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Latest News & Info
GPSA Students Awarded USDA NCR-SARE Grants
Three GPSA students, Laura Christianson, Meghann Jarchow, and Drake Larsen, have been awarded graduate student research grants by the North Central Region Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (NCR-SARE) program. For full details, please see 2009 SARE Grants. 
Anderson Mba Receives GPSA Research Award
Amber Anderson Mba, 2008 MS graduate of the GPSA, was recog-nized for her thesis research with the GPSA Interdisciplinary Research Award. The award was presented at the program's annual research symposium on 29 April. For the full story, please see 2009 Research Award.
Symposium Presentation Available On-Line
At the GPSA Research Symposium, held on 29 April, Fred Kirschenmann, Distinguished Fellow with the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture, presented "Sustainability in the 21st Century: From Greening to Resilience." A copy of this presentation is available at Greening to Resilience.
Third Annual SAEA Conference
The GPSA, in cooperation with Marshalltown Community College and Michigan State University, will host the Third Annual Conference of the Sustainable Agriculture Education Association (SAEA) on 15-17 July 2009. For more information, please see 2009 SAEA Conference.
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The GPSA was the first and remains the only graduate program in the US to offer both the MS
and PhD degrees in sustainable agriculture. While competing pro-grams have arisen in agroecology and
organic agriculture, the GPSA remains the only grad program that allows students to
pursue a true interdisciplinary curriculum that includes the biological, social, and economic elements of
sustainability.
The OEC selected the GPSA as one of the top eight programs in
the US. Of the eight leading institutions named, only Ohio State, UC-Davis, and
UW-Madison offer graduate programs
comparable to the GPSA (in agroecology or environmental science), but Iowa State alone maintains its primary
focus on sustainable agriculture as a distinct and separate discipline.
