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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...

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USDA Intern Gains Hands-on Experience and Learns the Value of Networking

October 24, 2024 Daniela De Santiago-Zuniga, Intern, Office of Partnerships and Public Engagement

Marco Antonio Alcantar Alvarez, a rising sophomore at California State University majoring in graphic design, was one of 14 students selected for an internship over the summer with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) High School Equivalency Program (HEP)/College Assistance Migrant Program...

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Master the Art of Home Canning, Seed Saving, Bee Keeping and Season Extension

September 30, 2011 Annie Ceccarini, Outreach and Education Coordinator, The People’s Garden Initiative

Fall has finally arrived. For many this is a busy time at home, at work and especially in the garden where there are crops to harvest, prepare and preserve; seeds to save; weeds to pull; debris to collect and compost; cover crops to plant and the list goes on. To help you save time, money and space...

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Mentorship and Scholarship Changed 1890 Scholar’s Course

MD Sharman, Public Affairs Specialist, USDA Office of Partnerships and Public Engagement

Anthony (AJ) Jackson, Jr.’s journey from studying agribusiness to working in agricultural communications is proof of how mentorship and scholarship opportunities can change the course of a career.

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South Carolina Air National Guard Veteran Topeka Ham Finds New Calling with USDA’s Agricultural Research Service

October 11, 2023 Melissa Blair, Public Affairs Specialist, USDA Office of Partnerships and Public Engagement

Georgia native Topeka Ham found a new calling serving the American public through the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS) after 26 years in the South Carolina Air National Guard.

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Making a Difference

October 25, 2010 Doug McKalip, Confidential Assistant to the Secretary

Saturday, October 23, 2010 -- This morning dawned a beautiful, crisp, autumn day here in the District of Columbia. As the sun climbed above the horizon, over 500 volunteers gathered to build a playground at the Hyde Leadership Charter School in northeast DC. Among the volunteers were Secretary and...

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Knowledge and Passion: A Student Intern's Perspective

September 13, 2016 Atiya Stewart, USDA 1890 National Scholar

I’m not sure that there are many 1890 National Scholar interns who are “ambassadors” of their university and who are planning a career in farming. But then, I never considered myself an average student. My experience during my undergraduate years perhaps is not typical. Not only was I a USDA 1890...

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New Perspectives on the Dynamics of Dry Lands

September 23, 2015 Rosalie Marion Bliss, Public Affairs Specialist, Agricultural Research Service

Vast acreage of dry lands may evoke images of a desolate, scorched desert that is uninhabitable to humans. But the arid and semi-arid dry lands of about half of both the United States’ and the world’s land surfaces actually are complex ecosystems made up variously of grasses, shrubs, agriculture...

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Celebrating Seasonal Variety at the USDA Fall Harvest Festival

October 25, 2016 Annie Ceccarini, Program Manager, The People's Garden Initiative and USDA Farmers Market

Can you describe your favorite thing about fall? Would it be picking pumpkins, jumping carefree into a pile of crisp leaves, admiring the brilliant riots of color in our national forests and grasslands, eating fall vegetables, or something else entirely? You can celebrate fall in all of these ways...

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USDA and the Choctaw Nation Glean Over 2000 Pounds of Food in June

July 12, 2010 acampbell

By Vincent M. Russo, Research Leader, ARS South Central Agricultural Research Laboratory and Tasha Askew, Bill Emerson National Hunger Fellow, USDA Center for Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships Just in time for the 2010 Feds, Farmers, and Friends Feed Families Food Drive, is two-thousand one...

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