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The University of Puerto Rico at Utuado (UPRU) was awarded a $400,000 project grant from the United States Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative competitive grants program. Through this award, UPRU will deliver the Science, Math, and Agriculture Resources for Teaching professional development program from May 2023 to May 2026 to advance agricultural literacy among K-8 teachers in Puerto Rico. Key services...

This $200,000 federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Women and Minorities in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (WAMS) Fields program provides experiential learning, mentoring, and training opportunities for eight women, first-generation, and/or underserved minority scholars enrolled at Butte College, a rural community college in Northern California. The project partners with the...

This federal Project Grant award of $200,000 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Resident Instruction Grants for Institutions of Higher Education in Insular Areas (CFDA 10.308) program aims to address the critical decline in student enrollment in agricultural sciences at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez (UPRM). The funding will support a comprehensive set of initiatives, including a training academy for school...

This five-year, $500,000 Project Grant from the United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture's Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) will fund the University of Hawaii at Manoa's Advanced Technology Training in Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resource Sciences-Research and Extension Experiences for Undergraduates (ATT-AGFSC-REEU) program. The program aims to address food security challenges in Hawaii through experiential learning and workforce...

The Colorado State University-Pueblo was awarded a $268,955 project grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Hispanic Serving Institutions Education Grants program (CFDA 10.223) to bolster retention and graduation rates of underrepresented students in food and agricultural science disciplines. Specifically, the Professional Development in Agricultural Literacy program will provide high school students guidance toward research experiences,...

This $735,659 Project Grant award from the United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program is designed to support a 5-year undergraduate research internship program at Texas A&M University. The program will provide annual 6-week summer research internships for 36 historically underrepresented students from Texas State University, Prairie View A&M University, and Texas A&M University. The interns will conduct research projects...

This Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) CFDA 10.310 program will fund the "Agroecology Scholars Program in Research and Extension (ASPIRE) for Diversity REEU" at North Carolina State University. The $750,000 award will recruit and support 50 undergraduate students, with at least 50% women and 50% from underrepresented groups, to participate in a 10-week...

This four-year, $1 million project grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture's Hispanic Serving Institutions Education Grants program aims to establish an interdisciplinary collaboration between the University of Puerto Rico campuses in Mayagüez and Aguadilla. The collaboration will involve over 150 undergraduate and 40 graduate students in experiential learning opportunities related to crop growth, stress, and health monitoring using near-field and...

The University of Houston was awarded $500,000 under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) competitive federal grant program by the United States Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture to launch a 15-week paid internship program called PATH (Providing Advanced Training in Health). The goal of the program is to recruit, retain, engage and train 50 undergraduate students from underrepresented Hispanic and African American backgrounds in entry-level...

The University of Connecticut was awarded a $4.5 million Project Grant from the United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture to build capacity at two Hispanic-Serving Institutions through the "From Learning to Leading: Cultivating the Next Generation of Diverse Food and Agriculture Professionals" program (CFDA #10.237). The five-year award effective June 1, 2023 will support developing scholarship opportunities, experiential learning internships,...