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     Karl Narang was selected as the director of the Agricultural Research Service’s South Atlantic Area, based in Athens, Ga. He succeeded Roger Breeze, who served in that position from March 1996 until October 1999, when he became ARS’s associate administrator for special research programs.

     From 1995 until his recent selection, Narang served as the national program leader of ARS’s National Program Staff, based in Beltsville, Md. In that capacity he directed ARS research on pests of animals and humans, animal parasites, and bees and pollination. In addition, he was co-leader of ARS national research programs concerning animal health. He was the research leader of the Insect Genetics and Biochemistry Research Unit in ARS’s Biosciences Research Laboratory in Fargo, N.D., from 1990-95. From 1985-90 he worked as a research geneticist with the ARS [then] Insects Affecting Man and Animals Research Laboratory in Gainesville, Fla.

     Narang served on the faculty at the Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences at the University of Florida from 1980-85. From 1972-79 he served on the faculty of the Department of Animal Biology at the University of Brasilia, Brazil, and subsequently was chair of that Department. He served as the senior geneticist with the World Health Organization’s genetics project in New Delhi, India in 1971.

     A native of Punjab, India, Narang holds an M.S. degree and a Ph.D. degree, both in genetics and both from the University of Illinois.