Category: SANS News Releases

The UMES Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP), a USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) program, is celebrating 50 years of providing life-changing information geared toward reducing the disproportionate incidences of nutrition insecurity among low-income populations.  According to NIFA, nutrition insecurity is characterized by poor nutrition, limited physical activity, and unsafe food…Read more EFNEP Celebrates 50 Years

Xinyi Kang, a Ph.D. candidate in the Marine-Estuarine Environmental Science (MEES) Program, successfully defended her dissertation titled Impacts of winds and tides on the exchange dynamics and mixing in Maryland Coastal Bays. Her years of research, under the direction of Dr. Meng Xia, has involved studying the misunderstood hydrodynamics of small shallow coastal lagoon systems that…Read more Kang successfully defends.

Dr. Meng Xia is principal investigator for the newly funded grant project that will focus on the Maryland Coastal Bays.  In addition, the project will benefit the broader field of physical oceanography by developing field-tested parameterizations for the modeling of wave effects and by expanding knowledge of wave effects to a new range of geometric…Read more Xia wins NSF research funding

Dr. Behnam Khatabi was recently featured on the front cover of a prominent scientific journal.  Not his likeness, per se, but a part of him just the same. The editors of Proteomics: Proteomics and Systems Biology invited Khatabi et al. to write the article he titled “Plant-Microbe Symbiosis: What has Proteomics Taught Us?” for inclusion in the…Read more Khatabi graphic chosen for cover of scientific journal.

Coordinators of the 2019 UMES Fall Community Festival is expecting close to 400 people on the grounds during this year’s event.  “Last year, close to 200 members of the community joined faculty, staff and students for the fun.  While things will be a little different this year, we are looking forward to several activities that…Read more 2019 UMES Fall Community Festival

A small group of participants attended the Growing Specialty Herbs workshop at the UMES Education and Demonstration Farm on Saturday, August 3.  It was the third installment of a series focused on cultivating, harvesting, and marketing over 13 specialty herbs. Dr. Nadine Burton, title, and Habanera Farm’s Henriette den Ouden teamed up to not only…Read more Growing specialty herbs workshop

Several events associated with the UMES Socially Disadvantaged Groups Grant (SDGG) Program are in the works for small farm businesses and other assorted small enterprises. An event scheduled for Friday, August 16, involved three on-farm demonstrations that highlighted tried and successful farming techniques sure to improve a farmer’s profit level. A van leaving the Richard…Read more SDGG on-farm demonstrations

Providing coordination between the USDA and UMES, an 1890 Historically Black Land-Grant Institution, is the primary focus of USDA Liaison Officer Lisa C. Purnell.  Since her arrival on campus Summer 2008, she has recruited and mentored select high school students who are interested in USDA employment opportunities.  In addition to recruiting students, she is charged…Read more Three to join the ranks

Some 35 to 40 students, grades K-7, traveled from the New Beginnings Youth and Family Services Center in Cambridge, Md., to UMES for a quick visit.  While on campus, they interacted with the sheep and goat that are managed by Dr. E. Nelson Escobar, small ruminant specialist and interim Extension administrator. The farm visit resulted…Read more New Beginnings with the sheep and goats

During the mid-July AgDiscovery Summer Enrichment Program, 21 high school students (ages 13-17) were exposed to careers in food science and technology, veterinary medicine, animal science, entomology, soil sciences, horticulture, forestry, food and environmental microbiology, nutrient management, food safety, water quality, and the science and technology used in the food and agricultural sciences. Many experiential learning opportunities were…Read more AgDiscovery Summer Enrichment Program