The latest happenings from the UVM College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Lisa Chase, Extension natural resources specialist and director of the Vermont Tourism Research Center, will be a keynote speaker at the Northeast Travel and Tourism Research Association Conference on January 20, 2022. Continue reading “Chase to Deliver Keynote at Travel and Tourism Conference”
Building on a decade of migrant farmworker health outreach by dedicated, committed and mostly part-time UVM Extension staff, the Vermont Department of Health awarded Principal Investigator Naomi Wolcott-MacCausland a $1,300,000 grant to ensure greater equity and access to COVID-19 vaccines for those disproportionately affected by the pandemic. Continue reading “Migrant Farmworker Grant Builds Community Health Worker Capacity”
Plant and Soil Science Associate Professor Yolanda Chen has received a USDA AFRI grant for $683,490 from the Pests and Beneficial Species in Agricultural Production Systems program. With colleagues, she will be studying the role of epigenetics in the evolution of insecticide resistance in the Colorado potato beetle, a major pest of potatoes. Continue reading “Chen Receives USDA AFRI Grant for Potato Beetle Epigenetics Research”
Plant Biology Associate Professor Jill Preston was recently awarded a National Science Foundation grant to research the evolution of temperature-regulated flowering in grasses, starting in spring 2022. Continue reading “Preston Funded for Evolution of Temperature-regulated Flowering in Grasses Research”
Plant and Soil Science Assistant Professor Terence Bradshaw is collaborating with Extension educators across the region through the Northeast Extension Fruit Consortium, to present a series of educational webinars on topics important to fruit producers. Continue reading “Northeast Extension Fruit Consortium Webinar Series”