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KSU Accepts National Award For Agriculture Program
Dr. Marion Simon and Louie Rivers Jr. of Kentucky State University’s College of Agriculture, Food Science and Sustainable Systems, along with several others on the Third Thursday Thing team, accepted the 2013 United States Secretary of Agriculture’s Honor Award on Dec. 11. The award was presented by Secretary of Agriculture Thomas J. Vilsack in the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Jefferson Auditorium in Washington, D.C. The Third...
KSU Establishes Eddy Flux Instrumentation At KSU Research And Demonstration Farm
Kentucky State University’s College of Agriculture, Food Science and Sustainable Systems established Eddy Covariance instrumentation at the Research and Demonstration Farm on Dec. 4, 2013. The Eddy Covariance method has gained increased popularity in micrometeorology studies, especially in carbon flux research. KSU has become a leader in establishing this instrumentation in the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Dr. Buddhi R. Gyawali,...
KSU And Louisville Partner On Healthy Food And Nutrition Initiative
Kentucky State University’s College of Agriculture, Food Science and Sustainable Systems has begun the initial work toward a pilot food security research and service project in the Jefferson County area. The Thorobred Nutrition Kitchen is a 24-foot commercial kitchen created with the goal of providing education on nutrition and healthy cooking to communities and families. The kitchen is intended to make healthy foods more acce...
Students Win Awards At Recent Kentucky Academy Of Science Meeting
Several Kentucky State University students won awards at the 99th annual meeting of the Kentucky Academy of Science, which was held at Morehead State University on Nov. 8-9. More than 800 students and mentors attended the meeting and made presentations. The following KSU students won awards: Agricultural Sciences Section: First Place: Doug Blair for his undergraduate student oral presentation titled “Comparison of Different Light T...