Faces of Ag Day
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Nicole Aizaga
 MAJOR: Animal Science HOMETOWN: Dix Hills, NY MY MOST MEMORABLE AG DAY EXPERIENCE: Realizing I was allergic to straw after moving all of the straw bales to prepare for Ag Day. (click for more) THE BEST THING TO DO AT AG DAY IS: Eat! Pulled pork and UD Creamery ice cream are some of my favorites.
AN INTERESTING FACT ABOUT THE COLLEGE OF AG & NR THAT I RECENTLY LEARNED: The college of Agriculture and Natural Resources has 16 of it's own registered student organizations. (close) |
Carol Brower
 HOMETOWN: Landenberg, PA MY MOST MEMORABLE AG DAY EXPERIENCE: “Pie in the Face”, and seeing Karen Aniunas & Kim Yackoski outfitted for the event. (click for more) THE BEST THING TO DO AT AG DAY IS: Eat our Creamery’s delicious ice cream and watching a year of planning come together for a terrific event.
AN INTERESTING FACT ABOUT THE COLLEGE OF AG & NR THAT I RECENTLY LEARNED: The Creamery is supposed to be completed by Ag Day 2011. (close) |
Errica Capossela
 Major: Wildlife Conservation Hometown: Essex, VT My Most Memorable Ag Day Experience: Making paper animal puppets with a little girl at the Wildlife Society booth and having her cat turn out 100x better than mine. (click for more) Best Thing To Do At Ag Day: Standing in line for UD ice cream for what feels like an eternity, finally getting your ice cream and realizing it was totally worth it, and getting back in line!
An Interesting Fact About The College of Ag & NR That I Recently Learned: The bus drivers of the South Campus route learn who Ag students are and help them out a lot! It's awesome and greatly appreciated! (close) |
Caitlin Gormley
 MAJOR: Pre-veterinary Medicine & Animal Biosciences, minor in Wildlife Conservation HOMETOWN: Upper Darby, PA MY MOST MEMORABLE AG DAY EXPERIENCE: My freshman year my Entomology class had an exhibit on Ag Day with live butterflies and other insects, so I remember getting there very early with Dr. Hough to put... (click for more) the insects in their terraniums (boxelder bugs like to escape). My hand was very tired at the end of the day from face painting bugs on little kids faces!
THE BEST THING TO DO AT AG DAY IS: Prove to your friends that we DO have cows on campus! AN INTERESTING FACT ABOUT THE COLLEGE OF AG & NR THAT I RECENTLY LEARNED: Dr. Ilvento recently taught the Ag Ambassadors that "statistics is sexy". He may have been taking the quote from Google's chief economist, but we'll still give him some credit for that tidbit, plus I learned that there are 4 minors within the Food and Resource Economics department. (close) |
Nicole Hengst
 MAJOR: Wildlife Conservation HOMETOWN: York, PA MY MOST MEMORABLE AG DAY EXPERIENCE: Seeing all the little kids fascinated and interested in nature & animals! (click for more)
THE BEST THING TO DO AT AG DAY IS: Visit all the service dogs!!!
AN INTERESTING FACT ABOUT THE COLLEGE OF AG & NR THAT I RECENTLY LEARNED: There used to be a bridge that connected Townsend Hall and Worrilow Hall. (close) |
Carrie Kozar
 MAJOR(s): Animal Science/Pre-veterinary concentration, legal studies minor HOMETOWN: New Hope, PA MY MOST MEMORABLE AG DAY EXPERIENCE: Recruiting 6 volunteers to help move 1 heavy trashcan full of watermelon rinds! Also, carrying around a walkie talkie for Ag Day Team Communication ... (click for more)
and having the cops tell us we need to stop talking on them! (they were listening to us!)
