the United States

the development and adaptation of technology. Activi- from whom I have greatly enriched my knowledge and ties are designed to increase the effectiveness of the perceptions on issues related to agricultural develop-

extension service and strengthen the agricultural re- ment. I intend to maintain contact with them because I search capacity of the Ministry of Agriculture and view this as a starting point in the exchange of ideas Water Development (MAWD). between our countries. This contact at a professional

One participant in this type of training and staff de- level is crucial for continued interaction, not only in the

velopment is Charles Chabala, a graduate student in area of agriculture but also in other areas of human

Agricultural Economics. His advisor is Jean M. Due. development. — Charles Chabala

The following is contributed to IAN by Mr. Chabala:

I will start by thanking the ZAMARE project for ac- One unique aspect of ZAMARE is the opportunity to cording me an opportunity to pursue graduate studies send U.S. students to Zambia to conduct a portion of at the University of Illinois. I started my graduate stud- their dissertation research. They work on research prob- ies in the fall of 1984 and hope to finish by August lems identified by the Zambians as critical and also gain 1986. Before coming to Urbana, I worked for the Zam- exposure to the international arena. Glen Hartman, a bian Ministry of Agriculture and Water Development as graduate student in Plant Pathology working with James a counterpart farming systems economist to Dr. Alfred B. Sinclair, recently spent nine months in Zambia. He G. Harms. Dr. Harms, a faculty member in UIUC's was accompanied by his wife, Barbara Bair. They have Department of Agricultural Economics, was in Zambia written the following: from August 1982 to January 1985.

One great opportunity I have had during my studies As a graduate student in plant pathology, I had the is the access to unlimited literature on international ag- opportunity to conduct a portion of my doctoral re-

riculture. Apart from classroom work, I have partici- search in Zambia from December 1984 to August 1985. pated in seminars and meetings, especially on farming My wife Barbara accompanied me and was able to get a

systems research. My main area of interest is interna- job teaching English as a second language at the Inter- tional agricultural development and particularly policies national School in Lusaka. We were given housing at directed at improving agricultural productivity among the Mt. Makulu Agriculture Research Station, located small-scale farmers. This is a major concern of most about 25 km from the capital city of Lusaka. We developing countries. blended into the small community that consisted of In Zambia, for example, sixty percent of the country's Zambians and other international people that lived at

maize production, the main starch staple crop, is grown the station. International Agriculture Newsletter No. 94

My work on the ZAMARE project involved studying the dry season (May to November) and soybeans during a foliage disease of soybeans called red leaf blotch the wet season (December to April). Initially, red leaf {Pyrenochaeta glycines). Soybeans are a relatively new crop blotch appeared as a minor problem. However, on the in Zambia and at present there are about 12,000 hec- farm's older fields, yield reductions of fifty percent have tares grown. Red leaf blotch occurs on about 25 per- recently occurred. On my experimental plots at cent of these hectares. The disease causes heavy blotch- Mpongwe, yields were increased by 20 percent with one ing and premature defoliation, which can reduce yields fungicide spray and by 40 percent with two fungicide by 50 percent. I was invited to do research on this sprays over plots that were not sprayed. destructive disease because of the loss in production. Our African experience included several trips outside Red leaf blotch does not yet occur in the United States of Zambia to the neighboring countries of Malawi and but if introduced has the potential to be very destruc- Zimbabwe. In Zimbabwe, the most known tourist site tive. that we visited was Victoria Falls, located on the border My first objectives were to locate my field plots and between Zambia and Zimbabwe. Our favorite trips were plant them. My two plot sites were located away from to the game reserves. Traveling by jeep or on horse- the station within larger fields of commercial soybeans. back we viewed herds of wild animals and at night slept The first site was 10 km away from the station. I was in lodges with thatched roofs. One night we were awak- provided with the land but had to get local help to ened by a herd of Kudu (a large antelope) feeding in work on the plots. Our work included digging the front of the lodge. Malawi, a small country bordering ground by hoe, planting, harvesting, and threshing by Zambia to the east, has mountain ranges and the third hand. Fortunately, a Zambian co-worker who was em- largest fresh water lake in Africa. We enjoyed snorkel- ployed by the government helped me hire the workers. ing, sailing, and eating Chambo, a delicious fish from When there was work to do, six high school students Lake Malawi. As we traveled, people along the roadside (two female and four male) were eager to help on week- were anxious for us to stop and buy the baskets, rugs, ends and during school breaks. This interaction enabled ebony wood sculptures, and other items that they had me to learn more about the Zambian youth. handcrafted. My other plot was located about 300 km away from We enjoyed the opportunity to work and live in Zam- the station on the Mpongwe Development Project. The bia. My research work has provided control recommen- Mpongwe Development Project is a large farm that was dations to protect soybeans from red leaf blotch. Be- established in the mid-1970s by the Zambian govern- sides our work experiences, we liked meeting new ment and several companies from countries in the Euro- people and seeing new places in southern Africa. pean Economic Community. The 4,000 hectare farm, — Glen Hartman and Barbara Bair situated on cleared forest land, grows irrigated wheat in

Zambia, located in southern Africa, is the site of the ZAMARE project.

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INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES

Munir Cheryan, Food Science, served as a consultant in Gary V. Johnson, Agricultural Economics and Institute India for the United Nations Development Program for Environmental Studies, was the leader of a TIPAN (UNDP) from November 30, 1985, to January 17, (Transformation and Integration of the Provincial Agri- 1986. Dr. Cheryan assisted the Indian Council of Agri- cultural Network) micro-computer team at the North- cultural Research (ICAR) in establishing a Center for west Frontier Province Agricultural University Excellence in Dairy Processing at the National Dairy (NWFPAU), Peshawar, Pakistan, during February. Other Research Institute, Karnal. He also delivered the key- members of the team were Azizan Zainul, UIUC grad- note address at a national seminar on innovative meth- uate student in Agricultural Economics, and Anthony ods in milk and food processing, organized by UNDP Kerber, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. and ICAR at Karnal, January 2 and 3. Mr. Kerber will serve as computer instructor and co- As part of this project, several scientists are receiving ordinator at NWFPAU until November 1986. Inamul short term training in laboratories in the United States. Haq, Assistant Professor of Mathematics at NWFPAU

Three have been assigned to Dr. Cheryan 's laboratory who received training in micro-computers at UIUC as FAO Visiting Fellows: Dharam Pal, who was at UIUC from November 15, 1985, until early February, is work- from August to December 1985; Ish Kumar Sawhney, ing closely with the team and will lead the computer January to May 1986; and R. B. Rajor, May through training at NWFPAU. August 1986. The Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Canada, invited In January, Eugene E. Killion, Agricultural Entomology Violet M. Malone, Office of Agricultural Communica- and Economic Entomology Section of the Illinois Natu- tions and Extension Education, to be the keynote ral History Survey, was invited to the USDA-ARS re- speaker at the 1986 Provincial Conference on Volunteer search laboratory in Acarigua, Venezuela. He collabo- Leadership, February 1, Toronto. Dr. Malone also con- rated with the USDA team studying the Africanized ducted sessions on the importance of well-trained volun- honey bee. teers and on marketing programs to various audiences.

John J. Nicholaides III, Ofhce of International Agricul- Donald A. Holt, Agricultural Experiment Station, pre- ture, was recently appointed the contact officer at sented the keynote address entitled "Artificial Intelli- UIUC for the International Science and Education gence: The New Frontier in Agriculture" at the Inter- Council (ISEC). national Conference on Computers in Agricultural Extension Programs, Orlando, Florida, February 5 and On a recent trip to Korea and Japan, Illinois Governor 6. Duane E. Erickson, Agricultural Economics, also at- James Thompson and T. John Kim, MUCIA (Midwest tended the conference. Universities Consortium for International Activities) Li- aison Officer at UIUC, met with people who import Miodrag Ristic, Veterinary Pathobiology, visited the corn and soybeans from Illinois. One contact was Kyung Institute Merieux in Lyon, France, February 6 to 9, to Won Lee, Director of the Korea-America Soybean Asso- discuss research programs on malaria vaccine develop- ciation. Dr. Lee received a Ph.D. in Agricultural Eco- ment. Malaria vaccine research programs at UIUC are nomics in 1973 from UIUC. Dr. Kim is a special advisor sponsored by USAID and the Institute Merieux. to Governor Thompson. Burton E. Swanson, International Agricultural Educa- Mohammed Samy, graduate student in International tion/INTERPAKS, was in Washinton, D.C., on Febru- Agricultural Education/INTERPAKS, was in Egypt for ary 11 and 12. He attended meetings of the Board for six weeks in January and February. Mr. Samy visited six International Food and Agricultural Development provinces to collect data for his dissertation on agricul- (BIFAD) and the International Science and Education tural research and extension links in Egypt. Council (ISEC), presented a seminar to staff members at the U.S. Agency for International Development Robert Raab recently returned to campus from CIM- (USAID), and met with representatives of the World MYT (Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maiz y Bank. Trigo), Mexico, to complete course work for a Ph.D. in

International Agricultural Education. He is doing a joint John A. Becker, USAID Foreign Service Officer and degree program between CIMMYT and UIUC. visiting professor in International Agriculture, presented International Agriculture Newsletter No. 94

a seminar entitled "The New Internationalism in Agri- Through sponsorship by Partners of the Americas, cultural Cooperation and Trade; Implications to U.S. John W. Santas, Office of International Agriculture, will

Foreign Assistance Programming and the U.S. Univer- spend March 9 to 1 7 in the state of Sao Paulo, Brazil. sity Community" at Purdue University, Lafayette, Indi- One activity will be to discuss project plans under the ana, February 21. Mr. Becker will present the same Memorandum of Agreement that exists between the topic at a seminar at Southern Illinois University at Faculty of Agriculture, University of Sao Paulo, Piraci- Carbondale on February 27. caba, and UIUC's College of Agriculture. Dr. Santas will also meet with the Sao Paulo committee of the People recently consulting with Jamaica Soy Products Illinois/Sao Paulo Partners of the Americas to plan ac- Industries, Ltd., St. Katherine, were Joseph A. Jackobs, tivities for 1986 and 1987. During 1986 Dr. Santas is Agronomy, January 20 to 24; John C. Siemens, Agri- serving as president of the Illinois committee of the cultural Engineering, February 23 to March 1; and partnership. Michael E. Irwin, Agricultural Entomology and Eco- nomic Entomology Section of the Illinois Natural His- Duane E. Erickson, Agricultural Economics, will con- tory Survey, February 24 to 28. duct a study of the Caribbean Extension Project in Grenada from March 6 to 19, and will also visit St. "Soviet Agricultural Targets for 1986-1990 and Their Lucia. Trade Implications" was the title of the paper presented by Stephen C. Schmidt, Agricultural Economics, at the Lun-Shin Wei, Food Science, will speak at the Asian USIA Seminar for Foreign Soviet Specialists. The semi- Soybean Seminar, Chiang-Mai, Thailand, March 1 1 to nar was held at UIUC from February 13 to 15. 19. The seminar is sponsored by the Thai Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives.

Also presenting paper at seminar is H. Walker Kirby, Plant Pathology, and Harold E. a the Harold E. Kauffman, INTSOY. En route to Thailand Dr. Kauff- Kaufman, INTSOY, lectured at the Workshop for will discuss cooperative with researchers Southern Africa Region on the Basics of Soybean Culti- man programs and administrators at the International Institute of vation and Utilization, Harare, Zimbabwe, February 24 Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Nigeria; Catholic Relief to March 7. The workshop was sponsored by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the Government of Services, Kenya; Ethiopian Food Corporation, Ethiopia; Zimbabwe, and the Southern Africa Development Coor- and U.S. Agency for International Development Cooperative dination Conference (SADCC). (USAID), League of the USA (CLUSA), International in India. Dr. Kirby also traveled to Zambia to review research and Winrock on soybean diseases and nematodes undertaken by the Violet Malone and A. Woodis, Office of ZAMARE (Zambia Agricultural Research and Exten- M. Raymond Agricultural Communications and Extension Education, sion) project personnel. were invited by Jordan's Ministry of Agriculture to con- duct a series of training programs on extension educa- Sponsored by USAID and the Consortium for Interna- tion and agricultural communications methods, March tional Crop Protection (CICP), a team of international 26 to May 6. This workshop was arranged through a researchers will meet at the Organization of Tropical USAID-funded project being implemented by Washing- Studies, La Selva, Costa Rica, from March 1 to 14. ton State University (WSU). WSU has subcontracted They are working on a project entitled "Managing INTERPAKS to conduct the workshop. Plant Virus/Mycoplasm Complexes on Maize and Bean Cropping Systems." UIUC participants include: Michael

E. Irwin (team leader), David J. Voegtlin, and William G. Ruesink, Agricultural Entomology and Economic HUNGER RELIEF FUNDS Entomology Section of the Illinois Natural History Sur- vey; L. Keith Hendrie, Illinois State Water Survey; and Congratulations to the Ad Hoc Committee for African Harry Bottenberg, graduate student in entomology. Hunger Relief for raising more than $8,500 during their benefit concert "Champaign-Urbana Sings for George B. Swallow, Extension Advisor for Agriculture, Africa." The money will be channeled through Oxfam Jo Daviess County, left in late February for a long-term America for work in Sudan, Mozambique, and Burkina assignment on the Zambia Agricultural Research and Faso, and through the Comite Catholique Contre la Extension (ZAMARE) project. He will be the research Faim et Pour le Developpement for work in Chad. The extension liaison officer at Kabwe Research Station, re- ad hoc committee was sponsored by the African Stu- placing Ronald G. Dedert. dents Organization and the Center for African Studies. International Agriculture Newsletter No. 94

VISITING RESEARCHERS

Won-Hyung Yoo, Department of Horticulture, Jung- the laboratory of Angus Hepburn, Agronomy. Dr. Ang University, South Korea, conducted research with Culianez-Macia is conducting research on the molecular John S. Titus, Horticulture, on nitrogen recycling in the biology of agro-bacterium and plant transformation. apple, January 25 to February 24.

Geoffrey Mclnnes, Victoria, Australia, is visiting the Nabil Misk, Head of the Department of Surgery at Department of Animal Sciences for the spring semester. Assuit University, Assuit, Egypt, arrived at UIUC's Col- Mr. Mclnnes was awarded this visit for winning the Aus- lege of Veterinary Medicine in January for a ten-month tralian Angus Society judging contest. visit. He is working with Howard L. Whitmore, Chief of Food Animal Medicine and Surgery, and Dale R. Nelson and Alan Brightman, Veterinary Clinical Medicine. Dr. Misk is studying the normal and abnormal function of NEW INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS the abomasum in cattle, and will receive advanced clini- cal and research training in ophthalmology. His visit is The College of Agriculture and the College of Veteri- sponsored by the Mideast Peace Fellowship Program. Dr. nary Medicine welcome the following new foreign grad- Misk will present a seminar on livestock production in uate students to UIUC:

Egypt on April 23 (see seminar list for details). AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS Visiting the Department of Forestry from February to Kandeh Kolleh Yumkella, Sierra Leone, marketing and April is David T. Bell, Senior Lecturer in Plant Ecology, agricultural prices; Susa Zhang, China, international ag- University of Western Australia, Nedlands, Australia. ricultural economics. Dr. Bell was a faculty member in UIUC's Department of Forestry from 1971 to 1975. AGRONOMY

Clive Levy, Ph.D. student in the Department of Crop Ellen Wisman, Netherlands, cytogenetics; Jiancheng Science, University of Zimbabwe, Harare, is spending Cao, China, plant physiology. six months in Plant Pathology as part of his doctoral program. He is studying soybean diseases, especially the EXTENSION EDUCATION host-parasite relationship of Pyrenochaeta glycines, in the Lalith Kumar Hathurusinghe, Sri Lanka, agriculture; laboratory of James B. Sinclair, and electron microscopy. Lucy Kehinde, Nigeria, home economics; Walter Mubiana, Zambia, agriculture. David Bourne, University of Queensland, Brisbane, is visiting Gary D. Koritz, Veterinary Bioscience, from FAMILY AND CONSUMER ECONOMICS December 1985 to May 1986. Dr. Bourne is working on pharmacokinetics, the mathematical analysis of drug Young Sook Chung, Korea, consumption economics; data. Se-Jeong Yang, Korea, consumption economics.

Working in Veterinary Biosciences for one year is FOOD SCIENCE Gui-Rong Wang, Department of Public Health, Tiangin Lih-Wen Ding, China, food processing engineering; Medical College, Tiangin, China. Dr. Wang is studying T. D. Swiriwardana, Sri Lanka, soybean processing. mycotoxins with William B. Buck and Steven P. Swanson. PLANT PATHOLOGY

Johannes Bottema, an agricultural engineering student Nimal Dissanyake, Sri Lanka, virus diseases of corn; at the Agricultural University, Wageningen, Nether- Mumtaz Ali Pathan, Pakistan, seed pathology. lands, arrived at UIUC on February 23 for a three- month internship. He is conducting research with VETERINARY BIOSCIENCES Nelson L. Buck, Agricultural Engineering, and Sidney Hem Sapra, India, physiology. L. Spahr, Animal Sciences, on dairy farm electronics. VETERINARY CLINICAL MEDICINE Francisco Antonio Culianez-Macia, ETSIA at the Poly- technic University, Valencia, Spain, is spending 1986 in Augusto Barange, Spain, equine surgery and medicine. International Agriculture Newsletter No. 94

SEMINARS

March 12 Food Production and Nutrition in Tanzania: on the Zambian Agricultural Research and Extension Some Tentative Findings — Tim and Sue Rocke, Agri- (ZAMARE) Project from 1983 to 1985. cultural Economics. 4:00 p.m., 426 Mumford Hall. 12:00 noon, 1038 Foreign Languages Building. * International Agriculture Seminar *African Studies Sack Lunch Seminar April 17 The Family Migration Decision in Developing March 12 Farming Household Studies in the Highland Countries — Peter Schaeffer, Urban and Regional Plan- Philippines — B. Jean Peterson, Human Development ning. and Family Ecology. 12:00 noon, Friendship Lounge, University YMCA, 4:00 p.m., 426 Mumford Hall. 1001 South Wright Street, Champaign. *International Agriculture Seminar *Women in International Development Seminar

March 13 TIPAN and the NWFP Agricultural Univer- April 23 Livestock Production in Egypt — Nabil Misk, sity: Progress and Opportunities Yet to be Captured — visiting professor in Veterinary Medicine from Assuit Dr. G. M. Khattak, Vice-Chancellor, Northwest Frontier University. Province Agricultural University, Peshawar, Pakistan. 4:00 p.m., 426 Mumford Hall. 1:30 p.m., 426 Mumford Hall. * International Agriculture Seminar * International Agriculture Seminar April 25 International Colloquium Meeting March 19 India: After 30 Years — Ralph C. Hay, 4:00 p.m, Reading Room, Levis Faculty Center, 919 professor emeritus, Agricultural Engineering. West Illinois Street, Urbana. 4:00 p.m., 426 Mumford Hall. April 30 The New Internationalism John A. * International Agriculture Seminar — Becker, USAID Foreign Service Officer and Visiting Professor March 20 Dowry Deaths in India: The Experience of in the Office of International Agriculture. an Intern in a Women's Support Group — Reena Shah, 4:00 p.m., 426 Mumford Hall. Journalism. * International Agriculture Seminar 12:00 noon, Friendship Lounge, University YMCA, 1001 South Wright Street, Champaign. *Women in International Development Seminar VISITORS COMING TO CAMPUS March 21 International Colloquium Meeting 4:00 p.m, Reading Room, Levis Faculty Center, 919 Vice Chancellor of the Northwest Frontier Province Ag- West Illinois Street, Urbana. ricultural University (NWFPAU), G. M. Khattak, will visit and Southern Illinois University at Carbon- April 2 What Does International Agriculture Mean to UIUC dale from March 7 to 15. is the site of the Illinois Farmers? — Willard Severns, International Agri- NWFPAU TIPAN (Transformation and Integration of the Provin- culture Advisory Committee and Central Illinois Farmer. cial Agricultural Network) project. Dr. Khattak will 4:00 p.m., 426 Mumford Hall. * International Agriculture Seminar meet with campus administrators, faculty and staff in the College of Agriculture, and the seven NWFPAU fac- April 9 Technology Development and Transfer Sys- ulty members enrolled at UIUC for advanced degree tems in Agriculture: A Report from Jamaica — panel training. Following his visit to UIUC, Dr. Khattak will presentation by members of INTERPAKS case study travel to Denver, Colorado, to meet with representatives team to Jamaica in January 1986. of Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill, the architectural firm I 4:00 p.m., 426 Mumford Hall. designing the expansion of NWFPAU under TIPAN. He International Agriculture Seminar will be accompanied by William N. Thompson and Thomas A. McCowen, Office of International Agricul- April 11 International Colloquium Meeting ture, and James O. Curtis, Agricultural Engineering. 4:00 p.m, Reading Room, Levis Faculty Center, 919 West Illinois Street, Urbana. Egon Bergmann, University of West Berlin, Germany, will discuss application of electronics to farm equipment April 16 Research/Extension Linkages in Zambia — with Carroll E. Goering and other faculty in Agricul- Ronald G. Dedert, Research Extension Liaison Officer tural Engineering on March 10. International Agriculture Newsletter No. 94

VISITOR RECENTLY ON CAMPUS FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS

Brian Dibble, Director of the School of English at the Title VI Funds Western Australian Institute of Technology (WAIT), met March 17, 1986, is the application deadline for 1986- with James F. Evans, Agricultural Communications and 1987 Title VI funds for area and language studies. For Extension Education, on January 29. They discussed the application details contact the appropriate center listed exchange program between UIUC and WAIT. below:

Center for African Studies, 1208 West California Street, MARK YOUR CALENDAR Urbana, IL 61801; telephone (217) 333-6335. Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, 1208 "The Globalization of the U.S. Economy: Realities for West California Street, Urbana, IL 61801; telephone the 1990's" is the title of the Eighteenth Annual Quad- (217) 333-3182. Cities World Affairs Conference, April 4 and 5, 1986, Marvin G. Weinbaum, Program in South and West Deere & Company Administrative Center, Moline, Illi- Asian Studies, 361 Lincoln Hall, 702 South Wright nois. This conference is open to the public. Advance Street, Urbana, IL 61801; telephone (217) 333-0796. registration is requested.

