September 29 - President Barack Obama recently announced that Roger N. Beachy, founding president of the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center in St. Louis, has been appointed the first director of the National Institute of Food and Agriculture. Beachy, elected to the NAS in 1997, will join the agency on Oct. 5.
The National Institute of Food and Agriculture, formerly known as the Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service, is an agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The agency funds research and technological innovations that will make American agriculture more productive and environmentally sustainable. Through its expanded competitive research grants program, the new agency will focus on strengthening agriculture research and attracting talented research scientists to this field.
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