Have you been curious what the Agricultural Experiment Station is and your role within it? Are you wondering what “capacity funding” supports or how it ties in to the land-grant mission?
For this session, the Office for Research and Graduate Education will be taking a deep dive into the history of the Agricultural Experiment Station (AES), its role in the development of the nation’s agricultural research infrastructure, and how the AES operates today at Penn State to ensure that we are fulfilling the mandate by the federal government to conduct agricultural research at the nation’s land-grant universities to establish and maintain “a permanent and effective agricultural industry of the United States.” Join Blair Siegfried (associate dean of research and graduate education) and representatives from the Office for Research and Graduate Education to learn more about the significance of the AES and the critical role that research faculty and staff play in fulfilling the land-grant mission.