An all-expense-paid, eight-week hands-on experience, the prestigious Borlaug-Ruan International Internship provides exceptional high school students the opportunity to work with world renowned scientists and policymakers at leading research centers in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East.
In the Summer of 2010, sixteen interns were selected to travel to Bangladesh, Brazil, China, Ethiopia, India, Kenya, Mexico, Peru, Philippines, Taiwan, and Turkey to get a firsthand view of pressing food security and nutritional problems in poverty-stricken areas and take part in ground-breaking field and laboratory-based research.
Each intern develops a research report documenting their personal experiences and the outcomes of their research projects. To read their research papers, select the name of a Borlaug-Ruan Intern below.
Avanthi Ajjarapu
Ames, IA
International Potato Center (CIP) in
Lima, PERU
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Zoe Anderson
Trumansburg, NY
Brazilian Corporation of Agricultural
Research (EMBRAPA) in Londrina,
BRAZIL
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Kyle Bohrer
Medford, MN
Peking University in Beijing, CHINA
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Maria Chickering
Long Grove, IA
China Agricultural University (CAU)
in Beijing, CHINA
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Trisha Collins
Pleasantville, IA
International Livestock Research
Institute (ILRI) in Addis Ababa,
ETHIOPIA
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Leah Lucas
Holy Cross, IA
International Crops Research Institute
for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)
in Patancheru, INDIA
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Tamara Marcus
Cedar Rapids, IA
The World Vegetable Center (AVRDC)
in Tainan, TAIWAN
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Molly McKneight
Carmel, IN
International Maize & Wheat
Improvement Center (CIMMYT)
in Ankara, TURKEY
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Jenna Moser
Philadelphia, PA
M.S. Swaminathan Research
Foundation (MSSRF) in Chennai, INDIA
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Ryan Pratt
College Station, TX
China National Hybrid Rice
Research & Development Center
(CNHRRDC) in Changsha, CHINA
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Donovan Richardson
Creston, IA
Chinese Academy of Agricultural
Sciences (CAAS) in Beijing, CHINA
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Adam Riesselman
Manilla, IA
International Maize & Wheat
Improvement Center (CIMMYT) in El Batán, MEXICO
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Claire Runquist
Melbourne, IA
The World Vegetable Center
Regional Center (AVRDC) for South
Asia in Patancheru, INDIA
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Sydney Schrider
Arlington, VA
African Insect Science for Food and
Health (ICIPE) in Nairobi, KENYA
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Callie Schultes
Rolfe, IA
International Rice Research
Institute (IRRI) in Los Baños, PHILIPPINES
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Lincoln Wells
Storm Lake, IA
Bangladesh Rural Advancement
Committee (BRAC) in Dhaka, BANGLADESH
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