2012 Wallace-Carver Fellows
The prestigious USDA Wallace-Carver Internship 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 2012, sixteen fellows 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.
Purdue University
SARAH COX
Placement: ARS Southern Horticultural
Research Laboratory – Poplarville, MS
Iowa State University
IZZY ESLER
Placement: Forestry Service –
Columbus, OH
University of Illinois-Urbana/Champaign
NAOMI HARPER
Placement: ARS Jean Mayer Human
Nutrition Center on Aging – Boston, MA
Iowa State University
MARC QUEZADA
Placement: ARS National Lab for Agriculture and the Environment – Ames, IA
Ohio State University
ELIZABETH ROCHE
Placement: ARS Foreign Disease – Weed Research Unit – Ft. Detrick, MD
Texas A&M University
WILLIAM ROONEY
Placement: ARS Southern Plains Agricultural Research Center – College Station, TX
University of Delaware
RAMYA SRIDHARAN
Placement: ARS Diet, Genomics and
Immunology Lab – Beltsville, MD
University of Minnesota
TIFFANIE STONE
Placement: ARS North Central Regional Plant Introduction Station – Ames, IA
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