UK CAFE Receives Record Number of Grant Awards

College of Agriculture, Food and Environment (CAFE) researchers brought in grants totaling $39.2 million in fiscal 2016.
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Researchers in the University of Kentucky (UK) College of Agriculture, Food and Environment (CAFE) brought in a record amount of grant awards from outside sources during the past fiscal year. Grant awards totaled more than $39.2 million in fiscal year 2016, which ran from July 1, 2015 to June 30. It is the most the college has ever received and is an increase of nearly $3 million from fiscal year 2015. It continues the steady increase in external grant awards for the college’s researchers in the past several years. The award total includes grants that received first-time funding as well as those being funded for subsequent years.

“Our college continues to build on our tradition of providing a balance of basic and applied research to address challenges facing the region and state,” said Rick Bennett, PhD, the college’s associate dean for research and director of the Kentucky Agricultural Experiment Station. “We maintain a statewide presence in agricultural, food, and environmental research, which are key components of Kentucky’s economic future.”

Awards included such diverse projects as a Centers of Disease Control and Prevention grant that seeks to help lower obesity rates in counties with a high number of obese adults and a grant from DuPont that explores how to increase poultry’s digestion of amino acids, which could reduce their environmental footprint.

An award from the USDA Food and Nutrition Service funds the Rural Child Poverty Nutrition Center, which was established in 2015. Housed in the college’s School of Human Environmental Sciences, the center is led by Ann Vail, MS, PhD, director of the school and the project’s lead researcher, and Joann Lianekhammy, MS, PhD, center director. Its mission is to improve coordination between nutrition assistance programs, which will in turn increase program participation and reduce childhood food insecurity in persistently poor communities. The center has awarded $1.3 million in grants to 17 organizations in 12 states. Currently, members of those organizations are conducting research on barriers that prevent children from accessing nutritious food and participating in nutrition assistance programs. They are also developing partnerships with others in their communities to help them successfully implement their projects

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