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Columbus, Neb. – The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) recently held an awards ceremony where Nebraska Public Power District Director of Research Alan Dostal and Environmental Operations and Coordination Supervisor Jason Vanek were recognized for their invaluable contributions to two important projects in 2020. Dostal and Vanek were two of 19 winners of EPRI’s 2020 [.]
Published 14 May 2021
The University of Nebraska has launched a 5-year project to help safeguard the U.S. food supply. The project will address agricultural and natural resources security, defense, and countermeasures; biological defense in support of the U.S. Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security and other government stakeholders; development and deployment of biosurveillance, biodetection and diagnostic tools; and pandemic preparedness related to human, livestock and crop plant diseases that could result in disruptions to the U.S. and global food systems.
The University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources and the National Strategic Research Institute at the University of Nebraska will begin a five-year partnership to help safeguard the U.S. food supply.
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The union representing faculty in the Connecticut State University System brought an inflatable skunk to the campus of Southern Connecticut State to protest a contract proposal by the board of regents that includes an increase in teaching loads. Credit: Yunuen Bonaparte for The Hechinger Report
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An English professor at Southern Connecticut State University, Cynthia Stretch is used to meeting after hours with her students, many of whom work full time while in college.
Crops are bred to be resilient against disease, heat, drought and other detrimental conditions.
Producers must be resilient in confronting the evolving economics of ag production, unpredictable weather and the ever-changing technology of agricultural production.
But what does it mean for a landscape to be resilient?
That is the question the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s new Center for Resilience in Agricultural Working Landscapes sets out to answer, said Craig Allen, a professor in the School of Natural Resources and director of the new center, which is up and running after being formally approved last year.
In its simplest form, resilience is the measure of how much disruption a landscape can withstand before it turns into a different kind of landscape.