Archie Clutter
University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA

The Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources (IANR) at the University of Nebraska, and the state of Nebraska, are together poised to contribute solutions to the future challenges of providing sustained supplies of safe and nutritious food to a global population. Strategies within IANR to achieve this goal are integrated across basic, translational and applied research, as well as across the missions of teaching, research and extension. These strategies also emphasize research plans that draw on trans-disciplinary teams of Faculty to fully study integrated cropping, livestock and natural systems, and that leverage partnerships with the private sector and our collaborators at Universities around the world. An essential part of these strategies is an initiative to hire 36 new tenure-track Faculty members affiliated with IANR and intended to join existing trans-disciplinary teams working in priority areas of science literacy, stress biology in plants and animals, healthy agro/ecosystems, healthy humans (nutritional health), and computational sciences.