Sentences with phrase «land grant universities»

I have never seen land grant universities compare the nutrition of different types of corn.

The FY 2018 budget would eliminate the $ 6.5 million Water Resources Research Act Program, ending USGS involvement and support for all grants to Water Resource Research Institutes (WRRI), located at land grant universities in each of the 50 states.

With this also came a move to expand higher education with the development of land grant universities, the G.I. bill, and direct grants and loans to students.

STARS (Southeast Top Agricultural Recruits Scholarship) is the Southeast Produce Council's scholarship program available to outstanding students who are agriculture majors in Southeast - based land grant universities.

1 The Cooperative Extension System serves an outreach function for land grant universities in every state, disseminating scientific information to the community.

The good news is that opportunities to address these challenges exist through partnerships with land grant universities located in each state and territory of the United States.

Given the variety of operational challenges that 21st Century Community Learning Centers grantees in rural areas may face, partnering with land grant universities provides many types of support to help programs overcome those challenges.

Through its extension educator network, Kansas State University, the oldest land grant university in the nation, has successfully built and sustained partnerships for rural afterschool.

The rest are silent on this topic — including papers by groups like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Alliance for Excellent Education, Association of Public Land Grant Universities, and Institute for College Access and Success.

«When hemp is legalized, land grant universities across the nation will develop cultivars suitable to different growing regions to enhance yield and explore innovative uses such as cellulosic ethanol.»

Michael has a Master of Pest Management from Simon Fraser University, and a PhD in Plant and Soil Sciences from West Virginia University, where he conducted research on one of the nation's first land grant university farms operated entirely according to national organic standards.

As a matter of fact, research at Rodale Institute that has now been replicated at several land grant universities, shows that over 3.5 tons of CO2 can be sequestered on well - managed organic soils using compost and no chemical inputs.

While these are typical examples of community partnerships for most major universities, regardless of their mission or location, there are additional important extension / outreach roles especially for land grant universities:

Higher education expanded with the development of land grant universities, the GI Bill, and direct grants and loans to students.

It is this sort of mutual understanding that will serve afterschool programs well as they seek to partner with their state's land grant universities.

This successful partnership between a major university and a small town would have not been possible without an understanding of the land grant university's mission — teaching, research, and outreach — and a respect for the capacity of town and afterschool leaders.

(Details in link below) A number of organizations, including the Association of Land Grant Universities (APLU) have weighed in noting that the bill would be «an alarming setback for students.»

Land grant universities / extension - services have a reputation of receiving large portions of their funding from agri - chemical corporations, though I am not sure if this applies to Rutgers University.

Aligned with its mission as a land grant university serving the needs of the state, WVU established mining education, research, and extension programs nearly a century ago.

This delivery system links university - based prevention researchers with two established program delivery systems within a state — the Cooperative Extension System at the Land Grant University and the public school system.

As its name implies, PROSPER is a collaboration between the Cooperative Extension System at the Land Grant University, the public school system, and local communities.