BDN shares Yerxa EFNEP award
The Bangor Daily News reported that University of Maine Cooperative Extension professor Kate Yerxa is a member of a multistate team honored with the 2022 National Excellence in Extension award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture, the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities, and Cooperative Extension. The Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program’s (EFNEP) Related Research, Program Evaluation, and Outreach multistate project aims to strengthen the evidence base of EFNEP by developing and testing critical and culturally relevant evaluation tools to assess the program’s effectiveness.