Restricted Research - Award List, Note/Discussion Page
Fiscal Year: 2023
2281 The University of Texas at San Antonio (144169)
Principal Investigator: Ozturk, Ferhat
Total Amount of Contract, Award, or Gift (Annual before 2011): $ 2,890,000
Exceeds $250,000 (Is it flagged?): Yes
Start and End Dates: 8/1/23 - 6/30/28
Restricted Research: YES
Academic Discipline: SCIENCES
Department, Center, School, or Institute: Cos Integrative Biology
Title of Contract, Award, or Gift: Building Institutional Capacity for Nextgen Agricultural Scientists through Student Research Experiences in Urban Beekeeping
Name of Granting or Contracting Agency/Entity:
Department of Agriculture - LOC - USDA
CFDA: 10.237
Program Title: none
Note:
SAMs 1.3.2; The Honeybee Oriented NextGen Entrepreneurs and Youth (HONEY) Pathway program at the University of Texas San Antonio (UTSA), proposes to advance the aims of USDA NextGen program by providing a training and experiential learning to prepare underrepresented and minoritized (URM) students for the expansive array of diverse careers in the food, agriculture, natural resources, and human sciences (FANH). This proposed Tier One program addresses project types B (Experiential Learning) and C (Outreach and Engagement) through existing collaboration between UTSA (a Hispanic Serving Institution - HSI) and St. Philips College (a Historically Black Colleges and Universities) Ciencia, Ingeniera, y Matematicas Aliados (CIMA) program. The HONEY program will: (1) cultivate the next generation of leaders of urban beekeepers by training URM students in a curriculum focused on beekeeping, pollinator research and entrepreneurship; (2) construct a curriculum model including learning materials, research, outreach, recruitment, mentoring, retention, and branding strategies focused on the economic, medical and ecological value of bees and other pollinators to attract and retain URM students to FANH majors and career paths, particularly to beekeeping; and (3) coordinate educational opportunities for UTSA and St. Philip's College students with the USDA Honey Bee Genetics Lab, Texas A&M University's Bee Research Lab, Texas Apiary Inspection Services, SweetBio, as well as Texas Beekeepers Association (TBA), Bee Mindful Honey Farms, and Alamo Area Beekeepers Association to facilitate experiential research and professionalization opportunities that will cultivate the acquisition of technical, leadership, and employability skills required to enter the FANH and USDA workforce
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