Connections: UA agri economist earns fellowship

Trey Malone, an agricultural economist with the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture, was recently named the Southern Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) Fellow. The two-year program focuses on sustainable agriculture efforts nationwide.

Malone conducts research through the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station, the Division of Agriculture’s research arm. He is an assistant professor of agricultural economics and agribusiness in the Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences at the UA.

During the competitive annual selection process, one fellow is chosen from each SARE region: Northeast, North Central, Western and Southern.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) established SARE in 1988.

NEW HIRES
Banking & Finance
Dale Reed
Prairie Grove
Employer: Grand Savings Bank
Title: market president; western Washington County
Previous employer: Arvest Bank
Previous title: vice president, commercial banker

Nonprofit
Amanda Brush
Fayetteville
Employer: The Jones Center
Title: membership and annual giving manager
Previous employer: Mount Sequoyah Center
Previous title: director of development

APPOINTMENTS
Nonprofit
Samuel Daily
Fayetteville
Employer: Bridges to Wellbeing
Title: counselor
Appointment: board member
Organization: Single Parent Scholarship Fund of Northwest Arkansas

Kieran Shanahan
Bentonville
Employer: Walmart Inc.
Title: EVP, chief operating officer; Walmart U.S.
Appointment: board member
Organization: Big Brothers Big Sisters of Northwest Arkansas

Karlea Newberry
Harrison
Employer: Signature Bank of Arkansas
Title: Harrison market president
Appointment: board member
Organization: Harrison Regional Chamber of Commerce

AWARDS
Transportation
Shelley Simpson
Rogers
Employer: J.B. Hunt Transport Services
Title: president
Award: 2023 Influential Woman in Trucking
Organization: Women in Trucking Association