Funding-USDA -
National Needs Graduate Fellowship Grant Program; August 30, 2013
Agency Name
USDA
Description
This
grant program supports: (1) training students for Master's and doctoral degrees
in food, agricultural, and natural resource sciences and (2) Special
International Study or Thesis/Dissertation Research Travel Allowances (IRTA)
for eligible USDA NNF beneficiaries. Awards are specifically intended to
support traineeship programs that engage outstanding students to pursue and
complete their degrees in USDA mission areas. Applicants provide clarity about
the philosophy of their graduate training, and relevance to USDA mission
sciences, NIFA priorities and national science education policies and
statistics. Applications are being solicited from institutions that confer a
graduate degree in at least one of the following Targeted Expertise Shortage
Areas: 1) animal and plant production; 2) forest resources; 3) agricultural
educators and communicators; 4) agricultural management and economics; 5) food
science and human nutrition; 6) sciences for agricultural biosecurity; and 7)
training in integrative biosciences for sustainable food and agricultural
systems.
Announcement Number: USDA-NIFA-HEP-004338
Due Date: Aug 30, 2013
Link to Full
Announcement
http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do?mode=VIEW&oppId=238190
Contact Information
NIFA
Help Desk
Phone: 202-401-5048
Business hours are M-F, 7:00 am -5:00 pm ET, excluding Federal holidays