The Bourns College of Engineering at UC Riverside announced today (May 9) that it is a Grand Challenges Explorations winner, an initiative funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Hideaki Tsutsui, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering, will pursue an innovative global health and development research project, titled “A Biotic Stress Sensor Printed on Maize Leaves.”

Six researchers affiliated with the University of California have received Grand Challenges Explorations grants from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. They are among 107 grant recipients in the initiative's eighth round of funding, announced today (May 9).

ST. LOUIS, May 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Monsanto Company's (NYSE: MON) Chairman, President and CEO Hugh Grant today will announce the company's support of the New Vision for Agriculture Initiative, the ...

[AlertNet] Yatta - In the remote east Kenyan village of Makutano, Jane Mutinda Maingi is feeding maize to her Friesian dairy cow, bought just a week ago with proceeds from selling produce grown on her one-hectare plot.

Despite the multiple challenges at large, I am optimistic about African agriculture. There has certainly never been a better basis to build on.

Volunteers work on repairs at Carl Bowers' home on Hudson Street in West Asheville as part of the Brush With Kindness program by Asheville Area Habitat for Humanity.

( University of California - Riverside ) The Bourns College of Engineering at UC Riverside announced today that it is a Grand Challenges Explorations winner, an initiative funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Hideaki Tsutsui, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering, will pursue an innovative global health and development research project, titled "A Biotic Stress Sensor Printed ...

Press release Mississippi State University announced today that it is a Grand Challenges Explorations winner, an initiative funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Buffeted by the euro zone crisis and distracted by political problems at home, the leaders of the world's industrial powers turned to the private sector on Friday to help fight hunger and malnutrition for up to a billion people struggling with shortages, droughts and rising food prices. U.S. ...

Philip Morris International Inc. (PM)May 09, 2012 9:00 am ET Executives Louis C. Camilleri - Executive Chairman and Chief Executive OfficerJerry E. Whitson - Corporate Secretary and Deputy General CounselJacek ...