The University of Puerto Rico, Estacion Experimental Agricola (Agricultural Experiment Station Division) received a $199,872 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (CFDA 10.308 - Resident Instruction Grants for Institutions of Higher Education in Insular Areas) to develop and strengthen research and extension capabilities for animal science, pre-veterinary, and computer science engineering students through experiential learning...
This federal Project Grant award, provided by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's 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 $200,000 grant, awarded on September 15, 2024, will fund a comprehensive initiative to increase interest and...
The Puerto Rico Agricultural Extension Service will deliver a workforce certification program for Puerto Rico's meat and poultry industry through a $950,000 Project Grant from the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, U.S. Department of Agriculture. The grant funding supports the Hispanic Serving Institutions Education Grants program. Under the award, the Puerto Rico Meat Industry Alliance will work with higher education institutions in Puerto Rico to develop an industry-approved...
The Puerto Rico Agricultural Extension Service will receive $150,624 under a three-year Project Grant award from the US Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture. The award is provided through the Distance Education Grants for Institutions of Higher Education in Insular Areas program (CFDA 10.322) to support the Animal and Food Sources Distance Education Initiative for Current and Potential Students in the Animal Sciences and Related Fields. The Extension Service...
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 Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) awarded $950,000.00 under the Hispanic Serving Institutions Education Grants program (CFDA 10.223) to Universidad Interamericana De Puerto Rico, Inc.'s Barranquitas Campus to establish a meat and poultry processing workforce training center in Puerto Rico. The four-year project aims to recruit 110 students to specialized academic programs providing skills aligned to industry standards. Laboratories will be equipped...
The University of Puerto Rico's Agricultural Experiment Station (Estacion Experimental Agricola) received a $190,595 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (CFDA 10.322 - Distance Education Grants for Institutions of Higher Education in Insular Areas). This 4-year grant will support the creation of five agribusiness case studies focused on themes such as technology adoption, conservation, sustainability, agricultural finance, marketing,...
This Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) provides $948,771 to Inter American University of Puerto Rico, Barranquitas Campus (IAUPR-BC) under the Hispanic Serving Institutions Education Grants program (CFDA 10.223). The funding supports development of a new Associate Degree program in Controlled Environmental Agriculture and an off-campus agricultural mobile laboratory. Specifically, IAUPR-BC will partner with industrial...
The Puerto Rico Agricultural Extension Service will establish an educational pipeline to strengthen the MPP industry workforce in the Caribbean under a $474,999 Project Grant award from the US Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture. The grant was awarded on November 15, 2022 under the Resident Instruction, Agriculture, and Food Science Facilities and Equipment Grants program (CFDA 10.308), which provides competitive grants to eligible institutions to strengthen...
The University of Puerto Rico received a $423,000 Project Grant award from the United States Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative competitive grants program. The grant will support the development and delivery of geospatial data science modules, research courses, and summer internships for Hispanic undergraduate students. Specifically, the University will create new course modules in geospatial data science...