1011 News out of Lincoln, Nebraska interviewed AgriScience Lab’s former visiting professor, Andrea Holmes, PhD, to talk about her creation of the state’s first professional cannabis certificate program.
We greatly enjoyed when Dr. Andrea Holmes spent her sabbatical from Doane University at our cannabis and hemp testing lab. She has been busy with important projects, as you can read in an except from the article “Doane University becomes first school in Nebraska to offer professional cannabis certificate program”.
Dr. Holmes spent her sabbatical in the 2018-19 academic year in Colorado, where she worked at AgriScience Labs, a state-certified marijuana testing facility. Holmes tested consumer-facing products (marijuana flour [sic], concentrates, edibles, topicals, etc.) for potency, residual solvents, terpenes, microbials (yeast, mold, E. coli, salmonella), pesticides, and heavy metals to ensure the products can be used safely. According to Holmes, the marijuana industry is more highly regulated than the food industry.
The article discusses how Dr. Andrea worked to create this exciting, new program. She is doing such great work!
The program, titled “Cannabis Science and Industries: Seeds to Needs,” is a series of three self-paced, online courses designed by leading experts in the cannabis industry and academia with PhD and MD credentials. Courses are expected to be available on DoaneX later this fall.
“We now have the opportunity to excite our students,” said Chemistry Professor Dr. Andrea Holmes. “We now have the opportunity to collaborate with the hemp industry.”