The December issue of the SAES newsletter, on the move, is now available at the SAES website. The Strategic Planning Council which is the primary citizen advisory group guiding the work of The Cooperative Extension Program at A&T has added nine new members — introductions to all nine are provided in the December on the move.
The December on the move front page story covers a $10,000 award that a team of Biological Engineering students received from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to make the landscaping at Sockwell Hall a research project delving into “permaculture.” The team of Biological Engineering students submitted one of the winning proposals in the EPA’s 2009 “National Student Design Competition for Sustainability Focusing on People, Prosperity, and the Planet”.
SAES students — and their faculty advisors — who are interested in submitting proposals to the EPA competition for the 2010 “National Student Design Competition for Sustainability Focusing on People, Prosperity, and the Planet” will need to get their proposals together before the start of spring semester. The closing date for proposals is Jan. 5. The EPA is looking for proposals that are at the same time innovative and moored to time-honored principles of scientific investigation. Projects should fall into in one of five subject areas: energy; built environments; materials and chemicals; water quality and conservation; and agriculture.
