Cristian Salinas joined the Ayllu Agtech Bootcamp at FAO for Latin America and the Caribbean in Santiago (Chile). As part of a FAO bootcamp to train rural youth professionals in Ag innovation and sustainability for Latin America, Cristian Salinas, PhD student at Hoagland’s Lab, was one of the 15 selected over almost 10.000 applicants to[Read More…]
HLA Professor and Co-Director of the Arequipa Nexus Institute (ANI) Lori Hoagland and ESE/HLA PhD student Cristian Salinas traveled to Arequipa, Peru to kick-off phase III of ANI, which will fund four interconnected projects focused on organic crop production, alpaca fiber quality, renewable energy, and regenerative tourism. During their visit they met with their research partners at the University[Read More…]
Several HLA grad students are involved in the planning of the 2022 Graduate Student Plant Science Symposium, including George Meyer, Vera Vukovic, Cristian Salinas, Emerson Luna, Emmanuel Cooper, Sofia Gomez, Xiaojing Wang, Frederick Mildenhall, Scott Benzinger, and Jeanine Arana. Students from other departments in the College of Ag include Rebecca Leuschen-Kohl, Nathan Smith, Juan Diego[Read More…]