by Sarah Fielder ALEI welcomes a new legal specialist to the College Park campus, Ms. Kelly Nuckolls. Kelly Nuckolls first heard about ALEI while in the LL.M. program in Agricultural and Food Law at the University of Arkansas. Program director Professor Susan Schneider recommended Nuckolls speak to the ALEI Extension […]
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ALEI Welcomes Program Coordinator Kimberly Johnson
By Sarah Fielder ALEI welcomes its new Program Coordinator, Kimberly Johnson. According to Johnson, it was her mother and divine intervention that facilitated her interviewing for the position. She hopes to gain experience as a program coordinator in her new university position. Before joining the ALEI team, Johnson had limited […]
ALEI AREC Team to Attend Agricultural Conference in Scotland
By Sarah Fielder ALEI Legal Specialist Paul Goeringer and Faculty Specialist Mayhah Suri will attend the 21st International Farm Management Association’s (IFMA) Congress in the City of Edinburgh, Scotland July 2-7, 2017. The conference, with a focus on future farming systems, will provide an opportunity to learn about farm management […]
ALEI Awarded Northeast SARE Grant
By: Sarah Fielder The University of College Park, Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics and the Agriculture Law Education Initiative (ALEI) was recently awarded a Northeast SARE (Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education) Partnership Grant to create and administer on-farm food safety educational programs. The amount of the grant was $14,917. […]
ALEI Connects Environmental, Farming Communities
By Sarah Fielder and Mayhah Suri The Agriculture Law Education Initiative’s November 18 Agriculture and Environmental Law conference in Annapolis, Maryland, brought together experts from the law, agriculture, and environmental fields to foster a dialogue about how these fields can work in tandem to improve lives and protect the environment. The […]