The University of Maryland, College Park was awarded a $222,951.65 cooperative agreement from the United States Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Grants for Agricultural Research, Special Research Grants program (CFDA 10.200). The award will support efforts to develop strategies and tactics that advance 4-H and positive youth development from October 5, 2021 through August 31, 2022. As the parent organization of the awardee, the University System of...
The University of Maryland, College Park was awarded a $648,488 Project Grant from the United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program. The grant, awarded on July 15, 2024, aims to address higher poultry mortality and production efficiency issues in antibiotic/chemical-free backyard and integrated farms. Specifically, the research will: 1) investigate the sources and transmission routes of Avibacterium paragallinarum (AP) and Infectious...
The University of Maryland, College Park was awarded a $100,309.00 Cooperative Agreement from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service under the Agricultural Research Basic and Applied Research program (CFDA 10.001). The funding supports a project to incorporate precision agriculture equipment in order to maximize profitability on farms in Maryland. The project will run from June 1, 2024 to December 31, 2026 and focus on best practices for creating management zones...
The University of Maryland, College Park received a $150,000 Cooperative Agreement award from the Executive Office of the President's Office of the National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) under the Research and Data Analysis federal grant program (CFDA 95.007). The purpose of this 12-month award, with a start date of September 22, 2024, is to expand the Emergency Department Substance Use Surveillance System, a program focused on advancing drug early warning indicator methodologies through...
The University of Maryland, College Park was awarded a $299,958 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. The two-year grant will support research to define the spatial and temporal distributions of expansive genomic diversity of foodborne pathogens by integrating open-source molecular data with artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies....
The University of Maryland, College Park (UMD) was awarded a $210,000 Project Grant from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) Crop Protection and Pest Management (CPPM) Competitive Grants Program. The grant will be used to maintain and expand UMD's existing integrated pest management (IPM) programs, which focus on sustainable pest management practices to address agricultural, urban, and environmental pest challenges in the state of Maryland. Key activities under this...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) awarded a $349,645 Project Grant under the Rural Health and Safety Education Competitive Grants Program (CFDA 10.516) to Utah State University (USU) to develop, implement, and evaluate the Tricounty Overdose Prevention Program (TOPP). The TOPP program aims to address high rates of opioid overdose deaths in the rural Duchesne, Uintah, and Daggett counties in Utah. Key program activities include providing...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture has awarded a $350,000 Project Grant to the University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. under the Rural Health and Safety Education (RHSE) Competitive Grants Program (CFDA 10.516). The 3-year project aims to address opioid misuse in rural Georgia through a two-pronged strategy: (1) building community capacity by establishing extension hubs for opioid-related education, information, and support services; and (2)...
The Regents of the University of Minnesota has been awarded a $350,000 Project Grant by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Rural Health and Safety Education (RHSE) Competitive Grants Program (CFDA 10.516). The grant, titled "Wiidookadadidaa Chinoojimayang (Healing Together)," will support the development and implementation of education and training programs focused on harm reduction, pro-recovery, and anti-stigma initiatives to...
The University of Maryland, College Park received a $232,488 Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) under the Trans-NIH Research Support program (CFDA 93.310). The goal of this 2-year project is to develop new macrocyclic arene-based sequestration agents capable of binding and clearing a range of drugs of abuse, including opioids, stimulants, and hallucinogens, from the bloodstream. This is intended to provide an alternative approach to treating drug intoxication and...