Fred Bourland has received the A.L. Vandergriff Cotton Pioneer Award for his cotton breeding and research from the Southern Cotton Ginners Association, headquartered in Memphis.
Bourland is a professor of cotton breeding and genetics for the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station and the research arm of the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture.
Andrew Berner, president of Jetton General Contracting of Jonesboro, has been appointed to the board of trustees of the New York Institute of Technology, which has a program at Arkansas State University.
Berner is a member of the Dean’s Advisory Council of the NYIT College of Osteopathic Medicine at ASU. He also is the founder of University Lofts, a developer of affordable housing in college towns in the mid-South.
Todd Clark has been named associate chief communications officer of Arkansas State University in Jonesboro.
Clark, a graduate of A State, previously was the director of the digital creative media office at A State, which oversees the university’s video production unit, the university photographer and the university’s websites and official social media accounts.
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