Rich Products, Albertsons, Tyson, Maple Leaf Foods, California Giant Berry Farms and more announce personnel adjustments
ASSOCIATIONS/ORGANIZATIONS/UNIVERSITIES: Ship & Shore Environmental, Inc.,Long Beach, Calif. Jim Stone was named vice president of sales. Stone maintains more than 25 years in product and business development in the air pollution control and hazardous materials industries. Past responsibilities include sales team leadership and growth, new market development, carbon market project abatement and pollution control strategy education. For the past 10 years, he’s helped develop three methane abatement systems. He’s also a regular panelist, speaker and presenter at the United Nations, the EPA and other industry conferences and tradeshows.
Auburn University, Auburn, Ala.
William Dozier, professor and poultry nutritionist, assumed the new role as head of Auburn’s Department of Poultry Science, effective Sept. 1. He also will serve as executive director of the 30-acre Charles C. Miller Jr. Poultry Research and Education Center, which is scheduled for completion in 2020. Dozier determined the dietary amino acid requirements for broiler chickens and evaluated co-products, such as crude glycerin from biodiesel plants and corn co-products from ethanol production, as alternative feed ingredients for broilers. He spent the first four years of his career as extension poultry scientist and assistant professor at the University of Georgia. Prior to joining the Auburn faculty, he was a research animal scientist with the USDA Poultry Research Unit. And, over the course of his career, he has received almost $3.5 million in research funding. During the search for a permanent department head, Sarge Bilgili, Auburn professor emeritus of poultry science, served as interim. Dozier takes over for Don Conner, former department head, who retired in April after 30 years as a faculty member.