The National Institute of Food and Agriculture, a division of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, has awarded Texas State University’s Department of Agricultural Sciences two capacity-building grants for non-land grant colleges.
The NIFA grants, both for $150,000, will support “Empowering Agricultural Mechanics Education, Recruitment and Research,” overseen by Ryan Anderson, Ph.D., an associate professor in the Department of Agricultural Sciences, and “Agriculture Construction and Laboratory Improvement,” overseen by Bradley Borges, an assistant professor of instruction in the Department of Agricultural Sciences.
Both grants will provide equipment for students pursuing degrees such as agricultural mechanics, horticulture and agricultural education.
