Food and Agricultural Sciences National Needs Graduate and Postgraduate Fellowship Grants Program
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The National Institute of Food and Agriculture provides grants to offer graduate and postgraduate traineeship programs at eligible institutions of higher education for meeting the national need to develop scientific and professional expertise in the food and agricultural sciences.
Program objectives include:
- Support the training of new students at the master's and doctoral levels, in order to fill nationally identified expertise shortage areas in the food and agricultural sciences
- Increase the number and quality of students in the food, agricultural, and related sciences by recruiting outstanding students to enter and complete graduate training in these areas
- Ensure Fellows build science competencies through research and extension/outreach activities and experience and engagement within areas of focus in the food and agricultural sciences
Funding preference will be given to applications that propose to:
- Establish innovative and evidence-based frameworks for graduate training
- Establish master's degree or doctoral programs
- Increase highly qualified Doctor of Veterinary Medicine professionals willing to serve in rural areas as food animal veterinarians
- Establish multidisciplinary graduate training programs
- Partner with teaching/research/extension or across colleges/institutions or public/private sectors
- Provide leadership skills opportunities
- Develop performance measures for evaluating the overall effectiveness of the graduate training
Eligible applicants are land-grant institutions and other colleges and universities having a demonstrable capacity to carry out the teaching of food and agricultural sciences and confer a graduate degree in at least one discipline or area of food and agricultural sciences.
Award ceiling: $705,000
Award floor: $78,000
Project period: 5 years
Estimated number of awards: 28
Estimated total program funding:
$14,000,000
Links to the full announcement and online application process are available through grants.gov. The application instructions can be found on the related documents tab.
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Organizations (2)
- U.S. Department of Agriculture, view details
- National Institute of Food and Agriculture, view details
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