Seven SIPS graduate students and two SIPS-affiliated postdocs have been awarded fellowships from the USDA NIFA Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI). The program is focused on developing the next generation of research, education, ...
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Investigating the role of insect-vectored viruses in multi-trophic interactions USDA AFRI-NIFA Postdoctoral Fellowship, $164,996 Chad Nihranz, Casteel lab, SIPS Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section This project will examine the impact of Potato virus ...
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-Magdalen Lindeberg Cyanide transporters in cassva, population analysis of soil bacteria, genetics of drought tolerance in apple – these are a few of the diverse graduate student projects recently funded through the Schmittau-Novak Small ...
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-Magdalen Lindeberg Congratulations to Sara Perl Egendorf, selected as one of four recipients of a 2020 postdoctoral fellowship from the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability. Egendorf will be working with Cornell advisor Jenny Kao-Kniffin ...
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Download Word document of the following SCHOOL OF INTEGRATIVE PLANT SCIENCE SCHMITTAU-NOVAK INTEGRATIVE PLANT SCIENCE SMALL GRANT PROGRAM PROJECT TITLE: PROJECT TYPE (standard, collaborative, undergraduate research): AMOUNT REQUESTED $: PRINCIPLE INVESTIGATOR (graduate student): ...
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Nine SIPS graduate students drawn from four of our graduate fields have been awarded predoctoral fellowships from the USDA NIFA Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI). The program is focused on developing the next ...
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Five interdisciplinary projects involving SIPS researchers are included among the 2018 Academic Venture Fund Awards from the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future. Opening the Door to Nature-Based Engagement: Young people today show greater ...
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Soil microbiome characterization with DNA hybridization capture, improved methods for purification of plant membrane proteins, and modelling virus-aphid interactions – these are three of the diverse graduate student projects recently funded through the Schmittau-Novak ...
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-Magdalen Lindeberg What do squash beetles, cold hardiness genes, and plastoglobule kinases have in common? All three are addressed by graduate student projects recently funded through the Schmittau-Novak Small Grants Program. Supported by a ...
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-Magdalen Lindeberg The Schmittau-Novak Small Grants Program, designed to catalyze innovation and promote professional skill development among SIPS graduate students, has been established through a bequest from the estate of Jean Schmittau (PhD ’87). ...
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