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Agriculture

Jan. 25, 2019
$1.5M Gift Will Fund Endowed Chair in Food Safety Education at UA

Margarethe Cooper, an assistant professor of practice in animal and comparative biomedical sciences, is the inaugural holder of the Victor P. Smith Endowed Chair in Food Safety Education.

From left: UA President Robert C. Robbins, Vic and Karen Smith, Margarethe Cooper, Shane Burgess
April 10, 2018
UA Agrivoltaics Project Named as World Changing Ideas Finalist

A project that involves growing plants beneath photovoltaic solar panels at Biosphere 2 is led by Greg Barron-Gafford in the UA School of Geography and Development.

In 2017, Greg Barron-Gafford's research team began growing crops beneath 9-foot solar arrays at the UA's Biosphere 2.
Feb. 21, 2017
Terrestrial Ecosystems Feeling the Heat, Research Shows

UA researchers are part of an international study revealing that carbon dioxide stored by ecosystems could be more vulnerable to climate change than previously thought.

June 29, 2016
UA Alumna Maria Andrade Receives 2016 World Food Prize

The native of Cape Verde Islands studied agronomy and plant genetics at the UA, and her sweet-potato research has impacted the lives of children and farmers in Mozambique.

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