For agriculture to be able to feed the world in 2050, rapid improvements in sustainability are needed. That’s the message Rogier Schulte will be sharing in Redesigning Sustainable Foodscapes, his inaugural address at Wageningen University & Research on Thursday 12 December.
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Two faculty members at UNC received a $1.077 million, three-year Improving Undergraduate Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics grant from the National Science Foundation.
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