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BONNER, Executive Vice President, Council for Agricultural Science and Technology, Ames, Iowa PETER J. BRUNS, Vice President for Grants and Special Programs, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, Maryland VERNON B. CARDWELL, Morse-Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor, University of Minnesota, St. Paul KAREN GAYTON COMEAU, Past President, Haskell Indian Nations University, Lawrence, Kansas (Retired) KYLE JANE COULTER, Past Deputy Administrator, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C. (Retired) SUSAN J. CROCKETT, Vice President and Senior Technology Officer, Health and Nutrition, General Mills, Inc., Minneapolis, Minnesota THEODORE M. CROSBIE, Vice President of Global Plant Breeding, Monsanto Company, Ankeny, Iowa LEVON T. ESTERS, Assistant Professor of Agricultural Education and Studies, Iowa State University, Ames A. CHARLES FISCHER, Past President and Chief Executive Officer, Dow AgroSciences LLC, Indianapolis, Indiana (Retired) JANET A. GUYDEN, Associate Vice President of Research and Dean of Graduate Studies, Grambling State University, Grambling, Louisiana MICHAEL W. HAMM, C.S. Mott Professor of Sustainable Agriculture, Michigan State University, East Lansing MICHAEL V. MARTIN, Chancellor, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge SUSAN SINGER, Laurence McKinley Gould Professor of the Natural Sciences, Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota LARRY VANDERHOEF, Chancellor, University of California, Davis PATRICIA VERDUIN, Vice President, Global Research and Development, Colgate-Palmolive Company, Piscataway, New Jersey  Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Transforming Agricultural Education for a Changing World http://www.nap.edu/catalog/12602.html STAFF ADAM P. FAGEN, Study Director ROBIN A. SCHOEN, Director, Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources KAREN L. IMHOF, Administrative Assistant PEGGY TSAI, Program Officer NORMAN GROSSBLATT, Senior Editor i Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Transforming Agricultural Education for a Changing World http://www.nap.edu/catalog/12602.html BOARD ON AGRICULTURE AND NATURAL RESOURCES W. R. GOMES (Chair), University of California, Oakland (Emeritus) PEGGY F. BARLETT, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia ROGER N. BEACHY, Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, St. Louis, Missouri HAROLD L. BERGMAN, University of Wyoming, Laramie H.H. CHENG, University of Minnesota, St. Paul (Emeritus) RICHARD A. DIXON, Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation, Ardmore, Oklahoma DANIEL M. DOOLEY, University of California, Oakland JOAN H. EISEMANN, North Carolina State University, Raleigh GARY F. HARTNELL, Monsanto Company, St. Louis, Missouri GENE HUGOSON, Minnesota Department of Agriculture, St. Paul KIRK C. KLASING, University of California, Davis VICTOR L. LECHTENBERG, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana PHILIP E. NELSON, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana ROBERT PAARLBERG, Wellesley College, Watertown, Massachusetts KEITH PITTS, Marrone Organic Innovations, Davis, California HAL SALWASSER, Oregon State University, Corvallis PEDRO A. SANCHEZ, The Earth Institute, Columbia University, Palisades, New York NORMAN R. SCOTT, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York ROGER A. SEDJO, Resources for the Future, Washington, D.C. KATHLEEN SEGERSON, University of Connecticut, Storrs MERCEDES VAZQUEZ-AÑON, Novus International, Inc., St Charles, Missouri STAFF ROBIN A. SCHOEN, Director KAREN L. IMHOF, Administrative Assistant AUSTIN J. LEWIS, Senior Program Officer EVONNE P. Y. TANG, Senior Program Officer PEGGY TSAI, Program Officer CAMILLA YANDOC ABLES, Associate Program Officer KARA N. LANEY, Associate Program Officer ii Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Transforming Agricultural Education for a Changing World http://www.nap.edu/catalog/12602.html RUTH S. ARIETI, Research Associate JANET M. MULLIGAN, Research Associate KAMWETI MUTU, Research Associate ERIN P. MULCAHY, Senior Program Assistant iii Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Transforming Agricultural Education for a Changing World http://www.nap.edu/catalog/12602.html BOARD ON LIFE SCIENCES KEITH YAMAMOTO (Chair), University of California, San Francisco ANN M. ARVIN, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California RUTH BERKELMAN, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia VICKI L. CHANDLER, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Palo Alto, California MARK D. FITZSIMMONS, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Chicago, Illinois LOUIS J. GROSS, University of Tennessee, Knoxville JO HANDELSMAN, University of Wisconsin, Madison CATO T. LAURENCIN, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington JONATHAN D. MORENO, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia RANDALL S. MURCH, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Alexandria CAMILLE PARMESAN, University of Texas, Austin MURIEL E. POSTON, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York ALISON G. POWER, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York JAMES REICHMAN, University of California, Santa Barbara (Retired) BRUCE W. STILLMAN, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York MARC T. TESSIER-LAVIGNE, Genentech, Inc., South San Francisco, California JAMES TIEDJE, Michigan State University, East Lansing CYNTHIA WOLBERGER, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland STAFF FRANCES E. SHARPLES, Director JO L. HUSBANDS, Scholar/Senior Project Director ADAM P. FAGEN, Senior Program Officer ANN H. REID, Senior Program Officer MARILEE K. SHELTON-DAVENPORT, Senior Program Officer INDIA HOOK-BARNARD, Program Officer ANNA FARRAR, Financial Associate ix Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Transforming Agricultural Education for a Changing World http://www.nap.edu/catalog/12602.html AMANDA P. CLINE, Senior Program Assistant REBECCA L. WALTER, Senior Program Assistant x Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved.