Shinn, Students Speak on International Agriculture and Study Abroad in Bumpers College Seminar
Glen Shinn speaks during the Global Food Opportunities seminar on Thursday in the Plant Sciences Building.
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences invited a professor from Texas A&M University and three University of Arkansas students to present a seminar discussing the benefits of studying abroad on Thursday.
Glen C. Shinn, a Bourlaug Senior Scientist, was the featured speaker for the Global Food Opportunities seminar. His lecture, titled "If It's Broken, Let's Fix It: A new model for agriculture, food and science?" covered the five megatrends that affect the future of our world as well as his adventures overseas in Sudan, Iraq and Afghanistan.
"Population growth, disruptive innovations, climate change, migration/immigration and global terrorism are the things that are affecting our lives," said Shinn. "This is why you must say what you intend and do what you say."
The three students asked to present were James Ardis, Tara L. Johnson and Maggie Jo Pruitt.
Accompanied by a slide show of pictures, the students spoke of their experiences studying abroad.
Ardis, a creative writing major in the Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences, studied in Mozambique. He said he asked himself "how can I help, what can I do to help, and more importantly, how can I give them skills that will transfer to opportunities."
Johnson, an agricultural and extension education graduate student, travelled to Belgium for an internship in the summer of 2013. Johnson spoke on how travelling internationally changed her perspective of the world and international affairs.
Pruitt, a senior agricultural education, communications and technology student, interned for the Rural College in Edinburgh, Scotland, in the summer of 2013. The main point of Pruitt's presentation was to "aspire to create a reality" and "expect to create a reality."
The seminar concluded with a question panel with all four speakers.
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