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DHS posts more than 100 presentations online from second annual University Network Summit

The Department of Homeland Security has posted more than 100 Power Point presentations from the March 19-20 DHS Annual University Network Summit, which is sponsored by the Office of University Programs in the Science & Technology Directorate, and was held in Washington, D.C.

Topics run the gamut of homeland security issues, including:

• Explosives.
• Chemical and biological attacks.
• Visual analytics.
• Medical surge capacity.
• Scholarship and education.
• Event modeling.
• Ports and borders.
• Infrastructure protection.
• Community resilience.

U.S. land-grant universities need a radical rethink of their priorities, says Dr. Fuller W. Bazer in a new article in The Scientist

"The United States is at a crossroads in agricultural research," Dr. Bazer says in How to Boost Agricultural Research. "For 120 years, our land-grant universities and their associated agricultural experiment stations and extension services have succeeded because their collective mission links research, teaching, and outreach. There are cracks in the foundation, however."

To read the article online, click here.

Fuller W. Bazer is associate vice president for research and holds the O.D. Butler Chair in Animal Science at Texas A&M University.