Faculty features
Interdisciplinary teams are becoming increasingly critical in tackling food-related challenges. The GFS initiative incentivizes interdiciplinary faculty teams with starter grant funds for research surrounding global food challenges. Read more about faculty who were able to successfully leverage these grants with their interdisciplinary teams or singularly.
Current activities:
K-State faculty team up to understand farmers perspectives across multiple states over conservation in the context of wildfires
Audrey Joslin, Jason Bergtold, and Marcellus Caldas teamed up for their GFS seed grant project for a further understanding of farmers perspectives on conservation practices when they have been effected by wildfire. Their research was a multistate initiative across the U.S. southern plains. Their success multiplied when they were awarded a follow up National Science Foundation grant over a project titled, "Agri-environmental Conservation Incentives in the Extreme Wildfire Context of the U.S. Southern Plains."
K-State weed scientist looks at impact of herbicide resistant weeds in U.S. farms
Vipan Kumar recently secured a competitive grant from USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture titled, “Integrating ecological tactics to manage herbicide-resistant pigweeds in major U.S. soybean Production Regions.” This grant proposal is a multistate (IA, KS, AR) in nature and was top-ranked among all submitted proposals in the Crop Protection and Pest Management program.
K-State specialist aims to develop a cross-sectional investigation of salmonella
Foodborne pathogen specialist Valentina Trinetta was awarded additional grant funds to continue her research over salmonella within the hog market. Trinetta's grant titled, "A Cross-Sectional Investigation of Salmonella in Market Hog Lymph Nodes" was awarded by the National Science Foundation. This grant was built upon Trinetta's GFS seed grant regarding salmonella within the pork production chain.