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Second Morrill Act Redux: America's 1890s Land Grant Universities Academic Excellence

July 15, 2015 Sonny Ramaswamy, Director, National Institute of Food and Agriculture

Booker T. Washington. George Washington Carver. Educators par excellence. Pioneers in food and agricultural scientific research. Dedicated their lives to helping "lift the veil of ignorance" by bringing knowledge to African-Americans and others with limited resources. For 125 years, since passage of...

Initiatives Food and Nutrition Animals Plants Technology

Nothing Fishy about Probiotics

July 08, 2015 Scott Elliott, National Institute of Food and Agriculture

After searching 15 years for a way to combat a devastating disease among salmonids (salmon and trout), researchers at Washington State University (WSU) and the University of Idaho (UI) found an answer inside the fish itself. Dr. Kenneth Cain’s team at UI’s Aquaculture Research Institute cultured a...

Animals Plants Research and Science