Debra Heleba
This list.ly provides highlights of Northeast SARE Graduate Student Grant projects. To learn more about the grant program, visit www.northeastsare.org/GraduateStudentGrant.
This article features a Northeast SARE Graduate Student grant. A Cornell student conducted a study of strawberry crops on New York farms testing the effectiveness of wildflower strips for attracting pollinators to crops, with findings that could uncover the plant species most likely to produce optimal results.
The Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Research & Education (SARE) program selected proposals of three plant pathology graduate students for the 2018 Graduate Student grant awards. Of the 61 proposals received, Northeast SARE awarded a total of 28 proposals at a funding level of $405,373. SARE offers competitive grants to projects that explore and address key issues affecting the sustainability and future economic viability of agriculture.
University of Vermont PhD student and Northeast SARE Graduate Student grantee Charlie Nicholson featured in this video produced by the UVM Gund Institute. https://projects.sare.org/sare_project/gne16-129/
The massive increase in U.S. honey bee colony losses in the last decade has prompted a comprehensive examination of colony health in apiaries throughout the United States. Known as the National Honey Bee Survey (NHBS), the effort is a collaboration between the USDA Animal Plant and Health Inspection Service (APHIS), the Bee Informed Partnership (BIP) out of the University of Maryland (UMD), the USDA Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and the cooperation of 40 states, two territories (Puerto Rico and Guam), and the island nation of Grenada.
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. — Michael Acquafredda, doctoral candidate in the Graduate Program in Ecology and Evolution in the School of Graduate Studies, has been featured on the website of the Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the American Fisheries Society, a non-profit organization established since 1870 to advance fisheries science. Its mission is to improve the conservation and sustainability of fishery resources and aquatic ecosystems by advancing fisheries and aquatic science and promoting the development of fisheries professionals.
Sarah Schweig, a graduate student at the University of Rhode Island, guides us through her research on amaranth production.
