USDA - CSREES

Food and Agricultural Sciences National Needs Graduate and Postgraduate Fellowship Grants

Focus: graduate training
Deadline: June 1, 2007
Amounts: $4,500 to 252,000 each; $3.5 million for program

This program awards grants to train students for master's and/or doctoral degrees and provide additional postdoctoral training for Fellows who have completed their doctoral degrees at colleges and universities that have demonstrable teaching and research competencies in the food and agricultural sciences. Grants are specifically intended to support fellowship programs that encourage outstanding students to pursue and complete their degrees or obtain postdoctoral training in areas where there is a national need for the development of scientific and professional expertise. Applications are being solicited in the following Targeted Expertise Shortage Areas:

1) agricultural genomics and bioinformatics;

2) natural resources and the environment;

3) agricultural systems and natural resource engineering;

4) agricultural management and economics;

5) food science;

6) human nutrition;

7) sciences for agricultural biosecurity; and

8) training in sustainable sciences.

Please follow the web link for complete eligibility and application details.




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