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February 1, 2021
A University of Wyoming scientist whose work springs from the needs of Wyoming forage producers and another whose focus is increasing sheep producer profitability have received outstanding research awards from UW’s Wyoming Agricultural Experiment Station (WAES).
Anowar Islam, a professor in the Department of Plant Sciences, received the Outstanding Research Award. Whit Stewart, an assistant professor in the Department of Animal Science, received the Early Career Research Award.
WAES is the research branch of the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources.
Islam joined UW in 2008 as an assistant professor and has received over $3.8 million in research funding.
“Anowar Islam has evaluated the most critical needs of Wyoming forage producers and has responded to those needs with an aggressive research program that has had a significant impact on county extension educators and producers and, certainly, the scientific community,” wrote Mark Marsalis, a profess
A scientist whose work springs from the needs of Wyoming forage producers and another whose focus is increasing sheep producer profitability have received outstanding research awards from the Wyoming Agricultural Experiment Station (WAES).
Anowar Islam, a professor in the Department of Plant Sciences in the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources at the University of Wyoming, received the Outstanding Research Award. Whit Stewart, an assistant professor in the Department of Animal Science, received the Early Career Research Award.
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University of Wyoming Extension forage specialist Anowar Islam discusses production research during a recent forage field day.
WAES is the research branch of the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources.
December 11, 2020
Brian Mealor, right, director of IMAGINE and director of UW’s Sheridan Research and Extension Center, speaks with Jim Heitholt, director of UW’s Powell Research and Extension Center, during a summer field research day. (UW Photo)
Partners that span governmental boundaries and jump private-public borders hope to throw a tight noose around invasive grasses degrading Wyoming lands and halt establishment of other invasives.
A public and private funding mix would drive the Institute for Managing Annual Grasses Invading Natural Ecosystems (IMAGINE) based in the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources at the University of Wyoming. The effort casts a broad net to confront invasive grasses, such as cheatgrass, ventenata and medusahead, through fundamental research, community science and creating what its originators call next generation partnerships.