Purdue Center for Global Food Security awards research grants
May 6, 2013
The Purdue Center for Global Food Security announced the 11 research grants for student projects in 10 countries as part of the U.S. Borlaug Fellows in Global Food Security Program. The $175,307 in funding for the grants is through a five-year, $5 mi
Read Full StoryCall for Applications: U.S. Borlaug Fellows in Global Food Security Program
January 15, 2013
The Purdue Center for Global Food Security is now accepting applications for the U.S. Borlaug Fellows in Global Food Security Program graduate research grant and the summer institute on global food security.
Read Full StorySymposium - "State and Social Movements: Violence, Health and Food Security"
December 18, 2012
This symposium is co-sponsored by Department of Sociology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN (USA) & Humanities and Social Sciences Department, IIT, Madras (India). It takes place March 13-14, 2013 at Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. For a
Read Full StoryPurdue Center for Global Food Security awards research grants
October 17, 2012
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - A Purdue University research center leading efforts to develop the next generation of scientists and engineers to help solve world hunger is awarding $444,250 in grants to graduate students at 14 U.S. universities.
Read Full StoryAuthor, expert on global food needs to speak at Purdue
October 10, 2012
Sir Gordon Conway, former president of the Rockefeller Foundation and an author, scholar and adviser to several governments and development agencies, will speak at Purdue on Oct. 12 as part of the Global Food Security Distinguished Lecture.
Read Full StoryProgram to help fix daunting world hunger problem
July 16, 2012
While the drought continues to raise issues with local food growth, the world hunger problem is on its way to becoming a much bigger issue. Gary Burniske, managing director of the Purdue Center for Global Food Security, helped establish the Borlau
Read Full StorySpeakers see past and future at institute on global food security
July 16, 2012
When 2009 World Food Prize laureate Gebisa Ejeta prepared to address 31 graduate students gathered on the Purdue University campus the morning of July 9, he saw something more than the diverse collection of bright, eager, young students from around t
Read Full StoryWorld Food Prize laureate heads global food security center
July 10, 2012
Purdue University scientist Gebisa Ejeta is known in agriculture for enhancing sorghum crops in Africa. The 2009 World Food Prize Laureate is on a quest to help the world better understand the causes of global food insecurity as the world population
Read Full StoryProgram at Purdue to train grad students in food security
June 29, 2012
Thirty-one graduate students from 19 U.S. universities will gather at Purdue University for two weeks in July to study the array of problems involving world hunger in their quest to develop expertise as tomorrow's leaders in helping to find solutions
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