Title VII Bilingual Fellowships Additional Information is available from J. Terry Iver- sen, Office of Continuing Education in International Af- March 15, 1986, is the application deadline for Title fairs, University of Illinois, 205 Arcade, 725 South VII bilingual fellowships for the 1986-1987 academic Wright Street, Champaign, IL 61820; telephone (217) year. For more information contact the Director, Office 333-1465. of Multicultural-Bilingual Education, 360 Education Building; telephone (217) 333-8287.

INTERNATIONAL WATER CONFERENCE Summer Fellowship in Pittsburgh

March 31, 1986, is the application deadline for summer The international conference on "Water Resources research fellowships in Latin American studies at the Needs and Planning in Drought Prone Areas" will be University of Pittsburgh. Grants of $1,500 are designed held in Khartoum, Sudan, December 6 to 13, 1986. to bring Latin American studies scholars to the Univer- The objective of the conference is to present the state sity of Pittsburgh for one month of library research. of current knowledge in the field of water resource Contact Ms. Martha Valle, Center for Latin American engineering. Emphasis will be given to application of Studies, 4E04 Forbes Quadrangle, University of Pitts- the latest techniques for solving practical problems re- burgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, for application informa- lated to drought prone areas. The International Water tion. Resources Association (IWRA) is a conference co-spon- sor. For more information contact IWRA, 208 North African Studies Romine, Urbana, IL 61801.

STUDENT PAPER COMPETITION. May 14 is the deadline for submission of papers for the annual paper INTERSESSION LANGUAGE CLASSES prize contest. Two $100 awards, one for a graduate student and one for an undergraduate student, will be The West European Studies Program has organized in- made for the best African-related paper produced by a tensive foreign language classes for the intersession pe- student during the 1985-1986 academic year. Instruc- riod of May 27 to June 13. Classes will meet from 9:00 tors may nominate papers or students may submit them a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Monday through Friday and are free directly. to faculty, staff, and dependents. You can choose from: beginning French, intermediate French, beginning Application procedures are available from the Center Spanish, intermediate Spanish, beginning Spanish for for African Studies, 1208 West California Street, Ur- Agriculture, beginning German, intermediate German, bana, IL 61801; telephone (217) 333-6335. and beginning Chinese. Contact Karl Schoeps or Shirley Jones at the West European Studies Program, 324 Coble Hall, 801 South Wright Street, Champaign, IL 61820; telephone (217) 333-1994, for registration instructions. International Agriculture Newsletter No. 94

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS IMPROVING AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION IN PAKISTAN mipp^ivcHAMPA'PN

Sponsored by TIPAN (Transformation and Integration came to UIUC for graduate work in August of the Provincial Agricultural Network), nineteen fac- 1983. As well, I was a member of the Board of ulty members from the Northwest Frontier Province Studies in Agriculture, the Board of Faculty, and Agricultural University (NWFP AU), Peshawar, Pakistan, the Academic Council at the University of are in the United States for degree training. TIPAN is a Peshawar and later at the NWFP Agricultural major institutional development project at NWFP AU University. These academic bodies are responsi- funded by the U.S. Agency for International Develop- ble for setting the examination system, updating ment (USAID). The project was awarded to the Univer- existing courses in various disciplines, and intro- sity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in Novem- ducing new courses in the university. After the ber 1984. Southern Illinois University at Carbondale establishment of NWFP AU in 1981, I was

(SIUC) is collaborating closely with UIUC on TIPAN. elected to the highest policy and decision-making Seven of the NWFP AU faculty members are at body of the university, the University Syndicate. UIUC. The others are enrolled at California Polytech- I was also a member of the University Finance nic State University, Mississippi State University, North and Planning Committee. Carolina State University, South Dakota State Univer- I was actively engaged in teaching and re- sity, SIUC, Texas Technological University, Washington search in the Department of Food Technology. I State University, University of Connecticut, University taught food technology courses to both under- of Minnesota, and University of Wyoming. graduate and graduate students, advised M.S. The seven enrolled at UIUC are: Asmatullah Khan, students, and published research papers on food Ph.D. candidate in agricultural education and extension, preservation, particularly fruit and vegetable preservation. My work involved introducing new advised by Violet M. Malone, Andrew J. Sofranko, and Burton E. Swanson; Rafiullah Khan, Ph.D. candidate in courses in food technology, updating existing food science, advised by Lun-Shin Wei; K. Bahadar courses, and establishing food processing facilities Marwat, Ph.D. candidate in agronomy, advised by for teaching and research. Emerson D. Nafziger; Mohammed Naeem, M.S. degree

candidate in entomology, advised by Stanley Friedman; Agriculture in Pakistan. Pakistan is predomi- Mohammad Saeed, Ph.D. candidate in food science, ad- nantly an agricultural country. One of the main vised by Munir Cheryan; Paigham Shah, Ph.D. candi- problems in Pakistan, and NWFP in particular, is date in agronomy, advised by Joseph A. Jackobs; and low agricultural productivity, both in yields per Fida Yousafzai, M.A. degree candidate in English as a acre and animal production. In NWFP, more second language, advised by Lawrence F. Bouton. than seventy-five percent of the population is either directly dependent on agriculture or is International The following report was prepared for the employed in a business dependent on agricul- Agriculture Newsletter by Mr. Saeed, the first NWFP AU ture. Improvements in agricultural productivity faculty member to come to UIUC for advanced degree work. would therefore improve the standard of life for In May 1974, the Department of Food a large and needy segment of the population. Technology was created in the Faculty of Agri- The government is making every effort to im- culture, University of Peshawar. The status of prove agricultural productivity. It has established the Faculty of Agriculture was raised to a full- research organizations and educational institu- fledged university in June 1981. tions to investigate the factors responsible for

I was appointed as the first chairman of the low y oductivity and to devise ways and means

department and remained in that position until I to ir prove both animal and crop production. International Agriculture Newsletter No. 95

The key factor, however, is to have qualified Participant training. So far, fourteen people personnel to staff these organizations. With this have been trained through specialized non- objective in view, the NWFP provincial govern- degree programs for periods ranging from three ment recently upgraded the Faculty of Agricul- months to one year. Senior people in teaching ture, University of Peshawar, into the NWFP and research have been brought over here and Agricultural University. New facilities and de- exposed to various research and educational in- partments have to be created and the existing stitutions in the United States. Twenty-one oth- facilities and departments improved to train the ers have been brought for M.S. and Ph.D. de- much needed personnel. It is a colossal job, one gree programs.

that needs active financial support from both the I am working toward my Ph.D. in Food provincial and federal governments. Science, specializing in uses of oilseed meal after

oil extraction. In Pakistan, there is a great poten-

U.S. assistance. It was a good omen that at tial for oilseed production. Almost eighty percent the time that the University was created, the of the edible oil consumed in Pakistan is im- United States of America offered economic and ported from Malaysia and the United States. Re- technical aid to the government and people of search on the production of sunflowers, soy- Pakistan. The provincial government could not beans, and other oilseeds has shown encouraging think of a better way to utilize this aid than to results. Better utilization of the meal after oil

spend it on improving the newly created extraction would make these oilseeds more com- NWFP AU. petitive and help bridge the gap between pro- duction and consumption of edible oil.

My first and foremost task after I go back to TIPAN. NWFP AU, under the dynamic lead- Pakistan will be to establish modern research and ership of the Vice Chancellor, Dr. G. M. Khattak, teaching facilities in the area of food science. selected UIUC and SIUC to help the new uni- There is very little post harvest technology in versity. UIUC and SIUC, working in close collab- the country in general and in the province in oration with our administrators and faculty, de- particular. This results in wastage and discour- signed the project now known as TIPAN. UIUC ages production. I plan to introduce post harvest has long been recognized for its work in the technology so that more crops are processed in development of agricultural institutions in devel- some form after harvest and not sold as raw oping countries. India is one example where two agricultural produce. modern agricultural universities were established with the help of UIUC, especially the College of Agriculture. The future. It is not that we don't know what the problems are, and it is not that don't Of particular interest at NWFP AU are staff we to solve them. In Pakistan, training, improving the present teaching facili- know how forty-two percent of our central is ties, and establishing new and improved research government budget spent on defense twenty-eight per- facilities. Under the traditional system, agricul- and another tural research and agricultural extension are part cent on interest on the public debt. That doesn't of the provincial department of agriculture. Ag- leave much for health, education, and agriculture. ricultural education is the role of the university There shouldn't be any poverty in Pakistan. and is funded by the federal government. There Our climate ranges from temperate in the foot- is little coordination between teaching, research, and extension. hills of the Himalayas to tropical. We can grow Under TIPAN, teaching and research are everything — apples, bananas, dates, sugarcane, being brought together and an outreach pro- rice, maize, and wheat, to name a few crops. What we need is good leadership. gram is being established at the Agricultural University to interface with and complement the In the end, I sincerely hope that TIPAN will work of the provincial extension program. This result in a strong relationship between the peo- Pakistan In helping will provide better coordination of the three ple of and the United States. to improve agricultural production, the people of wings. During its first year of operation, TIPAN States has also been able to identify areas for training. the United are helping the most needy in coun- The project has come up with a nicely planned segment of the population a developing try to feed better not so de- program for training personnel, establishing re- themselves and be pendent on others. Mohammad Saeed search facilities, and improving library facilities. — International Agriculture Newsletter No. 95

Four UIUC graduate students who worked on special studies and their academic advisors also made major China contributions to ZAMARE: Lawrence Datnoff, 1983- 1984, plant pathology, advised by James B. Sinclair; Glen L. Hartman, 1984-1985, plant pathology, advised by James B. Sinclair; Dennis Lawn, 1985-1986, plant pathology, advised by Gregory R. Noel; and Serigne

N'Diaye, rural sociology, advised by Andrew J. Sofranko. We hope to continue these special studies and to include Zambians doing thesis research in-country. The training component, coordinated by John W.

Santas, is one of the greatest success stories of the proj- ect. Since 1982, eighteen Zambians have received de- grees in U.S. institutions and returned to Zambia. An- Adapted from Rand McNally other twenty are currently in the U.S. pursuing degree training, and seventy others have participated in short NICHOLAIDES' NOTES courses held in the U.S. and other countries. Students currently at UIUC include: Spenser You may have noticed the absence of this column Bloomfield, M.S. candidate in horticulture, advised by from last month's issue. I mailed the column to my Walter E. Splittstoesser; Charles Chabala, M.S. candidate office from O'Hare Airport on February 7, en route to in agricultural economics, advised by Jean M. Due; Zambia with Dean Campbell for an executive visit to Maurice C. Jangulo, M.S. candidate in horticulture, the Zambia Agricultural Research and Extension advised by John A. Juvik; Walter A. Mubiana, M.S. can- (ZAMARE) project. The packet has not yet arrived. We didate in extension education, advised by Violet M. have learned that other people using the same mail box Malone; and Edward M. Sakufiwa, Ph.D. candidate in at O'Hare have experienced the same problem. entomology, advised by Robert L. Metcalf. To switch to a more positive note, our executive visit Students who have completed their degree training team found that the ZAMARE project is in good order are as follows: Agnes Kasaro, B.S. in agronomy in 1985, and highly regarded by our Zambian and USAID advised by Darrell A. Miller; Merinas Nyendwa, B.S. in (United States Agency for International Development) agricultural economics in 1985, advised by James R. colleagues. ZAMARE seeks to help the Zambian Minis- Roush; Enoch K. Sikapande, B.S. in extension education try of Agriculture and Water Development (MAWD) in 1985, advised by Violet M. Malone; George strengthen its research and extension capabilities. We Simakando, B.S. in animal sciences in 1985, advised by hope that, in continued cooperation with Southern Upson S. Garrigus; and Ben Zimba, B.S. in agricultural Illinois University at Carbondale (SIUC) and University economics in 1985, advised by David Chicoine. of Maryland, Eastern Shore (UMES), we will implement The contributions made by Thomas A. McCowen, Phase II (1987-1992). Campus Coordinator of ZAMARE, and Earl D. Kellogg, The ZAMARE team members, past and present, are who handled many aspects of ZAMARE prior to his to be congratulated for their solid performance in this leave of absence in December 1985, have added sub- project. Current team members, their home institutions, stantially to the success of the project. team assignments, and starting dates are: James F. The most credit, however, must be given to our Ragin, UMES, team leader, 1982; Mesfin Bezuneh, Zambian colleagues and USAID collaborators who have UIUC, farming systems economist, 1985; Val J. Eylands, done so much to ensure the success of this project. At UIUC, sunflower agronomist, 1984; Paul T Gibson, the risk of omitting some key people, special thanks are SIUC, maize breeder, 1982; Jagmohan Joshi, UMES, due to: Mr. Nalumino Mundia, former Prime Minister soybean breeder, 1982; Farrel Olsen, SIUC, agronomist, and current Ambassador to the United States from 1986; George B. Swallow, UIUC, research extension Zambia, Mr. Ng'amdi Magande, Permanent Secretary, liaison officer, 1986. MAWD, Mr. Nicolas Mumba, Director of Agriculture, Past team members include Ronald G. Dedert, UIUC, MAWD, Mr. B. Mutelo, Deputy Director for Re- research extension liaison officer, 1983-1985; Alfred G. J. search, MAWD, Mr. Russell Mulele, Deputy Director for Harms, UIUC, farming systems economist, 1982-1985; Extension, MAWD, and their fine staff; and to Mr. John Robert E. Hudgens, SIUC, agronomist, 1982-1985; Patterson, Mission Director, USAID/Zambia, Mr. Willie William Roath, USDA, sunflower agronomist, 1982- Cook, Agricultural Development Officer, USAID/Zam- 1984; and Seydou Sanogho, NifTAL, soil microbiolo-

bia, and their fine staff. . , .. . , , . , ... gist, 1982-1985. — \icholaides III J. J. International Agriculture Newsletter No. 95

INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES

Christian M. Scherer, Agricultural Communications Folke Dovring, Agricultural Economics, will deliver an and Extension Education, presented a paper entitled invited paper entitled "Cost of Agricultural Growth and "The Production of Effective Microcomputer User Ma- Developments: A Cross-National Empirical Analysis with terials" at the International Conference on Computers Focus on the USSR" at a conference on Soviet agricul- in Agricultural Extension Programs, Orlando, Florida, ture held at the Kennan Institute, Washington, D.C.,

February 5 and 6. Also attending was Barry J. April 3 and 4. Jacobsen, Plant Pathology. From April 10 to 13, Stephen C. Schmidt, Agricultural At the end of February, Marshall D. McGlamery, Economics, will participate in the Eastern Economic As- Agronomy, spent four days in Jamaica discussing coop- sociation's annual meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. erative research on soybean weeds with researchers He will present a paper entitled "East European Agri- from Jamaica Soy Products Industries, St. Katherine. culture: Goals and Performances in the Tenth Plan Pe- riod and Lessons for the Eleventh Plans." As a follow-up to a U.S. Presidential Mission on agricul- tural development, John B. Claar, International Agri- "Preparing for the Marketplace: Educational Inroads in culture, traveled to Caracas, Venezuela, in late February. Computer-Aided Design" is the title of the invited pa- per that Michael P. Sherman, Textiles, Apparel, and Gilbert R. Mollis, Animal Sciences, lectured on the ef- Interior Design, will present in Toronto, Canada, April fect of mycotoxins in swine feeding and on feed wastage 16 to 19. He is participating in a conference on Inter- at a short course entitled "The Breeding, Feeding, Man- national Design: Quality and Creativity, sponsored by agement, and Product Marketing of Pigs," March 2 to the Interior Design Educators Council. 14, Edinburgh, Scotland. Dr. Hollis also participated in

the British Society of Animal Production meetings, John J. Nicholaides III, Office of International Agricul- Scarborough, England, March 17 to 19. ture, was recently appointed as the international associ- ate editor to the Journal of Agronomic Education. Rod R. Greder, recent Ph.D. from Agronomy, left in March to spend one year at the Maize Research Insti- tute, Zemun Polje, Yugoslavia. He will initiate a soybean breeding program at the institute, classify Yugoslavian VISITORS maize populations, and computerize the plant breeding COMING TO CAMPUS

operations for all crops at the institute. His trip is spon- group of eighteen educators from seventeen countries sored by the International Research and Exchanges A will visit from April 1 to 4 as part of a U.S. tour Board (IREX). UIUC sponsored by the United States Information Agency and Consultants at the Northwest Frontier Province Agricul- the Institute of International Education. At UIUC, dur- tural University (NWFP AU), Peshawar, Pakistan, during ing a program coordinated by International Programs April include William L. George, Office of Resident and Studies, the group will examine three aspects of

Instruction, who is serving as a specialist in the improve- higher education: the role of technology in education - ment of instruction, and James O. Curtis, Agricultural Plato and supercomputers; role of land-grant colleges

Engineering, who is serving as a specialist in livestock and universities; and optional appointments in teacher facility design. Their visits are part of the TIPAN education. From the College of Agriculture, Eldon L. (Transformation and Integration of the Provincial Johnson, INTERPAKS and UIUC Vice President Agricultural Network) project. Emeritus, will meet with the group.

