ASCI Students Test Paprika and Marigold Supplements in Laying Hens

Three chickens from Dr. Greenwood's teaching lab near a feeder in a barn.

UVM Associate Professor Sabrina Greenwood holds a laying hen that is part of a feed supplement research study.
Sabrina Greenwood, PhD, holding a laying hen.

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”

March 2022 New Hires

Eric Hatungimana, Postdoctoral Associate, Animal and Veterinary Sciences (ASCI)

A photo of Eric Hatungimana standing outside near the ocean on a sunny day.Dr. Eric Hatungimana is a postdoctoral associate and will be working on sustainable intensification of forage-based dairy farms through improved forages and feeding, under the supervision of ASCI Associate Professor Sabrina Greenwood. His research project aims at managing forages to maximize economic and environmental gains as well as agronomic productivity of dairy farms in the northeast U.S. Continue reading “March 2022 New Hires”

Animal Biosciences PhD Students Awarded Pre-doctoral Fellowships

Dairy cows in a lightly snow covered field in late fall.

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”