Reham MOHAMED, a senior researcher at the Plant Protection Research Institute, Agricultural Research Centre in Egypt and an affiliate at the African Academy of Sciences (AAS) is visiting HLA for three months to work with Dr. Krishna Nemali on research related to “Developing Affordable Hydroponics/ Aeroponics Systems for Egypt” funded by USDA/FAS. The purpose of[Read More…]
Undergraduate student Ian Kelly (HORT) is currently on study abroad in Dublin, Ireland this semester and will be sending up updates throughout his stay. He sent us this update this week: Classes have been going in full swing and in my plant biotechnology course we got to see a tour of their facilities! They showed[Read More…]
Congratulations to Michael Mickelbart, Kathryn Orvis, and Joshua Widhalm for receiving 2022 AgSEED grants. Michael Mickelbart’s project is “Improving maize water-use efficiency via stomatal traits.” Kathryn Orvis’s project is “Urban Farming Entrepreneurship Program: Providing minority youth entrepreneurship training to increase employment and food access.” Joshua Widhalm’s project is “Investigating chloroplast thievery in photosynthetic sea slugs[Read More…]
Ariana Torres and Wenjing Guan are part of a $3.7M project that explores high-tunnel pest management, rural-urban variations in high-tunnel pest management, and creates an online tool for farmers to calculate whether an investment in an integrated pest management strategy or crop diversification will be profitable. This project is led by Elizabeth Barnes in Entomology. [Read More…]
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