Andrew J. Sofranko, Agricultural Economics, spent March 22 to April 2 in Zambia. He was supervising the research of Serigne N'Diaye, graduate student in rural TITLE VI FUNDS: W. EUROPEAN STUDIES sociology, who is collecting thesis data. The work is being done under the sponsorship of the Zambia Agri- April 10, 1986, is the extended deadline for 1986-1987 cultural Research and Extension (ZAMARE) project. Title VI funds for area and language studies in Western At the request of USAID/Lesotho, William N. Europe. For application details contact Karl Schoeps or

Thompson, Office of International Agriculture, is serv- Shirley Jones, West European Studies Program, 324 ing on a team to evaluate a farming systems project, Coble Hall, 801 South Wright Street, Champaign, IL April 2 to 29. 61820; telephone (217) 333-1994. International Agriculture Newsletter No. 95

SEMINARS

These events are open to UIUC affiliates and the gen- April 30 The New Internationalism — John A. eral public. There is no admission charge. Becker, USAID Foreign Service Officer and Visiting Professor in the Office of International Agriculture. April 2 What Does International Agriculture Mean to 4:00 p.m., 426 Mumford Hall. Illinois Farmers? — Willard Severns, International Agri- * International Agriculture Seminar culture Advisory Committee and Central Illinois Farmer. 4:00 p.m., 426 Mumford Hall. * International Agriculture Seminar

April 9 Analysis of the Malawi Case Study: A Final INTERNATIONAL AGRICULTURE ADVISORY Report presentation by members of INTERPAKS case COMMITTEE study team, (note topic change) 4:00 p.m., 426 Mumford Hall. The International Agriculture Advisory Committee will International Agriculture Seminar meet at UIUC on April 3. Committee members are: Richard Feltes, REFCO Research; William H. Fugate, April 11 International Colloquium Meeting farmer, Fairbury; Bruce L. Kirkpatrick, Abbott Labora- 4:00 p.m, Reading Room, Levis Faculty Center, tories, Long Grove; Lyle G. Reeser, East Peoria; Willard 919 West Illinois Street, Urbana. Severns, farmer, Moweaqua; James M. Spata, Nutra- April 16 Research/Extension Linkages in Zambia — Blends Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio; Wilbert N. Stevenson, Ronald G. Dedert, Research Extension Liaison Officer farmer, Streator; and Richard A. Vogen, Illinois Depart- on the Zambia Agricultural Research and Extension ment of Agriculture, Springfield. (ZAMARE) Project from 1983 to 1985. 4:00 p.m., 426 Mumford Hall. * International Agriculture Seminar

April 22 The Development Challenge in Jamaica — WID STUDENT PAPER COMPETITION John A. Becker, USAID Foreign Service Officer and Visiting Professor in International Agriculture. May 15, 1986, is the deadline for submission of papers 12:00 noon, 207 Gregory Hall. written by students on topics related to women in inter- * Latin American Studies Brown Bag Seminar national development. One $150 prize will be awarded by the Office of Women in International Development. Preliminary April 23 Operation of Vendange: Report For topics of past winning papers and further informa- Agricultural Foreign Worker Pro- on a Franco-Spanish tion about the competition contact the WID Office, 324 Ley, in International Devel- gram — Margo De Women Coble Hall, 801 South Wright Street, Champaign, IL opment and Office of International Agriculture. 61820; telephone (217) 333-1977. 12:00 Noon, 219 Davenport Hall. * Population Studies Group Brown Bag Seminar

April 23 Livestock Production in Egypt — Nabil Misk, visiting professor in Veterinary Medicine from Assuit INTERSESSION LANGUAGE CLASSES University, Egypt. 4:00 p.m., 426 Mumford Hall. The West European Studies Program has organized in- International Agriculture Seminar tensive foreign language classes for the intersession pe- riod of May 27 to June 13. Classes will meet from 9:00 April 24 The Family Migration Decision in Developing a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Monday through Friday and are free Countries — Peter Schaeffer, Urban and Regional to faculty, staff, and dependents. You can choose from: Planning. beginning French, intermediate French, beginning 12:00 noon, Friendship Lounge, University YMCA, Spanish, intermediate Spanish, beginning Spanish for 1001 South Wright Street, Champaign. Agriculture, beginning German, intermediate German, * Women in International Development Seminar and beginning Chinese. Contact Karl Schoeps or Shirley April 25 International Colloquium Meeting Jones at the West European Studies Program, 324 Coble 4:00 p.m, Reading Room, Levis Faculty Center, Hall, 801 South Wright Street, Champaign, IL 61820; 919 West Illinois Street, Urbana. telephone (217) 333-1994, for registration instructions. International Agriculture Newsletter No. 95

VISITORS RECENTLY ON CAMPUS

Meera Khan, Research Officer (Animal Husbandry), Leroy D. Schickedanz, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, Veterinary Research Institute, Peshawar, Pakistan, spent Denver; Herbert Portz and Meera Khan, Southern

March 10 and 1 1 visiting researchers in agriculture Illinois and University, Carbondale; J. D. Garlich, North veterinary medicine. Mr. Khan, a in participant the Carolina State University (NCSU); and Mushtaq Ahmed I TIPAN project, is an M.S. student at Southern Illinois Mian, NWFP Agricultural University and NCSU Ph.D. University at Carbondale. candidate in poultry science, visited UIUC on March 27. They discussed planning the crops and livestock On March 4, Abdel-Latif A. Aboul-Ela, Cultural Coun- teaching and experimental farm facilities at NWFP selor from the Embassy of Egypt, Washington, D.C, Agricultural University, Peshawar, Pakistan. met with graduate students supported by the Egyptian government. He also discussed possible collaboration be- tween UIUC and Egyptian universities with Mahmood A. Khan, Barbara P. Klein, and Joseph Tobias, Foods and Nutrition. VISITING RESEARCHERS

Alister Sutherland, sociologist with the Adaptive Re- Anna Brooks, Department of Environmental Biology, search Planning Team (ARPT) program, Zambia Minis- Australian National University, Canberra, arrived at try of Agriculture and Water Development, visited the UIUC in early January. She will work for one year with R. Portis, College of Agriculture on March 6. He discussed the Archie USDA/Agronomy, using the gas ex- Zambia Agricultural Research and Extension change technique to study the possible relationships be- tween the activation state of RuBisCo (ZAMARE) project with faculty and staff, including Jean and photosynthate partitioning as affected by light intensity. M. Due, Alfred G. Harms, and Andrew J. Sofranko, Agricultural Economics, and Thomas A. McCowen, Denis Bergmann, Head, Economics Department, Insti- John J. Nicholaides, and John W. Santas, Office of International Agriculture. tut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Paris, France, will be a visiting scholar in Agricultural Eco-

Clifton R. Wharton, Chancellor of the State University nomics from early April until mid-May. Dr. Bergmann's of New York system and Chairman of the Board of the interests include Common Market agriculture and its Rockefeller Foundation, presented the keynote address trading relationship with the United States. Dr. at the Funk Awards banquet, March 13. His speech was Bergmann will present several seminars during his visit. entitled "Asian Development Revisited: Some Check with the Department of Agricultural Economics, Reflections." 304 Mumford Hall, 333-1810, for details.

Ten researchers with Nippon Pet Food Co., Tokyo, Japan, discussed management and nutrition of exotic birds and pet food processing and nutrition with Julia Van Briggle and James E. Corbin, Animal Sciences, on March 14. .RATIONAL AGRICQ^

During a tour arranged by the African-American Insti- tute, Joseph Guifo Kayem, Assistant Director, and Michel Tchekandom, Chief of Service for Inter-Univer- sity Relations, National Institute of Food Science Tech- nology (ENSIAAC), Ngaoundere, Cameroon, visited UIUC on March 19 and 20. Both are participants in the International Visitor Program of the United States Information Agency (USIA). During a schedule ar- ranged by International Programs and Studies, they dis- cussed food technology programs with Alvin I. Nelson, ILLINOIS AT URB Food Science, Jean M. Due, Agricultural Economics, and Harold E. Kauffman and Thomas A. McCowen, International Agriculture. International Agriculture Newsletter No. 95

AFRICAN FOOD SECURITY SYMPOSIUM

The Symposium entitled "Agricultural Policy and Af- 3:30 p.m., Session IV, Historical Context rican Food Security: Issues, Prospects, and Con- Michael Watts, University of California at Berkeley, straints — Toward the Year 2000" will be held April commentator 24 to 26, 1986, in 210 (general lounge) of the room Agricultural Food Production 'Crisis' in Africa: Illini Union, 1401 West Green Street, Urbana. The A Historical Contextualization — W. C. Madzura and Symposium is sponsored by the Center for African A. N. Mbabu, University of Missouri Studies and the Office of International Agriculture. Land Reform, Women, and Agricultural Productivity Contact the Center for African Studies, 1208 West in Northern Ethiopia: An Historical Perspective — California Street, room 101, Urbana, 217-333-6335, for McCann, Boston University registration information. J. Concentration without Privatization: Changing Pat-

Tentative Program terns of Rural Land Control in Africa and their Im- plications for Agricultural Performance — S. Berry, April 24 Boston University.

7:30 p.m., Session I Compact for African Development: A Dialogue Rob- April 26 ert Berg, Overseas Development Council, and Ambas- 9:30 a.m., Session V, The Role of External Agencies sador Nalumino Mundia, Republic of Zambia Financing Food Security: The Potential for Domestic 9:00 p.m., Reception Finance in Burkina — S. Haggblade, Syracuse Univer- sity April 25 Kenyan Food Security: The Role of USAID Vis-a-Vis 9:00 a.m., Access to Food in Africa Other Donors and the Government of Kenya —

Making Sense of Food Security Statistics: Pointers D. A. Smith and P. Weisel, USAID/Nairobi from Burkina — S. Haggblade, Syracuse University 1:00 p.m., Session VI, An Agricultural Revolution for Access to Food in Africa: Urban Consumers in Kin- Africa? shasa, Zaire, with Projections of Food and Nutrition Farming Systems for Resource Poor Farmers: The in Zaire and East Africa — G. Ames, University of Case of Cassava in Africa — C. S. Ajirotutu, Univer- Georgia sity of California at Davis and H. C. Exumah, Inter- Food Distribution in Africa: A Question of Gen- national Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Ibadan, der? — C. Robertson, Ohio State University Nigeria Access to Food in the Sahel R. Thomas, Institut du — Prospects for Food Security in Africa — G. Abalu, Sahel Ahmadu Bello University

1:00 p.m., Session III, Policies of African Improved Technology Adoption and Food Security in Governments Sub-Saharan Africa — Z. Olorunnipa, University of

Policies of West African Governments in Food Pro- Illinois duction for Self-Sufficiency — Bakayoko Adama, 4:00 p.m., Session VII, Round Table: Symposium CIRES, Abidjan Retrospective Cooperative Agricultural Development in Lesotho: Self-Sufficiency or Self-Destruction? — B. Borris, University of Idaho

Food Self-Sufficiency and Regional Food Security: Illu- sion or Reality in Zimbabwe's Transition to Socialist Agriculture — K. Akwabi-Ameyaw, University of Florida International Agriculture Newsletter No. 95

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EXPLODING THE MYTH THAT UIUC HELPS MARKET COMPETITORS

In the past few years, the U.S. farm economy has gone development deserves to be discussed rationally with through some stressful times and the outlook for the facts rather than with falsehoods.

near future is not rosy. This lamentable situation has It is time to set the record straight on what UIUC and provided an especially fertile environment for misunder- INTSOY have and have not done in the international

standings. The economic issues involved are varied and soybean arena. Summarized below is information from a complex. Some individuals and organizations, in their letter dated January 24, 1986, from Dean John R. attempts to protect U.S. farm interests, have spread Campbell to Illinois Congressman Terry L. Bruce. falsehoods about the role U.S. universities have played in the decline of U.S. farm exports. Myth: UIUC, through INTSOY, helped Brazil

UIUC, because it is a world leader in soybean research become a major competitor to the United States in and the base for the International Soybean Program soybean production. (INTSOY), has been caught in the middle of the contro- Fact: INTSOY never had a program in Brazil.

versy. The misstatements have fueled a ground swell of Along with 1 3 1 other countries, Brazil has partici- opposition by some farmers and farm organizations to pated in a cooperative international program coor- international agricultural activities, especially those con- dinated by INTSOY to exchange, improve, and test nected with soybean production research. soybean germplasm. Since 1973, Brazilian scientists This opposition has been detrimental not only to the contributed 535 breeding lines or cultivars to this university as a world class institution but also to U.S. program. In return, they received 259 lines (90 efforts to conquer hunger and promote peace around from the U.S. and 169 from other countries). the world. It created an environment in which $100 Brazil has a well-developed system of state, na- million was cut from the 1986 budget for the U.S tional, and private soybean research programs Agency for International Development (USAID), result- which develop cultivars to meet their local needs. ing in an 18.8 percent budget cut for INTSOY. It pre- As well, other countries, most notably Japan, have cipitated a decision by USAID to no longer fund soy- been actively involved in developing Brazil's soy- bean production research in any developing country, bean industry. thereby affecting millions of people who need protein UIUC faculty members, including INTSOY affili- and calories but lack the knowledge to grow and the ates, have visited Brazil for international meetings money to buy soybeans. And it continues to fuel a plan and discussion of cooperative research. Very few of within the House Appropriations Subcommittee for For- these trips were paid for by USAID. Most con- eign Operations to cut up to 50 percent ($355 million) cerned research on plant protection. International of the 1987 USAID agriculture budget, which would contact plays an important role in maintaining mean an immediate elimination of UIUC's INTSOY and UIUC's reputation as a first-class educational, re- INTERPAKS programs and Program Support Grant. search, and service institution. It is obvious that UIUC and other U.S. universities will suffer if the proposed 1987 budget cut occurs. But Myth: In 1984, financed by USAID, INTSOY the biggest losers will be U.S. farmers and U.S. agribusi- spent up to $20 million helping the soybean compe- ness. My article entitled "Mutual Aid" in the December tition in South America. 1985 International Agriculture Newsletter describes the Fact: INTSOY activities are directed toward less major economic benefits of international agriculture de- developed countries that are struggling to feed rap- velopment activities to U.S. producers and how these idly growing populations, not to competitors. In activities give us access to the world's germplasm. If you 1984, INTSOY received $850,000 from USAID.

haven't read the article or would like another copy, Since its inception in 1973, INTSOY has received a please write me. The issue of international agricultural total of $6,456,404 from USAID. International Agriculture Newsletter No. 96

Myth: INTSOY programs have adversely affected If you are concerned about the proposed cut in the Illinois farmers. 1987 USAID agriculture budget and about the misstate- Fact: INTSOY has helped Illinois farmers by ments that are influencing policy makers, you might

• bringing in new germplasm to increase and sta- write or call the two Illinois congressmen who sit on the bilize U.S. soybean productivity; House Appropriations Subcommittee for Foreign Opera- • conducting research on pests and diseases of tions. They are: Representative John E. Porter (Republi- soybeans that present a possible future threat to can, Tenth District), 1131 Longworth House Office U.S. producers, and Building, Washington, D.C. 20515, telephone 202-225- • opening up new markets for U.S. soybeans 4835; and Representative Sidney R. Yates (Democrat, through the introduction of soy products into Ninth District), 2234 Rayburn House Office Building, less developed countries that have little or no Washington, D.C. 20515, telephone 202-225-2111. experience with soybean usage. Letters or calls to your congressional representative and senators could also be beneficial. In Urbana-Cham- INTSOY seeks to improve human nutrition around paign, our representative is Terry L. Bruce (Democrat, the world through the use of soybeans. We have recently Nineteenth District), 419 Cannon House Office Building, signed a five-year collaborative agreement with USAID. Washington, D.C. 20515, telephone 202-225-5001. Our The focus of the new research and development pro- senators from Illinois are: Senator Alan J. Dixon (Demo- gram is to process and use whole raw soybeans in the crat), 316 Hart Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C. following ways: low-cost extrusion cooking to make 20510, 202-224-2854; and Senator Paul Simon (Demo- weaning foods, breakfast foods, snacks, soy flour, and crat), 462 Dirksen Senate Office Building, Washington, soups; low-cost farm or village oil extraction processes, D.C. 20510, 202-224-2152. which will give farmers and small commercial enterprises If you are unable to find your congressional represent- two products to market; low-cost processes to make high- ative's address or telephone number, please call your lo- quality soy beverages and dairy analog products, such as cal public library or my office (217-333-6421) and we ice cream and yogurt; village and home level processing will supply it for you. methods for home consumption; frozen, immature green Action is crucial. Thank you. soybeans; and simple processes for combining soybean — John Nicholaides III residues with other ingredients to make animal feed. J.

INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES

On April 6, 1986, John R. Campbell, Dean of the Col- Daniel Gianola, Animal Sciences, presented an invited lege of Agriculture, was presented with the Gamma paper at the International Symposium on Mixed Model Sigma Delta International Award for Distinguished Ser- Theory and Applications at Irsee, West Germany, and vice to Agriculture. Dean Campbell, the first person lectured at the University of Hohenheim at Stuttgart from Illinois to receive this prestigious award, was cited and the Technical University at Munich, April 4 to 14. for his many long-term contributions to agricultural edu- cation, research, and public service, both within the Eleven members of the College of Agriculture faculty

United States and abroad. Gamma Sigma Delta is the are in Tokyo, Japan, during April and May participating honor society of agriculture. in a corn quality research project. As part of the study,

the team sampled corn as it was loaded onto boats in

Michael Grossman, Animal Sciences, traveled to Israel New Orleans and are sampling again when it is offloaded and the Netherlands, March 22 to April 12. He spent in Japan. Team members are: Lowell D. Hill (team two weeks in Israel discussing opportunities for coopera- leader), Brian Cratz, Terrence J. Kuhn, Alan Tumblin, tive research in dairy goats with scientists at the Hebrew and Donald L. Uchtmann, Agricultural Economics; University in Jerusalem and Rehovot, Volcani Institute at Marvin R. Paulsen and Gene C. Shove, Agricultural Bet Dagan, and Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv. Engineering; Richard A. Weinzierl, Agricultural Ento- Dr. Grossman also attended a short course on mammal- mology; William H. Creswell and R. Grear Kimmel, ian growth held at the Agricultural University, Wagenin- Agricultural Communications and Extension Education; gen, Netherlands, April 7 to 12. The trip was financed, and Barry J. Jacobsen, Plant Pathology. The project is in part, by a travel grant from MUCIA, the Midwest supported by the Illinois Corn Marketing Board and the Universities Consortium for International Activities. National Corn Development Foundation. 3

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John L. Woods, INTERPAKS, attended a workshop for (Midwest Universities Consortium for International Ac- agricultural communications and information scientists tivities) institutional development project. held at the Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical (CI AT), Cali, Colombia, from April 14 to 18. Partici- At the conference on International Marketing: Emerg- discussed networks in pants the establishment of South ing Strategic Frontiers, Singapore, June 16 to 18, Dr. America for agricultural communications, libraries, and Douglas will present a paper entitled "Conjoint Analysis extension. as a Method for the Study of Country-of-Origin as an Dr. Woods then traveled to New York City and Wash- Apparel Attribute." First author on the paper is Cynthia ington, D.C. At the Global Projects Division of the A. Boeckman, graduate student in Textiles, Apparel, United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in New and Interior Design. The conference is sponsored by the York, he discussed possible funding for three case studies Global Marketing Division of the American Marketing that would be carried out in cooperation with the Cen- Association and the National University of Singapore. tro Internacional de la Papa (CIP) in Peru. He also met with other officials at UNDP and UNICEF. In Washing- ton, D.C, Dr. Woods presented a paper on program relevance and support services for overseas students in VISITORS COMING TO CAMPUS U.S. universities at a seminar on international education Margaret Elaine Rose, veterinary and training, April 23 and 24. The seminar was spon- parasitologist from the Poultry sored by the International Science and Education Coun- Houghton Research Station, Houghton, Huntington, Cambridgeshire, England, will visit UIUC cil (ISEC) and BIFAD (Board for International Food and Agricultural Development). Following the ISEC work- from May 3 to 7. Sponsored by a Wellcome Visiting Professorship in the Basic Medical Sciences, shop, Dr. Woods held a series of meetings at USAID, her program World Bank, and other organizations. at UIUC is being arranged by Kenneth S. Todd, Veterinary Pathobiology, 2615 Veterinary Medicine Basic Sciences Bldg., 333-4689. On May 5, Dr. Rose will Thomas A. McCowen, Office of International Agricul- present a seminar on her research (see seminar list on ture, is in Zambia from April 1 8 to May 6 to assist the page x for details). ZAMARE (Zambia Agricultural Research and Extension) project develop a project identification document for Marc Frankinet, research leader, Station de Phase II. Phytotechnie, Gembloux, Belgium, will discuss soil management, soil fertility, crop rotation, integrated pest Duane E. Erickson, Agricultural Economics, will spend management, and experimental farm management with the month of May at the Northwest Frontier Province College of Agriculture faculty members on May 6. His Agricultural University, Peshawar, Pakistan. Dr. Erickson schedule is being arranged by John W. Santas, 1 1 will serve as a consultant on production economics to Mumford Hall, 333-3638. TIPAN (Transformation and Integration of the Provin- cial Agricultural Network). International 4-H Youth Exchange (IFYE) program participants Beat Wiithrich, farm cooperative worker Demetres Briassoulis, visiting professor in Agricultural from Switzerland, and Rune Naeri, from Norway, will Engineering, will present a paper entitled "Design Con- visit UIUC from May 7 to 9. They will then be placed siderations for Empty Steel Silos Under Wind Loading" with 4-H families for a four-month stay in Illinois in a at the Powder and Bulk Solids Conference and Exhibi- program arranged by L. Ann Rund, Cooperative tion, O'Hare Exhibition Center, Rosemont, Illinois, May Extension Service, room 1901 University Inn, 333-0910. 12 to 15. The event is sponsored by the International

Powder Institute in collaboration with the Powder Advi- K. Saio, National Food Research Institute, Tsukuba, sory Centre, London, England. Japan, will meet with Food Science and INTSOY faculty on May 12 to discuss the soyfood industry in Japan. Congratulations to Sara U. Douglas, Textiles, Apparel, -NATIONAL AGRICU/,. and Interior Design, who recently won a Hewlett inter- national research grant. For three months this summer. Dr. Douglas will be in Malaysia conducting research on the impact of U.S. trade policy on the textile and ap- parel industries in Malaysia and Singapore. Beginning in August, she will teach for ten months at the Mara Insti- tute of Technology, Kuala Lumpur, under a MUCIA Internationa] Agriculture Newsletter No. 96

VISITING RESEARCHERS natural resources and the environment, or domestic economic affairs are eligible. Information about the

Zhen-yuan Wang is a visiting scholar from Jiangsu Acad- program is available from the Campus-Wide Research emy of Agricultural Sciences, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China. Services Office, 128 Observatory.

