This work is supported by USDA Hispanic Serving Institutions Education Grants Program GRANT13003963/project accession no. 1023359 from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture.
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Dr. Sotomayor earned a PhD (1996) in Agronomy and Soils at Kansas State University. Currently, he is Soil Science faculty professor at the College of Agricultural Sciences of the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez. Dr. Sotomayor teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in soils with emphasis in soil fertility. Among his professional is the development of tools…
Dr. Angela Linares-Ramirez earned a PhD (2014) in Plant Sciences with emphasiss in Plant Breeding and Genetics from North Dakota State University. Currently, she is an Associate Professor of the Vegetable Breeding and Crop Management Production Research Program at the University of Puerto Rico Agricultural Experimental Station located in Lajas, Puerto Rico. For the past five years…
Maricelis Acevedo earned a PhD (2007) in Biology with a specialization in Plant Pathology from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Currently, she is a Research Professor and the Associate Director for Science of the Delivering Genetic Gain in Wheat project in the Department of Global Development at Cornell University. She works side by side with wheat…
Leyda Ponce de León earned a PhD in Food Science under the supervision of the late Dr. William Wendorff from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Currently, she is a professor at the Animal Science Department at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez. She teaches courses related to the processing of milk and manufacturing of dairy products.Her…
Guillermo Ortiz-Colón earned a PhD in ruminant nutrition from Michigan State University. Currently, he is the extension dairy nutrition specialist at UPRM, where his work focuses on promoting adaptive strategies that minimize the carbon footprint of dairy production, while helping dairy farmers been more resilient to climate change challenges. He is a member of the American…
Andrew McDonald earned his PhD (2003) from Cornell University. He is an Associate Professor in the Soil and Crop Sciences Section of the School of Integrative Plant Science at Cornell University (USA) with a joint appointment in the Department of Global Development. He is a cropping systems ecologist who addresses global challenges to agricultural sustainability and…