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UN Food and Ag Organization invites faculty member to serve as expert
USDA-APHIS AgDiscovery Program at UMES wraps up
AgDiscovery Program photo gallery
SANS faculty leads Summer Transportation Institute team to win
Chemistry grad student presents research to AEES annual meeting
Save-The-Date: Ag Showcase, August 10, 8 a.m.-3 p.m.
Ag economist receives award from Nepalese professional society
Save-The-Date: 4-H STEM Festival, November 12

UMES Land-grant Scholarship Program
UN Food and Agriculture Organization invites faculty member to serve as an expert on AROs

Antimicrobial resistance is a major global public health concern and food safety issue that has become one of the focuses of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization.  An estimated 700,000 annual deaths occur from antimicrobial-resistant organisms globally.

“Misuse and overuse of antibiotics in treating infectious diseases in humans as well as use of medically important antimicrobials in animal production and agriculture are the main drivers for the development of AROs,” said Dr. Salina Parveen, a professor in the Department of Agriculture, Food and Resource Sciences at UMES. The organisms, she said, are exchanged between hosts via contaminated environments.

Parveen has been asked to serve as an expert on a Food and Agriculture Organization team charged with developing a risk profile for antimicrobial resistance in V. parahaemolyticus from public health and aquaculture perspectives.  She brings over 20 years of research conducted with her team on the ecology, growth, survival, control, antibiotic resistance, genomics, metagenomics, pathogenicity of  V. parahaemolyticus and other foodborne pathogens associated with seafood, poultry, fresh produce and their surrounding environments.

 
Demonstrating that ag "isn't just farming" to youth through USDA-APHIS AgDiscovery Program at UMES
At top, A group of 19 students participating in UMES' AgDiscovery program pose during a field trip.  Eleven hailed from Maryland, two were from the District of Columbia, two came from Puerto Rico, and there was a participant from Mississippi, Florida, Virginia and Delaware.

Middle left, Dr. Kimberly Braxton, an assistant professor and campus veterinarian at UMES, teaches Dirk Dickson of Macon, Mississippi, how to stitch a wound during a veterinarian sciences workshop.

Middle right, Jewel Radford of Claymont, Delaware, and Jada Pinkett-Shockley of Mardela Springs, Maryland, measure a tree as part of an urban forestry activity led by Dr. Stephanie Stotts, an associate professor in UMES' Department of Natural Sciences and Department of Agriculture, Food and Resource Sciences, during the first day of the AgDiscovery program.

Above left, Tracie Bishop, the Geographic Information System program manager at UMES, gets AgDiscovery participant Alyssa Caballero-Molinary of Puerto Rico and her teammate started on a GPS scavenger hunt
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Above right, Mercedes Pope of Salisbury, Maryland, tests the PH of soil during a soil health and water quality workshop.

Photos by Todd Dudek, UMES Ag Communications.

A group of 19 middle and high school students from Maryland and as far away as Puerto Rico spent two weeks of their summer at the AgDiscovery program at UMES.  Participants experienced firsthand some of the careers that they can pursue in agriculture and related fields and interacted with scientists conducting state-of-the-art research.

Sponsored by the USDA  Animal and Plant Inspection Service, AgDiscovery is a free opportunity for the future workforce to not only explore agricultural sciences, but to also experience learning and living on a college campus. UMES’ program is in its 10th year and has impacted over 170 youth. 


Anh Nguyen of Princess Anne enjoyed “going around the campus and being in the classrooms and labs learning a lot in a short time.” The incoming junior at Washington High School said she wants to pursue a career in science and is “exploring all of my options” through the program.  When asked what activity was her favorite, her response, “I like food safety and working in the lab, looking at specimens, collecting data and doing research.” 

Mercedes Pope, a senior at James M. Bennett High School in Salisbury, reflected on her favorite activity of the program “the three field trips where we met and learned from some amazing farmers, teachers and researchers. It was interesting to see agriculture in action and be able to be hands-on with the different agricultural careers.”
 
