PLANTING SEEDS FOR FOOD SECURITY UTIA has awarded its first set of international seed grants to five teams from across the Institute for collaborations that address global food security. The faculty-led teams integrate personnel from eight departments at UTIA from both colleges—CASNR and CVM— as well as AgResearch and UT Extension. The seed grants will build collaborations in six countries on three continents and will
be implemented over eighteen months. The grants will develop new teaching, research, and extension collaborations, materials, and trainings. These will extend UTIA’s opportunities to build future global food security programming with partners around the world.
dairy animal health and hygiene in southern Ethiopia to assessing barriers of using biodegradable mulch in the European Union to establishing an international partnership with the Panamerican Agriculture University, Zamorano, in Honduras, pictured above. Read more at tiny.utk.edu/ag/seedgrants.
The seed grants vary in location and scope, with faculty interests ranging from improving
A “CAMP”AIGN FOR STEM Have you ever considered the science behind archery? The energy involved in ziplining? The ecology of the world around you? This summer, junior 4-H campers across Tennessee pondered these questions as part of a series of hands-on activities. UT Extension was awarded one of four $10,000 sponsorships from HughesNet to implement a Summer Camp STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) Experience during Junior 4-H Camp last summer in Columbia, Crossville, and Greeneville. The Summer Camp STEM Experiences are part of a national effort to 8
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spark youth interest in STEM education. The other states selected to receive a Summer Camp STEM grant include Colorado, Kentucky, and Missouri. National 4-H Council and HughesNet are dedicated to sparking an interest in STEM topics early, through hands-on, communitybased STEM learning. In Tennessee some 4,500 youth from across the state were estimated to attend 4-H Camp last summer.