Julakorn Panatuk (Ake), a fourth-year doctoral student from the Department of Animal Science, Faculty of Agriculture, Khon Kaen University, Thailand, joined the NDSU animal sciences department as a visiting scholar July 20. His thesis project is titled “Meat Quality Improvement and Enhancing Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids of Meat from Brahman Beef Cattle with Vitamin A Restriction and Vegetative Oil Supplementation.” 

Panatuk will be studying with Eric Berg, professor of animal sciences, on meat quality measurement and fatty acid profile analysis.

NDSU is recognized as one of the nation's top 108 public and private universities by the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education.