Mississippi Business Journal » Maifan Silitonga http://msbusiness.com Mississippi Business Journal Fri, 17 May 2013 22:01:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Silitonga appointed to chair http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/10/30/silitonga-appointed-to-chair/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=silitonga-appointed-to-chair http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/10/30/silitonga-appointed-to-chair/#comments Sun, 30 Oct 2011 06:00:27 +0000 MBJ Staff http://msbusiness.com/?p=47718 Dr. Maifan Silitonga, director of Alcorn State University’s Mississippi River Research Center-Center for Ecology and Natural Resources (MRRC-CENR), was recently appointed chair of the USDA National Institute for Food and Agriculture (NIFA)-Southern Regional Water Program. The program represents, serves and facilitates 20 land-grant institutions in the region. Recently, Silitonga, Dr. Cedric Sims, agronomy specialist in [...]

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