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Jul 16, 2012
New Director of USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) Visits UNH
COLSA hosted Sonny Ramaswamy, director of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture (USDA NIFA), at a town hall-style meeting at UNH’s Woodman Horticultural Farm recently.In attendance were many of COLSA’s faculty, students, and staff; UNH senior vice provost for research Jan Nisbet; and members of the public, including Commissioner of Agriculture,... Read more
Nov 03, 2011
UNH to Lead USDA-funded Effort to Boost Northeastern Organic Dairy Industry
Researchers from the University of New Hampshire are leading a multi-state project that aims to help organic dairy farmers better produce and market their milk. The research will explore how organic dairy farmers in the Northeast can enhance farm profitability by extending the grazing season and adding value to milk through flaxseed supplementation. Read moreJun 27, 2011
National Robotics Initiative - New Multi-agency Program of NSF, NASA, NIH, and USDA
To accelerate the development and use of robots in the United States that work beside, or cooperatively with, people, several federal agencies have jointly announced the National Robotics Initiative. Read more
May 24, 2011
Public Investments in Agricultural Research Yield High Returns
A new report published by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) shows that "even though standard economic approaches may be difficult to apply to evaluations of some research benefits of public investments in agricultural research, economic reasoning can provide qualitative analysis even when estimates of benefits are difficult to quantify." Read more
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Nov 26, 2012
COLSA Dean Jon Wraith Named as Fellow in Food Systems Leadership Institute
Jon M. Wraith, Dean, College of Life Sciences and Agriculture, and Director, New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station, has been named as a 2012 Fellow in the Food Systems Leadership Institute (FSLI).Dedicated to developing individual and institutional leadership for a twenty-first century food system, FSLI is a program of the Association of Public Land-grant Universities with support from... Read morePosted in: Research Development & Communications, Research Spotlight
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