Nanotechnology has the promise of impacting society in profound ways. Currently, such promise has been mostly limited to the medical fields with innovations being developed and advanced to improve medical therapeutic outcomes. Greater attention to nanotechnology is warranted in other disciplinary areas and, more specifically, when considering the growing global food security crisis across the agricultural fields. Accordingly, this proposal presents a multi-university consortium designed to promote and support instructional activities at the intersection of agriculture, human sciences, and nanotechnology. Toward this end, the consortium will provide an organizational platform and intellectual network from which to create novel instructional curricula and instructional activities focused on the development and application of nanotechnologies across a diverse set of agricultural and human sciences fields. These fields include a vast array of agricultural disciplines such as plant, soil, water and environmental sciences, as well as disciplines within the human sciences such as nutritional sciences and microbiology. Specific deliverables created through the consortium will include a suite of online undergraduate courses and a certificate model specific to the applications of nanotechnologies within and across agricultural, medical, and environmental fields. The curricular design will allow for the breakout of smaller specific "modules" that are narrowly focused on the topical areas that together comprise the certificate curriculum. The courses and modules will be housed within an open-source, online library. Accordingly, nanotechnology-based modules specific to agriculture and/or human sciences can be extracted, modified, and integrated into the relevant curricula of any college or university, allowing for wide dissemination and meaningful impact. The consortium will also support capstone research projects and symposia that will bring students and faculty from participating universities together to address global challenges that intersect agriculture, food security, and/or human sciences through the development and application of nanotechnology solutions. The ultimate goal will be to prepare a diverse, multi-faceted workforce that is capable of addressing global challenges and opportunities through the development and application of nanotechnology-based solutions in 2020 and beyond.