Lydia F. Hall

Writer and Editor

United States

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Lydia F. Hall
05/27/2025
Writing a Great Admissions Essay: My Top Tips - Lydia F. Hall

When you apply to colleges, you send them a lot of information to give them a complete picture of you as a candidate for admission: your transcripts and grades, recommendations and lists of extracurricular activities, and even information about your family. And then there are the essays and short-

Lydia F. Hall
09/30/2020
Seven Steps to Decide if a Grant Is Worth Applying For - Lydia F. Hall

Greetings, fellow grant seekers! To state the obvious, there are a number of funding opportunities out there, and some of them are decidedly better than others. So how do you know what's worth spending your limited time and resources applying for, and what isn't?

Chesapeake Ag Innovation Center
06/03/2024
FSMA Final Rule on Pre-Harvest Agricultural Water: What You Need to Know

On May 8, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published a final rule that (per the agency) "revises certain pre-harvest agricultural water provisions for covered produce (other than sprouts) in Subpart E of the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) Produce Safety Rule." Confused by...

Chesapeake Ag Innovation Center
09/15/2023
Gleaning for Good: CAIC Visits Quarter Acre Farm

What if you could combat food waste and hunger at the same time? That's one of the goals of the Maryland Food Bank's Farm to Food Bank initiative. Started in 2011, the program sends volunteers to collect excess produce from local farms and distributes it...

Young Education Professionals
Beyond ESSA: Five K-12 Education Bills to Watch

In the world of K-12 education, all eyes have been squarely fixed on the ongoing implementation of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) since it was signed into law in December of 2015. But...