Wilson named to national organization

Biochemistry professor Robert P. Wilson recently began a two-year term on a national research board.

In January, Wilson joined the Board on Agriculture of the Washington, D.C.-based National Research Council. The board addresses science and policy issues confronting agricultural, food, and environmental systems. The NRC was established by the National Academy of Sciences in 1916 to associate the science and technology community with the academy's purposes of furthering knowledge and of advising the federal government.

Some of the board's upcoming studies will deal with such subjects as: ecologically based management of pests, drug use in food animals, environmental performance standards, and precision farming and information systems.

An expert on fish nutrition, Wilson has represented the United States on the Fish Nutrition Subcommittee of the International Union of Nutritional Sciences since 1986. He also is a member of the American Institute of Nutrition and serves as nutrition section editor of Aquaculture, an international journal.

Wilson received bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees from the University of Missouri. He joined the Mississippi State faculty in 1979.