Engaging Farmers, Culinary Schools, and Communities in Value-Added Production to Strengthen Local Food Systems

Value-added products can generate farm income and improve community food access, yet lack of available kitchen infrastructure and labor can limit farm production capacity. This project explored how community-based culinary schools might fill the gap. A unique “product share” model was identified and piloted, meeting the collective needs of farmers, a culinary school, and urban consumers. By researching farmer crop availability and business model preferences, and aligning value-added production with community food preferences, we demonstrate a successful pilot indicative that similar initiatives can be replicated in other metropolitan areas, with potential to engage cross-disciplinary extension professionals

Cyber Innovation Lab – A Cybersecurity Testbed for the Advancement of Intrusion Detection Systems

This work presents the development of an air gapped physical network to serve as a testbed to find innovative methods for the detection and mitigation of modern cyber threats, known as the Cyber Innovation Lab. The project involved designing a network to provide a realistic platform to launch attacks against, then installing and configuring various web applications and services on both Windows and Linux platforms. The systems were designed to be easy to reconfigure to their original state, to allow for consistency in attack outcomes. In order to build the data set to support research, an attack taxonomy was devised from both current practitioner and academic literature. Additionally, a data pre-processing framework was devised. Finally, live attacks were run against the network to allow for data collection via host and network-based sensors. This data will be used to support investigations into machine learning based intrusion detection systems and the analysis of system memory to determine attack types