{"id":7864,"date":"2021-09-22T12:28:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-22T16:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/?p=7864"},"modified":"2023-06-22T12:29:39","modified_gmt":"2023-06-22T16:29:39","slug":"three-to-join-the-ranks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/sans-news-releases\/three-to-join-the-ranks\/","title":{"rendered":"Three to join the ranks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.umes.edu\/uploadedImages\/_WEBSITES\/SANS\/Content\/SANS_Monthly_Digest_-_09_2019\/canstockphoto19088165.jpg\" alt=\"Scholarship Icon\" width=\"184\" height=\"184\" title=\"Scholarship Icon\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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.&nbsp; Since her arrival on campus Summer 2008, she has recruited and mentored select high school students who are interested in USDA employment opportunities.&nbsp; In addition to recruiting students, she is charged with identifying and supporting collaborative projects between UMES and the USDA and with developing new approaches for the USDA to reach small-scale, limited-resourced, and minority farmers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An alumna of the university, Purnell manages the USDA\/1890 National Scholars Program for UMES.&nbsp; For the 2019-2020 academic year, a rigorous selection process, wherein students across the nation applied for the privilege of attending one of the 1890 institutions, yielded three 1890 scholars for UMES.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tyler Reid, James Pinkney, and Jailynn Britt have been awarded full scholarships, which include tuition, fees, room and board, books, a laptop computer, a printer, software, professional development, and employment with the federal government during each of the four academic years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Next month\u2019s newsletter will feature the three.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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.&nbsp; Since her arrival on campus Summer 2008, she has recruited and mentored select high school students who are interested in USDA employment opportunities.&nbsp; In addition to recruiting students, she is charged&#8230;<span class=\"cpschool-read-more-link-holder\"><a class=\"btn btn-basic cpschool-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/sans-news-releases\/three-to-join-the-ranks\/\">Read more <span class=\"sr-only\">Three to join the ranks<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":103,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","wds_primary_category":18,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-7864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sans-news-releases"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/103"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7864"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=7864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}