He is working for one year in the laboratory of William L. Ogren, Agronomy, studying the regulation of rubisco June 15, 1986, is the application deadline for the Indo- activation level. American Fellowship Program for 1987-1988. Awards are available in all academic disciplines, and scholars Natuki Yamasita. associate professor of chemistry, Fac- with limited or no prior experience in India are espe- ulty of Science and Engineering, Kinki University, cially encouraged to apply. Application forms are avail-

Osaka, Japan, is spending a one-year sabbatical leave at able from the Council for International Exchange of UIUC beginning in mid-April. Dr. Yamasita is conduct- Scholars, 11 Dupont Circle, Washington, D.C.; telephone ing research with Lun-Shin Wei, Food Science, on soy 202-939-5469. protein chemistry. July 1, 1986, is the application deadline for fellowships Byeong Kirl Baek, Department of Veterinary Medicine, from the American Institute of Pakistan Studies. The College of Agriculture, Chonbuk National University, Institute offers predoctoral, postdoctoral, library services,

Jaeonju, Korea, is a visiting scholar for one year in vet- and professional development fellowships for students erinary medicine. He is working with Kenneth S. Todd, and scholars engaged in research on Pakistan. Suitable Veterinary Pathobiology, and Joseph A. DiPietro, Veteri- topics include rural development, agriculture, local gov- nary Clinical Medicine, on applied aspects of parasitology. ernment, economic problems, demography, and broader historical and cultural subjects. Application details are Luiz Sergio Coelho of EMBRAPAs national swine re- available from the Campus-Wide Research Services Of- search center in Concordia, Santa Catarina, Brazil, will fice, 128 Observatory. be at UIUC from May 5 to 23 to work with swine nutritionists in Animal Sciences. His travel is sponsored the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). by VISITORS RECENTLY ON CAMPUS

Under the supervision of Mahmood Khan, Foods and Eugenio del Rio, Aceitera la Junta, Guadalajara, Mex- Nutrition, Brian M. Rabot and David Martin Payne, ico, spent March 1 9 to 26 studying pet foods with James Huddersfield Polytechnic, Huddersfield, England, are E. Corbin, Animal Sciences. visiting UIUC for the spring semester as exchange stu- dents. From March 24 to 28, Eugene Pipano, Kimron Veteri- nary Institute, Bet Dagan, Israel, visited with Miodrag Ristic and his staff in Veterinary Pathobiology. SEMINAR Dr. Pipano is director of a joint program between the Kimron Veterinary Institute and UIUC's College of Vet- May 5 The Immunology of Eimeria Infections — erinary Medicine on the development of a vaccine for Margaret Elaine Rose, Houghton Poultry Research bovine babesiosis. The program is supported by the Bin- Station, Houghton, Huntington, England. ational Agricultural Research and Development (BARD) 4:00 p.m., room 2251 Veterinary Medicine Basic fund. Sciences Bldg., 2001 South Lincoln Avenue, Urbana. * Veterinary Medicine seminar Roger Collison, Catering Research Centre, Hudders- field, England, visited the Department of Foods and Nu- trition, March 25 to 27. His visit included discussions with Mahmood Khan on student exchanges and the pos- FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS sibility of collaborative research.

June 1, 1986, is the application deadline for the small Five young farmers from Panama arrived in Illinois on grants program of the National Center for Food and April 3 to live on farms and learn about U.S. agricul- Agricultural Research. Projects which deal with current ture. Rafael Guevara, Dalys Esther Jaen, Sixto Manuel or emerging public policy issues of national significance Madiedo, Julio Rodriquez, and Alejandro Calderon

involving agriculture and its relationships with interna- Carrasco are participating in a USAID Peace Scholarship tional trade and foreign affairs, food and nutrition, Program administered through the 4-H program of the International Agriculture Newsletter No. 96

Cooperative Extension Service. They participated in a two-day orientation program presented by L. Ann Rund

and Robert F. Long, Cooperative Extension Service, be- fore being placed with Illinois farm families. The five farmers will remain in Illinois until mid-August.

Zarina Bhatty, Women in Development/Social Science Officer, USAID mission in Delhi, India, visited UIUC on April 7 and 8. Ms. Bhatty presented two lectures, one on preparation of technical proposals for USAID and the other on the integration of women into development projects in India.

A seven-member team visited UIUC from April 13 to 15 to review our proposal to establish a long-term insti- tutional development relationship with Egerton College, Ngoro, Kenya. Team members David Lundgren, Chief, Agriculture Division, USAID/Kenya; Richard Musangi, Principal, Egerton College; Chairman Dawson Mlamba, Isaac Mwai, and Henry Ogala, Board of Trustees, Egerton College; George Kimani, Deputy Director of Agriculture, Government of Kenya, Nairobi; and Joseph Lijembe, Deputy Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Edu- cation, Science, and Technology, Government of Kenya, Nairobi, met with campus and college administrators and faculty members and toured facilities. UIUC was one of three finalists for the Egerton proposal.

UIUC received a site visit as part of the evaluation of our proposal for a long-term institutional development project at Egerton College, Ngoro, Kenya, April 13 to 15. Pictured here are (back row, left to

right) John J. Nicholaides III, Richard Musangi, Joseph Lijembe, Henry Ogala, and Dean John R. Campbell; (front row, left to right) David Lundberg, Dawson Mlamba, George Kimani, and Isaac Mwai. International Agriculture Newsletter No. 96

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WHAT DOES INTERNATIONAL AGRICULTURE MEAN TO ILLINOIS FARMERS?

Willard Severns

If you had asked five years ago what international U.S. farm policies, which support prices by withdraw- agriculture means to Illinois farmers, you would have ing commodities from the marketplace, are not working received a very different answer than you would today. in this environment. Those policies were designed when A few years ago, many of us thought international agri- the U.S. farm economy had few exports. To our dismay, culture meant that we produced and marketed a con- in the past four years we discovered that we can spend stantly increasing amount of agricultural products to a large amounts of money on price support activities and constantly expanding group of world buyers. Today, we yet not have a positive impact on farm income. In fact, have seen this definition collapse. Demand is less than price supports may have accelerated the loss of export we hoped, competition is greater than imagined, and we market shares. U.S. agriculture now exists in a world find that we are no longer in the driver's seat. The one- economy. way street of rapidly growing markets for our products turned into a busy two-way street. How did our expec- tations change so quickly? Here are my thoughts. Increased production. One reason for the drop in

exports is that some of our customers from the 1970s became competitors. Productivity has increased tremen- Three phases. U.S. agriculture has gone through dously around the world. Both the lesser developed three phases during the second half of this century. The countries and developed economies, such as countries in first phase lasted the longest, up until the early 1970s. the European community, have added significantly to

It was the era of production. Prices for commodities the availability of agricultural products on the world and interest rates were stable, and events in the world market. Through pricing strategies, developed countries markets were of relatively little significance because less have taken a greater share of world export markets. than 10 percent of U.S. agricultural production moved In the 1970s China was viewed as one of the greatest into world channels. potential markets for U.S. farm products. China had a Starting in the early 1970s, export markets became population of nearly a billion people and a low level of an important factor in U.S. agriculture. By 1980-1981, agricultural productivity. Much to our surprise, we have yields from two acres out of five were marketed over- seen Chinese grain and oilseed production increase by seas. The expectation for continued demand from the 43 million metric tons. The total agricultural output of world markets was so high that we added seventy mil- China has increased by more than 50 percent in just a lion new acres of croplands during the 1970s. Opinion little over six years. was nearly unanimous that both world demand and in- In terms of the world situation, production is out- flation in the U.S. economy were going to continue at stripping demand. In the last four years, farmers world- record rates. wide have produced an average of 60 million tons more Unfortunately, in the 1980s we find ourselves in the grain and oilseeds than the market could absorb. U.S.

third phase, and it is one we had not predicted. Do- policy diverted about 20 million metric tons of grain mestically, inflation rates are lower than forecasted and capacity equivalent every year, but this has been more the value of land and other items of farm equity have than offset by increases in world production. eroded rapidly. High real interest rates have also put a financial squeeze on many producers. However, proba- bly the most significant factor has been the sudden drop Research, an international commodity. Research, the in exports. We went from a high of $43 billion per year key to these dramatic increases in production, is an in- in the early 1980s to an estimated $28 billion for 1986. ternational commodity. Some farmers feel that by shar- International Agriculture Newsletter No. 97

ing research we depress prices and farm income. How- ery assembled and sold in the United States. All in all, ever, these people aren't aware that the United States it's becoming a smaller, downsized industry with interna- does not have a monopoly on agricultural research. tional ownership, production, and marketing. The move One of the greatest breakthroughs has been in the towards becoming international can't be stopped, given area of hybridization of seeds. The yields of many com- present economic pressures. modities have increased dramatically through improved seed technology. In the United States, for example, we Role of the United States. One of the key problems have seen yields for wheat increase from 40 bushels per is our failure to recognize the need to become interna- acre to 100 bushels per acre. Around the world, higher- tional. The United States has become the residual sup- yielding seed cultivars are the rule rather than the ex- plier to world markets, and recent experiences show ception. that this is a losing game. In the last four years, world In the dairy area, breakthroughs just on the horizon grain production has gone up by 14.5 percent, total include the bovine growth hormone, which was discov- world imports are down 10 percent, and U.S. exports ered in Europe. A simple hormone injection costing of agricultural products have dropped by 21 percent. only about 50 cents a day could increase dairy cow production by 15 to 20 percent. The future. The markets themselves are still growing.

New cost-effective chemicals are available in the mar- World population is increasing by 75 million people a ket place. These chemicals cost more on a volume basis year. Two questions remain unanswered: Who will pro- but less on a per unit basis. This helps to improve vide the food to feed them? At what price will these profits by lowering production costs. commodities trade?

We have to accept the fact that many of these re- Illinois is completely dependent upon what happens in search breakthroughs came from outside the state and the rest of the world. The research breakthroughs that outside the United States. More than three-fourths of are coming at us in a seemingly endless way cannot be the new post-emergence pesticides now in use were not ignored. We have to respond to them and, in many developed in the United States. cases, we'll be forced to adopt these new technologies. A market development breakthrough called high fruc- We must also recognize that U.S. farm policies cannot tose corn syrup is no stranger to Illinois. In the United continue to set prices for the world. Use and competi-

States, it has surpassed sugar as the major caloric sweet- tion must ultimately set prices. We have recently seen ener. Although this new product has been popularized that U.S. loan rates, in conjunction with the rapidly in the United States, the technology was developed in increasing strength of the U.S. dollar, served to provide Japan. an umbrella for many other suppliers to world markets. We must move away from setting world prices at the Impact on Illinois. Lowell D. Hill of UIUC's Depart- expense of U.S. taxpayers and farmers. Lower cost of ment of Agricultural Economics did a study in the late production is critical and will affect whoever is able to 1970s showing that Illinois has a major stake in world attain and retain markets. markets. His study revealed that export levels for corn We recognize now that we must compete or we must and soybeans from Illinois were nearly double the shrink our farm industry dramatically. Only five years amount projected on the basis of production. ago, over 40 percent of the total U.S. agricultural pro- The combination of two factors has given Illinois this duction was sold on world markets. What if the United stake in the health of the world agricultural market States decides to produce only for domestic markets? economy. The first is the transportation infrastructure The price of shrinking is not that simple. The continu- needed to meet world bulk commodity markets. The ing breakthroughs in production technology dictate that second factor is the predominance of grain processors you would have to shrink more each year. Rigid supply that produce value-added products which move into controls would be needed to prop up prices. world markets. Historically we have done a poor job of aggressively pursuing markets. The United States has been a reluc- J Internationalization of companies. A good example tant trader and other countries have been much more of the new international character of companies is the aggressive at marketing their products and their tech- I farm machinery industry. Ten years ago all major ma- nology. chinery manufacturers in the United States were well- The price of retreating from world markets is too established American companies, and they were expand- high. World agriculture, like the computer field and ing aggressively. Recently, the farm machinery industry other areas, is a high-tech battlefield. The increasingly is becoming increasingly internationalized. Foreign and technical nature of production, marketing, and product U.S. companies are merging. Parts are manufactured in research is, and will continue to be, an international other countries and then used as components in machin- process. International Agriculture Newsletter No. 97

Right now we are redefining the concept of compara- Our "Kenya team" left UIUC in May to spend from tive advantage. I have confidence that a state like Illi- three to six weeks at Egerton College to help design this nois — with its resources, research and production institutional development and collaboration project. know-how, and marketing infrastructure — can remain Egerton College will adopt the broad philosophy and competitive. But first we must go through a process of organizational patterns of U.S. land grant institutions, reevaluation, become more efficient, and be more ag- with UIUC serving as its major educational resource gressive in our commitment to world trade. and institutional model. The anticipated five-year proj-

We must make a commitment that we are a part of ect is funded by the U.S. Agency for International De- the world agricultural system. The future of farming in velopment (USAID).

Illinois is tied to international agriculture and we cannot According to Dean John R. Campbell, IDAT is seen turn back the clock. Some view this as a threat. I think as a challenging opportunity for Illinois faculty, stu- of it as a new challenge that I know we can meet. dents, and other agriculturalists to access the many edu- cational situations in Kenya and the African continent.

Willard Severns is on the Board of Directors of the Illinois Established in 1939, Egerton College is considered Farm Bureau and a member of the International Agriculture one of the major agricultural institutions in East Africa. Advisory Committee, Office of International Agriculture, It currently has 134 faculty members and a student UIUC. He has also served as a member of the Board of enrollment of more than 1,600. The college offers Directors of the American Soybean Association. three-year diploma programs in sixteen agricultural and home economics disciplines, as well as community-ori- ented programs and courses. Under IDAT, comprehensive four-year programs will be implemented at Egerton College in agricultural edu- NICHOLASES' NOTES cation, extension, and home economics. The first phase of the project will emphasize institutional development,

It is with pleasure that we announce the addition of a education and training, institutional administration, cur- fifth major project to the Office of International Agri- riculum development, and instructional materials pro- culture. UIUC was chosen to design and implement the duction. Continuing education programs, adaptive re- Institutional Development for Agricultural Training search, and related outreach activities are also planned. (IDAT) project at Egerton College, Njoro, Kenya. IDAT Later phases of the project will place increased emphasis has a two-fold purpose: to help strengthen and expand on mutual interests and cooperation, including inter- Egerton College into a major regional center for agri- change of agricultural faculty, students, scientific infor- cultural training, adaptive research, and educational mation, and other educational resources. outreach; and to establish a long-term collaborative rela- tionship between Egerton College and UIUC. The Office of International Agriculture has published A word of special thanks to Dean John R. Campbell, the first issue of International Agriculture Update. Articles Vice-Chancellor Edwin L. Goldwasser, and Chancellor in International Agriculture Update focus on programs Thomas E. Everhart who contributed so much to mak- conducted by the Office of International Agriculture ing the site visit of our reviewers the best with which I and include items on current developments and issues in have ever been associated. The UIUC faculty members international agriculture, veterinary medicine, and hu- who formed our "Kenya team" and interacted closely man resources and family studies. This new quarterly with the site visit team were superb: Eldon L. Johnson, newsletter is intended for off-campus audiences: Illinois Thomas A. McCowen, John W. Santas, and Burton E. farmers, agribusiness leaders, members of departmental Swanson (team leader), Office of International Agricul- and college advisory committees, state and national ture; Roger L. Courson, Vocational Agriculture Service; elected representatives, other U.S. universities, USAID Mildred B. Griggs, Vocational and Technical Education; personnel, and donor agencies. John E. Terwilliger, Agriculture Administration; and We hope to reach a broad audience and solicit your Warren K. Wessels, Office of Resident Instruction. The suggestions for names to be added to our mailing list. activities organized by Lois Johnson, Iris Swanson, and We are particularly interested in agribusiness coopera- Gwynne Nicholaides contributed to our success, as did tors with your department, businesses and donors that the special meal arrangements by Anastasia M. Christen, give grants and scholarships, and farm leaders. If you Illini Union Food Service. To all these mentioned and would like a copy of our premier issue, stop by or write to the many unmentioned who were involved in the site to us in 113 Mumford Hall or call Bonnie Irwin at 333- visit, I offer my sincere thanks. 5835.

