The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) recently announced the availability of more than $18 million to strengthen the research, teaching and extension capabilities at 19 historically black land-grant colleges and universities in an effort to recruit and train students for careers in agriculture, according to the USDA.
The funding is being made available through the USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture’s (NIFA) 1890 Institution Research, Extension, and Teaching Capacity Building Grants (CBG) Program to historically black colleges and universities that were designated as land-grant universities in the Second Morrill Act in 1890.
Full applications for the 1890 CBG program are due Mar. 26. Click here for specific program requirements or to request an application.