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ARS Helps Veterans Weigh a Career in Agriculture

April 12, 2016 Dennis O'Brien, Public Affairs Specialist, Agricultural Research Service

This post is part of the Science Tuesday feature series on the USDA blog. Check back each week as we showcase stories and news from USDA’s rich science and research portfolio. For many veterans, agriculture may be a career choice worth exploring when they return to civilian life. Veterans have...

Farming Research and Science

Outdoor Laboratories Provide Unique Opportunity for Environmentally-Responsible Food Production

February 23, 2016 Tara T. Weaver-Missick, Agricultural Research Service

This post is part of the Science Tuesday feature series on the USDA blog. Check back each week as we showcase stories and news from USDA’s rich science and research portfolio. Some of the world’s most unique cacti, reptiles and plants reside right here in the United States among our nation’s lush...

Conservation Research and Science

Special Bean Team Tackling World Hunger with Science

February 04, 2016 Jan Suszkiw, Public Affairs Specialist, Agricultural Research Service

2016 has been named “International Year of the Pulses” by the General Assembly of the United Nations (UN). The goal of the initiative is to educate consumers about the nutritional and other benefits of eating pulse crops, as well as to marshal the capabilities of agricultural research organizations...

Research and Science

Washington State Lab Sows the Seeds of Tomorrow’s Scientists

November 16, 2016 Jan Suszkiw, Public Affairs Specialist, Agricultural Research Service

Christos Galanopoulos, a rising senior from Virginia State University (VSU), recently interned with ARS under the guidance of Jinguo Hu and Brian Irish at ARS’s Plant Germplasm Introduction and Testing Research Unit in Pullman, Washington. He conducted a range of projects directly related to his...

Research and Science

USDA's Diversity Programs "Open New Doors" for Montana Student

December 21, 2016 Dennis O'Brien, Public Affairs Specialist, Agricultural Research Service

Robert G. Bruton grew up on the Flathead Indian Reservation in northwestern Montana in a family that, like many others, was severely challenged by the rising college tuition costs. He is not a Native American, but he chose to attend Salish Kootenai Tribal College in Pablo, Montana, in part because...

Initiatives

Simple, Inexpensive Camera System Detects Foodborne Toxins

July 12, 2016 Sandra Avant, Public Affairs Specialist, Agricultural Research Service

This post is part of the Science Tuesday feature series on the USDA blog. Check back each week as we showcase stories and news from USDA’s rich science and research portfolio. As the weather heats up this summer, many of us are firing up our grills and going on picnics. But one thing we all want to...

Health and Safety Research and Science USDA Results

USDA Scientists Take an Organic Approach to Improving Carrots

February 09, 2016 Dennis O'Brien, Public Affairs Specialist, Agricultural Research Service

This post is part of the Science Tuesday feature series on the USDA blog. Check back each week as we showcase stories and news from USDA’s rich science and research portfolio. Organic carrots are coming into their own. About 14 percent of U.S.-produced carrots are now classified as organic, making...

Research and Science

'Soil and Air' - Where Crops Meet the Environment

May 31, 2016 Ellen Buckley, Program Analyst, and Marlen Eve, National Program Leader, Agricultural Research Service

You probably know that climate change affects how we grow food, but you might not know that how food is grown also affects our climate. This interplay is at the heart of an Agricultural Research Service (ARS) project called “Soil and Air,” a concerted effort to feed the Earth’s 7.5 billion people...

Research and Science

What's the Alternative?

November 16, 2016 Neena Anandaraman, Veterinary Science Policy Advisor, USDA Office of the Chief Scientist

We know that antibiotics are those miracle drugs Alexander Fleming stumbled upon in the 1920’s when his lab was left untidy. Since that happy accident, scientists have identified additional naturally-occurring antibiotics and developed synthetic drugs to add to our arsenal to combat bacterial...

Research and Science

Celebrating Black History Month with 'A Night at the Museum'

March 14, 2016 Dr. Chavonda Jacobs-Young, Administrator, Agricultural Research Service

It was my great pleasure to recently attend what proved to be a truly inspiring wrap-up of national Black History Month—namely, an African American Living Wax Museum event hosted by the 5th-grade class at Harriet Tubman Elementary School in Washington, D.C. The school kicked off the event this year...

Research and Science