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INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES

Congratulations to Stephen C. Schmidt, Agricultural Corps in Mauritania from May 6 to June 4. He devel- Economics, whose project on Export Opportunities for oped and taught a program to Peace Corps volunteers High-Valued Agricultural Products was funded by the on arid land and oasis irrigation and irrigation technol- Agricultural Cooperative Service (ACS), USDA. For two ogy. On the trip home, Mr. Armstrong will visit the months next fall or winter, Dr. Schmidt, Alan Malter, Danish Hydraulic Institute and the National Institute of graduate student in Agricultural Economics, and Bruce Agricultural Engineering, Silsoe, England. Reynolds, ACS/USDA, will conduct a field survey of buyers and users of processed products in Hong Kong, At the invitation of the Swedish University of Agricul- Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, tural Sciences, Donald F. Schoeneweiss, Botany Section South Korea, and Taiwan. of the Illinois Natural History Survey and Department of Plant Pathology, presented lectures on environmental At the invitation of Smithsonian Tropical Research In- predisposition of trees to fungal damage during a short stitute, Panama City, Panama, Scott K. Robinson, Sec- course on forest diseases, May 12 to 14, at the Uppsala tion of Wildlife Research, Illinois Natural History Sur- campus. While in Sweden Dr. Schoeneweiss also lectured vey, spent two weeks in Panama in mid-March. Dr. at the campus in Umea and at the University of Stockholm. Robinson presented seminars on his census work of bird communities in the Manu Park in Peru. Sidney L. Spahr, Animal Sciences, traveled to Europe and Israel during the second half of May. He visited Robert Dantzer, visiting professor in Animal Sciences, government research facilities for dairy automation in was in Europe in late April. He attended the Interdisci- Wageningen, Netherlands, and Braunschweig and Keil, plinary Symposium on Stress in Farm Animals, Oester- Germany. In Israel, Dr. Spahr reviewed progress on a beek, Netherlands, April 17 and 18, and participated in joint project with the Israel Institute of Technology an evaluation of French neurosicence, Bordeaux, (TECHNION), Haifa, on automation for dairy herd France, April 22 to 26. management.

"Gene Transfer in Streptococcus" and "Antibiotic Suscep- A UIUC team is in Kenya during May and June to tibility of Cellulolytic Ruminococcus Species" were the ti- design an institutional development and collaborative tles of the invited papers that Bryan A. White, Animal project at Egerton College (see details in "Nicholaides'

Sciences, presented at the International Symposium on Notes" on page 3). Team members and their dates of Genetic Engineering of Rumen Microorganisms. The travel are: Eldon L. Johnson, May 8 to June 18, symposium was held at the Universiti Pertanian Malay- Thomas A. McCowen, May 27 to June 18, John W. sia, Kuala Lumpur, April 23 to 25, as part of the Asso- Santas, May 9 to May 25, and Burton E. Swanson ciation of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Science (team leader), May 6 to June 1 1 , Office of International and Technology Week. Agriculture; Roger L. Courson, Vocational Agriculture Service, May 8 to May 31; Mildred B. Griggs, Voca- Sponsored by the Inter-American Institute for Agricul- tional and Technical Education, May 8 to May 25; John tural Cooperation (IICA), Ronald D. Smith, Veterinary E. Terwilliger, Agriculture Administration, May 8 to

Pathobiology, visited Brazil from April 25 to May 5. Dr. May 3 1 ; and Warren K. Wessels, Office of Resident Smith presented the keynote address entitled "The Instruction, May 8 to May 31. Value of Epidemiologic Models of Boo/i/i?7w5-Transmitted Hemoparasites in Latin America" at a workshop on Roy K. Simons, Horticulture, discussed the anatomy of control of ticks and tick-borne diseases held in Porto different root types of Malus with scientists at the East Alegre. He also discussed the application of mathemati- Mailing Research Station, Maidstone, Kent, England, cal models to animal disease control programs with per- May 19 to 25. sonnel in the Ministry of Agriculture in Brasilia. Karen Bender and Jeanne Bailey, Agricultural Eco- Kathleen Cloud, Office of International Agriculture, nomics, are conducting a study on the demand for corn participated in a retreat to plan the future of the Asso- and soybeans in the major processing countries of Eu- ciation for Women and Development, Wingspread, Ra- rope, May 20 to August 31. Lowell D. Hill and Gerald cine, Wisconsin, May 2 to 6. C. Nelson, Agricultural Economics, are supervising the research. Dr. Hill will be in Europe from May 28 to Clinton Lee Armstrong, graduate student in Agricul- June 16 to help initiate the study and conduct prelimi- tural Engineering, is a consultant for the U.S. Peace nary interviews. The study is being conducted in collab- International Agriculture Newsletter No. 97

oration with the Institut de Gestion Internationale VISITING RESEARCHERS Agro-Alimentaire, with funding in part from the Ameri- can Soybean Association and the College of Agriculture. Lu Qin, Department of Horticulture, Southwest China Agricultural University, arrived in early March to spend Sandra Brown, Forestry, participated in a workshop on five months in the laboratory of James E. Harper, Tropical Soil Biology and Fertility, Yurimaguas, Peru, Agronomy and USDA. She is conducting research on May 25 to 31. The workshop was sponsored by the nitrogen metabolism of soybeans. International Union of Biological Sciences and UNESCO. During June Dr. Brown will be in Venezuela Mohammad Shahid, Chairman of the Entomology De- to collect field samples for a project on the decomposi- partment, Northwest Frontier Province Agricultural tion of wood. University, Peshawar, Pakistan, will arrive at UIUC in mid-June for a three-month postdoctoral study program Marshal D. McGlamery, Agronomy, will be a consult- in Agricultural Entomology and the Section of Eco- ant to the Consortium for International Crop Protection nomic Entomology, Illinois Natural History Survey. Dr. (CICP) on a pesticide application program in Grenada Shahid will study population dynamics, economic thresh- during June. olds and injury levels, and nonchemical control of insect pests. His training is part of TIPAN (Transformation Keith W. Kelley, Animal Sciences, will present two in- and Integration of the Provincial Agricultural Network). vited papers at the Second International Workshop on Neuroimmunomodulation, Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia, June

1 to 6. "Malfunction of the Pituitary-Thymic Axis in Aged Rats" was coauthored with Susan Brief, Holly Westly, Jan Novakofski, and Peter Bechtel, Animal J. VISITORS Sciences; Joseph Simon, Veterinary Pathobiology, and COMING TO CAMPUS Edward Walker, Indiana University. "Identification of Pro-Opiomelanocortin mNRA in Newcastle Disease Tracey E. Errington, Annfield Farm, Cockermouth, Virus-Infected Murine Splenocytes" was coauthored by Cumbria, England, will visit UIUC from June 10 to 12. Holly Westly and Alice Kleiss, Animal Sciences; and Ms. Errington, an International 4-H Youth Exchange Paul Wong and Pick-Hoong Yuen, Microbiology. Dr. participant, will then stay with 4-H families in Illinois Kelley will also present a seminar at the Sondoz Com- until August. Her program is being arranged by L. Ann pany, Basel, Switzerland, and visit INRA researchers at Rund, Cooperative Extension Service. Tours, France. Sponsored by the American Soybean Association, a soy-

During June, Sorab P. Mistry, Animal Sciences, will be food team from Korea will visit UIUC on June 1 1 to a guest professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Tech- discuss soyfood processing and grain quality. At UIUC nology, Zurich, and the Faculty of Medicine, Autonoma their schedule is being arranged by Danny R. Erickson, University, Madrid. Spain. Dr. Mistry will give lectures 113 Mumford Hall, 333-6337. and seminars on bioenergetics and metabolic regulation.

A. W. Burger, Agronomy, will preside at the Thirty- Second Annual Conference of the National Association of Colleges and Teachers of Agriculture, Ridgetown, VISITORS RECENTLY ON CAMPUS Ontario, Canada, June 14 to 20. Dr. Burger is President of the Association. Nalumino Mundia, Ambassador and former Prime

Rabel J. Burdge, Agricultural Economics and Institute Minister, Alex Tubi, First Secretary, and Stella Chi- for Environmental Studies, will be a visiting scholar in nyimba, Secretary, Embassy of the Republic of Zambia, the School of Australian Environmental Studies, Griffith Washington, D.C., visited UIUC from April 23 to 27. University, Brisbane, from June through August. Dr. Ambassador Mundia presented the keynote address at Burdge will present lectures on social impact assessment, the symposium entitled "Agricultural Policy and African public involvement in decision making, and other areas Food Security: Issues, Prospects, and Constraints, To- of environmental analysis. ward the Year 2000." The group also met with ZA- MARE (Zambia Agricultural Research and Extension) Folke Dovring, Agricultural Economics, will participate project students. On April 26, they toured a private in the International Symposium on Windbreak Technol- fertilizer company and the farm of Harvey Lewis, near ogy, Lincoln, Nebraska, June 22 to 28. Joliet. International Agriculture Newsletter No. 97

Nasrum Djuned, Chairman of the Faculty of Agricul- John Brien, Head of Extension Education, University of tural Economics, University of Syiah Kuala, Darussalam, Sydney, Australia, visited UIUC on May 26 and 27. He Banda Aceh, Indonesia, visited UIUC on April 28. He met with faculty in International Agriculture, Agricul- met with Melvin M. Wagner, John T. Scott, and Wesley tural Communications and Extension Education, and the D. Seitz, Agricultural Economics, and John W. Santas, Study Abroad Program. Office of International Agriculture, and toured the Agronomy-Plant Pathology South Farm. Mr. Djuned Three scientists from the Netherlands discussed mem- brane technology with Munir Cheryan, Food Science, chose to visit UIUC because the president of the Uni- on May 29. They were Berend Ph. ter Meulen, Nether- versity of Syiah Kuala is a UIUC graduate and the lands Organization for Applied Research, H. Hane- School of Agriculture is modeled after the College of Jan maaijer, Netherlands Institute for Dairy Research, Agriculture at UIUC. Mr. Djuned's trip to the United and Nistelrooij, Gist-Brocades. States was sponsored by the U.S. Information Agency. Henrikus J. M. van

On April 28 and 29, Kenneth Swanberg, USAID/ PUBLICATION AVAILABLE Washington, reviewed the INTERPAKS project and met with INTERPAKS faculty members. Copies of Need for and Possibilities of Increasing Pro- H. V. Hughes, principal of the Royal Agricultural Col- gram Relevance and Related Support Services are

lege, Cirencester, England, and George Jackson, agricul- available from the INTERPAKS Office, 1 1 3 Mumford tural director of the Royal Agricultural Society of Eng- Hall, 333-5831. This paper was presented by John L. land, visited the Office of Agricultural Communications Woods at a seminar on international education and and Extension Education on April 28 and 29. They training sponsored by BIFAD (Board for International discussed plans by the Royal Agricultural College to es- Food and Agricultural Development) and ISEC (Interna- tablish a teaching program in agricultural communica- tional Science and Education Council), Washington, tions. They also met with Dale H. Lattz, Agricultural D.C., April 23 and 24, 1986. Economics, Charles E. Olson, Resident Instruction, John

J. Nicholaides, International Agriculture, and James W. Carey, College of Communications. LANGUAGE CLASSES FOR AGRICULTURE

Ove Olson, Department of Farm Buildings, Swedish Plan ahead to take advantage of these special language University of Agricultural Sciences at Lund, discussed classes being offered next fall. Call Margo De Ley, 324 behavior and environment in swine buildings with Stan- Coble Hall, 333-1977, for more information. ley E. Curtis, Animal Sciences, and Arthur J. Muehling and Leslie L. Christianson, Agricultural Engineering, French for Agriculture and Rural Development is for May 4 to 10. faculty, staff, and students with a basic knowledge of French who wish to maintain and improve their lan- Recent visitors with Lowell D. Hill, Agricultural Eco- guage skills. The class will meet for 1.5 hours per week nomics, include: Tippie Muller, General Manager, Clo- beginning in mid-October. colan Cooperative, South Africa, May 8 and 9, to dis- cuss maize marketing; and Klaus D. Schumacher, Two levels of Spanish for Agriculturalists are being Toepfer International, Hamburg, Germany, May 8, to offered for faculty and staff. Classes will meet beginning discuss the farm bill and Dr. Hill's study on corn and in mid-October. soybean processing industries in Europe. Low intermediate, which will meet for 1.5 hours per

week, is for those who have completed the equivalent of eight-person Southeast Asia Food Trade Team met An the intersession class. with INTSOY and Food Science faculty on May 14. Intermediate is designed for people with a basic knowl- Their visit was arranged by the American Soybean As- edge of Spanish who wish to maintain and improve sociation. their language skills. The class will meet for 2 hours per week. Dan Minnick, Head, Training and Technology Trans- fer, International Rice Research Institute, Manila, Elementary Spanish for Agriculture and Related L. Philippines, met with John J. Nicholaides and John Fields I (Spanish 141) and II (Spanish 142) is a spe- Violet Woods, International Agriculture, and M. Malone, cially designed course for students in agriculture and Extension Education, Agricultural Communications and veterinary medicine. It includes substantial material on May 23. They discussed training programs and short culture, social behavior, attitudes, and customs. Classes courses, and the possibility of collaborative activities. begin August 28, 1986. 2

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GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS July 31, 1986, is the application deadline for research fellowships at the University of Melbourne, Australia.

June 15, 1986, is the deadline for applications for Indo- Fellowships support full-time research in any department U.S. Subcommission Research Awards. Long-term (six of the University of Melbourne of postdoctoral scholars to ten months) and short-term (two to three months) with new ideas, skills, and techniques. Application infor- research fellowships are offered to researchers in the mation is available from the Campus-Wide Research natural, applied, and social sciences. The program seeks Services Office, 128 Observatory Bldg., 333-0284. U.S. citizens who are not India specialists and who have limited or no experience in India for educational ex- October 1, 1986, is the application deadline for interna- change. Application information is available from the tional travel funds available to University of Illinois Campus-Wide Research Services Office, 128 Observa- faculty and staff through MUCIA (Midwest Universities tory, 333-0284. Consortium for International Activities) and the Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs. Grants of

June 30, 1986, is the application deadline for FAO's up to $1,000 are available to support international Andre Mayer Research Fellowship Programme for travel which will result in the development or enhance-

1986-1987. Nominations are requested for six projects: ment of international programs at the University of Illi- selection of Rhizobium phaseoli efficient strains for com- nois. Matching funds must be secured from institutional mon beans in Rwanda, 18 month project; land manage- sources. The next application opportunity is February 1, ment information system for developing countries, 1 1987. Guidelines and request forms are available from months; nutritional yields of various cropping systems T.John Kim, MUCIA Liaison Officer, 311 Coble Hall, and farming systems in Nigeria, Indonesia, or Panama, 801 South Wright Street, Champaign, IL 61820, tele- 18 months; integration of nutritional considerations into phone (217) 333-1993. fishery development projects, 12 months; fish ageing by means of micro-structures in the otoliths, 12 months; investigation in intermediate technology in wood har- vesting with strong participation of the people, 14 months. Application information is available from Bonnie Irwin, 113 Mumford Hall, 333-5835.

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How does a College of Agriculture "internationalize" relevance. The entries, numbering more than 150, are its undergraduate curricula? That question is receiving organized by department. The booklet was distributed increased attention at the University of Illinois at to all departments and is also available on request. Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). Today's students need a global perspective to help solve the food and fiber prob- Employment opportunities. A directory of in- lems facing American agriculturalists as well as people ternational employment opportunities was prepared and throughout the world. However, there is no simple di- is continually being updated. Inquiries were sent to rective on how to achieve this noteworthy objective. hundreds of agricultural enterprises. Information listed In 1984, an ad hoc committee investigated a proposal includes location and type of employment available, de- to implement an undergraduate curriculum in interna- gree^) required with preferred majors, and foreign lan- tional agriculture. The committee reviewed the curri- guage requirements, if any. The responses are filed in cula in schools with similar programs and surveyed loose-leaf notebooks and divided into such categories as companies with international employment opportunities. private businesses, commodity organizations, voluntary Consensus was that the technical and disciplinary skills organizations, governmental agencies, and educational from an agricultural degree are an excellent back- and technical assistance organizations. Copies are avail- ground for students interested in careers in an interna- able in the College of Agriculture Library, 220 Mum- tional setting. Students should include internationally ford Hall; the Career and Placement Center, 108 oriented courses in their program of study, but as a Mumford Hall; and in the Office of International Agri- complement to their major field of study and not in lieu culture, 113 Mumford Hall. The directory currently has of it. more than 200 entries. The committee recommended that instead of develop- ing a new curriculum, efforts should be launched to Language training. A staff member in the De- make internationally oriented courses and activities partment of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese developed more visible to College of Agriculture students. As a and is now teaching a two semester course entitled "Ele- result, the Office of International Agriculture and the mentary Spanish for Agriculture and Related Fields." Office of Resident Instruction are working together to Intended for students with no previous Spanish-lan- assist students. guage experience, the course emphasizes agricultural vo- cabulary and conversational and reading skills. It in- Course listings. The Office of International Agri- cludes substantial material on culture, social behavior, culture and the Office of Resident Instruction are spon- attitudes, and customs. This course can be used to fulfill soring a graduate assistantship position to compile mate- the six semester-hour humanities requirement needed rial to assist students. "Opportunities for Study in by all students in the College of Agriculture. (Introduc-

International Agriculture" is the title of a new section tory foreign language courses are normally not accepted in the Agriculture Student Handbook. The chapter lists in this category.) Similar courses for other languages College of Agriculture courses with international rele- may be developed in the future. vance, foreign languages taught at UIUC, and under- graduate-level international courses taught in depart- Study abroad. The opportunity to study and travel ments outside the college. abroad is seen as a highly desirable experience for Col-

Expanding the chapter from the handbook is a book- lege of Agriculture students. Working closely with the let that lists all courses on campus with international campus Study Abroad Office, we are identifying foreign International Agriculture Newsletter No. 98

institutions and programs especially suited for College and Related Fields, International Experience, Interna- of Agriculture students. We are also exploring possibili- tional Agriculture Study (Study Abroad), International ties for exchange programs with specific institutions. A Food Crops, Land Economics, Rural Social Change, So- student can earn up to 36 semester hours of academic cial Change in Developing Areas, Socio-Cultural Factors credit through a study abroad program. in African Economic Development, Tropical Forestry There are several programs where students can travel Ecosystems, and World Animal Agriculture. and work in a foreign agricultural setting and receive credit for this valuable learning experience. Students UIUC units offering undergraduate inter- enroll in an independent study class under the guidance national courses include: Advertising, African of a College of Agriculture faculty member. Up to four Studies, Anthropology, Asian Studies, Business Adminis- semester hours of credit can be earned and recorded as tration, Communications, Economics, Educational Policy "international experience" on the transcript. Studies, Educational Psychology, Finance, Geography, History, Labor and Industrial Relations, Law, Mining Future activities. These include the possible crea- Engineering, Political Science, Religious Studies, Social tion of an international agriculture student club, and a Work, Sociology, Urban Planning, and Vocational and study/travel program specifically for UIUC College of Technical Education. Agriculture students. Information will also be collected during the summer from new students enrolling in the Foreign language course offerings include: college about their experiences and future interest in African — Amharic, Arabic, Bemba, Fula, Hausa, Lin- international opportunities. gala, Ndebele, Shona, Sotho, Swahili, Wolof, Xhosa, Zulu; WID involvement. The Office of Women in In- Asian — Burmese, Chinese, Hindi, Indonesian, ternational Development (WID) has been actively in- Japanese, Kashmiri, Korean, Sanskrit, Thai; volved in expanding the curriculum for undergraduates Middle Eastern — Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, Turkish; at UIUC in the area of women in international develop- European — Bulgarian, Czech, French, German, Greek, ment. Under a grant from the U.S. Department of Edu- Italian, Latin, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese, Ruma- cation, three courses were developed in the College of nian, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Spanish; Agriculture and segments on women and development Latin American — Portuguese, Quechua, Spanish. were introduced into six courses. The WID Office also published seven curriculum guides and two bibliogra- phies. These are used by faculty and students at UIUC It is important for students in the College of Agri- as well as by universities throughout the United States culture to add an international dimension to their and in eleven foreign countries. education. The world is becoming increasingly interde- International agriculture courses for under- pendent and it is no longer adequate to understand only Illinois or U.S. agriculture. Students can integrate a graduates include: Comparative Family Education, wide variety of courses with an international emphasis Consumption in Developing Countries, Crops and Man, into their programs of study. Economic Development in India and Southeast Asia, Economic Development in Latin America, Economics of Agricultural Development, Economics of International

Trade, Education for Rural Development in Low In- Charles E. Olson is Assistant Dean of Resident Instruction, come Countries, Elementary Spanish for Agriculture UIUC.

