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"Ag Time" Mural
 

The image on the Conference home page is part of a mural located on the first floor of the new ACES Library, Information and Alumni Center at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. (ACES = the Agricultural, Consumer & Environmental Sciences College at UIUC.) The mural, "Ag Time" was painted by the artist, Billy Morrow Jackson and put in place when the building was opened in the fall of 2001.

The pig in the image represents "Big Al", the first transgenic pig, who was born at UIUC in 1994. Big Al received a alpha-lactalbumin gene from a Holstein cow (also shown in the image) and thus became the father of a line of "transgenic" pigs that exhibit higher than usual milk production. The circles around the cow's head represents a pig ovum (and its nucleus) into which the genetic material from the cow was injected. For more about "Big Al", see this news site.

The person holding the food pyramid is Harold Hansen Mitchell, a UIUC animal scientist whose research led to statistical treatment of animal nutrition data.

The man in the white lab coat is Emil Wilhelm Lehmann, an early leader in rural electrification.

When you come to the conference, be sure to stop by and see the rest of the colorful mural. Among those represented in the remainder of the mural:

  • George Espey Morrow, first dean the of the UIUC College of Agriculture (1878). Morrow developed the first continuous experiment in crop rotation in the U.S. The "Morrow Plots", which are still under continuous experimental crop rotation, are located less than a block from the ACES library -- be sure to see them during your visit!
  • President Abraham Lincoln, who signed the Morrill Act in 1862, establishing land-grant colleges
  • Justin Smith Morrill, the Vermont senator who fought for passage of the Morrill Act
  • Illini Nellie, a Brown Swiss cow, champion in milk and butterfat production
  • Isabel Bevier, credited with bringing science-based curriculum to home economics
  • Thomas Jonathan Burrill, who created the science of bacterial plant pathology
  • Billy Morrow Jackson and Siti Mariah Jackson, the mural artist and his wife
  • and many others.
 

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Katie Clark, Program Committee Chair

 
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