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USDA funded $1 MILLION to FARMERS Professor Rudy Ortiz has received $1 million from the USDA to continue his successful FARMERS program, which focuses on undergraduate research training in agriculture-related sciences and features outreach to younger students to get them excited about becoming the next generation of scientists. To learn Read more…

USDA Announces Commitment to Strengthen Hispanic-serving Higher Education Institutions

WASHINGTON, Oct. 8, 2021 – The U.S Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack and Deputy Secretary Jewel Bronaugh, along with USDA leadership, met today with representatives from Hispanic-serving Institutions to launch the first in a series of virtual roundtable engagement sessions with Minority-serving Institutions and Land-grant Universities serving underrepresented Read more…