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Penn State hosts international poultry science meeting By Chuck Gill
	More than 1,000 of the world’s top poultry scientists flocked to Penn State for the 1998 Poultry Science Association meeting, held in August at The Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel.   “This event brought together research scientists, producers, educators, extension specialists and poultry industry managers,” William Weaver, Penn State professor and head of poultry science, said. “The Poultry Science Association is the most prominent poultry research and scientific society in the world. Attendees came from all over the United States, as well as Canada, Europe, Asia and other areas.”   The meeting included more than 400 scientific presentations on nutrition, pathology, immunology, physiology, processing/products, genetics, extension/instruction and environment/management. There also were symposia on muscle growth and development, managing poultry reproduction to satisfy market demands, undergraduate poultry science programs, effective extension poultry programming and reducing the environmental impact of poultry production. In addition, there were poster sessions and commercial exhibits.   Among the special presentations was a keynote address by the National Broiler Council’s William Roenigk, who spoke on the “Economic Significance of the Poultry Muscle Foods Industry.” Rustum Roy, Penn State Evan Pugh Professor of the Solid State, Professor of Geochemistry and Professor of Science, Technology and Society, presented the meeting’s opening session on “Applications-Driven Science: Science’s Future.” An outreach program of the College of Agricultural Sciences