Joseph Steinmetz, chancellor of the University of Arkansas
Joseph E. Steinmetz, chancellor of the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, has been named to the board of directors of the Association of Public & Land-grant Universities as a member at large.
Steinmetz is serving a three-year term as one of seven at-large members on the 27-member board.
Clarence Watson retired Dec. 31 after five years as director of the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station.
Watson became associate vice president of agricultural research for the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture and director of the experiment station in 2012 following a national search. He oversaw five research and extension centers and another six research stations across Arkansas, and grant funding increased by nearly 15 percent between fiscal 2013 and the 2017 fiscal year.
Noelle Danylchuk, a certified genetic counselor at the UAMS Northwest Regional Campus in Fayetteville, has been appointed chair of the Department of Genetic Counseling in the College of Health Professions at UAMS.
She also has been appointed director of the genetics counseling program. She was previously an assistant professor and the assistant program director for the department.
Daniel Yeager, digital marketing specialist at Northwest Arkansas Community College, has had his work recognized with two awards from District 4 of the National Council for Marketing & Public Relations.
Yeager, who earned an Associate of Arts degree from NWACC, created the video and printed materials that supported an internal fundraising campaign that received a gold medallion in the category of special event or fundraising campaign. He also created videos promoting the NWACC Foundation’s Plant a Seed event. District 4 includes Arkansas, Colorado, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas and Wyoming.
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