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SANS faculty member leads UMES Summer Transportation Institute team to victory
UMES' Summer Transportation Institute team brought home a first place win in a bridge construction completion held late June at the Delaware Department of Transportation. Dr. Joseph Dodoo of UMES' Department of Natural Sciences advised the team in their competition against a field of 24 teams. To win, the bridge had to produce the greatest amount of Force to mass ratio, based on the point at which failure occurred while under compression. Team members pictured above, from left, are: Graciela Chavez, Karah Moses, Dodoo, Dailyn Ballard, Damonte Quoriles and Habiba Saleem. 
Chemistry grad student presents research to American Ecological Engineering Society
UMES chemistry grad student Keith Bratley presented a research poster mid-June at the American Ecological Engineering Society's annual meeting held at the IMET in Baltimore, Maryland. Bratley is working under the mentorship of chemistry professor Victoria Volkis on a U.S. Navy project to find natural substances as antifouling agents for vessels and platforms. Volkis shared information on the project during the proceedings. 
Agricultural economist at UMES receives award for dedication to Nepalese professional society 
Dr. Lila Karki, an assistant professor of agricultural economics and program evaluation specialist for UMES Extension, received an award “in recognition of outstanding service to the Association of Nepalese Agricultural Professionals of Americas as founding president.”  It was presented to him at the Third Biennial International Scientific Conference held May 27-29 in Atlanta. 

Themed, “Advancing agriculture in a changing world,” the event brought together over 400 scientific scholars as authors and co-authors from 10 countries (U.S., Nepal, Nigeria, Australia, Canada, Japan, Myanmar, Thailand, India and Morocco) representing 93 institutions.  Through the executive board’s work, NAPA has published a book, “Principles and Practices of Food Security: Sustainable, Sufficient, and Safe Food for Healthy Living in Nepal.”

Karki, formerly with the Cooperative Extension at Tuskegee University in Alabama, served as president of NAPA from 2016-20.  At the conference, he served as co-chair of the organizing committee, presided over the Annual General Assembly as chair and presented a paper, “Agricultural Problems Hierarchy and Rational Decision-Making: A Case of Minority Urban Farmers in Maryland.” 

His research focuses on socio-economics, sustainable development, impact assessment, community economic development, financial education and planning, innovation for agriculture education and training, food security and production efficiency.
New! Summer 2022 edition
The NOAA Living Marine Resources Cooperative Science Center trains and graduates students from underrepresented communities in marine science for careers in research, management, and public policy that support the sustainable harvest and conservation of our nation's living marine resources. With its partner institutions, the LMRCSC conducts research on marine and estuarine systems congruent with the interests of NOAA Fisheries. The Center is supported by the  NOAA Education Partnership Program with Minority-Serving Institutions.  
 
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SANS in the News


USDA AgDiscovery Summer Program at UMES Wraps Up
The Prince George's Post, July 7-13, 2022

AgDiscovery camp at UMES gives students insight into careers that they could pursue in agriculture, related fields
Crisfield-Somerset County Times, June 22, 2022

Brightside:  Spirulina Experiments
WMDT video, June 7, 2022 (Dr. Melinda Schwarz)

New Research Publications


Arora-Williams, K., Holder, C., Secor, M., Ellis, H., Meng, X., Gnanadesikan, A., Preheim, S. (2022). Abundant and persistent sulfur-oxidizing microbial populations are responsive to hypoxia in the Chesapeake Bay. Environmental Microbiology. https://doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.15976
 
Adebola, T., Hart, D., Chigbu, P. (2022). Bathymetric trends in the body size, and diet of Astropecten americanus in the northwest Atlantic Ocean. Estauriine, Coastal and Shelf Science. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2022.107814
 
Kang, X., Meng, X. (2022). Stratification variability in a lagoon system in response to a passing storm. Limnology and Oceanography (L&O). https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.12016

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