A Pitt postdoc won a US Department of Agriculture grant

Grete Gansauer, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Pittsburgh, earned a National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

The $188,360 in funding comes from NIFA’s Agriculture Economics and Rural Communities program. For her project, Gansauer will evaluate regionally targeted policy alternatives to build a rural foundational economy.

Before coming to Pitt, Gansauer earned a PhD in human geography from Montana State University. Her research has focused on place-based policy responses to regional inequality in the U.S.