The latest happenings from the UVM College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
UVM Department of Nutrition and Food Sciences Lecturer Beth Bradley recently published a review article with her colleague at the National Dairy Council, Moises Torres-Gonzalez. Her research focused on the biological underpinnings by which whole-milk dairy foods beneficially affect risk markers for cardiometabolic health. Continue reading “Bradley Publishes Research on Whole-Milk Dairy Benefits”
Nora Heaphy, Department of Plant Biology PhD student, was awarded a National Science Foundation fellowship from the UVM Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) in 2023, for her proposal on dispersal, migration, and climate change risk in the Mediterranean plant Lomelosia. She is interested in why plants live where they live, if and how they will adapt to climate change, and how genetic factors interact with environmental factors to shape evolutionary trajectories. Continue reading “PBIO PhD Student Heaphy Receives National Science Foundation Fellowship”
Animal and Veterinary Sciences Research Professor Julie Smith published an article in Progressive Dairy entitled, “Animal agriculture awaits normal accidents when it comes to biosecurity.” She examines the effects of a move by the United Kingdom and the European Union for animal agriculture to become disease-free without vaccination. Continue reading “Will the “Levee Effect” Give a False Sense of Security for Livestock Diseases?”
There are chronic, emerging challenges, each with its own set of cascading impacts involving water issues across the globe, especially for developing nations. Flooding in both highland and lowland areas tends to have devastating impacts on food production, housing, clean drinking water supplies and infrastructure. These impacts are more pronounced across Asia and Africa due to poor infrastructure development and response strategies. Continue reading “Urgent Call for Climate Action with UN Convention for Conserving River Deltas”
John Barlow
has received a USDA NIFA grant from the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program. The $246,766 grant is for Barlow’s sabbatical project beginning in August 2023, to July 2024.
The project is entitled, Tools and Approaches for Antimicrobial Stewardship and Resistance Surveillance on Small to Medium Sized Dairy Farms. The objective is to advance Barlow’s knowledge, skills, and experience in surveillance and quantification of antimicrobial resistant pathogens on dairy farms, using next-generation high-throughput metagenomic sequencing methods. Read the full proposal here. Continue reading “Dairy Science and Hemp Research Grant Recipients Announced”