2013 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 2013, nineteen fellows are 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.
Ames HS
APARNA AJJARAPU
Placement: ARS National Animal Disease Center – Ames, IA
Pella HS
MARIA BELDING
Placement: ARS Toxicology & Mycotoxin Research Unit – Athens, GA
Iowa State University
ELLEN FRANZENBURG
Placement: ARS Stored Product Insect Research Unit – Manhattan, KS
Penn State University
LUCY LAGOZE
Placement: ARS Grape Genetics Research Unit – Geneva, NY
Rice University
PETER LAMBERT
Placement: ARS Children’s
Nutrition Research Center – Houston, TX
Louisiana State University
MICHELLE LATERRADE
Placement: ARS Invasive Species and Pollinator Health Research Unit – Albany, CA
State University of New York – Buffalo
LAZARUS LYNCH
Placement: Office of the Secretary, Scheduling & Advance – Washington DC
Bryn Mawr College
PIPER MARTZ
Placement: Office of the Secretary, White House Liaison Office – Washington, DC
University of Oklahoma
ROSE MEDILL
Placement: ARS Wheat, Sorghum and Forage Research Unit – Lincoln, NE
George Washington University
JOSEPH NELSON
Placement: Foreign Agricultural Service, Europe Division – Washington, DC
Iowa State University
MARC QUEZADA
Placement: ARS National Lab for Agriculture and the Environment – Ames, IA
The College of William & Mary
DOMINIQUE ROWINSKI
Placement: ARS U.S. National Arboretum – Washington DC
Centerville HS
MARANDA RUPALO
Placement: ARS National Animal Disease Center – Ames, IA
Iowa State University
SAM SCHULTE
Placement: ARS Corn Insects & Grop Genetics Research Unit – Ames, IA
Boston University
KIMBERLY SHIU
Placement: ARS Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging – Boston, MA
Providence College
CAYLA STIFLER
Placement: ARS Conservation & Production Research Lab – Bushland, TX
Swarthmore College
ZHE SUN
Placement: ARS National Sedimentation Laboratory – Oxford, MS
Georgetown University
ELIZABETH WESTENDORF
Placement: Economic Research Service – Washington, DC
University of North Carolina
COLE WILHELMI
Placement: ARS Carl Hayden Bee Research Center – Tucson, AZ
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