Dr. Andy Benson has been awarded $146,086 from the National Institute of Health for the project “Modeling Heterogeneity for Safe Cancer Prevention and Detection.”  Congratulations!

The Dry Grain Pulses Collaborative Research Support Program, managed by Michigan State University, is seeking ‘expressions of interest’ in submitting a proposal in the topical area of “Improving the Performance and Sustainability of Pulse Value-Chains”.  This project would have a total budget in the range of $500,000 to $550,000 for the 33 month period (January 1, 2010 to September 28, 2012).  If interested, please send an e-mail to dgpcrsp@msu.edu indicating the general area of your research interest (related to the Topical Area described below) and intention to submit a proposal. Subsequently, a ‘Request for Proposal’ (RFP) will be made available to guide the potential applicants in their proposal preparation.  To facilitate the review of your proposal and to make the award decision as close as possible to January 2010, the deadline for submitting the proposal will be in December 2009.

The October 26, 2009 edition of the Daily Nebraskan featured an article on a study by The Food Processing Center on the nutritional value of frozen foods.  Dr. Gayaneh Kyureghian, Research Assistant Professor with The FPC, was interviewed for the article.
The article can be read here.