International Activities

INTERPAKS and Vocational and Technical Education project. Burton E. Swanson, INTERPAKS and Agri- have agreed to prepare a manual on training evaluation cultural Education, and Charles D. Clark, Cooperative for the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Extension Service, will also be involved in the project. Rome, Italy. Robert T. Raab, Agricultural Education, and Timothy L. Wentling, Vocational and Technical Educa- Juju B. Manandhar, who recently obtained his Ph.D. tion, were in Rome the week of May 26 to begin the degree in plant pathology working with James B. International Agriculture Newsletter No. 98

Sinclair, has returned to Nepal for a position as Plant the grape harvest in southwestern France, and observe

Pathologist, Division of Plant Pathology, Department of the harvest. The study tour is supported by a grant from Agriculture, Lalitpur. the Office of International Cooperation and Development (OICD) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Poo Chow, Forestry, presented an invited paper entitled "Artificial Weathering of Ouercus rubra Cross Ties" at "The Effects of the Timing of Premarital Pregnancy on the International Research on Wood Preservation An- the Development and Outcome of Marital Relation- nual Conference, Avignon, France, May 25 to 30. ships" is the title of the paper that Catherine A. Surra, Human Development and Family Ecology, will present at the International Conference on Personal Relation- Robert G. F. Spitze, Agricultural Economics, presented ships, Tel Aviv, Israel, July 6 to 1 1. Dr. Surra is a mem- an invited paper on agricultural and food policy at a ber of the Advisory Council of the International Society symposium for United States and Russian economists, for the Study of Personal Relationships and will attend a Boston, Massachusetts, June 9 to 13. meeting of the council during the conference.

Michael Grossman, Animal Sciences, served as an ex- ternal examiner for a Ph.D. candidate in the Depart- Richard E. Ford, Plant Pathology, and Michael E. ment of Animal and Poultry Science, University of Irwin, Agricultural Entomology and Economic Entomol- Section Guelph, Ontario, Canada, June 11 and 12. ogy of the Illinois Natural History Survey, will represent UIUC at the board meeting of the Consor- tium for International Crop Protection Raymond M. Leuthold, Agricultural Economics, is par- (CICP), College Park, ticipating in a faculty exchange program at the Univer- Maryland, July 8 and 9. sity of Abidjan, Ivory Coast, for four weeks beginning June 12. Dr. Leuthold will gather information on Ivo- Harold W. Gonyou, Animal Sciences, will be in Europe rian use of futures markets for cocoa and coffee, and during the second half of July. He will present a paper identify possible research projects for Ivorian students on feeding behavior of newly weaned pigs at the annual who come to UIUC to study agricultural economics. meeting of the Society for Veterinary Ethology, Wagen- ingen, Netherlands, July 17 to 19, and attend a meeting Attending the First International Veterinary Immunol- of the Society for the Study of Animal Behavior, Cam- ogy Symposium, Guelph, Canada, July 2 to 4, are bridge, England, July 24 to 25. Dr. Gonyou will also Harris A. Lewin and Keith W. Kelley, Animal Sci- visit laboratories at the University of Newcastle upon ences. Dr. Lewin will present two papers on the immu- Tyne, England, and the Poultry Research Center, Edin- nogenetics of bovine leukemia virus and Dr. Kelley will burgh, Scotland. present two papers on the interrelationships of the en- docrine system and the immune system. Congratulations to David H. Baker, Animal Sciences, Dr. Kelley will then attend the International Immu- who won the 1986 Moorman Travel Fellowship for Ani-

nology Congress, July 6 to 11, and give two papers on mal Nutrition Research. The award is given for excel- hormones and immunity at a preconference symposium, lence in research. During the week of July 17 Dr. Baker July 4 and 5, Toronto, Canada. will present lectures in Spain on amino acids in animal Dr. Lewin is an invited participant to the Third Inter- nutrition. From late July until the end of August, he national Bovine Lymphocyte Antigen Workshop, July will be an Underwood Visiting Professor at the Rowett 27, and will present a paper entitled "Association Be- Research Institute, Aberdeen, Scotland, where he will tween the Bovine Lymphocyte Antigen (BoLA) System conduct research on new techniques to study nitrogen and Subclinical Progression of Bovine Leukemia Virus metabolism in pigs. Infection" at the Twentieth International Conference

on Animal Blood Groups and Biochemical Polymorph- "Hybridization and Polyploidy" is the title of the paper isms, 27 July to August 1, both in Helsinki, Finland. that Johannes M. J. de Wet, Agronomy, will present at the International Symposium on Grass Systematics and Margo De Ley, Women in International Development Evolution, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., and Office of International Agriculture, will travel to July 27 to 31. Spain and France to study a Franco-Spanish program for farm workers, July 6 to October 1. For the study, Walter E. Splittstoesser, Horticulture, will attend the Dr. De Ley will meet with officials and representatives annual meeting of the Tropical Region, American Soci- of producers' and growers' groups, visit farm workers ety for Horticultural Science, July 28 to August 2, San on farms in southern Spain, travel with the workers to Jose, Costa Rica, and present two papers: "Sucrose Syn- International Agriculture Newsletter No. 98

thesis in Cassava Leaves," coauthored with J. F. Pereira; Graverholt, sales manager, Danish Turnkey Dairies, Singa- and "Response of Bell Pepper to High Rates of Side- pore; Bambang Gunarto, sub-director of food crops de- dressed Nitrogen," coauthored with John M. Gerber, velopment in transmigration areas, Department of Agri- Horticulture. While in Costa Rica Dr. Splittstoesser will culture, Jakarta, Indonesia; Fawzia Hewavitharana, visit vegetable production sites. research officer, Soybean Foods Research Center, Pera- deniya, Sri Lanka; Elizabeth L. H. Kasapu, home eco- nomics officer, Department of Agriculture, Kabwe, Zambia; Joyce Musonda Mulila, plant breeder, Mount Makulu Research Station, Chilanga, Zambia; Fatuma Nkhoma, home economics officer. Department of Agri- Visiting Researchers culture, Mumbwa, Zambia; Mercedes C. Carrao Panizzi, research agronomist, National Soybean Re- Shankariah Chamala, Department of Agriculture, search Center, Londrina, Brazil; Sadar Purwanto, Di- University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, spent two rectorate of Agriculture Area Expansion, Jakarta, Indo- weeks during June visiting John van Es, Agricultural nesia; Raj Bans Rajor, scientist, National Dairy Economics, and INTERPAKS personnel. Research Institute, Karnal, India; and Tan Eng Chai, technical manager, Food Group, Bush Boake Allen Singa- Pieter Helfferich, graduate student in agricultural engi- pore' Pty. Ltd., Singapore. neering at the Agricultural University, Wageningen, This is the ninth time the course has been taught at Netherlands, will be working on several projects at UIUC by INTSOY staff and associated members of the UIUC's dairy farm from June 16 to November 16 to Department of Food Science. fulfill the work experience requirement for his degree. Nelson L. Buck, Agricultural Engineering, and Sidney L. Spahr, Animal Sciences, are overseeing his program. Eleven people are enrolled in the INTERPAKS short course Training of Trainers for Agricultural and

Philip Taylor, University of East Anglia, England, is a Rural Development, June 16 to July 12, UIUC. The visiting postdoctoral research associate in Agronomy. Dr. participants are: David M. Dlamin, senior extension of- Taylor will work for one year with Angus G. Hepburn in- ficer, Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives, Man- vestigating the mechanism of pathogenicity of Phialophora zioni, Swaziland; Jerry Mfundisi Hlatshwayo, assistant gregata in resistant and susceptible soybean cultivars. training officer, Ministry of Agriculture and Coopera- tives, Mbabane, Swaziland; Patel Harmanbhai Huseyin Misirlioglu, Marmara University, Istanbul, Lallubhai, extension educationist, Extension Education

Turkey, is a visiting professor for six months in Agricul- Institute, Anand, and Gujarat Agricultural University,

tural Economics. Dr. Misirlioglu is here on a United Sardar Krishinagar, India; Asmatullah Khan, Agricul- Nations fellowship to study and conduct research in tural Economics, Rural Sociology, and Extension Educa- agricultural economics and agri-industry development. tion, Northwest Frontier Province Agricultural Univer- He can be reached at 351 Bevier Hall, 333-1821. sity, Peshawar, Pakistan; Mohhamed El Habib Ibrahim, training scientist, International Center for Agricultural Sherin Khan, assistant professor of agronomy at the Research in Dry Areas (ICARDA), Aleppo, Syria; Northwest Frontier Province Agricultural University, Bernard Kunene, senior extension officer, Ministry of Peshawar, Pakistan, and manager of the university's Agriculture and Cooperatives, Pigg's Peak, Swaziland; research and demonstration farm, arrived June 16 for a Anand Swarup Misra, lecturer in agronomy, Extension three-month postmaster's program of study in the Education Institute, Nilokheri, Haryana, India; United States on food legumes, irrigation equipment, Bernardo Ospina, training associate, Centro Interna- and research facilities management. Mr. Khan will di- cional de Agricultura Tropical (CIAT), Cali, Colombia; vide his stay between UIUC, Southern Illinois Univer- Mohammad Shahid, chairman of the Department of sity at Carbondale, Washington State University, and Entomology, Northwest Frontier Province Agricultural California State University, Fresno. University, Peshawar, Pakistan; C. Benjamin Tyson, ex- tension education specialist, University of Arizona, Tuc- Twelve researchers are enrolled in INTSOY's Soybean son, on assignment to the Lesotho Agricultural Processing for Food Uses short course, May 28 to July College; and Sohair Kamal Yousef, sociologist, Water 15, 1986. They are: Ofelia Angulo Guerrero, profes- District Research Institute, Cairo, Egypt.

sor, Graduate School Center, Veracruz, Mexico; Hsiun Offered for the first time, the course is taught by Chung Chiu, tecnico-ingeniero agronomo, Corporacion Violet M. Malone, Office of Agricultural Communica- de Desarrollo de Cochabamba, Bolivia; Jens Peter tions and Extension Education. International Agriculture Newsletter No. 98

L. and Fen Hong Chen, Agricultural Visitors Coming to Campus with Donald Day Engineering, and Marvin P. Steinberg, Food Science.

Errol D. Rodda, Agricultural Engineering, and TIPAN Phillip DesMettre, head of the biotechnology programs, Team Leader and Institution Development Specialist, Rhone Merieux, Lyon, France, discussed collaborative Northwest Frontier Province Agricultural University, research on hemotropic diseases with Miodrag Ristic, Peshawar, Pakistan, will visit UIUC from June 30 to Veterinary Pathobiology, May 26 and 27. July 3. Dr. Rodda will meet with UIUC and Southern Illinois University at Carbondale faculty and administra- A group of twenty-six farmers and agribusiness people tors working with TIPAN. from France visited the Department of Agronomy and United Agriseeds on May 30. They learned about re- Mohammad Asrar, Registrar at the Northwest Frontier search, extension, and university-industry relationships, Province Agricultural University, Peshawar, Pakistan, visited laboratories, and toured the Agronomy-Plant arrived June 9 to join the nineteen TIPAN (Transfor- Pathology South Farm. mation and Integration of the Provincial Agricultural' Network/Pakistan) participants currently enrolled in ad- John Lindt, World Bank, Washington, D.C., met with vanced degree programs at U.S. universities. He will John L. Woods and Harold E. Kauffman, Office of In- enroll in a Ph.D. program at UIUC in administration, of ternational Agriculture, May 30. They reviewed World continuing and higher education. Bank agricultural programs in Thailand and discussed INTERPAKS programs and projects. Several visitors are coming to Urbana-Champaign to view the aphid migration modeling project being carried of Plant Physiology and J. F. Morot-Gaudry, Department out by scientists from UIUC's Office of Agricultural Biochemistry, INRA, Versailles, France, presented a lecture Entomology, the Illinois Natural History Survey's Sec- on aspects of photosynthetic metabolism in corn as part of tion of Economic Entomology, and the Illinois State a visit to the Department of Agronomy, June 2 to 4. Water Survey. Joseph R. Riley, Radar Unit of the Tropical Development and Research Institute, Malvern, Alexander N. Shimko, Senior Research Fellow at the England, will be here July 17 and 18; and L. Jane USSR Academy of Sciences, Institute of the USA and Rosenberg, Overseas Development and Research Insti- Canada, Moscow, spent June 9 to 12 in the Agricultural tute, London, England, will visit during the week of Engineering Department discussing mechanization of ag- July 21. ricultural production systems with the faculty. Sponsored by the International Research and Exchange Board Gradon Johnstone, Department of Agriculture, Hobart, (IREX), his schedule at UIUC was coordinated by Gene Tasmania, Australia, will visit Michael E. Irwin, Agricul- C. Shove. tural Entomology and Economic Entomology Section of the Illinois Natural History Survey, during the week of Peter L. Shalo, Head, Dairy and Food Science Techni- July 28. They will discuss an on-going cooperative study cal Department, Egerton College, Njoro, Kenya, met of landing behavior of aphids as it pertains to the trans- with Food Science and International Agriculture faculty, mission of plant viruses. June 9 to 13. He visited Illinois to become acquainted with UIUC as Egerton's sister institution in the IDAT (Institutional Development for Agricultural Training) Visitors Recently on Campus project. Mr. Shalo was a Fulbright scholar at Virginia State University last semester.

On May 23 and 24, twenty-four dairy nutrition re- A group of sixteen farmers and agribusiness people searchers from Japan visited Animal Sciences. They from Switzerland spent the morning of June 10 at met with Michael F Hutjens and Gene C. McCoy, Ani- UIUC for a program on swine. Aldon H. Jensen, Ani- mal Sciences, and toured the Dust Dairy Farm, Shum- mal Sciences, spoke to the group about swine produc- way. Their visit was arranged by the U.S. Feed Grain tion in Illinois and Gilbert R. Hollis, Animal Sciences, Council. spoke on extension education programs. They also toured the swine research facility. Ahmad Ibrahim, Rubber Institute of Malaysia, visited UIUC on May 28 as part of a tour of the United States. Dr. Ibrahim, who was traveling on a Hubert Humphrey Marvin R. Paulsen and Gene C. Shove, Agricultural Pathology, fellowship, discussed energy from agricultural biomass Engineering, and Barry J. Jacobsen, Plant discussed grain quality research on corn for export with Howard Ray and Susan Saunders, Communications Mannosuke Shimizu. Manager, Grain Department, Zen- Technology Transfer in Agriculture project, Academy Noh Unico America Corporation, New York, and for Educational Development, Washington, D.C., met Kiyoshi Nobeta, Chief Technical Adviser, Feed Depart- with faculty in INTERPAKS and the Office of Agricul- ment, National Federation of Agricultural Cooperative tural Communications and Extension Education during Associations (Zen-Noh), Tokyo, Japan, June 11. The vis- a visit to UIUC, June 18 to 20. itors also toured a local grain elevator and farm to bet-

ter understand how corn is produced and handled, and

observed corn quality as it exists on the farm. BARD Program Ferdinand Hartzenberg, member of Parliament, Lich- tenburg, South Africa, visited UIUC on June 13 under September 1, 1986, is the application deadline for the the auspices of the International Visitor Program of the U.S. -Israeli Bilateral Agricultural Research and Develop- U.S. Information Agency (USIA). Mr. Hartzenberg ment (BARD) fund program. Guidelines for proposals toured the agricultural engineering research farm and are available from the Agricultural Experiment Station discussed minimum tillage with John C. Siemens, Agri- (attn. Josephine Ferguson), 211 Mumford Hall, 333-0240. cultural Engineering; toured the beef cattle research farm with Alvin L. Neumann, Animal Sciences; toured the Agronomy-Plant Pathology South Farm with M. Gene Oldham, Agronomy; and met with Carroll E. Fulbright Fellowships Goering and J. Kent Mitchell, Agricultural Engineering.

A group of visitors from China, directors of soil and September 15, 1986, is the application deadline for fertility institutes from five provinces and the senior 1987-1988 Fulbright fellowships for lecturing or re- agronomist in the ministry of agriculture, Beijing, search in the Middle East, Africa, Europe, and Asia.

toured the College of Agriculture on June 16. They Further information concerning these fellowships is were escorted by Harold Reetz, Potash and Phosphate available from the Fellowship Office, 209 Coble Hall, Institute, Monticello, Illinois. 333-0036.

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Women in International Development

Frances M. Magrabi

The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign economic development of the nonindustrialized or lesser

(UIUC) is actively concerned with issues relating to the developed areas of the world, while at the same time role of women in developing countries. At UIUC, the focusing on the household and family and on the issue Office of Women in International Development (WID) is of gender. WID issues include individual and institu- the center for efforts to strengthen the capacity of tional activities of a social, economic, and political women in developing countries to perform their roles as nature. farmers and food processors, producers of goods and services, childbearers and mothers, educators of their Research areas. Research on women in international families, and professional and community workers. development is carried out in universities, government UIUC's WID office was established in 1980 with funding agencies, and policy-making bodies, and by development from the university's Title XII strengthening grant and practitioners. As a new field of university research and other sources. Currently some sixty associates, both fac- instruction, it rapidly gained recognition as evidence ulty and students, are actively involved in WID activities. emerged of the need to examine gender issues and to establish a multidisciplinary approach. Background. In 1973, congress amended the For- It is no longer necessary to justify examination of eign Assistance Act to direct development assistance to gender or the household unit as factors in development. the poorest of the developing countries. The focus of Households and gender merit special focus in advanced the amendment is food and nutrition, education and societies and are even more important in traditional so- human resource development, population, and health. cieties where the divisions of labor by sex are clear-cut The amendment also requires that U.S. bilateral assist- and where the family or household is the prime locus of ance programs give particular attention to programs, social and economic activity. The roles, contributions, projects, and activities that integrate women into the and benefits, both of men and women, require study. national economies. This policy amendment was spon- Neglect of gender differences has created serious prob- sored by Senator Percy of Illinois, and is commonly lems in national development plans. referred to as the "Percy amendment." According to studies of the role of women in develop- A 1982 policy paper of the U.S. Agency for Interna- ing countries, women are responsible for as much as 60 tional Development (USAID) entitled "Women in Devel- to 70 percent of food production. The kinds of crops opment" explains in detail the rationale behind AID's grown may vary, depending on whether men or women policy and the means to implement it. The paper points do the farming. Other studies reveal that increases in out the cross-sectional nature of the policy on women in women's income are more likely to result in the direct development. It affects nearly every activity in USAID: improvement of their families' well-being than are in- agriculture, education, employment and income genera- creases in men's incomes. tion, energy and natural resource conservation, institu- Research findings have resulted in increased attention tional infrastructure, nutrition, population and health, by development agencies to the needs and contributions and water use management. of women. These findings have also confirmed the view Together, these two documents emphasize the dual of the WID Office at UIUC that women are a vital perspectives of women as agents and as beneficiaries, human resource for improving the quality of life in addressing both equity and efficiency concerns. Improv- developing countries. ing women's status (equity) assists the total development effort (efficiency). WID at UIUC. A major accomplishment of the Broad implications. The study of women in de- Office of Women in International Development since its velopment is related to the broader issues of social and creation in 1 980 has been formation of an actively func- International Agriculture Newsletter No. 99

tioning unit with a mission, plan of work, and set of programs for women and a number of urban and rural bylaws. In addition, it has development projects that provide services to women. • established a network for cooperation and a resource I headed the team from UIUC. Other members in- base, including library resources and human resources cluded Navaz Bhavnagri, assistant project director and in the form of WID associates from many academic doctoral candidate in early childhood and elementary disciplines, education; Barbara A. Yates, professor of comparative • attained a position of national leadership in the de- education and former director of the WID Office; Ber- velopment of WID curricula, and enice Carroll, associate professor of political science and • established a focus for its research program, imple- director of the Office of Women's Studies at UIUC; mented several mechanisms for encouraging faculty and Sharon Y. Hart, assistant state coordinator, Expanded student research, and provided resources for the design Food and Nutrition Education Program, University of of proposals for international projects. Illinois Cooperative Extension Service; and Ellen John- Specific WID activities at the University of Illinois are son, doctoral candidate in anthropology. The Baroda diverse, ranging from participation of WID associates in team was headed by Amita Verma, professor of child projects in Pakistan, Rwanda, and Zambia to seminars development, and included other faculty members in on the Illinois campus by WID experts who have areas of home management, foods and nutrition, and worked on development programs overseas. education extension. In response to a growing interest on the part of The team examined family structure, relationships, UIUC students, the WID Office, with support from a and division of labor; food production, storage, and grant from the U.S. Department of Education, devel- preparation practices; and water supply and sanitation oped three new courses and segments on women in practices. We also studied acquisition and allocation of development were introduced into six courses. The money and nonmoney resources; transportation; paid courses deal with such topics as nutritional problems of and unpaid work; education as a household resource; Third World women; the role of women in food pro- and time/task allocation in household and agricultural duction; appropriate technology for women in house- production. holds and on farms; access to credit, education, and One result of the project was a monograph and slide other resources; and the impact of development pro- set entitled Household Resources and Their Changing Rela- grams on women. We are considering the possibility of a tionships, which was coauthored by the Illinois and WID option as a minor area for graduate study. Baroda teams. Sections of the monograph provide illus- The WID Office also published seven curriculum trative detail about selected rural households in villages guides and two bibliographies. More than five hundred near Baroda. The monograph also includes a brief dis- copies have been sold to universities throughout the cussion of the impact of development projects and stud- United States and in eleven foreign countries. ies on women and an overview of curricula in WID and women's studies in Indian institutions of higher educa-

tion. The Office of International Agriculture, UIUC, is Project in India. In 1985, a team of six WID publishing the monograph. The project was supported associates spent six weeks in India developing curricu- by the Fulbright-Hays Group Study Abroad Program, lum materials for teaching about rural family life in administered by the U.S. Department of Education. India. The UIUC team worked with a counterpart team from the Faculty of Home Science at M.S. University of Frances M. Magrabi is professor of consumption economics Baroda. Members of the team also visited several other and acting director of the Office of Women in International Indian institutes that conduct research or educational Development, UIUC