THE BEST THING TO DO AT AG DAY IS: Eat, learn and listen to the music. AN INTERESTING FACT ABOUT THE COLLEGE OF AG & NR THAT I RECENTLY LEARNED: 100 cows will be used to make our very own UD ice cream, available at the new creamery in Spring 2010! (close) |
Katy O'Connell
 MAJOR: BS in Agricultural Education with a minor in wildlife conservation… Class of 2000 UD proud! HOMETOWN: Smyrna, Delaware MY MOST MEMORABLE AG DAY EXPERIENCE: The ceremonial groundbreaking of the UDairy Creamery store in 2010 (yes I got choked up). (click for more)
THE BEST THING TO DO AT AG DAY IS: Watch the hard work of the clubs, organizations, entertainers, and Ag Day Team payoff (and EAT!)
AN INTERESTING FACT ABOUT THE COLLEGE OF AG & NR THAT I RECENTLY LEARNED: The CANR is going to be selling another round of blankets made of the wool from our flock of sheep sometime during the spring of 2011, maybe even at Ag Day! (close) |
Nina Pusateri
 MAJOR: Animal Science with a Pre-Veterinary Concentration HOMETOWN: Long Island, New York MY MOST MEMORABLE AG DAY EXPERIENCE: Eating UDairy Ice cream while listening to student bands perform on the entertainment stage. (click for more)
THE BEST THING TO DO AT AG DAY IS: EAT! Pulled pork sandwiches, UD ice cream, you can't get any better than that!
AN INTERESTING FACT ABOUT THE COLLEGE OF AG & NR THAT I RECENTLY LEARNED: The UDairy Creamery will have its official grand opening on Ag Day!! (close) |
Eleni Sallas
 MAJOR: Animal Science, Pre-Veterinary Concentration HOMETOWN: Morristown, NJ MY MOST MEMORABLE AG DAY EXPERIENCE: Watching the sheep shearing and beekeeping demonstrations were really interesting and fun! (click for more)
THE BEST THING TO DO AT AG DAY IS: Listening to the band play while eating a pulled pork sandwich! And of course, eating the UDairy ice cream.
AN INTERESTING FACT ABOUT THE COLLEGE OF AG & NR THAT I RECENTLY LEARNED: A Lepidoptera Trail that provides an ecosystem for butterflies, moths and skippers has been recently created. It acts like an outdoor laboratory, and can be used for entomology classes and more. (close) |
Latoya Watson
 HOMETOWN: Brooklyn, NY MAJOR: Double Alum! B.S. Marketing and Management (’04) and Master of Public Administration (’08). MY MOST MEMORABLE AG DAY EXPERIENCE: ALMOST getting pied in the face in 2009. Carol saved me because she knew my engagement pictures were the next day. Thanks Carol! (click for more)
THE BEST THING TO DO AT AG DAY IS: Eat! There are so many options! Hot dogs, hamburgers, ice cream, pulled pork, cotton candy, and more…
AN INTERESTING FACT ABOUT THE COLLEGE OF AG & NR THAT I RECENTLY LEARNED: The UD Creamery will have its grand opening this spring! Since I have no self-control with food, that may be a problem. (close) |
Kishana Williamson
 MAJOR: Animal Science HOMETOWN: Teaneck, NJ aka the best town in Dirty Jerz MY MOST MEMORABLE AG DAY EXPERIENCE: When I got to help bottle feed calves when I volunteered for the animal science club exhibit 3 years ago. (click for more)
The best thing to do at Ag Day is sit back relax and enjoy the fun entertainment and yummy food and great people.
An interesting fact that I have recently learned about CANR is that we are getting a new ecology major. They always add the good things when you are about to graduate. (close) |
Kim Yackoski
 MAJOR: ’99 MEd in School Counseling HOMETOWN: Newark, DE MY MOST MEMORABLE AG DAY EXPERIENCE: Watching a friend show her young child some of our animals up close and personal. His facial expressions and comments were PRICELESS! (click for more)
THE BEST THING TO DO AT AG DAY IS: To walk around and talk to all the exhibitors. I love the fact that there’s always something new we can learn each and every day.
AN INTERESTING FACT ABOUT THE COLLEGE OF AG & NR THAT I RECENTLY LEARNED: The College has been partnered up with St. Andrew’s School in Middletown, Delaware since 2005 working on ways to enhance the agricultural landscape and natural ecosystems of their campus. (close) |
