By Wes Clement/OF THE PINE BLUFF COMMERCIAL STAFF
Friday, June 26, 2009 11:26 PM CDT
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An aquaculture/fisheries doctoral program proposed by the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff gained the respect of professionals charged with critically reviewing the program.
“They will be an incredibly competitive program,” said Bobby McGhee, dean of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Graduate School. “They’ll be able to select from the best.
“If they gave Nobel Prizes for aquaculture, there would be four or five on this campus. The faculty is stellar when stacked against any school in the nation.”
McGhee has reviewed more than 100 proposed Ph.D. programs and he has been involved in launching six doctoral programs. He said UAPB’s proposed program is the most exciting one he has known.
The aquaculture department has been working for about 10 years to build a Ph.D. faculty and upgrade facilities in preparation for the program.
“This will not be a token partnership,” McGhee said. “We are fully on board.”
He said UAMS would give fisheries students opportunities to work in facilities such as a microbiology laboratory to learn from the expertise of a wider variety of Ph.D.s in practice.
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