International Activities -

Farewell and good luck to Robert E. Brown, Associate tors, and Head of the International Institute of Director of International Programs and Studies, UIUC. Computer Uses. From 1976 to 1979, Dr. Brown was Beginning in August, he will assume new duties as Dean director of the University of Illinois Programs in Iran of Adult and Continuing Education, American Univer- and the Illinois Tehran Research Unit, Tehran, Iran. sity in Cairo, Egypt. At UIUC, Dr. Brown also holds the We will miss the professionalism and efficiency with positions of Director of International Faculty and Staff which Bob Brown led many cooperative projects with Affairs, Director of Overseas Projects and Foreign Visi- the Office of International Agriculture. International Agriculture Newsletter No. 99

Evelyn J. Weber, Agronomy, presented a poster session The Sixth International Farm Management Conference, entitled "The Carotenoids and Tocols of Corn Grain" Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota, June 30 to July 3, was at a joint meeting of the American Oil Chemists' Soci- attended by Richard P. Kesler, Fay M. Sims, and ety and the Japanese Oil Chemists' Society, Honolulu, Donald G. Smith, Agricultural Economics. Hawaii, May 14 to 18. Robert Dantzer, visiting professor in Animal Sciences,

In late May, William C. Wagner, Veterinary Biosci- was in Europe the first week of July. He organized a ences, traveled to Dublin, Ireland, as a member of the symposium on psychoneuroendocrinology of social be- International Executive Committee for the Eleventh In- havior at the biennial meeting of the International Soci- ternational Congress on Animal Reproduction. The ety of Psychoneuroendocrinology, Bergen, Norway, from to 4. also committee reviewed plans for the congress, which will June 30 July He presented papers on the be held in Dublin in 1988. Dr. Wagner also met with conditioning of immune functions (coauthored by Keith Kelley, colleagues in Mariensee and Giessen, Germany, to dis- W. Animal Sciences), physiological correlates of cuss collaborative research. social behavior, and behavior effects of vasopressin. At the First Meeting of the European Society of Behavioral

Joan Sozen, graduate student in Textiles, Apparel, and Pharmacology, Antwerp, Belgium, July 4 to 7, Dr. Dantzer presented Interior Design, spent six weeks in Turkey during May a paper on the stimulus properties of vasopressin. and June, where she collected information for her thesis on the interior design of historic houses. Dr. Dantzer also presented an invited paper entitled "Frustration, Aggression, and Drugs" at the Seventh "Depressed Folate Transfer Across the Mammary Gland Biennial World Meeting of the International Society for Research on Aggression, held at Northwestern Univer- Secondary to Iron Deficiency in the Rat" was the title of the paper presented by Deborah O'Connor, Foods sity, Chicago, Illinois, July 24 to 27. and Nutrition, at the Eighth International Symposium Attending the AUSUDIAP (Association of U.S. Univer- on Pteridines and Folic Acid Derivatives, McGill Univer- sity Directors of International Agricultural Programs) sity, Montreal, Canada, June 15 to 20. Coauthors Mary annual meetings, July 8 to 10, were John A. Becker, Frances Picciano and Adria R. Sherman, Foods and Harold E. Kauffman, Thomas A. McCowen, John W. Nutrition, also participated in the conference. Santas, and William N. Thompson, Office of Interna- tional Agriculture. The meetings were held in Ft. Col- Johannes M. J. De Wet, Agronomy, left UIUC in June lins, Colorado. to spend one year as director of the cereals program at the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi- John L. Woods, INTERPAKS, visited Washington, D.C., arid Tropics (ICRISAT), India. July 14 to 16, for meetings with USAID and World Bank personnel. He discussed possible use of the Pamela Woodard, a recent graduate in Extension Edu- INTERPAKS case study indicators to help other organiza- cation, is serving as a rural development extension vol- tions address planning needs and operational problems re- unteer with the U.S. Peace Corps in Tunisia. Her lated to development, transfer, and use of technology. address is B.P. 96, 1002 Tunis, Belvedere, Tunisia.

UIUC was well represented at the Third World Con- Singh, Ram J. Agronomy, traveled to the International gress on Genetics Applied to Livestock Production, Lin- Rice Research Institute (IRRI), Los Banos, Philippines, coln, Nebraska, July 17 to 22. Participants from Animal June 6 to 29, to finalize a uniform numbering system Sciences included Roderic M. Bunge, Claudio De Ma- for rice chromosomes. tes, Jean-Louis Foully, Daniel Gianola, Charles R. Henderson, David G. McLaren, and David L. Thomas. Burton E. Swanson, INTERPAKS and Agricultural Ed- ucation, was a guest lecturer at an extension course John B. Claar, INTERPAKS, is spending five weeks in taught at the International Agricultural Centre, Wagen- Panama in July and August as a member of a team ingen, Netherlands, June 27 to July 12. On this trip, he formulating a project proposal for USAID. also presented a seminar at the Agricultural Extension

and Rural Development Centre (AERDC) and attended Two faculty members in Agricultural Entomology and an editorial board meeting of the Journal of Agricul- the Economic Entomology Section of the Illinois Natural tural Administration and Extension, University of Read- History Survey will attend the International Colloquium ing, England. Dr. Swanson is the North American editor on Invertebrate Pathology, Veldhoven, Netherlands, Au- the of journal. gust 18 to 22. David W. Onstad will present an invited International Agriculture Newsletter No. 99

paper entitled "Simulation Model of the Epizootiology of Mohamed Mehaia, College of Agriculture, King Saud a Microspordium Infecting an Insect." Based on work University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, is working from May done at the National Center for Supercomputing Appli- to September with Munir Cheryan, Food Science, on

cations, the paper is coauthored by William G. Ruesink, the design of bioreactors and continuous fermentation Agricultural Entomology. Joseph V. Maddox will present of food industry wastes into higher valued products. three invited papers: The Occurrence of Erynia radicans in an Illinois Empoasca fabae field population (coauthored Ignacy Misztal, Warsaw Agricultural University, Poland,

by M. G. McGuire, M. J. Morris, and E. J. Armbrust); is working with Daniel Gianola, Animal Sciences, until The Current Status of the Use of Microsporidia as Bio- July 1987. logical Control Agents; and Possibilities for Manipulating Epizootics Caused by Protozoa: A Representative Case Ibrahim Mujic, Vice President for Research, Agroko- History of Nosema pyrausta. merc, Velika Kaldusa, Yugoslavia, arrived in June to spend three months working with Edward G. Perkins, Michael E. Irwin, Agricultural Entomology and Eco- Food Science, on the characterization of alfalfa leaf pro- nomic Entomology Section of the Illinois Natural His- teins. tory Survey, will be in Europe for three weeks in Au- gust and September. Dr. Irwin will present a paper at Ji You-Cheng, North Vehicle Research Institute, Beijing, the First International Congress of Dipterology, August China, will arrive at UIUC in mid-August to spend one 17 to 24, Budapest, Hungary, examine Diptera speci- year working with Carroll E. Goering, Agricultural En- mens at the Museum of Natural History, Vienna, Aus- gineering, on alternative fuels. tria, and present two seminars at the Czechoslovakian Academy of Sciences, Prague. Visitors Coming to Campus

- A. Alam, delegation leader and Assistant Director Visiting Researchers of Engineering, Indian Council for Agricultural Research, Nawab Ali, Director of Soybean Processing at the Cen- Farooqe Azam, Nuclear Institute for Agriculture and tral Institute for Agricultural Engineering in Bhopal, B. Biology, Faisalabad, Pakistan, is a visiting scholar work- P. N. Singh, Director of Soybean Processing Research ing on soil nitrogen transformation with Richard L. at G. B. Pant Agricultural University in Pantnagar, and Mulvaney and Frank Stevenson, Agronomy. Spon- J. P. S. Bhatnagar, Soybean Project Coordinator at G. B. sored by the National Science Foundation-Pakistan Sci- Pant Agricultural University, Pantnagar, India, will visit ence Exchange Program, Dr. Azam will be at UIUC for UIUC from September 1 to 3 for a program on soy- nine months. bean processing for food uses. To meet with these visi- tors call or write John W. Santas, International Agricul- Klaus-Viktor Brenner, University of Gottingen, Ger- ture, 113 Mumford Hall, 1301 West Gregory Drive, many, arrived at UIUC in early July to work for one Urbana, IL 61801: 217-333-3638. year with Peter J. Bechtel, Animal Sciences, and William C. Wagner, Veterinary Biosciences. Dr. Brenner, who is

here on a Max Kade Foundation fellowship, is studying growth hormone and somatomedins in swine. Visitors Recently on Campus

David Galloway, School of Veterinary Science, Univer- Amita Verma and Rachel George, Home Science Fac-

sity of Melbourne, Australia, is a visiting professor for ulty, M.S. University of Baroda, India, met with associ- seven months in Veterinary Clinical Medicine and Veter- ates in the Office of Women in International Develop- inary Biosciences. Sponsored by a George A. Miller fel- ment (WID) during a visit to UIUC, June 12 to 15.

lowship, Dr. Galloway is working on in vitro fertilization They discussed a joint 1985 project sponsored by Ful- as a method to evaluate the fertilizing capacity of bull bright-Hays and possible future collaboration. spermatazoa. The Assistant Director of the Department of Agricul- Alphons Hoitink, a student at the Agricultural Uni- ture and Water Supply, Directorate of Agricultural Pro-

versity, Wageningen, Netherlands, is studying applied duction Economics, South Africa, A. de K. Marias, met ecology in the laboratory of Stanley E. Curtis, Animal with faculty in Agricultural Economics and visited farms Sciences, June 15 to September 15. in the area on June 25 and 26. His schedule at UIUC International Agriculture Newsletter No. 99

was arranged by Richard P. Kesler, Agricultural Eco- Giinther Schmitt, professor of agricultural economics, nomics. University of Gottingen, Germany, presented a seminar on the agricultural policy of the European Economic On June 26, Hideo Fujii, Manager, Feed Grain Section, Community and met with staff in Agricultural Eco- Oil and Cereals Department, Nissho Iwai Corporation, nomics, July 14 and 15. Tokyo, Japan; and Masaji Shima, Director, Kiyoharu Imamura, Production Manager, and Mitsuo Imamura, Sponsored by FAO, Claudio Napolis Costa, National Corn Starch Department, Hohnen Oil Co., Tokyo, Ja- Center for Swine and Poultry Research, EMBRAPA, pan, met with Gene C. Shove, Agricultural Engineering. Concordia, Santa Catarina, Brazil, was on campus July examined the problems associated with delivering They 14 and 15 for discussions on swine breeding with David high quality corn to The Japanese group was Japan. G. McLaren, Animal Sciences. escorted by Richard I. Berlin, Specialty Grains, Inc., Bloomington, Illinois. David J. Miller, Projet de Recherche Agronomique Frans Traa, Vice-Principal of the State Agricultural Appliquee et Vulgarisation, Kinshasa, Zaire, met with College, Groningen, Netherlands, visited with William INTERPAKS and extension staff on July 14. George, Resident Instruction, and faculty members in Agricultural Economics, Agricultural Engineering, and Peter A. Burnett, CIMMYT (Centro Internacional de Animal Sciences, July 8. Mejoramiento de Maiz y Trigo), Mexico, visited the College of Agriculture on July 14 and 15. Dr. Burnett Pro- Arnold T. Tschantz, Director of Development discussed research on barley yellow dwarf virus with grams, AVRDC (Asian Vegetable Research and Develop- Cleora J. D'Arcy and Henryk Jedlinski, Plant Pathology, ment Center), Taiwan, visited UIUC from July 8 to 11. and met with Robert Raab, INTERPAKS. He met with Theodore Hymowitz, Agronomy, and Richard E. Ford and James B. Sinclair, Plant Pathology, Ghazi Kaanan, Director, Jordan Valley Agricultural to discuss a cooperative project on identifying rust re- Directorate, Deir Alia, Jordan, met with Violet M. sistance in wild Glycine species. Malone, Raymond A. Woodis, and other staff in Agri- cultural Communications Jean Martin and Wilhan Viviers, KWV Cooperative and Extension Education, INTERPAKS staff, Horticulture Wine Growers, Paarl, South Africa, and Brian Sugden and Agricultural Eco- nomics faculty, and Neil Frean, South African Cane Growers Associa- Edgar County and Will County exten- sion advisers, and Cooperative Extension administrators, tion, Durban, spent July 10 and 1 1 in the Department 14 to 17. of Agricultural Economics. In a program arranged by July Allan G. Mueller, Agricultural Economics emeritus, they learned about financial records and financial manage- R. L. Baker, Ruakura Agricultural Research Centre, ment programs for farmers. Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Hamilton, New Zealand, presented a seminar and met with faculty in Larry Martin, Head, Department of Agricultural Eco- Animal Sciences on July 14. Dr. Baker was a visiting nomics, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada, visited professor at UIUC in 1981-1982. faculty in Agricultural Economics and met with John L. Woods, INTERPAKS, July 10 and 11. Dr. Martin re- Moenaf Ramid Regar, Director of the Project Imple- ceived a Ph.D. degree from UIUC in 1970 after con- mentation Unit, MUCIA-University of North Sumatra ducting dissertation research in Pantnagar, India. Project, Medan, Indonesia, visited UIUC on July 17. He met with faculty in International Programs and Studies, I. H. Usmani, Secretary General, International Founda- Office of International Agriculture, College of Com- tion for New and Emerging Sciences and Technologies merce and Business Administration, College of Engi- (NEST), London, England, discussed collaboration on neering, and the University Library. soybean research with INTSOY staff, July 11 and 12. A group of nine young farmers from Luxembourg Sponsored by the Protein Research Center, Texas A&M were on campus July 17 to 19, participants in the 4-H University, Fu-Kuang Liu, Wuxi Light Industry Insti- international exchange program. They met with Ann tute, Wuxi, China, met with faculty in Food Science and Rund and other members of the 4-H staff, and toured INTSOY from July 13 to 16 to view soybean research the dairy automation facility and others parts of the and educational programs. His schedule at UIUC was college before going to stay with 4-H host families arranged by Lun-Shin Wei, Food Science. throughout the state. International participants from 31 countries in the dents studying under the TIPAN (Transformation and USDA/USAID Seed Improvement Course spent the Integration of the Provincial Agricultural Network) week of July 21 at UIUC. They toured research plots project at UIUC, July 30 and 31. and laboratories, listened to presentations by faculty in Agronomy and Plant Pathology, and visited farms and agribusinesses around the state.

Rodrigo Gamez, Institute of Cell and Molecular Biol- Have You Met IRIS? ogy, University of Costa Rica, San Jose, met with co-

investigators on a project studying plant virus/myco- IRIS, the Illinois Researcher Information System, is a plasm complexes in maize/bean cropping systems, July computerized data base with citations on organizations 23 to 25. UIUC participants in the project include that provide support for research and scholarly activi-

Michael E. Irwin, William G. Ruesink, and David J. ties. Developed at UIUC in 1975, IRIS contains more Voegtlin, Agricultural Entomology and Economic Ento- than 4,500 listings of federal agencies, private and cor- mology Section of the Illinois Natural History Survey, porate foundations, and other organizations. IRIS L. Keith Hendrie, Illinois State Water Survey, and quickly identifies possible sponsors for research, teach- Harry Bottenberg, graduate student in entomology. The ing, travel, equipment, advanced study, and other activi-

project is sponsored by USAID. ties. An IRIS search can be run by discipline; entries

Carlos Mario Rodriquez, Institute of Cell and Molec- are concise and up-to-date. The service is available free ular Biology, University of Costa Rica, San Jose, spent of charge to faculty, staff, and graduate students. Fur- July 15 to 30 learning aphid identification from David ther information, demonstrations, and copies of the

J. Voegtlin as part of project. IRIS User Guide are available from the Campus-Wide Research Services Office, 128 Observatory, 901 South Zahid Zaheer, Deputy Chief, Human Resources and Mathews Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801; telephone 217- Training, USAID, Islamabad, Pakistan, met with stu- 333-0284.

