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...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) awarded a $198,806 Project Grant under the Resident Instruction, Agriculture, and Food Science Facilities and Equipment Grants (CFDA 10.308) program to the University of Puerto Rico at Utuado (UPRU). The 3-year grant will improve food and agricultural science education capabilities of UPRU students by: 1) training two faculty in horticulture and human health topics; 2) developing three new courses on...
This federal Project Grant award, worth $199,872, was 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 program (CFDA 10.308). The award will fund a 3-year initiative at the University of Puerto Rico's Agricultural Experiment Station to develop and strengthen research and extension capabilities for animal science, pre-veterinary, and computer science...
The University of Puerto Rico, Estacion Experimental Agricola (Agricultural Experiment Station Division) was awarded a $198,303 Project Grant by 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 program (CFDA 10.308). The grant will be used to add agricultural economics courses to the university's new doctoral program in tropical agriculture, which is set to...
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 $500,000 Project Grant from the US Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program will fund a collaborative project between Inter American University of Puerto Rico, Barranquitas Campus and six premier universities to address agricultural systems and technology in Central Puerto Rico through 2025. The grant supports intensive hands-on training of K-14 teachers in inquiry-based teaching and experiential...
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...
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...
This $750,000 project grant was awarded on June 15, 2023 by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program (CFDA 10.310). The grant supports a 5-year effort by Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, a Hispanic-serving institution, to prepare 40 undergraduate students (8 per year) in STEM fields, especially Hispanics and women, with hands-on training and research experience in innovative...
This Project Grant award, provided by the U.S. Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture (USDA-NIFA) under the Hispanic-Serving Institutions Education Grants Program (CFDA 10.223), will fund a $399,506 program over 4 years from September 15, 2023 to September 14, 2027. The program aims to train a new generation of young people for careers in food and agriculture-related fields through intensive community engagement. It will provide funding for 27 undergraduate...