Funding Graduate Success

What to look for One of the central issues facing graduate students on their arrival is wrapping their head around their funding. It can often be overwhelming at the start of a project to figure out how and where funding is coming from considering the ever-increasing costs of scientific equipment. However, by getting ahead of … Read more

Don’t Be Afraid to Go Home

People ask me all the time why I moved 1,307 miles away from where I was raised, for which I tell them all the time, “Why not?” I definitely play it off as pure confidence and as an act of strong will and faith, but truth be told, it was one of the scariest things … Read more

Food Safety, a Concern for All

Food: loved by all, necessary for survival, and fundamental to agriculture. The CDC estimates 48 million illnesses, 128,000 hospitalizations, and 3,000 deaths are attributable to foodborne illness annually, or one in six Americans fall ill every year due to failure of the food safety monitoring system. If you have an unexplained bout of upset stomach, … Read more

Study Abroad in France

The College of Agriculture and Natural Resources at the University of Wyoming provides many opportunities for its students. One of the opportunities they provide is study abroad programs that are based on agriculture. I was fortunate enough to receive an opportunity to participate in an adventure of a lifetime in France, through the French and … Read more