The latest happenings from the UVM College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
We have chickens at the Paul R. Miller Research and Education Center! As a part of Animal and Veterinary Sciences Associate Professor Sabrina Greenwood’s teaching lab, students in ASCI 242 (Advanced Animal Nutrition) are helping to care for laying hens, and are adding paprika and marigold to their diets to see the impact of these common plant-based supplements on egg yolk color. Continue reading “ASCI Students Test Paprika and Marigold Supplements in Laying Hens”
Caitlin Jeffrey and Victoria Taormina, Ph.D. students in the Department of Animal and Veterinary Sciences (ASCI) Animal Biosciences program, received pre-doctoral fellowship grants under the USDA Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) Competitive Grants Program. The fellowships from the Education and Workforce Development Program provide two years of salary, tuition and materials and supplies support for their thesis projects. Continue reading “Animal Biosciences PhD Students Awarded Pre-doctoral Fellowships”
Ashley McCarthy, a post-doctorate in Nutrition and Food Sciences, along with UVM faculty Meredith Niles, Emily Belarmino, and Farryl Bertmann, recently published an article in the journal Nutrients entitled, Food Security Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Longitudinal Evidence from a Cohort of Adults in Vermont during the First Year. Continue reading “Pandemic Food Security Research Published”
The Soil Health Working Group of the Food Systems Research Center at UVM published their white paper in the Phytobiomes Journal. The publication is entitled, Resilient Soils for Resilient Farms: An Integrative Approach to Assess, Promote and Value Soil Health for Small- and Medium-Size Farms. Continue reading “Research Framework to Advance Understanding of Soil Microbiome”
Community Development and Applied Economics Professor Asim Zia, in collaboration with researchers from the departments of Animal and Veterinary Sciences and Computer Science, has received a $2.5 million grant from USDA NIFA for livestock disease risk management research. The transdisciplinary project is entitled, Predicting Livestock Disease Transmission Dynamic Under Alternate Biosecurity Risk Management Interventions and Behavioral Responses of Livestock Producers in the U.S. Continue reading “Asim Zia Leads Livestock Disease Risk Management Research”