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A USDA Broadband Grant Connects a Bering Sea Island to the World

November 28, 2012 Larry Yerich, USDA Alaska Public Information Coordinator

The significance of a recently awarded USDA Community Connect Broadband grant to the predominantly Native town of Saint Paul, Alaska, can’t really be appreciated until you know about this isolated community on one of the Pribilof Islands in the middle of the Bering Sea. It is not served by the...

Rural

Wheat Genome Sequenced in Breakthrough for Global Food Security

November 28, 2012 Sandy Miller Hays, Information Staff, Agricultural Research Service

The Journal Nature today published a paper reporting that scientists from USDA’s Agricultural Research Service (ARS), as part of an international team, have completed a shotgun sequencing of the wheat genome. The achievement is expected to increase wheat yields, help feed the world and speed up...

Food and Nutrition

Food for Thought Exhibit: Putting the Dietary Guidelines into Action at the Koshland Science Museum

November 28, 2012 Dr. Robert Post, Deputy Director, Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion

On November 15, 2012, the National Academy of Sciences Koshland Science Museum here in Washington, DC, premiered its new Food for Thought exhibit. This engaging experience offers an interactive and thought-provoking opportunity for visitors to explore the practical how-to of healthy eating. To kick...

Food and Nutrition