University of Kentucky Collaboration Empowers Louisville’s Homeless Youth
The U.S. Department of Justice estimates that every year more than 1.7 million teens experience homelessness in the United States.
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Improving the Safety of Leafy Greens
Food safety is a top priority for consumers, especially when it comes to the leafy greens in salads.
Bioenergy, Bioproducts Education Program builds student confidence, equips educators
Being an educator is in Morina Ricablanca’s blood. Growing up in a family of teachers in the Philippines, she knew she would someday pursue a career in education. Ricablanca participated in an outreach program assisting troubled youth while attending Manuel L. Quezon University Law School in Manila. She realized then it was time to join the family business of teaching.
UTEP Researchers Take a Different Path to Tackle International Drought Issues
Rather than have their own science-based questions direct their research, Dr. Josiah Heyman and his research partner Dr. William Hargrove will let stakeholders – the actual users of their science – point the way.
Training the next generation of watershed managers to fight drought
NIFA is partnering with land-grant universities, minority-serving institutions, federal agencies, and other organizations to get qualified students out of their classrooms and into the field where they can pick up real, hands-on experience in natural resource protection.