The U.S. Department of Agriculture has awarded researchers from Indiana University a $500,000 grant to study ways that the government can encourage new farm ownership among young and beginning farmers, farmers of color, and women. The project, “Incentivizing Land Access For Small, Beginning And Socially Disadvantaged Farmers And Ranchers: Research, Extension And Community Of Practice,”… Read more »
Research
Salamova awarded USDA grant to study toxic chemicals in food packaging
The Agriculture and Food Research Initiative of the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture recently awarded a grant worth $479,712 to a team of researchers including Amina Salamova, associate research scientist at the O’Neill School, to study toxic chemicals in food packaging. The project, “Mapping Potential Human Exposure to Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS)… Read more »
What has happened since the start of the COVID-19 crisis to opioid use disorder medication and to medications in general?
Americans filled roughly the same number of prescriptions for opioid use disorder (OUD) medication before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and after, according to the first research using national prescription data representing all payer sources, co-conducted by Indiana University and IUPUI faculty members who are part of IU’s Addictions Grand Challenge. But while prescriptions… Read more »
COVID-19 turned parents into proxy educators. New research examines the stress it caused.
When the emerging COVID-19 pandemic caused most U.S. schools to close and transition to distance learning last spring, many parents were forced into new roles as proxy educators for their children. A new study co-authored by O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs Assistant Professor Alberto Ortega, published today in Educational Researcher, a peer-reviewed journal… Read more »
Sustainable management of agricultural soils to store carbon and curb climate change
New research by scholars including Siân Mooney, dean and professor at the O’Neill School, shows that to keep climate change in check, CO2 emissions into the atmosphere must be curbed. Yet, the soil of terrestrial ecosystems has the capacity to store large quantities of carbon in the long term. An international team of scientists coordinated… Read more »
Yoder, Royer, and Ward awarded USDA grant to work with farmers on nutrient loss, water quality
The U.S. Dept. of Agriculture’s Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education program has awarded a grant to a team of O’Neill faculty, scientists, and conservation practitioners to use farming data to improve nutrient management and water quality. The goal of their research is to offer farmers information on nitrate losses that can help inform their management… Read more »
NASA awards $502,893 ROSES grant to Barnes and collaborators to study dryland carbon and water fluxes
Dr. Mallory Barnes, assistant professor at the O’Neill School, is part of a team that was recently awarded a Research Observations in Space and Earth Sciences (ROSES) grant by NASA. The ROSES grant is worth $502,893 over three years, beginning November 2020. Together with principal investigator Dr. Matthew Dannenberg (University of Iowa) and Dr. William… Read more »