Northern Marianas College, Cooperative Research, Extension, and Education Services food scientist, program leader, and professor Dr. Zaidul Sarker will use the bulk of the funds to purchase equipment for the food science laboratory on Saipan and a smaller laboratory on Rota.

(NMC) — Hannah Isabel Shai, an extension agent for the Nutrition and Health Program under Northern Marianas College’s Cooperative Research, Extension, and Education Services, has been selected by the Children's Healthy Living or CHL Program to be the CNMI scholar for the CHL Food Systems Training or FST Program. Specifically, Shai will work towards obtaining her Ph.D in nutritional sciences.

(NMC) — Three program leaders from Northern Marianas College’s Cooperative Research, Extension, and Education Services recently completed LEAD21 — Leadership Development for the 21st Century: Linking Research, Academics, and Extension.

(NMC) — Seven high school students from Saipan, Tinian, and Rota will head to Washington D.C. this month to represent the CNMI at this year’s National 4-H Conference.

(NMC) —  Northern Marianas College’s Cooperative Research, Extension, and Education Services’ Family, Community, and Youth Development or FCYD program, in partnership with the University of Colorado School of Medicine, was recently awarded a $47,000 grant from the National Hazard Center to strengthen community resilience in the U.S. territories.

(NMC) — Dr. Zaidul Islam Sarker, lead Food Scientist and Program Leader at the Northern Marianas College Cooperative Research, Extension and Education Services, recently served as the keynote speaker for 3rd International Conference on Traditional Medicine in Modern Era for Cure on January 7-8, 2022, in India and presented information from his research regarding modified “green” method of supercritical fluid extraction.