Agricultural,
Environmental and Development Economics
Agribusiness management, agricultural accounting, agricultural finance,
agricultural law, agricultural marketing, agricultural policy, consumer
economics, environmental and natural resource economics, environmental
law, environmental policy, farm income, farm management, food
economics, human resource management, international economic
development, international trade, price analysis, regional and
community economics, rural-urban policy, and technology
assessment.
Animal
Sciences
Food animal research in: genetics, immunology, meat science, nutrition,
physiology, reproduction, microbiology, mammary biology, and decision
support systems; food animal and horse extension; food animal, horse
and companion animal instruction.
Entomology
Acarology, apiculture, biological control of insect pests, chemical
ecology, crop protection, host plant resistance, insect pathogens,
insect behavior, insect physiology, insect neurobiology, insect
population ecology, insect systematics, insect vector biology,
integrated pest management, medical entomology, molecular entomology,
nematology, pesticide legislation, soil ecology, toxicology, urban
entomology.
Food
Animal Health Research Program
Animal colonization, transmission and pathogenesis of cryptosporidium,
enteric viruses and human food-borne bacteria; antimicrobial
resistance; animal studies of human enteric viruses and immunity;
genetically engineered vaccines; host immunity and cytokines;
immunosuppression; molecular epidemiology; molecular microbiology;
mucosal immunity; poultry diseases, infectious bursal disease virus;
pre-harvest food safety; pro-biotics; pre-biotics; prion-mediated
disease.
Food, Agricultural, and
Biological Engineering
Agricultural engineering, agricultural safety, agricultural water
management treatment and quality, bioprocess engineering,
bio-environmental engineering, soil conservation and tillage,
composting, greenhouse controlled environment systems, ecological
engineering, food processing, drainage design, optimization and
decision support for bio-production and bio-processing facilities,
pesticide application, precision agriculture, power and machinery,
structures and environment, surface/subsurface hydrology.
Food Science and
Technology
Food science, food business management, nutritional science, emerging
food technologies, functional foods.
Horticulture and Crop
Science
Agronomic crop management, arboriculture, crop ecophysiology, digital
technology applications in plant science, floriculture, forage
physiology and management, fruit and vegetable crop management, golf
and sports turf landscape design, management, greenhouse management,
landscape ecology, ornamental horticulture, ornamental nursery
management, plant biotechnology, plant breeding and genetics, plant
molecular biology, plant physiology and biochemistry, seed science,
turfgrass science, viticulture and enology, weed science ecology.
Human and
Community Resource Development
Agricultural communication, agricultural education, extension
education, rural sociology, vocational education.
School of Environment and
Natural Resources
Ecological engineering, environmental communication, administration
& policy, environmental decision-making, environmental education
& interpretation, environmental science, forestry, fisheries &
wildlife, soil science, terrestrial ecology.
Plant
Pathology
Bacteriology, biological control of plant pathogens, biotechnology
applications, ecology of soil-borne plant pathogens, epidemiology,
mycology, molecular plant-microbe interactions, nematology, physiology
of disease, plant disease diagnosis, prediction, and control, plant
health management, soil microbial ecology, virology.