2011 Wallace-Carver Fellows
The prestigious USDA Wallace-Carver Fellowship offers the most promising college students in America the opportunity to collaborate with world-renowned scientists, policymakers and public servants through paid internships with the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
In the Summer of 2011, fifteen exceptional young leaders were stationed at USDA research centers and field offices across the country to analyze agricultural and economic policy; assist in the management of food, nutrition and rural development programs; and take part in groundbreaking field and laboratory-based research.
Middlebury College
ZOE ANDERSON
Placement: ARS Robert W. Holley Center for Agriculture and Health – Plant, Soil and Nutrition Research Unit – Ithaca, NY
University of Iowa
HEMALI BATRA
Placement: Office of the Secretary of Agriculture – Washington, D.C.
Iowa State University
VIVIAN BERNAU
Placement: ARS North Central Regional Plant Introduction Station – Ames, IA
Central College
MARIA CHICKERING
Placement: ARS Corn, Insects and Crop Genetics Research Unit – Ames, IA
Iowa State University
TRISHA COLLINS
Placement:ARS National Animal Disease Center – Ruminant Immunology Division – Ames, IA
Grinnell College
LEAH LUCAS
Placement:ARS Henry A. Wallace Beltsville Agricultural Research Center – Climate Stress Laboratory – Beltsville, MD
University of Minnesota
TAMARA MARCUS
Placement: Oregon Natural Resource
Conservation Service – Portland, OR
Drake University
ADAM RIESSELMAN
Placement: ARS Corn, Insects and Crop Genetics Research Unit – Ames, IA
Macalester College
CLAIRE RUNQUIST
Placement: Office of the Secretary of Agriculture – Washington, D.C.
University of Virginia
SYDNEY SCHRIDER
Placement: Natural Resource Conservation Service – Conservation Engineering Division – Washington, DC
Iowa State University
CATHERINE SWOBODA
Placement: ARS Henry A. Wallace Beltsville Agricultural Research Center – Beltsville, MD
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