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FACULTY
OF AGRICULTURAL & FOOD SCIENCES
2011 ENDOWMENT FUND
COMPETITION RESULTS
The committee
received 29 proposals this year for their consideration.
The following projects have been approved for
funding totalling $77,273.42:
- Explosion-proof refrigerator for safe storage of samples of flammable solvents
- Support of Student Recruitment & Marketing Position for one year
- Developing Teaching Resources: A Survey of Planting Techniques employed by Manitoba farmers
- Dept of Food Science Field Trip to Minneapolis Sept. 2011
- Surgery Instrument Upgrades
- Upgrade of teaching facilities in Agricultural Engineering building
- Student Mobility-India Student Exchange 2011
- Radiation Instruments for undergraduate teaching of energy flow
- U of M Quarter Scale Tractor X-Team: Designs of a tractor assembly accessible by a paraplegic
- Upgrading laboratory equipment for courses BIOE 3320 & BIO3 3530
- Manitoba International Nutrigenomics workshop
- Upgrading & replacing video library in Animal Science
- Acquiring microscopes for anatomy & physiology labs
- Student Recruitment Program-Ambassador Support & Clothing
- Sprayer Test Stand, Biosystems Engineering
- Planter Test Stand, Biosystems Engineering
- Agribusiness Management Simulation software for classroom instruction
- Soil Physical Properties, Teaching Lab Equipment
- STAT software for computer lab - Ag Econ.
- Supplies for the Curation & Storage of the Growing Entomology Teaching Collection
- Replacement microscropes for laboratory sections in Entomology courses
- Creation of a digital image collection from photographic slides used in Entomology
- Site Licenses for Cowbytes Computer Software, Animal Science
- Additional lab tools to meet demands for increased undergrad enrolment in Food Science
- Conversion of teaching material to podcast content
- Enhanced Teaching & Learning Effectiveness with a digital multimedia recording system
- Current Controversies in Polyphenols as functional food ingredients
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