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September 1986, No. 100

INTSOY Achievements Benefit Illinois

INTSOY, the International Soybean Program, seeks to • conducted extensive research on soybean mosaic vi- improve human nutrition around the world through the rus (SMV) and its spread by aphids. Research results use of soybeans, a legume rich in protein and calories. include a computer model that predicts yield loss

Since its establishment at the University of Illinois at and seed transmission rates. SMV is a major problem Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in 1973, INTSOY has in Asia. worked extensively on germplasm exchange, disease and • developed a quick and easy method to evaluate soy- insect control, processing and use, and training and edu- bean seedlings for resistance to the fungus that cation. This work has benefited Illinois citizens as well causes anthracnose, a disease that is already present as people in the less developed countries of the world. in the United States. • screened a major portion of the soybean germplasm Germplasm exchange. Illinois farmers benefit collection to find cultivars with resistance or toler- from the introduction of new germplasm into the ance to anthracnose. United States by increased and stabilized soybean yields. • collaborated with scientists in African and Asian From 1973 to 1985, INTSOY served as a clearinghouse countries in studying red leaf blotch and soybean for a worldwide system to exchange soybean germplasm. rust. The research included evaluating germplasm INTSOY agronomists and plant breeders have and studying the biology, causes, and control of the

• coordinated a cooperative network of approximately diseases. 1,000 soybean scientists at 238 institutions in 132 • established computerized data banks that identify countries to improve the genetic potential of soy- and describe soybean insect pests and contain refer- beans. ences to the literature of soybean arthropods. •analyzed and published the results of 1,077 soybean cultivar trials conducted in more than 100 countries Processing and use. Innovative soybean process- around the world. ing and use play an important role in expanding world- • collected, evaluated, and distributed approximately wide interest in soyfood products, especially during a 2,000 soybean cultivars and breeding lines from 34 time of shrinking export markets for U.S. producers. countries, adding the most valuable cultivars to the Since 1970, researchers in the Department of Food Sci- USDA germplasm collection. ence at UIUC, in collaboration with INTSOY, have • advised scientists overseas on soybean production, a • developed techniques for processing whole soybeans service that often resulted in sales of seed and equip- into tasty, nutritious foods. ment by U.S. companies. • developed a range of inexpensive prototype soyfood products that could be marketed both in the United

Disease and insect control. Agricultural pro- States and overseas. Research is currently under way duction in the United States is constantly threatened by on products such as soy milk, soy ice cream, soy the introduction of diseases, insects, and pests from out- yogurt, breakfast foods, soups, enrichment additives, side the country. Countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin and granola bars. America have recorded crop losses of 100 percent from • completed preliminary studies on use of immature diseases and insects that are not currently present in the green soybeans as a high protein green vegetable.

United States. It is essential that U.S. scientists study This value-added product has great potential for do- these problems where they occur to understand these mestic and certain foreign markets. future threats and protect domestic production. • developed a low-cost technique that yields both soy- INTSOY entomologists and plant pathologists have bean oil and meal suitable for human consumption. International Agriculture Newsletter No. 100

Training and education. INTSOY sponsors con- Richard P. Kesler. Fay M. Sims, and Donald G. ferences, workshops, and training programs to provide a Smith, Agricultural Economics, attended the Sixth In- forum for the international exchange of ideas and infor- ternational Farm Management Conference in Minneapo-

mation. The conferences stimulate interest in the use of lis, Minnesota, June 30 to July 3. soybeans as a food source and enlarge the body of available knowledge to soybean researchers, educators, Peter J. Felsburg and Harm Hogen Esch, Veterinary producers, and consumers. The educational and training Pathobiology, presented invited papers at the Interna- programs also help maintain UIUC's reputation as a tional Congress on Mucosal Immunity, Niagara Fall, world-class educational, research, and service institution. New York, June 29 to July 3. Dr. Felsburg's paper was Since 1973, INTSOY has entitled "Clinical, Immunologic, and Epidemiologic

• cosponsored international research conferences in Characteristics of canine Selective IgA Deficiency" and Colombia, Egypt, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Puerto Rico, Dr. Esch's paper was entitled "Histologic, Immunohisto- Sri Lanka, Thailand, and the United States. chemical, and electron Microscopic Characterization of • helped establish national soybean programs in India, Canine Peyer's Patches." Peru, and Sri Lanka. Since the implementation of these programs, all three of these lesser developed Congratulations to Margaret R. Grossman, Agricul- countries have increased production and imports of tural Economics, who received a Fulbright award to soybeans and soy products. conduct research in England, Germany, and the Nether- • conducted a course entitled Technical and Economic lands on farmland preservation, August 1986 through Aspects of Soybean Production for more than 100 June 1987. participants from 46 less developed countries. The From September 8 to 12, Dr. Grossman will present course was taught nine times between 1975 and an invited paper entitled "Federated States" at the 1984. Euro-American Agricultural Law Symposium, Plymouth, • conducted another course entitled Soybean Process- England. ing for Food Use nine times since 1975. Nearly 90 participants from 38 countries attended these ses- James L. Robinson, Animal Sciences, will begin a sions. year's sabbatical leave on September 1. He will screen

• hosted more than 1 ,000 visitors, some sponsored by Dutch cattle for inborn errors of nucleotide metabolism, the American Soybean Association, from around the including UMP synthase deficiency. UMP synthase defi- world. ciency is a disorder Dr. Robinson identified in Holstein • provided the opportunity for professors and gradu- cattle in the United States. Dr. Robinson's address is ate students at UIUC to conduct research in less c/o Dr. J. H. Veerkamp, University of Nijmegen, De- developed countries. partment of Biochemistry, P.O. Box 9101, 6500HB • published a series of monographs, currently number- Nijmegen, Netherlands. ing 29, that includes conference and workshop pro- ceedings, reports on international cultivar trials, Michael Grossman, Animal Sciences, will be on sab- economic studies, soyfood research, bibliographies batical leave for the 1986/1987 year in the Department on pests and diseases, and germplasm listings. of Animal Breeding, Agricultural University, Wagenin International agricultural development programs ben- gen, Netherlands. Dr. Grossman received a senior re- to production efit people here and abroad. By helping others we also search fellowship conduct research on help ourselves. curves in livestock.

Marlowe D. Thorne, Agronomy emeritus, was a member of an external evaluation panel for a field re- view of the Soil Management Collaborative Research International Activities Support Program (TropSoils) in Niger, July 14 to 21.

Jack M. Widholm, Agronomy, attended the U.S. /Japan Peg Hoffman, Regional Director, Cooperative Exten- Cooperative Science Project meeting, June 12 to 17, sion Service, was a delegate to the International Home Honolulu, Hawaii. Economics meeting in Graz, Austria, July 20 to 25.

Daniel Gianola, Animal Science, gave an invited pa- During July, Charles A. Smyth, Agronomy, attended per, "Bayes Theorem and Variance Components" at the the Thirteenth International Biometric Conference held University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, June 23 and 24. at the University of Washington. International Agriculture Newsletter No. 100

Gregory R. Noel, Plant Pathology was in 1 and USDA, From August 1 to 20, Robert J. Eilers, graduate China for four weeks in July and August, where he student in Agronomy, participated in the Twenty-Sec- consulted on soybean nematodes at the Soybean Re- ond International Horticultural Congress, Davis, Califor- search Institute, Harbin, Heilongjiang, and collected soil nia. Mr. Eilers gave a poster session and presented a samples and seeds. paper.

Plant Pathology faculty and students attending the As part of a seminar on Small Countries in the World Third International Symposium on Molecular Genetics Economy, Stephen C. Schmidt, Agricultural Economics, of Plant Microbe Interactions, Montreal, Canada, July presented a paper entitled "International Agricultural 26 to 30, included Karen Engst, Ingyu Hwang, Yang Trade," Budapest, Hungary, August 23. While in Eu- Kyo Park, and Paul D. Shaw. Dr. Shaw and Mr. Park rope, Dr. Schmidt will meet with researchers at the In- presented a poster session entitled "Cloning and Analy- ternational Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, l.ax- sis of Genes Involved in Pathogenicity of Pseudomonas enburg, Austria, and the Austrian Institute of East and sxringae pv. tabaci BR2." South East European Studies, Vienna, Austria.

Theodore R. Peck, Agronomy, participated in the Janice M. Bahr, Animal Sciences, attended the Lau- Thirteenth Congress of the International Society of Soil rentian Hormone Conference, Montebello, Quebec, Science, Hamburg, Germany, in August. Canada, August 24 to 29.

Angus G. Hepburn, Agronomy, discussed collabora- John L. Woods, INTERPAKS, was in Washington, tive projects and current research with scientists at the D.C. August 19 to 22, to attend a meeting at the Acad- John Innes Institute, Norwich, England, and the Uni- emy for Educational Development (AED). The meeting versity of Edinburgh, Scotland, during the first two is part of a USAID-funded Communication for Technol- weeks of August. He then presented data on DNA ogy Transfer in Agriculture (CTTA) project. methylation in plants at the Symposium on Plant Chro- matin and Gene Expression, University of Frankfort, A report on a new test for the detection of pregnancy Germany, in the latter part of August. in mares was presented at the Fourth International Sym- posium on Equine Reproduction, Calgary, Canada, Au- Agronomy faculty and students attending the Sixth gust 25 to 29, by Theodore F. Lock, Veterinary Clinical International Congress of Plant Tissue and Cell Culture, Medicine. The paper was entitled "Enzyme Immunoas- Minneapolis, Minnesota, August 3 to 8, included, L. say for the Qualitative Detection of Equine Chorionic Curt Blair, Usha B. Barwale, Liang-Jwu Chen, David Gonadotropin." R. Duncan, Susan E. Schechter, Roy W. Stahlhut, Jack M. Widholm, and Mark E. Williams. Harry Bottenberg, graduate student in Entomology, left UIUC in August to spend one year in Costa Rica Bruria Heuer, Paul A. Kenigsberg, William L. conducting research on aphid movement in maize/bean

Ogren, Emil M. Orozco, and Archie R. Portis, Agron- cropping systems. The work is part of a USAID-spon- omy, attended the Seventh International Congress on sored project in Agricultural Entomology on plant Photosynthesis, Providence, Rhode Island, in August. virus/mycoplasm complexes in maize/bean cropping systems.

Johannes M. J. DeWet, Agronomy, visited Liaoning,

China, from August 10 to September 1 to attend a Erwin Small, associate dean in the College of Veteri- sorghum symposium and collect millet germplasni. nary Medicine, will lead a group from the Society for International Veterinary Symposia to Budapest, Hungary, and Zagreb, Yugoslavia, for John J. Nicholaides, III, OIA, made an invited pres- meetings from entation to a BIFAD/AID symposium on Memoranda of September 5 to 19. Understanding/Program Support Grants, August 4, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Donnell R. Hunt, Agricultural Engineering, will spend six weeks in August and September in Australia Preliminary results of safety tests on a fungus that lecturing on mechanization problems in agriculture. He kills mosquitoes were presented by Joel Siegel, Veteri- will also give the keynote speech to the National Agri- nary Pathobiology, at the Fourth International Collo- cultural Engineering Conference, Roseworthy College, quium of the Society for Invertebrate Pathology, August South Australia. His trip is sponsored by the Institute of 16 to 23, Eindhoven, Netherlands. Mechanical Engineers. International Agriculture Newsletter No. 100

Arthur J. Muehling, Agricultural Engineering, will Sotan Im, Biometrics Laboratory, INRA, Toulouse, travel to Rennes, F ranee, September 7 to 12 to attend France will be a visiting scholar in Animal Science. Dr.

the International Society of Agricultural Engineers Im's research is on multivariate analysis with emphasis Section 2 Seminar. He will then go to Leipzig, East on parameter estimation and prediction of breeding Germany to present seminars of swine housing systems value. at Karl-Marx University. Jaw-Shu Hsieh, Department of Agronomy, National

On September 11, Mary Frances Picciano, Foods Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, is conducting re- and Nutrition, will present the plenary lecture entitled search on plant breeding and genetics for one year in "Nutrient Utilization in Term Infants" at the Interna- the laboratories of Theodore Hymowitz and Henry H. tional Conference on Effects of Human Milk on the Hadley. Recipient Infant, Konstanz, Germany. Anna M. Smith, Foods and Nutrition, will also present a paper at the conference. Visitors Recently on Campus

Munir Cheryan, Food Science, will participate in Tahir Rehman, Department of Agriculture and Horti- World Congress III of Chemical Engineering, Tokyo, culture, University of Reading, England, visited UIUC Japan, September 21 to 26. He will present two papers: 7 and 8. Dr. Rehman discussed the use of micro- one on bioprocessing work related to harvesting of mi- July computers in education and mathematical programming crobial cells and design of bioreactors, and the other on with faculty members of the Department of Agricultural the mechanism of transport through reverse osmosis Economics and the Agricultural Experiment Station. synthetic membranes. In addition, he will co-chair the technical sessions on bioengineering and bioreactor de- Masakazu Nagaki, Obihiro University of Hokkaido, sign. Japan, visited the College of Agriculture July 9 to 11. Dr. Cheryan will then attend the Twenty-Second In- His research interests are in application of expert sys- ternational Dairy Congress, The Hague, Netherlands, tems to agricultural production. September 29 to October 3, where he will present a paper on research on membrane separations. Dr. Raul Machado Neto, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, Cheryan will also represent the American Dairy Science spent 22 to 25 at UIUC meeting with faculty and Association on the U.S. National Committee to the July administrators in the College of Agriculture. They dis- International Dairy Federation, which sponsors the con- cussed cooperative research projects that could be im- gress every four years. plemented under the Memorandum of Understanding between UIUC's College of Agriculture and the Faculty of Agriculture at the University of Sao Paulo. His trip was sponsored by the Partners of the Americas. Dr. Ma- Visiting Researchers chado completed his Ph.D. in Dairy Science at UIUC in 1980. Hiroaki Kato, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Japan, arrived at UIUC on July 24 to spend one year in Former faculty member in Agronomy John W. Pen- the laboratory of Toshiro Nishida. Mr. Kato will con- dleton, currently deputy director of the International duct research on lipid and lipoprotein metabolism. Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Ibadan, Ni- geria, visited the Department of Agronomy in July. Professor Delegershang, Department of Agricultural Engineering, Inner Mongolia Agriculture and Animal Fifty students from Nihon University, Chiba, Japan, Husbandry College of Hohehot, Inner Mongolia, Peo- toured the dairy barns and the College of Veterinary ple's Republic of China, arrived at UIUC in early Medicine on July 29. The tour was part of a program August. He will be a visiting scientist for a year in the arranged by UIUC's Intensive English Institute, where Department of Agricultural Engineering working with the students are studying for one month this summer. Leslie L. Christianson. On July 28 and 29, Jan Stofkoper, Regional Director Yehezkel Cohen, Volcani Institute, Bet Dagan, Israel, for Egypt, Sudan, and Turkey at Louis Berger Interna- arrived in August to work for one year on water rela- tional, met with faculty in international agriculture to tions in plants with John D. Hesketh, Agronomy and explore possibilities of working together on projects in US DA. Sudan and other countries. International Agriculture Newsletter No. 100

Diego Marulanda, John Deere distributor in Bogota, line. Additional information is available from the Cam- Colombia, and Guillermo Zapata Mejia, agronomist pus-Wide Research Services Office, 128 Observatory,

from Pereira, Colombia, discussed ISVEX data with 901 South Mathews Avenue, Urbana, II. 61801; tele- Danny R. Erickson, International Agriculture, on-farm phone 217-333-0284.

soybean oil extraction with Alvin I. Nelson and Wilmot VVijeratne, Food Science, and soybean production prac- tices with Gary E. Pepper, Agronomy, on July 30. They were accompanied bv Robert E. Williamson, John International Seminars Deere Intercontinental, Moline, Illinois. These seminars are open to the university community Hisatoshi Omura, staff leader of 60 Japanese 4-H and the general public. exchangees in Illinois, was on campus July 25 to August 20. He visited with Ann Rund. 4-H specialist and September 10 Current Developments in International toured the campus and Central Illinois. Agriculture John Nicholaides, III, Director and — J. Associate Dean, International Agriculture. 4:00 p.m.,

Herman J. Finkel, Faculty of Agricultural Engineer- 426 Mumford Hall ing, Israel Institute of Technology, visited UIUC on Au- * International Agriculture seminar gust 6. Professor Finkel, who graduated from UIUC in

1940, is studying the effect of music on engineers. September 17 Gender Equity and Efficiency in AID's Agricultural Projects: Evaluating a Decade of Effort — Jack Loneragan, Murdoch University, Australia, pre- Kathleen Cloud, INTERPAKS and Office of Women in sented a seminar and discussed mineral nutrition with International Development. 4:00 p.m., 426 Mumford faculty and students during a visit to the Department of Hall Agronomy on August 11 and 12. Dr. Loneragan's * International Agriculture seminar schedule was arranged by Richard H. Hageman. September 24 Noneconomic Factors Influencing Andrew K. Hatubotu, Information Officer, Zambia Farmers' Decision Making in Zambia — Serigne Ministry of Agriculture and Water Development, visited N'diaye, Agricultural Economics. 4:00 p.m., 426 Mum- UIUC August 17 to 19. Mr. Hatubotu discussed com- ford Hall munications strategies with Delbert T. Dahl, Agricul- * International Agriculture seminar tural Communications and Robert J. Wynstra, INTSOY. Dr. Dahl accompanied him to the Will County Exten- October 16 World Food Day. Check next month's In- sion Office to meet with former ZAMARE team mem- ternational Agriculture Newsletter for a list of activities. ber Ronald G. Dedert.

International 4-H exchangee, Andri Suratmin, Lam- Classes for Agriculture ~ pung University, Indonesia, was at UIUC for 4-H orien- Language tation with Mary K. Munson. Ms. Suratmin will stay with families in Illinois to observe 4-H youth develop- French for Agriculture and Rural Development is for ment programs and agricultural practices. facultv, staff, and students with a basic knowledge of French who wish to maintain and improve their lan- guage skills. The class will meet for 1.5 hours per week British Council Academic Travel beginning in mid-October. ~ Grants Two levels of Spanish for Agriculturalists are being offered for faculty and staff. Classes will meet beginning This program facilitates short-term visits of staff be- in mid-October. tween universities in Britain and the United States. The Low intermediate, which will meet for 1.5 hours per

purpose is to promote direct contact between depart- week, is for those who have completed the equivalent of ments and institutions with common scientific or aca- the intersession class.

demic interests, and to encourage the development of Intermediate is designed for people with a basic longer term collaboration that benefits both institutions. knowledge of Spanish who wish to maintain and im- Grants may be given for visits that form an early stage prove their language skills. The class will meet for 2

of a program of institutional collaboration in research, hours per week. Contact Bonnie J. Irwin for meeting publication, or teaching. There is no application dead- times and places, 333-5835. World Food Day MUCIA Travel Funds

Members of the university and community will observe October 1. 1986. is the application deadline for interna-

World Food Day October 16. This year's theme is Hun- tional travel funds available to University of Illinois fac- ger Amidst Plenty. Activities will include seminars, a ulty and staff through MUCIA (Midwest Universities nationally televised conference, and a colloquium about Consortium for International Activities) and the Office international agriculture and world food issues. of the Vice President for Academic Affairs. Grants of Teachers who are interested in having their classes up to $1,000 are available to support international participate in this event can call Charles E. Olson, Resi- travel which will result in the development or enhance-

dent Instruction, 333-3380. Fact sheets, help on obtain- ment of international programs at the University of Illi- ing guest lecturers, and information on the three hour nois. Matching funds must be secured from institutional

teleconference can be provided. sources. The next application opportunity is February 1, 1987. Guidelines and request forms are available from T.John Rim, MUCIA Liaison Officer, 311 Coble Hall, 801 South Wright Street, Champaign, IL 61820, tele- Workshop for International Women phone (217) 333-1993.

On September 27, a workshop for international women on work and educational opportunities in Urbana- Heinz Endowment Research Grants Champaign will be held in room 407 Levis Faculty Cen-

ter, 919 West Illinois Street, Urbana, from 8:30 a.m. to The Howard Heinz Endowment is accepting applica- 12:30 p.m. Entitled "All You Ever Wanted to Know tions for grants for research on current issues in Latin About Working and Learning in Champaign-Urbana — American economics, politics, or social development.

For Free, For Pay, For Fun," the workshop is sponsored Applicants must have a Ph.D. or equivalent and be affil- by several campus offices and committees. There will be iated with a scholarly institution. For specific informa- a free breakfast and babysitting at the Wesley Founda- tion on research topics and application procedures write tion. For more information or to register call the Office to the Howard Heinz Endowment, 301 Fifth Avenue, of International Student Affairs, 333-1303. Pittsburgh, PA 15222.

The International Agriculture Newsletter is published monthly by the Office of International Agriculture, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 113 Mumford Hall, 1301 West Gregory Drive, Urbana, 61801; J. J. Nicholaides

III, director; Bonnie J. Irwin, editor. Faculty and departments are encouraged to submit newsletter items. Contact the Office of International Agriculture to receive your own copy of this newsletter. The University of Illinois at

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