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USDA Announces $5 Million for Undergrad Research and Extension
USAgNet - 03/23/2017

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) Wednesday announced more than $5 million in grants for fellowship opportunities for undergraduate students at colleges and universities. These awards are made through NIFA's Research and Extension Experiences for Undergraduate (REEU) Fellowships program, part of the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative's (AFRI) Education and Literacy Initiative.

"It's critical that the agricultural workforce keeps pace with the technological and social changes in our country by bringing in new cohorts of students early on and through undergraduate schooling," said NIFA Director Sonny Ramaswamy. "NIFA is committed to meet the demands of the future by preparing these students for a career in the agricultural sciences."

The Research and Extension Experiences for Undergraduate (REEU) Fellowships program promotes research and extension experiential learning for undergraduates to help them enter the agriculture workforce with skills in food, agriculture, natural resources and the human sciences (FANH). Projects are designed to provide hands-on experience at land-grant and non-land-grant universities and USDA facilities, training to acquire laboratory research and extension skills, mentoring experiences, and participation in extension projects or programs that deliver science-based knowledge and informal educational programs.

NIFA has awarded more than $9.3 million through the REEU Fellowships program since its inception in 2015 to ensure that there is continued undergraduate preparation in FANH science fields to meet the increasing demands of the agricultural workforce.


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