Posts Tagged ‘AES’

The 60th Annual ACU Rodeo was one for the record books, setting new highs in attendance and participation! Students, ACU faculty and children alike got in on the action this year.

Zeta Rho took home the gold for girls and the men of Trojans did likewise for the guys. Grace Mason and Connor Mills championed the individual events. The teams of ACU faculty members that competed “did great and were fun to watch,” said Sara Bishop, sophomore animal science major. Four year old, Jake Warner, son of A&E student Kevin Warner, even attempted to ride a goat, said Bryce Gerlach, senior environmental science and wildlife major. More »

Students and members of the Abilene community clean up a dumpsite for the Cedar Creek Waterway project. (Optimist photo by Brittany Jackson)

By Micah Hermsdorf
Posted on February 4, 2014 More »

On Saturday November 9, the AES Club along with the Block and Brittle Club hosted the second annual ACU Barn Dance at ACU’s Rhoden Farm. The event was a huge success. The dance started at 7:00 PM and lasted until 10:30 PM. Over 120 students attended the dance. All of the proceeds from the event went to fund the AES and Block and Brittle Clubs.

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The A&E Department brought home the gold in this year’s homecoming parade winning first place in the non-social club division. The overarching theme of this year’s homecoming festivities was the ACU Dynasty. From there the bright minds in our department came up with the idea to theme our float after one of the hottest (and hairiest) topics in pop culture today: Duck Dynasty. Kayla Hanning, a Freshman Animal Science major, is credited with coming up with this brilliant idea. Kayla said when she heard of the ACU Dynasty theme she thought “Who better to do Duck Dynasty than Ag?” Kayla watches the show almost every week and her favorite character is Mrs. Kay. More »

Along with the new school year comes new officers for the Agricultural and Environmental Sciences Club (or AES Club). This year’s officers are President Will Morales, a junior Wildlife Management and Livestock Production major from Rotan, Texas, Vice President Bryce Gerlach, a senior Environmental Science major from Far Hills, New Jersey, and Chaplin Cade Deines, a Communications major from Cypress, Texas. All of the officers chose to take the position they did in order to serve the AES Club family. More »

A&E’s annual Spring Awards Banquet took place Thursday, May 5 at University Church of Christ.  This was a time to recognize the 2011 graduates, congratulate those who have won special departmental awards and to welcome the incoming Alpha Epsilon Sigma, AES, officers for the upcoming school year. 

The department was honored to have Dr. Nancy Shankle, the Associate Dean for the College of Arts and Sciences, in attendance as well as the A&E faculty and staff.  More »